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03-16-2020, 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
One day, people are going to look back on all that has happened in the last week and just shake their heads at how high the nonsense meter went.
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Research the 1918-20 Spanish Flu. You'd be surprised how many thought it was not a big deal when it started to spread. 50 million people died from it. There is precedence that this is what it looks like.
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03-16-2020, 07:04 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
One day, people are going to look back on all that has happened in the last week and just shake their heads at how high the nonsense meter went.
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I hope that this statement comes true.
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03-16-2020, 07:05 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Del Boca Vista
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Originally Posted by Track Phantom
Research the 1918-20 Spanish Flu. You'd be surprised how many thought it was not a big deal when it started to spread. 50 million people died from it. There is precedence that this is what it looks like.
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The Spanish Flu had a much higher death rate than is generally reported. Interesting people keep comparing C19 to that...
https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19...e-spanish-flu/
"A popular refrain is that the new coronavirus has a frighteningly high fatality rate of at least 2 percent, which is supposedly comparable to that of the 1918 influenza pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu—one of the deadliest viral outbreaks in history. The truth is that this comparison is severely flawed and that the numbers it relies on are almost certainly wrong."
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03-16-2020, 07:09 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Moore, OK
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Originally Posted by dilanesp
I think it is fair to say that the NCAA makes its year off the NCAA Men's Division 1 Basketball Tournament. And yet- they canceled it. Because they understood, ultimately, that their obligation was to public health, not their own bottom line.
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The NCAA also can't do it in September so they really didn't have a choice. Timing has a lot to do with things. What is the difference of the NBA not announcing a date (which, by the way, CD hasn't either) and hoping to finish the season and offering a possible date in the future when you hope to resume?
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03-16-2020, 08:02 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
One day, people are going to look back on all that has happened in the last week and just shake their heads at how high the nonsense meter went.
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Absolute truth.
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03-16-2020, 08:15 PM
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Courier Journal throwing around Derby @ Sept. 02 NBC football contracts crossing paths.Breeders Cup upcoming.On and On more problems.Re Schedule not only the Derby but NBA MLB what a nightmare.When they Canceled March Madness last Thursday that put all this in perspective on the seriousness real quick for me.Hopefully we all just get thru this..
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03-16-2020, 08:15 PM
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Rumor is first weekend in September. Someone on Twitter posted all the Marriotts are booked up for 9/3 to 9/6 in Lou.
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03-16-2020, 08:16 PM
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Sept 05 My Bad
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03-16-2020, 08:55 PM
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Location: Toronto
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dilanesp
I think it is fair to say that the NCAA makes its year off the NCAA Men's Division 1 Basketball Tournament. And yet- they canceled it. Because they understood, ultimately, that their obligation was to public health, not their own bottom line.
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They make much more off Football than basketball, try again. The NCAA is not a company either. You have noticed none of the professional leagues have cancelled their season. The Masters was also postponed not cancelled
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03-16-2020, 09:01 PM
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Location: Western Kentucky
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No mud for a change then. It didn't rain once here last September.
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03-16-2020, 09:44 PM
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03-17-2020, 08:13 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2012
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
The Spanish Flu had a much higher death rate than is generally reported. Interesting people keep comparing C19 to that...
https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19...e-spanish-flu/
"A popular refrain is that the new coronavirus has a frighteningly high fatality rate of at least 2 percent, which is supposedly comparable to that of the 1918 influenza pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu—one of the deadliest viral outbreaks in history. The truth is that this comparison is severely flawed and that the numbers it relies on are almost certainly wrong." |
The Spanish flu came at a time where secondary bacterial infection was a big problem.
But the bug itself was actually more similar than you are saying.
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03-17-2020, 08:15 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by azeri98
They make much more off Football than basketball, try again. The NCAA is not a company either. You have noticed none of the professional leagues have cancelled their season. The Masters was also postponed not cancelled
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No professional league has rescheduled either.
And no, the NCAA doesn't run the football playoff or receive the revenue. Basketball is their cash cow.
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03-17-2020, 08:31 AM
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I think this will be a lot of fun at this different date, after all this bs has passed ppl will want to let loose. Hopefully, we will all have some money.
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03-17-2020, 08:40 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RunForTheRoses
I think this will be a lot of fun at this different date, after all this bs has passed ppl will want to let loose. Hopefully, we will all have some money.
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What's probably most amazing is the futility of this. No, the Derby is highly unlikely to be run on Labor Day Weekend. They are just getting people's hopes up to dash them later (and cause a secondary shock to Louisville's economy when everything gets canceled again).
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