chitownsportsfan

gotta kinda laugh at the irony, at least if you're under 60. you got a bunch of dinos running, not just for prez but also in congress and worldwide, and here comes the virus! every worldwide industry affected. mount everest is officially closed and it's prime climbing season. mother nature is taking some scalps it appears. flatten the curve and hopefully we can come back wiser in 3-4 months in the US. here in seattle stores are still stocked and everything, I mean, it's not that bad and people are taking precautions.

If you start playing games and players infect each other the union is going to shut it down anyways.

Agree but I'm at the epicenter and life is going on. Seattle is getting a handle on it. Rest of country will too, with or without Federal leadership.

Honeslty I'm already over it. It's like when you get hurt or something, after the initial "woe is me shit" all you want to do is work each day to get better as quickly as possibly. Cancelling all this shit now will allow the season to happen in early summer. It will be worth it.

lol sounds like a bernie bro.

yea I can't even begin to comment on sports right now. it's all not going to happen. flatten the curve everyone.

Fred Hoiberg is a fucking idiot same as Gobert. The NCAA tourney will be cancelled.

Yea and that's why we're better than China. But seriously fuck Gobert.

Rudy Gobert should be suspended forever. He's positive for corona.

@lane MLB will be cancelled in short order. Maybe it will be back in May. We can all hope.

He is. I'm listening now, he's asking good questions but letting the Doc guide the conversation.

Not a huge Joe Rogan fan (he's all over the place) but I'm very glad he did that because there are people that otherwise won't listen that will listen to him.

That's true but transmission isn't that likely as long as Cooper washes his hands frequently and avoids intimate contact with his players. Might have to avoid some spittle laced conversations.

There are common sense things people can do to stop touching each other and last night I got frustrated because at the store the clerk INSISTED on physically touching my ID rather than just looking at it. She was not a day older than 25, had purple hair and was insistent that "state law" required her to scan it. Yea that's bullshit you can walk into any venue in Seattle and the bouncer simply looks at your ID. There is no scan requirement. Management has to get on top of this for grocery stores. Clerks like this on little power trips will infect and kill people.

If they can get the cotton swab test rolled out quickly enough I'd imagine you'd be testing players bi-weekly. Most players are obviously healthy strong individuals and will be "self containing" on private flights and in their hotels and team buffets.

I'm not sure you're understanding that the death rate for those over 60 and/or with underlying ailments (especially respiratory like asthma) is roughly 15-20%, with over 2/3 of those requiring hospitalization. I can guarantee you that thousands in your city now have it. Not 7. There's no testing. We don't even have testing in Seattle yet readily available.

This is the obvious solution. For all events. Just play to empty stadiums. I run a very small business. At any given time I have at most 2 people working with me. Things have been so bad at my biz this last week that I'm considering moving most of my business online and cutting hours to zero for everybody but myself. I have about a two month buffer. If things are still really bad in 2 months I'm really not sure if I can hang on. And I've been running this thing fairly successfully for about 8 years now.

What an absolutely bizarre response. 1/5 is the estimated fatality rate for those with underlying respiratory illnesses. You seemingly BRAGGED that your wife was inviting in the grim reaper. But please I entreat you to take this seriously, for your sake, for my sake, and for everybody's sake.

People haven't realized that what is happening in Seattle is coming to their community. Let me tell you. Businesses are suffering here. People are still going out and about sure but even a 20-30% reduction (which is what service industry is seeing) is horrible. And there is no end in sight people are just hoping we lower the infection curve and it burns through in a couple months here.

You're calm about your wife having a 1/5 chance of dying this year? Ok then.

This is going to kill a lot of people's grandparents and hospitalize a lot of otherwise healthy young and middle aged folks. The lead Doc at the CDC directly told Americans "this is not the flu, it's much worse" this morning. But hey, stick your head in the sand if you want. What do we have to lose other than our health and parents?

Ah right on, just mostly a housekeeping distinction then. I guess what I'm trying to say is I really hope they can squeeze something out of Medieros.

Any thoughts on if that means anything? Trying to get a longer look in person with the MLB level personnel around the backfields?

thanks for your perspective but a lot of people live paycheck to paycheck. anyways, I'd imagine MLB will mandate no crowds league wide for a time Caulfield.