rgag12 said:

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Guessing we have finally hit a tipping point, and this will be a serious statement on the matter.

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Great, now Trump is on the liberal media conspiracy to prevent his own election. Someone should tell him this Is just the flu.

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It's tired. Just stop

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Nah, people parroting this dumb crap need their faces shoved in it.

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That's just dumb. Who wants to watch that? No roaring crowds rooting on an upset or cheering for their teams?

If it saves one persons life it's absolutely worth it. They are trying to flatten the curve.

Glad our guys are going to win the NIT! Better than losing in the fist round anyways

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That's just dumb. Who wants to watch that? No roaring crowds rooting on an upset or cheering for their teams?

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My entertainment is more important than people's lives, got it.

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If it saves one persons life it's absolutely worth it. They are trying to flatten the curve.

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Disallowing road travel to all sporting events would save thousands of lives a year. Your argument could be applied to every sporting event from now on.

Banning alcohol and murder will too

As would banning cigarettes and Chinese food buffets.

Whiskey Jacket said:

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Yes because there won't be large groups gathering at bars to watch...

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They can't control or prevent that. They CAN prevent large crowds from gathering at the arenas for these games. They are doing what they can to help limit the srpread, which is all you can ask

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Just heard that all of the Houston cases were thought to be from foreign travel ... except for one dude who had not traveled but appearently had gone to the Houston Rodeo cook off.

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As of now, that is correct, one from Italy, the rest from the Nile cruise in Egypt. They're still investigating the guy in Montgomery County to see if they can figure out how he got it.

Bo Darville said:

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Bo Darville said:

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Guessing we have finally hit a tipping point, and this will be a serious statement on the matter.

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Great, now Trump is on the liberal media conspiracy to prevent his own election. Someone should tell him this Is just the flu.

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It's tired. Just stop

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Nah, people parroting this dumb crap need their faces shoved in it.

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Making statements like that make you look like the one people shouldn't take seriously, not the person you are trying to make fun of.

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That's just dumb. Who wants to watch that? No roaring crowds rooting on an upset or cheering for their teams?

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I do think there will be less upsets/madness this year with no crowds going nuts. But I do think it is worth it if it slows this thing down or saves a life.

That's why, we should introduce a bill to reduce all vehicles to a maximum speed of 5 mph. We will flatten the curb of the 35,000 traffic deaths America suffers every year.

This guy gets it better than probably 99% people here. His message ti the public-wash your freaking hands, and consider where your outrage was during the swine flu in 2009, which killed WAY more.

The intensity and competitiveness will be down with an empty arena.

rgag12 said:

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Bo Darville said:

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Bo Darville said:

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Guessing we have finally hit a tipping point, and this will be a serious statement on the matter.

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Great, now Trump is on the liberal media conspiracy to prevent his own election. Someone should tell him this Is just the flu.

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It's tired. Just stop

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Nah, people parroting this dumb crap need their faces shoved in it.

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Making statements like that make you look like the one people shouldn't take seriously, not the person you are trying to make fun of.

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You are free to take posters as serious as you wish.

That's got to be a 100 million dollar decision easily.

If they are going to do that then they really should close all the department stores, mall, grocery, etc.

That's completely different than allowing mass crowds and travel for a highly communicable virus that experts say is 10X more dangerous than the flu. I know that most will survive, but personally I have family that has pre existing conditions and the effects on them would be detrimental.

Very true.

"To be perfectly honest, being hospitalized for 7 days with pneumonia was really not all that bad!" is not something I've ever heard anyone say.

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That's completely different than allowing mass crowds and travel for a highly communicable virus that experts say is 10X more dangerous than the flu. I know that most will survive, but personally I have family that has pre existing conditions and the effects on them would be detrimental.

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You said that "if it saves one life", so no it isn't different if that is where you draw the line.

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That's why, we should introduce a bill to reduce all vehicles to a maximum speed of 5 mph. We will flatten the curb of the 35,000 traffic deaths America suffers every year.

This guy gets it better than probably 99% people here. His message ti the public-wash your freaking hands, and consider where your outrage was during the swine flu in 2009, which killed WAY more.

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How many months did it take to kill those numbers? Where are we in this outbreak compared to that?

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That's just dumb. Who wants to watch that? No roaring crowds rooting on an upset or cheering for their teams?

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My entertainment is more important than people's lives, got it.

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No. you can't stop there. Shut down all stores and restaurants because they are where people meet and come in close contact with others.

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Just heard that all of the Houston cases were thought to be from foreign travel ... except for one dude who had not traveled but appearently had gone to the Houston Rodeo cook off.

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As of now, that is correct, one from Italy, the rest from the Nile cruise in Egypt. They're still investigating the guy in Montgomery County to see if they can figure out how he got it.

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Do we even know for sure the Montgomery County guy actually has CV, yet?

Trying to follow this but it is getting more and more difficult as time goes by.

David the Bubble Boy was ahead of his time.

Ban ALL air travel! People on a plane are at more risk than someone in a huge arena with a much bigger volue of air.

Corona's here
And there you are
You're Running for your life
With Purell in your car
And all the fears
No one knows
Just how far it spreads
Or where it goooooooooes

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And, just maybe, it's that the don't want to waste tests and bandwidth simply on people who are hypochondriacs.

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I'm being quit serious. If you think that outdoor parades and bb games in huge arenas are so dangerous then you need to close down restaurants and department stores.

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today feels like a major major escalation

they must be seeing an iceberg somewhere

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So are all of your posts doom and gloom? Just curious ...

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Yes they absolutely are. Alarmist to the nth degree.

There are literal orders of magnitudes of difference in the number of people simultaneously in close quarters in a basketball arena vs a restaurant. As well as the geographic footprint of attendees drawn to an NCAA tournament game.

60 million cases worldwide in one year. 40 million more in the ten years following. Yeah, not dead, but this won't die after a year either. Yet, we don't really hear about the ole swine flu, do we? And how long did it take for the US to take White house action? And where was this type of panic? These numbers won't be near that (over a quarter million hospitalized in the US, 12k dead in the US, children mortality between the two)

Edit: Hospitalized with swine flu. Not being held in a hospital, taking a bed up when you don't have to, because you wanted to get tested for corona.

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There are literal orders of magnitudes of difference in the number of people simultaneously in close quarters in a basketball arena vs a restaurant. As well as the geographic footprint of attendees drawn to an NCAA tournament game.

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You think that a person can get the entire stadium sick? Even three or four rows away would be an amazing feat. Next section over? Really?