Sorry to say...

[TuckerMax25]

But there is an increasingly slim chance that we even get football this upcoming season. As an employee of one of front runners in the bio-pharm industry working on a cure/treatment. I just don’t see it happening.  
 

My question to y’all is, how does the nfl handle everything if this is the case. Years under contract, players salaries, draft able players, etc. 

[Mr. Scot]

There's no real precedent to go by so it's hard to say.

The only thing I could think of as even a remote comparison would be to go back and see what they did around the time of the players strike.

[jfra78]

I believe players are paid after games.  So if no games, no check.  As far as contracts, if there was no season all contracts would be on hold until the next season.  A player must play 6 games to acrue one season.  I believe they could draft and work out contracts including signing bonus and then not play till the following season. 

These are all guesses on my part

[Rockahype]

The bit I've read about vaccine timelines suggests mid 2021 as a best case scenario. What are you hearing or being told? 

[GRWatcher]

There's so much that is unknown right now that the season can't be predicted. Even if they suspend off season camps until Fall and have a shortened season, the big question remains what are fans going to do? Will crowds continue to be frowned upon and will they listen? You have to consider, too, that the economy is going to tank, unemployment will rise probably to double digits. Money spent on football games is discretionary money and there may not be a lot of that around. Your average fan may be asking, do I pay the mortgage, pay bills, get my prescriptions, put food on the table or go to Sunday's football game? The NFL may enforce the blackout rule again.

There's also questions about next year's draft. Will there even be college football in 2020?

[BurnHurnBurn]

7500 Corona Deaths since 1/22

25,000 people starved to death today.

Just sayin.

[Pantherzack179812]

5 hours ago, TuckerMax25 said:

But there is an increasingly slim chance that we even get football this upcoming season. As an employee of one of front runners in the bio-pharm industry working on a cure/treatment. I just don’t see it happening.  
 

My question to y’all is, how does the nfl handle everything if this is the case. Years under contract, players salaries, draft able players, etc. 

Not trying to be a dick man, but in September if this is not gone, 90% of the world will have been infected and people will be starting to get sick of wasting months of their lives to save less people that will starve as of the result of a bad economy.

The government doesn't want to keep handing out checks, businesses want to make money, people want to make  money to feed their families. Football WILL happen, a 9 month old illness isn't stopping it. 

I completely understand and respect your profession, but the president himself said the 18 month plan is false. You don't need a cure, you just need treatment for it that many places as yours are testing at the moment.

That's like saying our place isn't anywhere close to finding a breakthrough, so the whole world must be a year away. Isreal says that have something that will be ready IN 60 DAYS. I recall hearing someone from the CDC saying that testing rules would be more lenient this time due to the circumstance and it would set records if a vaccine is found soon.

[LegioX]

American cannot be shut down for so long over another strain of the flu. It's beyona OVERKILL. This is not the black plague that wiped out over 50% of Europe. Society cannot stand by and just wait.

[stbugs]

2 hours ago, Pantherzack179812 said:

Not trying to be a dick man, but in September if this is not gone, 90% of the world will have been infected and people will be starting to get sick of wasting months of their lives to save less people that will starve as of the result of a bad economy.

The government doesn't want to keep handing out checks, businesses want to make money, people want to make  money to feed their families. Football WILL happen, a 9 month old illness isn't stopping it. 

I completely understand and respect your profession, but the president himself said the 18 month plan is false. You don't need a cure, you just need treatment for it that many places as yours are testing at the moment.

That's like saying our place isn't anywhere close to finding a breakthrough, so the whole world must be a year away. Isreal says that have something that will be ready IN 60 DAYS. I recall hearing someone from the CDC saying that testing rules would be more lenient this time due to the circumstance and it would set records if a vaccine is found soon.

Good post. A vaccine might be a ways away but it’s getting this under control with testing and treatment options. If they can do that over the next few months things will open up. Hopefully, that is the case. Would be great to have a cure sooner but I don’t think we’ll be locked up until 2021.

[DeAngelo Beason]

In clinical studies z-packs have been 100% effective so far.  Everyone stock the hell up and get back to work dammit.

[kungfoodude]

4 minutes ago, stbugs said:

Good post. A vaccine might be a ways away but it’s getting this under control with testing and treatment options. If they can do that over the next few months things will open up. Hopefully, that is the case. Would be great to have a cure sooner but I don’t think we’ll be locked up until 2021.

Highly unlikely. We might have a vaccine in 12 months and we might not. Plenty of work on that now and there are a lot of current drugs that are showing some promise in combating it in the meantime. In the Western world the overall mortality rate is relatively low(save for Italy). The big losses of life will be if this starts spreading rapidly in developing and third world countries. The death figures will likely be astronomically higher than in China, Europe and the US. 

We may not be well prepared here in the US but we at least have a lot of infrastructure and resources. That is not the case in the third world.

[kungfoodude]

4 minutes ago, DeAngelo Beason said:

In clinical studies z-packs have been 100% effective so far.  Everyone stock the hell up and get back to work dammit.

I have not seen that. Link?

[DeAngelo Beason]

7 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

I have not seen that. Link?

covidtrial.io

President Trump discussed this trial in his press conference yesterday.  FDA has evidently cleared it.  The media isn't really mentioning it much... not surprising...

[WUnderhill]

I don’t see the shut downs lasting long enough to cancel the football season. If they do there will literally be people starving. It would be incredibly stupid and counter productive to send us into the Great Depression 2.0 over this.