Official Speculation Thread '19-'20 V: Purgatory

[basketballRob]

I have two businesses and one requires me to be around a lot of people at special events. The other one i have no contact with anyone. If i get 3 more weeks in I'll be able to work the one with no contact for the rest of the year.

It's going to be way less money for me but it'll give me a chance to really build up my second business.

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[basketballRob]

I mean, we will all be exposed to it at some point. just delaying it long enough for vaccine

I've heard even if you live that it can do damage to your lungs. That could be an NBA player's career.

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They are monitoring cases as there is no proof of long term or permanent damage as of yet since it is way to early to state that as fact. Probably depends on the person.

Well most get pneumonia which i believe damages your lungs.

Edit; maybe you're right, I just read that pneumonia doesn't cause permanent damage. Somewhere i thought I heard that it did.

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[thelead]

Season suspended.... WOW

[VFX]

Holy ****

[MagicFan101]

I fly to Orlando for the first time in 3 years Friday. I was really looking forward to a home game ... wtf!!!!!

[basketballRob]

I fly to Orlando for the first time in 3 years Friday. I was really looking forward to a home game ... wtf!!!!!

I hear you can get a flight cheap right now.

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[MoMM]

I fly to Orlando for the first time in 3 years Friday. I was really looking forward to a home game ... wtf!!!!!

I hear you can get a flight cheap right now.

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Or a canceled flight and a refund

[pepe1991]

Problem is that world is global village.
According to IATA, in 2017 the estimated number of commercial flights is 36.8 million, not including private, business and military aviation. More than 100′000 flights a day, well and truly. If you consider non-commercial flights, including unauthorized and non-tracked, that will be about 50 million per year.

So as anybody can draw conclusions from it, it's just matter of time when 10-15% if not more of population is being exposed to any virus that can "jump" from person to person that easly.

GIven that in most of the world we are approaching summer season, it would be smart to deal with this right now, because economical and health aspect of this virus and his repercussions would be huge. Just imagine all the pools, beach pools, beach bars with 1000-5000 people per day that go in and out.

But what it's really possible to do right now? You can't close schools and jobs, how will people make money and living?
You can't really spread panic ( probably already did, because of media and fake news).
There is no vaccine and it could take months if not years to find one.

They think there are around 120 000 people infected, that's a bull****. There is at least 500 000 imo. Because, much like any other virus, lot of people don't have any synthoms. Here in my country 2 brothers and one girl traveled together. One brother got sick, other was tested 2 times, turned out all 3 of them are infected. Issue,however , is that two of three did not got sick. So they are incubators and transmission of illnes that does not effects them, therfore they basically have no clue they are inffected without testing. How many other people are like that ? Millions?

[cedric76]

Read on Twitter

[basketballRob]

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Not him but i would imagine this will bankrupt a lot of people. In turn the banks will start going under again. Can't imagine this financially won't be worse than 2008.

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[dsg2021]

I'm probably late weeks on this post, but man oh man, how did we and the rest of the league not bid higher and nab Malik Beasley? He looked good even from seasons past.

[dsg2021]

The Magic are putting me on notice to watch more often with this 30-35 record creeping up tho, haha

[thelead]

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Not him but i would imagine this will bankrupt a lot of people. In turn the banks will start going under again. Can't imagine this financially won't be worse than 2008.

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Instead of bailing out companies, the government needs to give the money to the people so they can continue paying their bills.

[JBSouthpaw]

I'd like a poll to see which player becomes the new Kemp.
After the work stoppage last time, he ballooned way up.

[j-ragg]

Crazy how so much of this is up in the air. Sucks not knowing. We could be back in a couple months or say goodbye to the 20-21 season.

[swarlesbarkley]

Obviously a long rest helps all teams in getting healthy - but hopefully we can duplicate whatever we did during all star break to continue our crazy offensive output when the NBA returns. Maybe Fultz can work on the 3 ball more. Maybe Cliff can figure out how to work Evan back into the line-up without disrupting our current flow.

Kinda stinks for us that it could crush all that offensive momentum too. But let's get through this virus as quickly as possible and hopefully prevent it from doing too much damage in the US and abroad.

[Def Swami]

Problem is that world is global village.
According to IATA, in 2017 the estimated number of commercial flights is 36.8 million, not including private, business and military aviation. More than 100′000 flights a day, well and truly. If you consider non-commercial flights, including unauthorized and non-tracked, that will be about 50 million per year.

So as anybody can draw conclusions from it, it's just matter of time when 10-15% if not more of population is being exposed to any virus that can "jump" from person to person that easly.

GIven that in most of the world we are approaching summer season, it would be smart to deal with this right now, because economical and health aspect of this virus and his repercussions would be huge. Just imagine all the pools, beach pools, beach bars with 1000-5000 people per day that go in and out.

But what it's really possible to do right now? You can't close schools and jobs, how will people make money and living?
You can't really spread panic ( probably already did, because of media and fake news).
There is no vaccine and it could take months if not years to find one.

They think there are around 120 000 people infected, that's a bull****. There is at least 500 000 imo. Because, much like any other virus, lot of people don't have any synthoms. Here in my country 2 brothers and one girl traveled together. One brother got sick, other was tested 2 times, turned out all 3 of them are infected. Issue,however , is that two of three did not got sick. So they are incubators and transmission of illnes that does not effects them, therfore they basically have no clue they are inffected without testing. How many other people are like that ? Millions?

This is why our lack of adequate and efficient testing is such a huge misstep. There's no way to get ahead of containment if we're clueless on the actual extent.

[Xatticus]

Problem is that world is global village.
According to IATA, in 2017 the estimated number of commercial flights is 36.8 million, not including private, business and military aviation. More than 100′000 flights a day, well and truly. If you consider non-commercial flights, including unauthorized and non-tracked, that will be about 50 million per year.

So as anybody can draw conclusions from it, it's just matter of time when 10-15% if not more of population is being exposed to any virus that can "jump" from person to person that easly.

GIven that in most of the world we are approaching summer season, it would be smart to deal with this right now, because economical and health aspect of this virus and his repercussions would be huge. Just imagine all the pools, beach pools, beach bars with 1000-5000 people per day that go in and out.

But what it's really possible to do right now? You can't close schools and jobs, how will people make money and living?
You can't really spread panic ( probably already did, because of media and fake news).
There is no vaccine and it could take months if not years to find one.

They think there are around 120 000 people infected, that's a bull****. There is at least 500 000 imo. Because, much like any other virus, lot of people don't have any synthoms. Here in my country 2 brothers and one girl traveled together. One brother got sick, other was tested 2 times, turned out all 3 of them are infected. Issue,however , is that two of three did not got sick. So they are incubators and transmission of illnes that does not effects them, therfore they basically have no clue they are inffected without testing. How many other people are like that ? Millions?

This is why our lack of adequate and efficient testing is such a huge misstep. There's no way to get ahead of containment if we're clueless on the actual extent.

I mean... I'll bring it up. Our healthcare system isn't designed to take care of the entire population under normal conditions. Yay capitalism. We have a terribly inefficient healthcare system because it is designed to make money (as opposed to maintaining a healthy population). It really wouldn't surprise me if we are hit harder by this than are other economically comparable countries. The government will throw money at this problem and some people are going to make a hell of a lot of money off of it.

[basketballRob]

Read on Twitter

Not him but i would imagine this will bankrupt a lot of people. In turn the banks will start going under again. Can't imagine this financially won't be worse than 2008.

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Instead of bailing out companies, the government needs to give the money to the people so they can continue paying their bills.

I heard the might give us 3 extra months to pay our taxes which I'm going to look into.

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[Def Swami]

Problem is that world is global village.
According to IATA, in 2017 the estimated number of commercial flights is 36.8 million, not including private, business and military aviation. More than 100′000 flights a day, well and truly. If you consider non-commercial flights, including unauthorized and non-tracked, that will be about 50 million per year.

So as anybody can draw conclusions from it, it's just matter of time when 10-15% if not more of population is being exposed to any virus that can "jump" from person to person that easly.

GIven that in most of the world we are approaching summer season, it would be smart to deal with this right now, because economical and health aspect of this virus and his repercussions would be huge. Just imagine all the pools, beach pools, beach bars with 1000-5000 people per day that go in and out.

But what it's really possible to do right now? You can't close schools and jobs, how will people make money and living?
You can't really spread panic ( probably already did, because of media and fake news).
There is no vaccine and it could take months if not years to find one.

They think there are around 120 000 people infected, that's a bull****. There is at least 500 000 imo. Because, much like any other virus, lot of people don't have any synthoms. Here in my country 2 brothers and one girl traveled together. One brother got sick, other was tested 2 times, turned out all 3 of them are infected. Issue,however , is that two of three did not got sick. So they are incubators and transmission of illnes that does not effects them, therfore they basically have no clue they are inffected without testing. How many other people are like that ? Millions?

This is why our lack of adequate and efficient testing is such a huge misstep. There's no way to get ahead of containment if we're clueless on the actual extent.

I mean... I'll bring it up. Our healthcare system isn't designed to take care of the entire population under normal conditions. Yay capitalism. We have a terribly inefficient healthcare system because it is designed to make money (as opposed to maintaining a healthy population). It really wouldn't surprise me if we are hit harder by this than are other economically comparable countries. The government will throw money at this problem and some people are going to make a hell of a lot of money off of it.

This is absolutely true. Hospitals are already at capacity during the regular flu season with unhealthy and unsafe amounts of boarding and overcrowding in the emergency departments. If the virus hits as hard as it has in other countries, we may not have enough ICU rooms, equipment, or staff to adequately take care of those who get seriously ill, and that has downstream ramifications on everyone else who are sick with something other than COVID19.

China and South Korea were able to institute really extensive "fever camps" and employ drive thru testing and distribute this rapidly and efficiently throughout the country because how much more centralized their health care system is. Not to get too political, but I think this could potentially show all the warts of our current health care system, and that other countries are far more prepared to take care of all of their citizens in times of peace and crisis.