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Will COVID-19 be the needle that finally bursts the sports bubble?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by BitterYoungMatador2, Apr 2, 2020.

  1. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    If you listen just right (i.e., with your head up your ass a la tapoutastupid), you can hear him saying "Watch OAN for the real news!"

    I'm probably being too hard on tapoutastupid. You can't expect a Not-University-6 attendee to know what "quotation" means.
     
  2. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    OK, next week we get a vaccine. Woo-hoo!

    And it's exactly as effective as the flu vaccine --- 50-60%.

    We filling the stadiums and arenas again?
     
  3. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Read this version, found here:
    It appears to be a bit more robust than versions I have seen elsewhere. In its (apparently) fuller context, it reads to me like an exhortation not just to his team but to the fan base as well. And that's where it becomes problematic.

    "That's a long time away, man. I mean, this is April the 3rd. So I got one focus. And that's getting the Tigers in camp in August and getting ready for Georgia Tech and getting in the Valley in September and and I can't wait to celebrate with all the Tiger fans. In fact we got us an acronym for Tigers. It stands for: This Is Gonna End Real Soon.

    "So that's the only mindset we got. All the rest of that stuff, I'll let all those other smart people figure out the doomsday scenarios. I got one scenario. And that is running down the hill and kicking it off in the Valley."
     
  4. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Quite the Trumpist exhortation, I have to say! Only a Not-University-6 alum woulda picked up on that! But I forget sometimes how you higher-plane folks operate under different rules than us hoi-polloi.
     
  5. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    This is a great question. And the answer has to be yes.

    Forgive me for my ignorance on this: Are there a bunch of asymptomatic carries of the regular flu out in public, because this seems to be the biggest difference between the two diseases.

    But yeah, you can't sit there and say society has to be shut down until we get a vaccine that protects 100 percent. Because there won't be an economy/society left at that point.
     
  6. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Developing a vaccine that's 100 percent effective is impossible. The idea is a vaccine protects enough people to break the exponential spread of a virus to the point it has trouble reproducing itself. If more than 50 percent of Americans would get their goddamn flu shots each fall, influenza would be much less commonplace.
     
  7. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    My understanding is that they have figured out enough to know that this coronavirus mutates much more slowly than the flu virus. This particular coronavirus is much more stable, which is why conceivably a vaccine, if they come up with one, could provide effecive long-term immunity, like the polio or measles vaccines.

    The flu is much less stable and mutates much more frequently, which is why occasionally one of those mutations creates a new strain of the virus that people don't have immunity to. It's why you need to get a new flu shot every year and why the vaccines aren't nearly 100 percent effective -- in the run up to flu season they are making reasoned guesses as to what strains will be most prevalent and they are trying to fight a constantly changing target due to the higher rate of mutation.

    The temptation, and we saw this with Trump, is to talk about this virus like it is the flu. But it's not. From what they are finding, if / when we get a vaccine for this thing, it is likely to be pretty effective the way the polio vaccine is.
     
  8. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    A useful distinction. Thanks.
     
  9. JimmyHoward33

    JimmyHoward33 Well-Known Member

    Football coaches spend their lives compartmentalizing, blocking out anything and everything that could be a “distraction” and maintaining maniacal single minded focus on their task at hand.

    Most of them are lionized for the ability to do so.

    what the hell else did you expect dabo or anyone of them to say
     
  10. OscarMadison

    OscarMadison Well-Known Member

    Looking at a different part of the beast: the fans. In the southeast and midwest it gets almost tribal. What will these people do with no games to attend? Will tsome of them break away and never come back when they develop an interest in niche sports?
     
  11. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    The biggest differences are that Covid-19 is much more contagious, takes longer to recover from, and is much more likely to kill in severe cases. It produces a thick phlegm in the lungs that hampers oxygen to blood transfer more than typical bacterial pneumonia does. I suspect (no particular expertise here) that the hypoxia it causes is a factor among those who die at home trying to tough it out. The lack of oxygen to the brain impairs thinking, so unless there is a caregiver monitoring they may delay going to the hospital when they badly need to.
     
  12. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Hunting season is coming.
     
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