I don't expect things to get rolling til late August. 10 or 12 game season is best case scenario. If the NFL is faced with playing without fans, it could be shortened further. A lot may depend on the fine print in the TV contracts.
China has a population of 1.8 billion and only 3247 deaths as of today. That translates to an extremely small less than .0002% of their population. Clueless much? The season if anyone had a brain should go on as usual. But the gutless wonders that run the Leagues, Government and Businesses due to legal issues are shutting things down for a tiny segment of the population.
Here's the bottom line. When very few people have access to the test, you won't have a lot of confirmed cases. The more people you test, the more cases you will find.
Tests are just now beginning to become more readily available. The case number will be rising rapidly.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
I can't post what I believe in response to your posts without getting banned.
You want to see what happens when this thing isn't handled right? Look at Italy.
We're going to be just like Italy; right after Spain, France, and Germany get there.
As for China, you will see them bloom again as soon as they begin to relax the strict lockdowns they implemented. I feel there is little chance that they keep the full-on lockdown going until they have zero unresolved cases, and that is really their only hope - anyone's hope - of clearing this.
Browns is the Browns
... there goes Joe Thomas, the best there ever was in this game.
People can be thick. They think that our nation lives in a bubble and refuse to look at the world. There are examples to look at if people would only open their eyes. And the fact that some refuse will cause the death count to rise among us all.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
I’m a community nurse. I hope like hell people are being smarter than ‘Newfan2020’. I have to go visit people in their homes, retirement communities, and nursing homes. I don’t want to be a vector. People with flippant attitudes put me at risk along with those I serve.
And as a front line worker I can attest, we don’t have the proper protective equipment available to us. Not at my company, or many others. If, when, this thing explodes in the Portland metro area I’m going to be taking live fire.
This isn’t some hoax, or conspiracy, or just a flu, yada yada. This is my life.
What if those people in Iran didn't die from COVID-19, but rather were executed by the Iranian regime?
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
To keep it about football, I agree w/Purp that the season will probably be delayed. It might be shortened, but there is a lot of money at stake and they could very easily extend the season into March if they had to.
Lets look at Italy too. Their population is 60.4 million and they have as of a few hours ago 3408 deaths. That breaks down to .0056% of their population.
I know these facts dispute your fake outrage and hysteria but thats me. Facts are facts. Too bad it doesnt support your opinion
Just because people are testing positive for the Corona doesnt mean anything. Football season may be delayed but it shouldnt be. The number of deaths vs the population size is a non issue. People die from more things at a higher percentange than this virus. Heck the normal flu has killed 20000 people way more than this. Sean Payton was just diagnosed
Lets look at Italy too. Their population is 60.4 million and they have as of a few hours ago 3408 deaths. That breaks down to .0056% of their population.
I know these facts dispute your fake outrage and hysteria but thats me. Facts are facts. Too bad it doesnt support your opinion
...and the death rate is growing by the day. Your "facts" only hold water if the fatalities stop today...and they are doing nothing of the kind, they are increasing not only by the day, but also in numbers per day. Are you just going to sit back and wait until they reach some number in which you finally admit that there's a problem, and then say "my bad"?
In response to your other post, yes...you are ignorant, troll.
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. - John Muir
And even though they are increasing by the day they aren't even close to approaching .10% of the population. This would have to go on for a year. LOL
.10% of the population (1 per thousand) dying from this is your benchmark to consider it a problem?....and you're laughing? Ignorance is bliss, I guess.
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. - John Muir
exponential growth is kinda difficult to understand...
here's a video for more insight...
If nothing was done.. and we didn't do a thing to flatten the curve.. which puts far more risk on those who are immunocompromised.
we'd be looking at about 4 million deaths. We as a nation see about 4.2 million deaths a year. This is why maintaining social distancing is such a thing.
Sorry you cant handle facts. Those are facts not opinions.
The fact is currently there is an exponential trend of cases going on in the us.... that's why everyone shut down... if we stick with the current curve we are going to be in serious trouble...
thanks for the videos. I saw something similar that outlined the effects of it (Imperial College report).
"First down inside the 10. A score here will put us in the Super Bowl. Cooper is far to the left as Njoku settles into the slot. Moore is flanked out wide to the right. Chubb and Ford are split in the backfield as Watson takes the snap ... Here we go."
I would guess they'll stage it in Vegas next year and push Cleveland to 2022.
OK...that brings up another question. Would they even have a draft next year if the colleges don't have a season? The guys we draft this year will more or less be rookies in 2021, if we even play that season.
If they did, would teams keep the same draft order as is this year? If not, how would it be seeded? Just a lottery of sorts?
If everybody had like minds, we would never learn.
The cratering of the economy, sports included, is flat out absurd. Ohio has a population 11.75 million people and only 88 cases so far. That translates to .000748% of the population. There is absolutely no reason to cancel or shut down anything.
What a difference 5 days can make. I hope you weren't the man of the house.
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. - John Muir