News: MLS Suspends season due to Coronavirus

I don't discount such a thing, I just expect it to take the usual 10-15 years to happen. Also how confident are you in HIV drugs? Would you go to an orgy knowing that at least one participant is HIV positive? If not, then you probably shouldn't attend a sports event in the age of covid-19, drugs or not.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53248660

Curious - we might have immunity to this thing after all, and a significantly larger number of people might have already had it than the 2-5% we suspect.

 

Yeah I was going to link that earlier when you mentioned about the antibodies. To me this is a possible explanation why the virus has dwindled so rapidly in previous hotspots despite not getting anywhere near herd immunity in antibody tests. It's not like their social distancing was that much better than in other places which only managed to plateau their numbers.

 

How will God hear them?

 

After seeing how MLS is stumbling to the starting line, I have serious doubts we'll see much in the way of team sports in 2020. The NFL is arrogant and rich enough that they'll probably try to make a go of it in the fall, but outside of that I think we're looking at most leagues maybe getting a NWSL-type tournament in and that's it, if we're lucky.

If we had taken this seriously in March and dealt with it correctly we could have had sports, but we didn't.

 

This is true of vastly more than just sports.

 

Absolutely, but since we're focused on sports here I figured I'd limit my comment to that.

 

NHL has benefited somewhat by how slowly they moved. They just have to hope not too many players get infected at home before moving to their bubbles in Canada, which should be relatively safer than playing in the U.S. at least.

MLS just had really bad timing, arriving just in time for Florida's explosion. If they had done it sooner or chose a different location it probably would've been okay.

 

Florida has nothing to do with the positive MLS tests so far.

 

I'd say it's more of a case of "do as they do, not as they say". Quite a few politicians who previously said to avoid crowds and maintain social distance nevertheless participated in mass demonstrations. If the people claiming it's a crisis don't act like it's a crisis, then why should anyone else? It's similar to the global warming doomsayers who fly private jets when they travel.

 

Again, you base this on what? The article certainly does say that.

There's not a lot of middle ground with the positions you take up.

 

Whatever the last thing he read was sets his position. If it was positive then everything is great and we'll be back to normal in a month or two, if it was negative we're all living with this virus for 5 years.

 

Sounds like the attitude a lot of Redditors have about this thing.

 

But they didn't get into the bubble.

They arrived at the bubble and were in the pre-bubble quarantine where they were tested - identified as potentially positive and kept in quarantine.

The system is actually working fine. At least at the MLS level.

Now what the hell was going on in Dallas and Nashville? Well that's a whole 'nother issue.

 

Besides the FC Dallas and Nashville SC positive coronavirus cases in the MLS bubble...there’s only one other player, a member of the Columbus Crew according to sources, who has tested positive. With all the teams already embedded in the bubble, ALL players have now been tested.

— Stefano Fusaro (@S_Fusaro) July 7, 2020

 

The NFL can pull it off because of the size of their TV rights, something like $6 billion per year. Stadium revenue is about 38% of league revenues.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeoz...f-games-are-played-without-fans/#79f0881d691a

Of course, those revenues have costs, so who knows how much they contribute to the bottom line. Heck, they may be able to sell advertising in the stands, so who knows how playing in empty stadiums will affect their bottom line.

The NFL may be able to survive on TV alone. They can probably do that playing games in their home field in a bubble of sorts. MLB and NBA could probably survive on empty stadiums, too.

I think the problem will be how long people will accept empty stadiums. Maybe 10 percent of NFL, MLB and NBA audiences see the game in person. How does not seeing fans in the stands affect perception of the game by TV viewers?

March was too late. I was at a meeting the first week of February and a colleague was talking about how bad the disease was and how bad it could be if they didn’t do something about it.

 

That seems to be every government that has issues response... stop testing, stop reporting, etc... Banana Republic type garbage.

 

Deaths now beginning to trend up in the states seeing surges. Hopefully the death increases won't be the same level as the case increases.

 

All of those things are still in the testing stages...