nymets1 wrote:I've been thinking about this. Why couldn't sports cancel their games in February, maybe January if necessary to stop the spread of the virus? It could have saved the NCAA tournament/ Conference tournaments and the NBA playoffs. But somebody will reply respond saying the US didn't take this thing seriously or it wasn't much of an issue in January and February.
The only reason Florida has cases of this virus because of people living in Florida that just came back from overseas. Nobody can come from overseas now so I expect the cases to drop in Florida within the next 2 weeks as the people that have it in Florida right now are either in their 1st or 2nd week of having this virus so assuming the virus don't kill them, their immune system will kill the virus or the virus will die itself in the human body.
I think they are only testing the people for the virus who are most likely to have it whether they came from overseas or have been in contact with someone that tested positive. If they are testing people who are not likely to have the virus, than they waste their tests.
The only reason any of us have this in our country is because of people coming from overseas, considering this thing originated in China. If everyone locked down for two weeks, you might be right, the virus could theoretically starve out. Or, at least able to get a major handle on the problem. That is, until it reared its ugly head again in the fall. The only thing that will protect us long term is either a: we all get exposed to it and build up our own antibodies, or b: we get a vaccine which introduces the pathogen in a smaller and safer dose, which also builds up our antibodies to it. I know you are trying to find hope, and I don't mean to dash that, but we just need to stick with the facts. In two weeks it will be worse, not better. We have enough in this country for all the community spread we need at this point. Serious decisions are going to have to be made, like we have been seeing thus far. Each one will continue to be more consequential however.
