Will the NCAA March Tourney be played without an audience?

[huskymedic]

... and away we go.

 

[Hoophound]

Just cancel it if that’s going to happen.

 

[Lamble]

I was thinking you might be able to get tickets pretty cheap this year!

 

[Dooooooomed]

If they're that worried about player safety, the players shouldn't travel either. Refs, cameramen, and venue staff should stay home too.

 

[the Q]

Wouldn’t that mean the NIT would be the same, if not cancelled entirely?

 

[Vuce]

Sooooooo no senior night on Thursday?!!

 

[Slasher]

Yeah this isn't going to happen.

 

[Jimdish255]

Pence says we have it under control. Big hoax.

 

[Exit 4]

I believe the plan is for the audience to stay home, to use remote control cameras, for the refs to wear body suits and for the players to wear gloves and masks. Players that can dribble with gloves will have a tremendous advantage.

 

[Jaker]

that is stupid=s

 

[uconngb]

But everyone attending games w the flu is ok??? Which is like 1000x and causes like 10000x more deaths?? Nice job by mainstream media creating a completely unnecessary panic.

 

[Palatine]

What the heck is the NCPA?

 

[Jaker]

logic

 

[huskymedic]

What the heck is the NCPA?

You can draw your own opinion:
>>The National College Players Association (NCPA) is a 501c3 nonprofit advocacy group launched by UCLA football players that serves as the only independent voice for college athletes across the nation.<<

 

[ucawn]

Flu is more deadly. Younger folks with a good immune system should not be worried but should still be cautious

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Has anything like this happened in anyone’s lifetime? I’m 32 and the closest I remember is just this fall with EEE.

 

[swami7774]

But everyone attending games w the flu is ok??? Which is like 1000x and causes like 10000x more deaths?? Nice job by mainstream media creating a completely unnecessary panic.

Thank you.

 

[EROCK CONN]

Pence says we have it under control. Big hoax.

how many more hoaxes can we take? .bigfoot, russian collusion, kavanagh allegations .... just waiting for the next one to be pushed by the media.

 

[Jay-Bone]

But everyone attending games w the flu is ok??? Which is like 1000x and causes like 10000x more deaths?? Nice job by mainstream media creating a completely unnecessary panic.

Uh, somebody just died on US soil today already. The flu has been around much, much longer.

 

[billybud]

Has anything like this happened in anyone’s lifetime? I’m 32 and the closest I remember is just this fall with EEE.

Sure...it doesn't get the notice...but we had 61,000 plus flu related deaths in US in 2017-18 flu season.

 

[Get a Job]

You people talking about the flu are comparing apples to oranges. The flu kills thousands every year, yes, but, so far, deaths per infection are roughly twice as high for the current outbreak of coronavirus. Hopefully that rate will go down, and hopefully there won't be too many infections in places that haven't already had them.

 

[ucawn]

Uh, somebody just died on US soil today. The flu has been around much, much longer.

A 50 year old who was immunocompromised.

 

[billybud]

The 1918 flu pandemic killed millions globally....

But, on avreage, the death to infection rate for flu is 0.1 %...

On average, seasonal flu strains kill about 0.1 percent of people who become infected. The 1918 flu had an unusually high fatality rate, around 2 percent. Because it was so contagious, that flu killed tens of millions of people.

The coronavirus death rate may be even lower, if — as most experts suspect — there are many mild or symptom-free cases that have not been detected.

Early estimates of the coronavirus death rate from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak, have been around 2 percent. But a new report on 1,099 cases from many parts of China, published on Friday in The New England Journal of Medicine, finds a lower rate: 1.4 percent.

The true death rate could turn out to be similar to that of a severe seasonal flu, below 1 percent, according to an editorial published in the journal by Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and Dr. H. Clifford Lane, of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Robert R. Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[superjohn]

This is actually one of the few times the media is not making this a bigger deal than it is, IMO. This seems like a bigger deal than we've been told so far.