It’s looking more likely that NFL season will be cancelled.

[Ezrider1423]

36 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

When people are dying yes the fug you can 

People die every second of every day. 

[bigdavis]

54 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

When people are dying yes the fug you can 

[captfluoro]

29 minutes ago, RASTAN66 said:

Mayor of NYC is one of the single biggest dumbasses to ever walk the face of the earth.

You'd be well served to not rely on anything that moron says, much less propagate the drivel. 

Come on pal...

This.

DeBlasio is the biggest joke of a politician in this country.  You should do the exact opposite of what he says to do.

[t96]

1 hour ago, 4Corners said:

When people are dying yes the fug you can 

Shutting the country down for a long time would result in more deaths by suicide than coronavirus deaths if the country was kept running like normal in the same time period. People are going to die from this. There is no preventing that. You can delay it, which is extremely important to keep our hospitals from getting overwhelmed, but you can’t avoid it. It won’t be easy either way but crashing the economy won’t help anything.

[RASTAN66]

9 minutes ago, captfluoro said:

DeBlasio is the biggest joke of a politician in this country.  You should do the exact opposite of what he says to do.

Exactly.

In places far & wide this is known as The Constanza Principle...

...namely, do the opposite.

 

[musicman]

I think you will see football but with empty stadiums. The TV money will go up because nobody will have anything else to watch and people will be itching to watch it. It will also give a sense of normalcy while not adding to the spread. They can test players and help them and the workers with heavy cleaning and testing before every meeting or practice. They got the money for all that testing and monitoring. 

[bigdavis]

1 minute ago, bigdavis said:

 

Sorry my copy and paste didn't transfer here correctly.  In essence, this tabulation showed that, in comparison to many other causes of death, COVID-19 is overblown -- and indeed, as President Trump surmised, the cure might be worse than the disease.

Some comparable stats from the list: Worldwide deaths from 1/1 - 4/1/20, from...

COVID-19:  46,438

Seasonal Flu:  121,993

Malaria:  246,121

Suicide:  269,076

Traffic Fatalities:  338,715

HIV/AIDS:  421,808

Alcohol:  627,571

Cancer:  2,060,730

Hunger:  2,806,314

Abortion:  10,665,130

 

Was the country shut down (are you saying it should have been?) for any of these other reasons?   No.  With not even 26,000 deaths (to date, not 4/1) attributed to COVID-19 in the U.S., is there not a good argument to make that the lifeblood of our economy -- the jobs of its citizens -- might not be more important than the isolation measures now in place to fight a disease that has been way over-estimated in its dangers?

I am not likening any disease to a previous irrational fear that was non-medical, yet swept the country, but fears of Y2K proved to be similarly over-hyped.

While the poster to whom I respond has my sincere sympathy for his association with several people who've been directly effected by this pandemic, I doubt few or many of us have such associations.

Put this into some perspective -- this 'pandemic' won't kill a fraction of the people who die of the flu.

 

[RoaringRiot]

What do you do when you get to week two or three and a player has it?

[beo]

15 minutes ago, bigdavis said:

Sorry my copy and paste didn't transfer here correctly.  In essence, this tabulation showed that, in comparison to many other causes of death, COVID-19 is overblown -- and indeed, as President Trump surmised, the cure might be worse than the disease.

Some comparable stats from the list: Worldwide deaths from 1/1 - 4/1/20, from...

COVID-19:  46,438

Seasonal Flu:  121,993

Malaria:  246,121

Suicide:  269,076

Traffic Fatalities:  338,715

HIV/AIDS:  421,808

Alcohol:  627,571

Cancer:  2,060,730

Hunger:  2,806,314

Abortion:  10,665,130

 

Was the country shut down (are you saying it should have been?) for any of these other reasons?   No.  With not even 26,000 deaths (to date, not 4/1) attributed to COVID-19 in the U.S., is there not a good argument to make that the lifeblood of our economy -- the jobs of its citizens -- might not be more important than the isolation measures now in place to fight a disease that has been way over-estimated in its dangers?

I am not likening any disease to a previous irrational fear that was non-medical, yet swept the country, but fears of Y2K proved to be similarly over-hyped.

While the poster to whom I respond has my sincere sympathy for his association with several people who've been directly effected by this pandemic, I doubt few or many of us have such associations.

Put this into some perspective -- this 'pandemic' won't kill a fraction of the people who die of the flu.

 

this is easily in contender for the stupidest post ive ever read on this website

[4Corners]

1 hour ago, Ezrider1423 said:

People die every second of every day. 

TELL US MORE MR SCIENCE 

[4Corners]

2 minutes ago, beo said:

this is easily in contender for the stupidest post ive ever read on this website

Give it a day or two. 

[4Corners]

14 minutes ago, RoaringRiot said:

What do you do when you get to week two or three and a player has it?

Exactly. Or one of the coaches or equipment people. Crowds are only a part of the problem. People are forgetting as well that there is a good chance this poo will start back up once we get in to flu season again - right in the middle of football season. 

[4Corners]

35 minutes ago, t96 said:

Shutting the country down for a long time would result in more deaths by suicide than coronavirus deaths if the country was kept running like normal in the same time period. People are going to die from this. There is no preventing that. You can delay it, which is extremely important to keep our hospitals from getting overwhelmed, but you can’t avoid it. It won’t be easy either way but crashing the economy won’t help anything.

This is your opinion. The deaths by suicide line here is pure baseless speculation. 

[LinvilleGorge]

18 minutes ago, RoaringRiot said:

What do you do when you get to week two or three and a player has it?

Yeah, this is the problem. What's the minimum people it would require to conduct a football game between the players, coaches, trainers, medical staff, chain crews, TV crews, refs, etc., etc.? I'm thinking probably 200 bare minimum and that might be way short of the actual number. The chances of keeping all those people COVID free for 15 games per week is probably worse than getting struck by lightning while holding a winning jackpot lottery ticket.