Confirmed with Link: 2019-20 NHL Season officially suspended due to COVID-19

[LTIR Trickery]

I'll be curious to see how it moves through congress.

 

[Felonious Python]

I'll be curious to see how it moves through congress.

Congress is a bunch of seniors, so as soon as one of them gets it. Older people are also the voters.

 

[Hoek]

Empty arenas might help this team. Less pressure which means they won't choke.

 

[DistantThunderRep]

Pretty good to watch the whole thing if you got time but this is a shorter clip.

 

[Felonious Python]

Pretty good to watch the whole thing if you got time but this is a shorter clip.

The Italian doctor thread I believe the video is referring to.

 

[DistantThunderRep]

The Italian doctor thread I believe the video is referring to.

Yup, this is what it is.

 

[LightningStrikes]

Honestly, we should already be closing up a few things to the public for a bit to avoid a lot of things. It isn't just about getting sick, its about the rates of infections and overloading medical systems who aren't equipped to deal with hundreds, if not thousands of people getting a virus like this. The hospitals in Italy and China have shown just how quickly things can be overloaded. People might think its no big deal, and for a good part of the population that might be true. When you have family with compromised immune systems, or cancer patients, or the elderly, the death rate climbs drastically.

I think it was something from the CDC a couple of days ago that they thought one person, on average, would infect 3-7 people. I'm guessing this is honestly far worse than we already realize because we have no good way of testing genpop at the moment, now they're talking about how a Boston-based biotech company Biogen just had an event with 200ish people, and that a significant number of them are now infected. 70 of 92 cases originated at a buffet there and I would expect that number to climb. One person in a bathroom at a hockey game could infect dozens.

Yeah not overloading hospitals and the medical system in general is key. South Korea showed us how it’s done (after their initial huge boost in numbers). Early on they closed down public events and such to prevent big portions of the population getting sick at the same time. That, paired with aggressive testing is what’s needed.

That said, the regular influenza has a mortality rate about 2.8 times higher than the corona virus and nobody is freaking out about that. Puts things maybe in perspective. Most of us will get the virus but feel a bit weak with cold-like symptoms and that’s it. It’s the already weakened, fragile and sick that we need to protect though.

 

[Felonious Python]

Yeah not overloading hospitals and the medical system in general is key. South Korea showed us how it’s done (after their initial huge boost in numbers). Early on they closed down public events and such to prevent big portions of the population getting sick at the same time. That, paired with aggressive testing is what’s needed.

That said, the regular influenza has a mortality rate about 2.8 times higher than the corona virus and nobody is freaking out about that. Puts things maybe in perspective. Most of us will get the virus but feel a bit weak with cold-like symptoms and that’s it. It’s the already weakened, fragile and sick that we need to protect though.

In terms of total deaths, the flu has more, but COVID is definitely more deadly per capita. 10-15x more deadly.

 

[Felonious Python]

The WHL has four teams in the state of Washington. Teams directly affected so far are the Seattle Thunderbirds and the Everett Silvertips.

 

[Felonious Python]

 

[VinikToWinIt]

Seems all teams will soon move towards empty arenas. This thing will really blow up though if one athlete tests positive.

You'd basically have to quarantine the whole team at that point with the close quarters those guys share, right? How do you make that work and continue with a season?

I'm not sure you can.

 

[Felonious Python]

Seems all teams will soon move towards empty arenas. This thing will really blow up though if one athlete tests positive.

You'd basically have to quarantine the whole team at that point with the close quarters those guys share, right? How do you make that work and continue with a season?

I'm not sure you can.

Teams deal with flu, mumps, etc. I think they'd just treat it like IR. The actual symptoms are pretty mild in most people.

Quarantine them the rest of the time though.

If test kits were widely available, I don't think it'd be as much of an issue.

 

[LightningStrikes]

In terms of total deaths, the flu has more, but COVID is definitely more deadly per capita. 10-15x more deadly.

In what context though? The number I posted above is from France. Germany for example has an even lower mortality rate for corona so far and compared to the flu. Of course in a place like rural China that would look different.

 

[Felonious Python]

 

[berlin]

Empty arenas might help this team. Less pressure which means they won't choke.

Yeah as long as they don’t cancel it completely. If one player in the league gets it they’re gonna shut it all down, this is what I heard on 620wdae anyway.

 

[Felonious Python]

In what context though? The number I posted above is from France. Germany for example has an even lower mortality rate for corona so far and compared to the flu. Of course in a place like rural China that would look different.

He's talking about globally. It's an estimate since China has unreliable numbers and probably the vast majority of cases everywhere will go unaccounted for.

I have seen 3.4 globally (1.6 outside of China) death rates though.

COVID has a small sample size compared to the century of flu data that's out there.

 

[Lord Stan 2020]

ncaa has shut it down no fans for tournament including the games here

expect all sportts to do this at least for next 2-3 weeks and expect schools for kids to follow

we are being shut down it is what it is

 

[Felonious Python]

 

[Whoshattenkirkshoes]

I think once one of the players gets it the whole league will shut down. (Inevitable)

Sad Sad time for Lightning fans

 

[Lord Stan 2020]

is crazy when this becomes our all time leading longest post ever

 

[Felonious Python]

The Governor 'advising' to shut down everything seems to be the first step to it happening in the following 24-48 hours.

 

[Lord Stan 2020]

whats yer all thoughts im seeing shut down public games will go on ,,,,, will they televise? know allow some media so far.... canceled entirely? do you guys see this happening?

nba is discussing and maybe nhl of pushing games calendar back this season lots of discussions going on right now

 

[Stormbreaker]

 

[Vasilevskiy]

Delaying it a couple of months might not be a bad idea.

 

[Lord Stan 2020]

Coronavirus: Juventus centre-back Daniele Rugani tests positive for virus

first major athlete announcement center backer for juventas soccer i guess

out of italy 200 deaths in 24 hours most ever so far in corona virus.... id expect a huge number increase in next couple days really interesting to get numbers of victims in new york myself