BET Cancelled
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Maybe we should cancel the baseball season and just move all of the sports into the summer. Bunch of cheaters anyway
MLB announcement is forthcoming. Spring training suspended and start of season delayed.
They're not doing it for political reasons. They are doing it for CYA...avoid potential lawsuits. You know the slip and fall lawyers will look for any opportunity to sue should someone catch this cold at an event. Yes I'm calling it a cold. 30% of colds are caused by human coronavirus. Coronavirus is just a type of virus.They're not new....just a new strain which we will need to build up new antibodies to. in a couple years this will be nothing just like swine flu, avian flu etc died down. The numbers are inflated because CDC admittedly has said we don't know the true mortality rate of this virus because 80% of the people who catch it don't even know they have it because they are either asymptomatic or symptoms are so mild they assume it's a cold. The medical professionals have made statements that they wouldn't be surprised if by the end of this hysteria we find out it's less lethal than the flu which is about 0.2%.
People need to stop watching CNN (clown news network) and MSDNC for their news. Do some of your own research. There is some good info out there if you look for it. Good thing is airline travel is dirt cheap now. I'm booking flight for the next few month at $55 round trip from NJ to NC. Getting on a flight this weekend and will likely be like my own private jet...LOL.
CONGRATS TO POWELL AND THIS WHOLE SQUAD. No matter what happens, you were the Big East champs of 2020. Legends.
Now, on to coronavirus for a second. This is no reason for hysteria. There is, however, every reason for *extreme* caution. Put basketball aside for a second -- we need to change how we live for the next week(s) to avoid straining our hospitals to the point of collapse. If you have dinner plans, postpone. If you can work from home, do so. If you employ people, be as flexible as you can. Though I'm not a doctor, many of my closest friends are, and this is real. The jokes about sniffling, just like the flu, calling each other a p***y, there's no place for it.
Now, on to coronavirus for a second. This is no reason for hysteria. There is, however, every reason for *extreme* caution. Put basketball aside for a second -- we need to change how we live for the next week(s) to avoid straining our hospitals to the point of collapse. If you have dinner plans, postpone. If you can work from home, do so. If you employ people, be as flexible as you can. Though I'm not a doctor, many of my closest friends are, and this is real. The jokes about sniffling, just like the flu, calling each other a p***y, there's no place for it.
I would hope people continue eating out if they're comfortable doing so in order to support local businesses. Small businesses are going to be terribly affected by this hysteria. Just move the tables further away from each other.
Did you know Italy ranks #2 in the world in aging population statistics? 23% of the population is 65 and above an that percentage is growing every year. More elderly people, more deaths from ANY illness. If you're a country with 23% elderly and for people over 65 the mortality rate I guess you can shut it down.
We're not Italy. We are adults and should be able to make our own choices. If you are an at risk individual, stay home. If not make your own decision as to whether or not you want to take the small risk.
What's next, the government telling us we can't go skiing, skydiving because it poses a risk?
Conspiracy? No. look at the facts...as a country our economy was humming...stock market was approaching 30k on the DOW. Impeachment nonsense was over, presidential approval numbers were over 50%, polls were showing President Trump ahead against every Dem contender. Not saying this was planned...just that, as Holder was quoted saying "never miss out on a good crisis".Then dems and their propoganda wing the media, have taken advantage of a virus and hyped it to a point it's tanking the stock market. People in the dem party have been praying for something to hurt the economy for 3 years. You are free to believe what you want but all the facts are there.
I'll be out. Been taking trains to NYC, getting on flight tomorrow. I'm not going to change a thing other than take advantage of the DEEPLY discounted airfares.
Stevie, I bet you and I are the only two people who have figured out that this virus was planted in the sex slaves Hillary was selling from that pizzeria in Brooklyn.
I am free to believe you are an ignoramus.
I take my news from Alex Jones only. I was supposed to give him a ride the other day. Haven’t heard from him.
It’s seeming more and more like the people dismissing this thing are going to look very dumb a month from now. Maybe sooner.
I mean... yeah?
You're aware you can't just go skydiving and jump out anywhere you want right? Like the government has rules so your actions don't impact the lives of other people?
Good lord. I can't believe people are still making arguments about personal risk. This is not about personal risk.
Like why can't I buy some enriched uranium and make a nuclear bomb at home? I promise to contain it, and if I mess it up I will only hurt myself, right?
What a stupid analogy. I expect better than that from you. You're a smart guy.
Geez guys, how about a little perspective instead of having to go to extreme corners of the ring. This is not the apocalypse nor something that we should take lightly. Instead of burning jet fuel on this juvenile back and forth maybe think about how you can help people that might be disadvantaged or are in need help because their world has just been impacted by something totally out of their control. This looks like one of Ironkats game threads.
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You should get a Moronavirus test immediately. I've offered no opinion on what people should or should not do or the measures taken to date. I've only offered an opinion on the stupidity of your bad Sean Hannity conspiracy theory ripoff, replete with inaccuracies. I'm going to take my family out to dinner now.
Yes, stupid / absurd was my intention because if people don't understand that events are not being cancelled because of the risk to THEM, then maybe they need it to be explained in a way that is dumbed down.
Comparing the virus to skydiving was just dumb.
Sorry, someone calling this "the sniffles" deserves little respect here.
You can call names.. that's what the weak minded do. That's what liberals do. They ignore facts for their truth. FACT, swine flu there were 84 million cases, 300k hospitalized, 15k dead and nothing was canceled, no economic crash. There aren't even 300k cases world wide.
Just pointing our is not there government's job to decide what's safe and allowed in a free society. You can all mark it down, a year from now no one will care about Covid19. It will end up just being another cold virus. 30% of colds are from Corona viruses. I thought Seton Hall alum were smarter.
Check the timelines of how each spread and how many people were dying this early... the circumstances are really not similar. In a couple months there are 5k deaths and this is really just starting and you are comparing it to a full year of a very different virus.
I pray you’re right that no one will care about it anymore, but the only way that is true is if we take measures to contain it.
You’re flat out wrong comparing it to a cold, and yes, It is the governments job to stop the spread of something like this virus.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/264
I’m not a liberal. That’s an interesting test for the weak-minded? Imagine if someone in a position of power called people names frequently. Whoa, that’d be a shame.
I’m not panicking or cowering in fear, but I’ll go with the recommendations of the CDC and WHO experts over an internet troll bloviating conspiracy theories.
Yet again what data are you providing? None. You prove my point with each of your childish name calling posts.
It's cute that you throw have no problem throwing darts and take exception to having darts thrown at you. It's a great quality to have, really. Pretending to be above it all is a nice touch too. The CDC and/or WHO can easily explain this to you. They cannot understand it for you and therein lies the problem. What is there to say to someone who is woefully unqualified and uneducated to speak on such an unprecedented situation? You got this though? And it's a hacky partisan driven conspiracy theory. Okay... Lastly, I was not calling you names or insulting you. I was just describing you.
Respect your point. Then they should have done it for swine flu. 84 million in US alone. Corona? 128k worldwide. I'm not basing my opinion on media.i have a neighbor who's a Dr. When I asked him about it he rolled his eyes. Coroanaviruses have been around forever. If they called this the Wuhan Flu, no one
Once again, no data of facts to rebut anything I've posted. Live your life scared and feeding into the hysteria. H1N1 was far more deadly. 10 years later no one even remembers it infected 84 million Americans. We have 1800 cases of the wuhan virus. We did nothing then and yet we're freaking out over this. Give me 1 fact. 1 bit of data to justify this hysteria. Doubt you can.
I shouldn't even bother b/c you've clearly been fully red pilled & have come off on here as a generally hateful, gross person, but here you go:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a...pares-with-2009-s-h1n1-in-spread-and-reaction
I've said nothing hateful on this board ever so just another lie...not suprising. This confirms all the facts I've presented. Different sources have slightly different estimates. A Bloomberg opinion piece isn't exactly what I'd call an unbiased source. We don't know the numbers for wuhan flu yet because so many who have it don't know they have it because the symptoms are so mild. Professionals estimate that in the end the numbers will look very similar to the flu.
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Disagree. 41 people have died (20 in one nursing home). The mortality rate on this is going to settle near flu. FL might not be saying popular stuff but hes going to be right.
