NBA Season Part 2: Life In The Orlando Bubble

You guys need to let that "resume the NBA season" dream go. Not gonna happen.

 

BREAKING: An elementary school student who received an autograph from Rudy Gobert in his game in Boston has tested positive for coronavirus, via NBC. It’s uncertain if the virus was transmitted during the exchange

 

"It’s also important to note this child likely did not get the virus from an NBA player. Still, this could have been a worst-case scenario for the league."

https://nba.nbcsports.com/2020/03/13/child-with-coronavirus-autograph-from-jazz/

 

It's from 5 days ago but still a good read. Things look rather bleak...

 

Pistons Player in direct contact with Gobert tests positive.


https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28903508/pistons-christian-wood-tests-positive-coronavirus

 

Well the country is big and a lockdown like that would face legal challenges in the court system. Not saying we shouldn't, but its easier said than done.

 

i'm shocked ibaka didn't test positive (unless it was a false negative but considering every other raptor player tested negative i'd assume he really is negative)

guy guarded gobert for 30+ minutes and even kissed the ball after gobert made a FT

 

Not only that, but the financial blow from a prolonged lockdown would be devastating for small businesses. Poverty will eventually lead to deaths.

If the virus spreads at it's current rate though, the healthcare system will be overwhelmed and the fatality rate will skyrocket (ie Italy) not just from COVID-19 but from regular illnesses.

It's a difficult call either way.

 

There comes a point where a lockdown is simply not worth it and for America, we can't afford it. The cost-benefit is just not there. There will be casualties but this, as Tada stated, no president should ever be in such a position like this. On another note, wouldn't it be nice if robots were working 24/7 and we didn't have to rely on the masses of humans to do such things? AI technology can solve a lot of problems for the betterment of society. China claims they have a decreasing amount of cases but I'm skeptical about their claims. It's probably an attempt to force their workers to continue working so their economy doesn't plummet.

 

Every country should have cancelled ALL flights from China as the 1st cases appeared .

Most governments/countries ( and its populations) from Europe are dumb as f*** and irresponsible.

This is the typical " why should we deal with a pb as soon as it appeared when we can solve a much bigger pb months later" stupidity

" We have time , we have time ! " SMH

 

France (and probably UK) will get hit "harder" than Italy. People in France act like they don't give a f***. Government asks to stay at home and closes restaurants etc. and people gather to protest.

 

Now Zen’s going to show up with I told you so again.

 

Please read this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/

Note how in the simulations where people practice social distancing, there are segments of the population that never get sick. In the simulation where there are no lockdowns or social distancing, there are points where essentially everyone is sick. That is when the medical infrastructure gets overburdened and this spirals out of control. Doctors have to chose who lives and who dies because there simply aren’t enough resources to treat everyone.

It is arrogant to think we are different than the multiple major countries that have already had to institute a significant lockdown of some sort. We’re not better than Italy, we’re just coincidentally late to the game. Now that the virus has entrenched itself in the population, we’re showing the exponential growth that is bound to hit us hard.



This is NOT a time to count our losses and have business as usual. We can avoid millions of deaths if we collectively stop downplaying this and respect the science. A lockdown is scientifically inevitable. The problem is that since it will have to be called from the government and it is such an extreme measure, it won’t happen until the magnitude of this slaps us in the face.

So please, don’t wait. Start social distancing yourself NOW. Do your part. There is no need to go out to the bar or movie theater right now. Try to avoid panic buying, but stock up on essentials and spend time with your family at home for now. If you’re skeptical, you don’t need to commit to this for an extended period of time ... do it for a week and by the end of next week it will be clear to you why we need to continue this for a while. We might even have reached the point where we’ll be mandated to lockdown.

And it’s not just about you. The more you go out, the more you statistically might become an incubator that will exponentially spread this elsewhere. To people who this might hit much harder than yourself. And if you’re selfish ... then sure, it is also about you. This isn’t just the flu. You don’t want to get sick. Recovery can take a month or more as opposed to a few days. Some of the cases being dismissed as “mild” are almost to the point of pneumonia, which really isn’t all that mild. There are reports of people under 30 in the ICU. Healthy people in their 40’s and 50’s are dying from this.

Yes there will be a hit to the economy. That sucks. But the hit to the economy will be worse when we have millions of hospitalizations and people dying and the entire thing escalates. If you’re worried about the bartender who won’t be able to pay his bills, write to your representatives. Tell them to get their balls out of the vices of their corporate funders. Internet providers and utilities should not be cutting off services right now. If we can flood the market with $1.5 trillion in a snap of our fingers to give a temporary boost to the stock market, then we can implement an emergency Universal Basic Income and put money directly in the hands of every American to ride through this storm.