(03-13-2020 05:42 AM)82hawk Wrote:  

(03-12-2020 11:58 PM)Seahawkfan716 Wrote:  You’re absolutely being 110% stupid if you think this is all overblown hype. Sure the young and healthy are going to be fine. But if you don’t limit the transmission of this virus then the young go and spread to it to folks who aren’t going to be fine. If you’re over 60 3.6% death rate, over 70, 8% over 80 14.8% death rate. Those aren’t odds I’d like to mess with, id like to keep people’s parents and grandparents alive.

Not to mention the whole point of all of these cancellations is to flatten the curve and make sure hospitals are not being overrun and stressing out our piss poor healthcare services in the states and elsewhere. I have nurses and doctors as friends who are having to read up on their hospitals policy on deciding how to prioritize ventilators for high risk patients when they don’t have enough to go around. So yeah, let’s not say this is being blown out of proportion you’re kidding yourself.

Does this suck? Yeah it does. But you don’t need to listen to the media. Listen to doctors and nurses who fundamentally don’t care about tv ratings, politics or anything but the health of patients. Yes the young won’t die but they can still get severe cases and have enough scar tissue form in their lungs restricting their activity for the rest of their life. Or they can be taking up a spot in the hospital or doctors office for someone else who needs it even for something other than the coronavirus.

Being safe and taking cautions during a global pandemic is not blowing things out of the water it’s being smart especially when things are just going to get worse. Don’t be an idiot.

This is hysteria plain and simple. Saying "global pandemic" doesn't change anything. We've had "global pandemics" before and this type of hysteria didn't exist. This isn't about athletics, but about the overall lack of common sense and rational thought led by bureaucrats. It's also about an out of control media spreading panic like a virus.

Context matters. Italy and Europe as a whole is a horrible example to base decisions on. They have a much older population and citizens who are heavy smokers which makes their society susceptible to respiratory illness. MOST of the fatalities have been people OVER 80. Why isn't this information reported amidst the hysteria? China? Really? Barely a third world country with a ridiculoulsy bad health care system.

Don't be an idiot acting without true facts based on fear.

Reading your basketball posts it would be easy to think that you might have a little sense and are capable of thought. You are right and the rest of the entire world is wrong,I get it.