NBA. Anybody else think

[dinglefritz]

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the bubble league play thing is stupid? The whole idea of locking them up away from wives, girlfriends, kids, their own homes etc seems just outrageous to me. Go back to normal for heaven's sake and test the hell out of them. 5 days at Disney drove me nuts. I can't imagine several months without my friends and family.

 

[mwulf]

especially with Orlando Airport blowing up with cases. Honestly surprised they didnt hunker down in Vegas

 

[dinglefritz]

especially with Orlando Airport blowing up with cases. Honestly surprised they didnt hunker down in Vegas

NO matter what they do, they're going to have support people supplying food, doing cleaning etc, IMO they should just restart the season with games in their normal venues and be cautious. When somebody tests positive he has to sit. IF its during the playoffs, oh well. That's the way the cookie crumbles this year.

 

[jedihusker]

especially with Orlando Airport blowing up with cases. Honestly surprised they didnt hunker down in Vegas

2 of 500 positives is blowing up?

 

[litespeedhuskerfan_rivals19671]

2 of 500 positives is blowing up?

There are people still pretending we're stacking dead bodies in reefer trucks because we ran out of room at the morgue's.

 

[Spectrumalaska]

I think it is a bad idea all the way around. Any champion would be marginalised to begin with, and with all the nonsense going on around our country, I am uninterested to watch and hear the "stances" of players telling me how I am somehow to blame for the aforesaid nonsense.

I probably will not watch a game even if they do restart.

 

[dinglefritz]

I think it is a bad idea all the way around. Any champion would be marginalised to begin with, and with all the nonsense going on around our country, I am uninterested to watch and hear the "stances" of players telling me how I am somehow to blame for the aforesaid nonsense.

I probably will not watch a game even if they do restart.

Kind of my thoughts too.

 

[Dean Pope]

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the bubble league play thing is stupid? The whole idea of locking them up away from wives, girlfriends, kids, their own homes etc seems just outrageous to me. Go back to normal for heaven's sake and test the hell out of them. 5 days at Disney drove me nuts. I can't imagine several months without my friends and family.

I pretty much agree with your sentiment, but "the bubble" is pretty much the only way to have a season. Those guys will go into public and get infected and then the team will have to quarantine. It is outrageous, but it's the best way to go about it if you want to have a real semblance of a season.

Plan for isolation for one or two months of play. Allow families to stay with them, but limit the number of times anyone goes in or out of the bubble. It could work. It's a sacrifice, but the teams would get top notch service while they were there. It could be done, but ultimately I don't think it's realistic. Outside of the military, too many of us Americans have a "me first" mentality and are unwilling to sacrifice much without crying about it and protesting lockouts. It's a far cry from the WWII generation.

 

[dinglefritz]

I pretty much agree with your sentiment, but "the bubble" is pretty much the only way to have a season. Those guys will go into public and get infected and then the team will have to quarantine. It is outrageous, but it's the best way to go about it if you want to have a real semblance of a season.

Plan for isolation for one or two months of play. Allow families to stay with them, but limit the number of times anyone goes in or out of the bubble. It could work. It's a sacrifice, but the teams would get top notch service while they were there. It could be done, but ultimately I don't think it's realistic. Outside of the military, too many of us Americans have a "me first" mentality and are unwilling to sacrifice much without crying about it and protesting lockouts. It's a far cry from the WWII generation.

From what I've seen they're not letting them take their families with them.

As long as they tested regularly and took temps I don't think the whole team would have to quarantine. That isn't the way it's working with other activities. The quarantine of anybody who had contact lost some favor when they finally figured out that China was full of sh## when they said that people often spread the virus when asymptomatic. IF their only option is to put the guys in a bubble in Orlando with no contact with their family, they should just forget it. No way I would sign up for that..... errr well wait maybe if they were paying me thousands of dollars per game played. Steph Curry gets paid 490K/game.....

 

[Dean Pope]

From what I've seen they're not letting them take their families with them.

As long as they tested regularly and took temps I don't think the whole team would have to quarantine. That isn't the way it's working with other activities. The quarantine of anybody who had contact lost some favor when they finally figured out that China was full of sh## when they said that people often spread the virus when asymptomatic. IF their only option is to put the guys in a bubble in Orlando with no contact with their family, they should just forget it. No way I would sign up for that..... errr well wait maybe if they were paying me thousands of dollars per game played. Steph Curry gets paid 490K/game.....

Agreed. But I would say that the comment by the WHO was based on only a few studies and was roundly criticized. I'm not sure why some on this board have been so eager to change their mind about the WHO so quickly.

From the Harvard Health Institute:
“The WHO created confusion yesterday when it reported that asymptomatic patients rarely spread the disease. All of the best evidence suggests that people without symptoms can and do readily spread SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. In fact, some evidence suggests that people may be most infectious in the days before they become symptomatic — that is, in the presymptomatic phase when they feel well, have no symptoms, but may be shedding substantial amounts of virus.”

 

[dinglefritz]

Agreed. But I would say that the comment by the WHO was based on only a few studies and was roundly criticized. I'm not sure why some on this board have been so eager to change their mind about the WHO so quickly.

From the Harvard Health Institute:
“The WHO created confusion yesterday when it reported that asymptomatic patients rarely spread the disease. All of the best evidence suggests that people without symptoms can and do readily spread SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. In fact, some evidence suggests that people may be most infectious in the days before they become symptomatic — that is, in the presymptomatic phase when they feel well, have no symptoms, but may be shedding substantial amounts of virus.”

To say that there is much disagreement on asymptomatic spread of this virus would be an understatement. Unfortunately Harvard is not without a political ideology as well. I'm getting regular emails from them about their decision on re-opening this fall. They literally just link the Massachusetts state web site for information on this and we know who runs that. FWIW the CDC's official communications with at least one M.D. in my family is that asymptomatic transmission is not a big factor in spread.

 

[T...Chafes]

Play ball! Open the country all the way up.
Let's get back to living, even if it's with masks. There's no guarantee of a vaccine, many won't even want the vaccine.

Sports are a part of life, let's get back to playing them. Expand roster sizes. If someone gets sick, next man up.

If you are at risk or don't want to play, then stay home!