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Supposedly Donald Trump told NFL owners not to worry the season will start on time
- Thread starter Vanillalite
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This is what has made this so frustrating. Beyond the need to save as many lives as possible, a strict nationwide lock down for several weeks could get us all back to a somewhat normal existence so much faster, and these incompetent morons are so afraid of pissing off their constituents in an election year that they won't do it.
There was an Orioles game in an empty stadium a few years back during the Baltimore protests. It's worth looking up footage of.
2015 Chicago White Sox–Baltimore Orioles crowdless game - Wikipedia
Without a vaccine?
Sure, we could get a week of games in with packed stadiums... then shut the country down for another month.
Yeah this right here, this is just Trump trying to appease the fans he thinks will not vote for him because he took their eggball away and trying to give the greedy ass owners an excuse to attempt to scrounge for money. It's like the 180 he did on vaping because someone told him the mouth breathers would vote against him if he banned vaping.
How can you possibly say that you're never going to go to a restaurant again?
This situation is bad, many will die, but it is not apocalyptic. Your suggestion that these human institutions will be gone forever is ludicrous.
I would be genuinely surprised if real polling data suggested that a broad majority of the state's population didn't support some form of shelter-in-place order. I think what we are seeing instead are cowardly governors bending over backwards to pay tribute to Trump and by extension the most hardcore of his ignorant base.
There was an Orioles game in an empty stadium a few years back during the Baltimore protests. It's worth looking up footage of.
2015 Chicago White Sox–Baltimore Orioles crowdless game - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
The difference here being that players and staff of these teams from two different states and major metropolitan areas didn't have to worry about spreading or being infected with "protester virus".
Jesus, I'm not recommending games be played. The poster I was replying to was wondering what the experience would be like if they did do games in empty stadiums. I was just giving a recent example because it was an interesting historical curio.
Sports should be cancelled for the next twelve months. You don't need to tell me to take this seriously.
Nah man you got it all wrong. That was an "aspiration", not a promise.
*Jumps off a bridge yelling and falling into the deep abyss*
Yo I'm sorry if it seemed like I was coming at you personally. Absolutely not my intention. Just thinking through the major difference between a fan-less game during a time of social and civil unrest, where you could isolate yourself and others away from the threat, and a viral contagion that you can't.
Again, apologies if my tone was off!
It might happen, but with empty stadiums or only half the seats will be allowed to be sold or something like that.
'Sall good. Just didn't want you to think I was a COVID-denying moron.
I figured. While the NFL is filled with fools who would love to force their workers back into danger because its no different from their normal business model...for a league undergoing a perennial PR nightmare even they know its too much of a risk. Imagine a Covid breakout at a preseason game.
Besides no state with lock downs is going to allow them to operate. Do they plan on playing in an empty park in Nebraska or the thunderdome or something? States aren't going to risk a flareup like China did after opening up a bit especially since state governors have had to go at this alone because of a failed federal government.
And if a player tests positive, do the teams they've been playing get to sue or is everyone to sign away their rights and accept the risk of infection for the good of the league?
Empty stadiums ain't gonna cut it.
Asymptomatic transmission complicates the logistics of even getting a game played with zero fans.
All players & staff making the trip will need to be tested and cleared. So will support staff like drivers/pilots.
Traveling on a bus? Where do you stop for gas? Have those people been tested and cleared? Probably not. Same goes for hotel or motel staff where they stay.
Broadcasting? All crew will need to be tested. Etc, etc..
I know we're only a few weeks into this, but the outside world and the stuff I used to enjoy doing there have already become unreal to me.
Just the knowledge that we're going to have an outbreak every few months for years until a vaccine is developed is enough to keep me holed up essentially forever.
Eventually I'll have to stop working from home and go to the office, but that'll just add ~8.5 hours of abject terror every day. I still won't go anywhere but work.
I mean, for the sake of not losing anymore lives, I hope we will have found and mass produced a treatment/cure by September.
Vaccines should not be years away. Effective antiviral drugs already on the market will be found and new antivirals that are even more effective will be developed.
The combination of more effective treatment and a vaccine will allow us to return to normal life. This isn't several years away, but a couple at most.
There will be a day when either we know how to treat this disease or when there are no more new cases and no more new deaths. Then, you can go outside and be at peace. Be assured, that day will come.
But isn't it exactly the opposite? By flattening the curve we're dragging out how long this takes the virus to run its course through the population... which is exactly the point.
I can see empty stadium games, but that's about it. No chance in hell we have stadiums packed with fans by then.
I could potentially see the NFL starting on time, but MLB is going to be the real case. If they get started up by the end of June or July, then I'll believe it.
Then again, this is Trump talking out of his ass and really should be the least of our worries.
Then again, this is Trump talking out of his ass and really should be the least of our worries.
Nah.
If this viral infection follows a wave-like pattern like the seasonal flu which projections are estimating, so the moment September hits, and we still don't have a vaccine, if even a single-player gets it, it all gets shut down again.
If this viral infection follows a wave-like pattern like the seasonal flu which projections are estimating, so the moment September hits, and we still don't have a vaccine, if even a single-player gets it, it all gets shut down again.
Very, very few people around here (my area) are going to set foot in a stadium or arena if it opens before they are vaccinated.
That would be in September. I wouldn't be shocked to see it start on time or a bit late. Alot can change between now and then. God knows the country could use the distraction.
Ask Trump how NFL can use stadiums that are being used as coronavirus screening sites:
www.nbcwashington.com
Coronavirus Testing Opens at FedEx Field
A coronavirus testing site opened at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland, on Monday. Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks announced Sunday the COVID-19 screening site would open at 10 a.m. The Maryland National Guard has helped the Prince George’s County Department of Health set up...
www.nbcwashington.com
100%.
i got very vulnerable people at home I would like to protect and I wouldn't be taking these chances at any point this year.
the world really needs to be smart about this.
I doubt the NFL can play with 10 or less people, here in Maryland, sporting events are not allowed if it has more than 10 people:
governor.maryland.gov
Governor Larry Hogan - Official Website for the Governor of Maryland
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR LARRY HOGAN
governor.maryland.gov
Distraction and athletes need work too? I assume the same is happening for every form of entertainment that's been impacted by this epidemic.
I mean, entertainers in general do need to work but their jobs specifically during this time are dangerous. You can't film a show, you can't get a band in a studio or stage, you can't rehearse a play, and you can't gather in a pile tackling a running back. Hell, unless these guys plan to use the locker rooms 2 at a time, they'd only be endangering themselves. It's fucking annoying that Trump and his goons don't think about simple shit like this. Hell, I'm not sure why NFL heads aren't furious at Trump specifically for downplaying this shit and exacerbating the very problem they're dealing with. But I guess they wouldn't be the selfish, un-empathetic pricks they are and we wouldn't be in this situation if they did think ahead and about other people.
I mean you'd be stupid if you're the NFL not to continue on as though the season will happen, so the entire headline is asinine. Planning on having the season and it being cancelled due to the pandemic is a hell of a lot more sensible than scrambling in August because you thought it was going to be cancelled. Personally I don't think any sports will happen with crowds this year but I'm hopeful.
A vaccine isn't needed to re-open the country. A proven treatment or treatments are what will allow the country to re-open. A vaccine is likely a year or more away for public use. The goal here in Canada, and I assume in the US, is to instill strict measures now to buy medical professionals time to test and approve treatments, stockpile ICU essentials, and allow pharmaceutical companies to manufacture, distribute and stockpile the medicines required for the treatments. If a treatment allows an infected person to go home, rest and recover, reducing the serious cases from say 20% to 1-2%, the country will open.
I agree with both of you, just want to point out that the Bruce Campbell avatars seem to be the voices of clearheaded reason.
He/they will certainly try, and if it was less serious I could see them actually trying. But cause things are so bad(and will get worse since Trump is making things worst), there is no way things will ever be opened any time soon.
I'm not sure what he could possibly know that would be worth telling the NFL before the entire nation. If it was something like "The pandemic will end by season start", that would be information to bring to the citizens as a whole and not something I could see being confidential. He's just lying to curry favor and support like always.
This is not a tv show were the villain will reveal his masterplan in the next episode