LABILLBACKER Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 9 minutes ago, wppete said: Yeah sad to see. Just hope there will be a Buffalo Bills team come the 2021 season. Who knows with all this insanity going on. Been hearing and reading a lot of chatter of people Boycotting the NBA and NFL recently. Can this be true? Anyone read the same? Breaking news.....Jeff Passan reporting...Manfred says MLB season likely not happening....greedy owners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuscott16 Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 3 minutes ago, Doc Brown said: Or they pass it on to a buddy's who's girlfriends friends father's cousin works in a nursing home. It's transmitted four times and now five people in a nursing home die because this virus is so lethal to the elderly. That could be happening now though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 5 minutes ago, LABILLBACKER said: Breaking news.....Jeff Passan reporting...Manfred says MLB season likely not happening....greedy owners. Lots of reasons sports may not happen. Bad look if money is the reason, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wppete Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 13 minutes ago, LABILLBACKER said: Breaking news.....Jeff Passan reporting...Manfred says MLB season likely not happening....greedy owners. Really??? I am not surprised. I don't see the NBA having a season way too much chaos. And the NFL now with players being tested positive and the backlash online by fans who are saying the will Boycott the NFL it doesn't look good for sports. What a shame! lets hope NCAA Football is going to have a season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 23 minutes ago, Doc Brown said: Or they pass it on to a buddy who passes it to his girlfriend who passes it to her friend who passes it to her father who passes it to his cousin who happens to work in a nursing home. Now five people in a nursing home die because this world class athlete unknowingly passed it to his girlfriend. Is Kevin Bacon involved in this in any way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, Plano said: Does anyone actually care anymore? Let's just move on. Seriously? No. No I don't. If they play this year, great. If they don't play until 2030? Oh well. Edited June 15, 2020 by Beast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
123719bwiqrb Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 15 minutes ago, BUFFALOBART said: So. Tell us. What do (((THEY))) want????? Power, money, and hookers w/ blow would be my guess? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherlock Holmes Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 5 hours ago, Cal said: Per NFL.com Need to call off the 2020 season imo. You can't socially distance in a team sport like football. Its inevitable that players will continue to test positive. Somebody notify JJ Watt and Leighton Vander Esch that I'm on standby to suck the Corona right out of them 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stranded in Boston Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 3 hours ago, Hapless Bills Fan said: RNA/DNA don't lie, and they say that you are incorrect. Coronaviruses of various kinds have been around for decades, but the specific coronavirus Sars-CoV2 that causes covid-19 disease has not been circulating in humans for decades. Genomic epidemiology traces it back to a single introduction in Nov/Dec 2019. The covid-19 testing is NOT a general "catch all test", it uses RT-PCR (a technique to amplify RNA to amplify 3 specific regions on 3 specific genes that are unique to the Sars-Cov2 virus that causes covid-19 disease. It is an EXTREMELY specific test, by design. It is not uncommon for the same virus to cause severe symptoms in some people, and mild or no symptoms in others. It is estimated that 20% of people infected with seasonal influenza are asymptomatic. Polio virus was a Beast to contain (and is still a beast in the countries where it's still endemic) because up to 70% of those infected were asymptomatic, 25% experienced symptoms like a mild cold, while 5% developed a severe and sometimes paralytic disease Please don't spread misinformation or broaden the discussion to make every thread a "covid-19 disease discussion thread". General covid-19 discussion may take place in OTW in the designated threads or in PPP. Thank you. Further posts that ignore this request will be deleted. Thanks a lot, Hapless; refreshing to see some real science here. I know you asked for no more Covid-19 posts, but your message is important, and I'd like to back you up. Politics and sports aside, Sars-CoV2 is very real and very deadly, especially to the elderly and others with weakened immune systems or serious pre-existing conditions. We all know someone with such a condition. I had an internist (and old friend) from Buffalo General Hospital present (remotely) to my medical school class a few weeks ago, and she was fairly shell-shocked with what she had seen and dealt with in clinic. Things have also been rough here in Boston-area hospitals. Sars-CoV2 is absolutely NOT a "common cold" virus. This is unambiguous: Hapless explained nicely how RNA viruses (including Covid variants) can be precisely "fingerprinted" using reverse transcriptase polymerase-chain reaction (RT-PCR; look up on Wikipedia if interested; actually quite a simple idea). So I want to echo Hapless' appeal to please not spread misinformation! If you think you have some hot take, then please share your peer-reviewed journal citation, and maybe also your scientific/medical credentials. (And yes, for what it's worth, I am a bona fide medical researcher -- and I expect Hapless is as well.) 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 50 minutes ago, LABILLBACKER said: Breaking news.....Jeff Passan reporting...Manfred says MLB season likely not happening....greedy owners. Greedy owners? What did they do wrong? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twist_to_open Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 4 hours ago, YoloinOhio said: Yes that has been discussed a lot. It will not be a normal season. But they will still play because TV money. So would everybody be o.k. if we won the Superbowl this year, even if it comes with a big Covid astrick next to it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LABILLBACKER Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 37 minutes ago, wppete said: Really??? I am not surprised. I don't see the NBA having a season way too much chaos. And the NFL now with players being tested positive and the backlash online by fans who are saying the will Boycott the NFL it doesn't look good for sports. What a shame! lets hope NCAA Football is going to have a season. Right now I think all there will be is some college football along with golf & nascar. Unless someone pulls a miracle vaccine out of their butt Sept 1st? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyDays Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 I think somehow they need to make masks part of the uniform. The latest research shows that masks do a very good job of preventing the spread on their own. There was some hair salon that opened and two stylists tested positive, together they had served 140 customers and not a single customer tested positive because everyone wore a mask. If they can have everyone involved with the team wearing a mask the season can go on normally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Things Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 (edited) For all of you desperate to watch live sports again, I thought I'd suggest you check out some New Zealand rugby. We've pretty much eliminated Covid-19 from here, so our stadiums are open to fans. It may not be "American Football", but it can be pretty great too. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12339670 Edited June 16, 2020 by Bad Things 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simstim Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 (edited) Though this might go a bit missing with the, shall we say, impasssioned rejections of other peoples position, the major thing the NFL has going in it's favour is it's KO time. There are professional sports leagues starting up all round, in both countries that have been reported to have handled Covid well and those that are said not to. There is still plenty of time to see the fallout in those leagues, for the NFL to learn lessons, see how if and they work, and to make adjustments if needed. We should have better indicators too if there is to be a second (or series of) wave(s). Edited June 15, 2020 by Simstim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, HappyDays said: I think somehow they need to make masks part of the uniform. The latest research shows that masks do a very good job of preventing the spread on their own. There was some hair salon that opened and two stylists tested positive, together they had served 140 customers and not a single customer tested positive because everyone wore a mask. If they can have everyone involved with the team wearing a mask the season can go on normally. Wear masks as part of their uniform? Are you talking about athletes? If so that, right there, is some high quality humor. Edited June 16, 2020 by Beast 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiotAct Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 (edited) masks are the alpha and the omega. The yin and the yang. The raison d’etre. Edited June 15, 2020 by RiotAct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirAndrew Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 (edited) 26 minutes ago, ScottLaw said: Jesus Christ. Thank you! Gotta keep that social distancing going....while crowds of hundreds march in the streets holding hands. No issues there.? The people who are dying are typical unhealthy, older fragile human beings with 4 or 5 other comorbidities. If a professional athlete gets this virus they are more than likely fine. The coaches are really the ones at risk. Perhaps a protocol of tests every 3 days and some sort of strict mandatory quarantine for each team while the season goes on.... but I have no doubt they’ll play the season. I’m over the social distancing myself, but this virus is far more scary than many want it to be. Most people are fragile, and older, but the fact that 1,000’s of 30 somethings have been placed on ventilators is frightening. Life is better when we choose to ignore that though, I get it. I just don’t see how a season works, unless we as a nation change our quarantine/exposure policies. Edited June 15, 2020 by SirAndrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penfield45 Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 (edited) would be a PR nightmare to have the NFL hoard hundreds of thousands of tests while sick people with bad symptoms in america STILL can't get tested we still have NO IDEA what the virus is going to look like come October/november during flu season. we are 2 weeks away from July and cases are still spiking all over the country. Edited June 15, 2020 by Penfield45 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyDays Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 38 minutes ago, Beast said: Wear masks as part of their uniform? Are you talking about athletes? If so, that, right there, is some high quality humor. If the choice is wear masks or don't get paid because the sesson is cancelled, they'll fall in line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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