More Banjo: Coronavirus And Sports

[Zool]

Unless he's Marty McFly?

[pbmax]

They haven't cancelled the season. They've suspended it until further notice. An NBA player tested positive.

NHL will have an announcement tomorrow.

Rudy Gobert, and you won't believe what he did next.

https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1238073331703861248

Next game he was out (another teammate as well) with an illness. Now he tested positive. Real Man of Genius.

[pbmax]

Unless he's Marty McFly?

Sharpe, send me some scans of the sport almanac man. Help a brother out!

[Joemailman]

NBA is telling times to check on availability of arenas into August.

I'm guessing NFL Draft will be a throwback. Guys making picks on the phone with no fans around. Free Agency is almost here though. Not sure how they'll handle player visits.

[oldbutnotdeadyet]

Folks, I know some of you think this is not real, but you literally would have to be dumb as a box of rocks to think that way. Its not the flu, its not a bad cold, its a 'novel' virus, i.e. never seen before. And for some of you saying it is dumb to cancel events, I have seen graphs of daily infected of countries who are not locking down vs countries who are locking down, and its not even close. And be careful on mortality rates, I'm pretty sure the denominator is not those with symptoms, it is those who have been officially diagnosed. And in the good old USA, who does not have enough test kits yet, I am concerned we are WAY behind the curve. You can love or hate the current administration, but they also are way behind the curve, they should have been preparing when China first started having outbreaks.

[pbmax]

NBA is telling times to check on availability of arenas into August.

I'm guessing NFL Draft will be a throwback. Guys making picks on the phone with no fans around. Free Agency is almost here though. Not sure how they'll handle player visits.

I have a Browns helmet phone they can borrow if they want.

[pbmax]

Wisconsin HS Sports limiting fan attendance to spring sports events.

Girls b-ball tourney is 88 fans per team.

[mraynrand]

Right, but that is why travel restrictions only buy you time. The virus is here, and travel is no longer a good predictor. This response was also not comprehensive or up to date. While Italy and France were experiencing large outbreaks, customs was still asking only about travel from China.

It would have helped to have testing squared away earlier because mitigation would be more effective if you knew about more of your cases to isolate.

Yep, only buy you time. That’s the strategy.

Italy and elsewhere: they weren’t screening back in people’s travel history either. So you could be 2 steps away from wuhan and they weren’t looking.

But I confess I don’t know what the infrastructure for this looks like. Do they have teams they mobilize at an instant, how many ports of entry are there, do they check docks and container shipping, etc.

[mraynrand]

Girls b-ball tourney is 88 fans per team.

They are forcing them to add 30 extra fans/team? Seems counterintuitive.

[mraynrand]

I have a Browns helmet phone they can borrow if they want.

I heard they were changing the name of the virus to the Cleveland Browns Virus so it could be more easily defeated.

[mraynrand]

Girls b-ball tourney is 88 fans per team.

Red right 88!

[pbmax]

Red right 88!

I want to know how they arrived at the number 88?

[Cheesehead Craig]

I want to know how they arrived at the number 88?

I think that's just the number of allotted tickets for immediate family members of the players per school.

[pbmax]

I heard they were changing the name of the virus to the Cleveland Browns Virus so it could be more easily defeated.

The Browns are always ready to self quarantine.

[pbmax]

B1G just cancelled the Men's Basketball tourney.