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  1. adambr2
    That's what I've been thinking this whole time. People making your food could have it and not know like so many people already. Even one person working one night could infect a hundred people directly and then extrapolate from there. Our house will be making all of our own meals for the foreseeable future. There's no evidence at all that COVID-19 can be transmitted through food. There's a risk associated with the virus staying active on a particular object, but unless an infected worker is coughing and sneezing on several hundred takeout meals, this particular example is never going to happen. Even food that was infected during preparation would likely have the virus destroyed in the cooking process. The risk of getting COVID-19 from takeout food is extremely low. As with any other activity these days, it is not nonexistent nor is it nonexistent when purchasing your own ingredients and preparing them at home. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/16/coronavirus-cdc-answers-questions-on-safety-of-take-out-and-restaurant-food/
  2. adambr2
    I think the biggest lesson that we as country need to take from this is that our health care system has some major deficiencies and we need better preparation for a situation like this. We can't afford to have less than 3 hospital beds per 1,000 people and shortages of equipment and supplies. Lives being lost is tragic, but any pandemic will come with that price. We need a full pandemic preparedness system when something like this happens to find out ways to minimize that price without tanking the entire economy and losing all semblance of normal life.
  3. adambr2
    I think we have pretty much collectively decided at this point that the deficit doesn't matter anymore. But yeah, right now isn't the time to worry about it.
  4. adambr2
    Are you getting the 12 people hospitalized from here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ Because they've been stuck on 12 for like 48 hours at least. I dont think that's accurate. Yeah. It was 10 either this morning or last night. I'm not sure about the accuracy of it or how they classify cases. The total infected is updated very regularly.
  5. adambr2
    You bring up some really good points. When this is all said and done, very few of us will have died, but almost all of us will have suffered. People are losing jobs, being laid off, presumably losing their houses and livelihoods, delaying retirement, among many other consequences. I'm not going to sit here and say that we should value the economy and quality of life for the country over 1 life or 100,000 lives. I'm also not going to say we shouldn't. I simply don't know the answer. I know we lose 40K people or so per year to influenza, 50K to suicide, 146K per year to stroke, 674K to heart disease, and many others, we try to improve these things and we push on. We live to die, eventually. It's a thought provoking, maybe even philosophical debate. But no, I don't think we can afford to respond like this with every pandemic. I don't know what the right level of reaction is. I can completely sympathize with the standpoint that they'd rather overreact now and err on the side of caution to save lives now even if it gets looked at as an overreaction in hindsight. That's perfectly valid. But each reaction has consequences, and death is far from the only one.
  6. adambr2
    It's Bill O Brien, who knows. He's insane. There's no looking for logic. The Cardinals were desperate just to dump DJs contract. Hopkins' contract isn't even bad for a receiver of his caliber.
  7. adambr2
    How in the world, even on a best case May scenario, would getting 162 games in be even remotely plausible? The MLB season is taxing enough without holding weekly doubleheaders and removing days off.
  8. adambr2
    Hahahahahahahahahahahaha, wow. A 4th+Hopkins for a 2nd+David Johnson. There are no words.
  9. adambr2
    I think the question is more appropriate if the hospital system becomes taxed. It's easier to keep a number down when you don't have hospital beds in tents outside a hospital like in Italy. True. I have to wonder how many of the 2,000+ dead in Italy are dead because they got coronavirus and died in spite of care, and how many of them are dead because they got coronavirus, couldn't get adequate care, and died.
  10. adambr2
    I guess my question was more geared toward whether or not we may have drastically overestimated the lethality and number of potential hospitalized of this. I don't question that the total infected is going to be far more than our current numbers. If you tested every American today I wouldn't be surprised if 500,000 came back positive.
  11. adambr2
    So the current US numbers that I've seen are: 3,837 total cases, of which 70 are deceased, and 73 are recovered. So 3,694 current cases, of which 3,682 are considered mild, and 12 are considered to be either serious or critical. Can someone tell me what I am missing here? I assume the number of cases will continue to rise, but a lot of that is simply due to more frequent testing. Anyone who had coronavirus in the US back in January simply would have never known. 12 total people hospitalized nationally from COVID-19 right now would not even put a tiny dent in our healthcare system. Even as the number of infected continues to rise, it seems that almost every new case found is a mild case. Obviously the 12 will rise but if the proportion of critical/serious cases continues to fall behind the number of total cases, the mortality rate of COVID-19 will plummet. 12 already seems incredibly low in proportion considering that one would assume that the vast majority of people tested are being tested simply because they have been symptomatic enough to get tested. Please know I am not trying to downplay the affect that this has had on people's lives and any event in which human lives are lost is tragic. I am just trying to gain some understanding based on how the situation is evolving on what is different -- why is this different than other coronaviruses or seasonal diseases. I'm sure there are some more educated on this than I on how that can be answered.
  12. adambr2
    I don't get the Hooper hype. He isn't particularly fast, doesn't stretch the field much and isn't a great redzone receiver. He does everything *fairly well*, but resetting the TE market for "fairly well" doesn't seem like a great idea.
  13. adambr2
    Assuming mid-June return for the NBA (hopefully), they almost certainly need to call the regular season finished and just start the playoffs, no?
  14. adambr2
    Using reported data to predict what's going to happen with this thing is a fool's errand. It is wildly inaccurate, depends entirely on the testing protocol of that country (the US is NOT in good standing there), is believed to lag by weeks, and only includes people who actually get a test. This is a good thing as well as a bad thing. So many people are going to get COVID-19, feel a little under the weather at home but not too bad, eventually recover, and go about their lives. These people will never be tested or accounted for. It is what makes nailing the mortality rate down on this really difficult.
  15. adambr2
    But again the NCAA is dealing with students. There are other sports programs, academics, graduations, etc, to stay on track for. Professional sports leagues don't have to worry about any of that. For every one of their players, this is their livelihood. It is apples to oranges regardless of whether NCAA players were getting paid or not.
  16. adambr2
    I have read that the committee is still considering releasing a 68 team bracket. Obviously it would be nothing more than symbolic, but I would like to see one anyway.
  17. adambr2
    There's going to be a lot of 10 year olds asked to grow up real quick to babysit their younger siblings.
  18. adambr2
    I know it's hard to believe right now, but the day will come when things will be normal again.
  19. adambr2
    Since every pro sport has canceled events as well, I would say no, it would be the same. Not every pro sport has cancelled events. There are many that have postponed them. Last I saw, the NBA, NHL, and others haven't cancelled the season. College sports is a little different. They are bound by the limits of the school year. You can't just delay things for a couple months and by the time you're ready for the tourney it's May. These are kids most of whom are bound for careers not in professional sports. Professional sports don't have these limitations. The NBA can push things out and play basketball all summer and it's obviously still a logistical challenge but plenty practical.
  20. adambr2
    As a parent of 3 young children one thing that makes me sleep much easier these days is the very minimal effect of the virus on children. There's enough to worry about these days and at least not really having to worry about children catching this moreso than anything else is a big weight off.
  21. adambr2
    I think the NCAA will stick with their plan of continuing the tourney just with empty arenas. Maybe I am hoping moreso than thinking, though.
  22. adambr2
    https://www.nj.com/rutgersbasketball/2020/03/big-ten-tournament-canceled-due-to-coronavirus-pandemic.html The Big 10 tournament has been cancelled. Speculating but I'm assuming that would make us the Big 10's presumed auto bid for the NCAA tourney as the #1 seed.
  23. adambr2
    Rudy Gobert is a moron, by the way. He has made a mockery of COVID-19 lately by making sure he touches every mike that a reporter places in front of him, and jokingly touching all of his teammates belongings in the locker room. Now this happens to him. There are idiots on both ends of the spectrum on this. The ones freaking out and buying 400 rolls of toilet paper and locking themselves in their house on one end, and people like Godert on the other end. Respect the virus, listen to the CDC, wash your hands very frequently and do as health experts recommend. That's it. What Godert doesn't understand is that it wasn't about him. If he's not worried about COVID-19 then that's fine. He may never even get ill. But it was never about him, it was about his grandmother that he may have seen last week, or about the family of the teammate that he infected through pure carelessness. People need to stop being selfish idiots. At least respect the people around you enough to protect yourself. And stop selling toilet paper rolls to the gullible for 10 bucks a pop.
  24. adambr2
    The season isn't cancelled and I still very much doubt it would come to that. Of course I didn't think it would get this far so I've been wrong before. At some point, somewhere, even if if be in empty areas several weeks or a month or two down the road, I think it's highly likely that the NBA playoffs will happen. My best guess which will probably not be correct is that the regular season is over and the NBA playoffs will take place on time in empty arenas based on today's standings in a format designed to limit the amount of travel needed. (3-4 or something). But I'm sure there are all kinds of options being considered.
  25. adambr2
    My guess is the playoffs will still happen eventually, even if they have to cut the regular season short, but this is getting ridiculous. Just cancel life at this point, I guess.
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