The Coronavirus and College Basketball's Postseason

[Wamcat]

I agree, something really does feel off here through all this. If this is political and this is being weaponized as a dirty tactic created by someone some group for power, shame on them, pure evil in my book, what is the new norm?

I’m not a conspiracy theorist, so I don’t think it has been purposefully unleashed, but I think the overreaction is disproportionate to the way we address far more serious situations. If this is how we are going to handle any type of malady of scale, your only option will be...

Stay at home. The freaking flu happens every year.

[Catatonic]

I'm not gonna try to spin any of what's happening right now as "good", people being sick and dying is never good.

But a couple thoughts:

1. We are fortunate that Corona isn't worse than what it is
2. A more dangerous virus is inevitable
3. Hopefully this fiasco will have us better prepared for the next pandemic

[Dwight Schrute]

I’m not a conspiracy theorist, so I don’t think it has been purposefully unleashed, but I think the overreaction is disproportionate to the way we address far more serious situations. If this is how we are going to handle any type of malady of scale, your only option will be...

Stay at home. The freaking flu happens every year.

We have a vaccine for the flu that mitigates Most of the worst cases.

[KCKUKFan]

I don’t have a lot of equity on this board, but figured I weigh in just the same. Let me start by saying I don’t question the tactics being deployed to “flatten the curve”. I get it. It’s a virus that is dangerous for a segment of the population and life is precious and finite. We have to protect it or it ceases to exist.
That being said, I did some quick research today. According to the CDC they estimate 29 million people have had the flu this year, 200,000 have been hospitalized and there have been, gasp, 16,000 deaths.
I cannot imagine that following the same protocols that have been put into place, limiting mass gatherings, “social distancing” and canceling every type of enjoyable event known to mankind would not have a positive effect on those numbers as well. If that’s the case, what is the tipping point that caused Coronavirus to be handled differently and why have we not put the same protocols in place for the flu???
Say what you want, but something just doesn’t feel right about all the fuss made over this when far more people have been impacted by the flu and the same measures were not taken to get out in front of it. If we are willing to accept this as the new norm, there will be no more sports and no more entertainment. Guess I better get used to staying at home.

You have just as much equity as anybody else here. Post more!

[Wamcat]

We have a vaccine for the flu that mitigates Most of the worst cases.

We may have a vaccine, but 56k annually and 16k already this year would argue it didn’t stop the worst cases.
It’s a massive overreaction at best.
I’m not buying the snake oil that they’re selling. The comparisons make absolutely no sense. Coronavirus has had far less impact than what we deal with annually from the flu.

[Lighthouse]

You have just as much equity as anybody else here. Post more!

You sure do Wamcat. We would all like to hear more from you.

[40bill]

We may have a vaccine, but 56k annually and 16k already this year would argue it didn’t stop the worst cases.
It’s a massive overreaction at best.
I’m not buying the snake oil that they’re selling. The comparisons make absolutely no sense. Coronavirus has had far less impact than what we deal with annually from the flu.

It's a really good point Wamcat, and CDC numbers bear it out. Flu kills over 60000 a year...children as well as elderly....
I think I what many are saying is we really have no idea how deadly covid19 is.....has it een around for a while and people just worked through it? Or is it a mutated a animal virus that's new and deadly?

Without mass testing, it's difficult to know....and without facilities to get that mass testing ruled out, we may find ourselves here again.

I'm not a Trump/ GOP basher....but cold numbers say that when your boasting about getting out 4 million tests compared to USPopulation, it ain't real comforting. A typical flu outbreak would require about 30 million.

[Matt Dillon]

You guys/gals may have to join Matt Dillon and me. The Players Championship is on Golf Channel. Other sports are done.

That's gone as well, Catsrock.

https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/m...cd4-story.html

[KCKUKFan]

They're going to end up cancelling The Masters, and I'm not happy about it.

[TrueblueCATfan]

I am getting refunds back on my march madness bracket.....was suppose to go on bus trip to Keeneland next month that is being cancelled

JUST SO CRAZY

[Joneslab]

There's a health official on the radio almost every morning during my commute, and if you listen to these people you come away with a theme: they're very, very concerned about the healthcare system as a whole in America, and so many of these protocols are about trying to make sure there isn't a collapse of that system.

[Dwight Schrute]

They're going to end up cancelling The Masters, and I'm not happy about it.

Same. Just a hellacious few weeks until we get back to normal.

[Dwight Schrute]

There's a health official on the radio almost every morning during my commute, and if you listen to these people you come away with a theme: they're very, very concerned about the healthcare system as a whole in America, and so many of these protocols are about trying to make sure there isn't a collapse of that system.

I've heard this too, which is why they're pushing the whole 'flatten the curve' thing so hard. Between overwhelming the hospitals to keeping doctors from getting sick, it's a scary time right now.

[KCKUKFan]

Perhaps they'll use this catastrophe to finally overhaul medicine in America.

That would be too much to ask, though.

[Dwight Schrute]

The Masters has been postponed.