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Ivy League tournament has been cancelled due to Coronavirus. Yale gets the autobid.

I think it's within the realm of possibility that the NCAA tournament is cancelled. A few weeks ago, the US had more cases than Italy. Now, Italy has almost 10,000 cases, almost 500 deaths, the entire country is on lockdown, and all sporting events have been cancelled. This thing can spread very quickly if it breaks containment.

Ohio is only testing those who have symptoms and have travelled to China or been in contact with someone with a confirmed diagnosis. To me it seems likely there are some people with no symptoms or who got the virus from Italy, Iran, South Korea, etc. I think odds are high that the virus is not contained in the US at this point.
 
It's absolutely not contained, but is the NCAA really gonna give away all that money.


They really don't care about people.
 
The NCAA won't have a choice if federal/state/local governments ban public gatherings. I suppose they could play without crowds.
 
Yesterday they wouldn't even advise against cruise ships so I'd say we are a long way from the Federal Government shutting down much of anything.
 
I’d say if we make it, let them play and if we don’t, they should definitely cancel the tourney
 
cincrulz11 said:
It's absolutely not contained, but is the NCAA really gonna give away all that money.


They really don't care about people.
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Why not cancel the tournament every year then? Because you know...the flu...which is more deadly and way more people get...

This is the most overblown thing since Zika, or Ebola, or bird flu, or SERA, or whichever other world ending virus they come up with every couple years.
 
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NCAA again today saying they have absolutely no plans of cancelling the tournament or advising conferences to cancel their own tournaments.


NCAA will only shut it down if the CDC says to do it. That's not going to happen.
 
None of those had the potential to overwhelm the healthcare system. Around a fifth of Coronavirus cases require hospitalization. We have 95,000 ICU beds in the US. A third of that number taken by a surge of Coronavirus patients will overwhelm the system (average occupancy is 68%). So that means our system breaks down at about 160,000 cases. There's a non-zero chance of that happening if we don't contain it.

There's a reason why China and Italy had to implement draconian measures.
 
On an another note.

Mick said he only 2 good things happed on Saturday, 1. That his team had a culture shift where losing was unacceptable and 2. That Tre Scott finished his home career on a game winning tip in.

I’m glad he watched and I’m sure he called him to congratulate him.

https://youtu.be/FKOng9GuAZo


Around 7:15 mark
 
Reading responses to coronavirus is like reading a Justin response on Brannen. Really makes you wonder how we survived this long.
 
cincrulz11 said:
Reading responses to coronavirus is like reading a Justin response on Brannen. Really makes you wonder how we survived this long.
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Maybe we didn’t survive.

Maybe this place is just another places hell. One where John Brannen loses to Colgate over and over and over and over


And the only way to escape it is to get the Coronavirus?
 
sedziobs said:
None of those had the potential to overwhelm the healthcare system. Around a fifth of Coronavirus cases require hospitalization. We have 95,000 ICU beds in the US. A third of that number taken by a surge of Coronavirus patients will overwhelm the system (average occupancy is 68%). So that means our system breaks down at about 160,000 cases. There's a non-zero chance of that happening if we don't contain it.

There's a reason why China and Italy had to implement draconian measures.
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Where are you getting these numbers from? Unless you're like 70+ your chances of dying or needing hospitalization are way lower than just having the flu.

Italy has the oldest population in all of Europe, exceptionally higher than the US, and China is a dumpster fire.
 
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A lotta of people, not me, but a lot people say the corona virus was created by the NCAA as a way to get rid of the older fans who take Up all the good seats and rarely stand up to cheer in arenas across the country.

It’s really just a season tickets purge.
 
An old person that dies takes up the same number of hospital beds as a young person that survives. I don't trust China's numbers as much as I do Italy's.

March 9th : at 6 pm Italian time, the Protezione Civile released the following data:

The number of people with coronavirus in Italy today is: 7985
4316 in hospital
10% of them in ICU
about 3000 in isolation at home
Recovered: 724
Dead: 463
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Alum2013 said:
Where are you getting these numbers from? Unless you're like 70+ your chances of dying or needing hospitalization are way lower than just having the flu.

Italy has the oldest population in all of Europe, exceptionally higher than the US, and China is a dumpster fire.
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You have a way higher chance of dying then if you get the flu. And the issue is you can spread the virus for weeks before even knowing you have it
 

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