NBA - The Re-Open: - Connaughton has Covid-19, pg. 94

[midranger]

Are the nets going to be able to field a team?

[FlagsFlyForever]

Has anybody figured out the logic behind Dipo going in the bubble and not playing? Stay home dingus

I’ve been told the bubble is safer than home. Many are saying.

I've been one of the people saying that and it's not because I think the campus is impregnable. Outside the campus is the wild west right now.

The way I see it, the options are 1) have everybody in a controlled environment where every person is regularly tested and given strict guidelines to follow. Or 2) let these people do their own thing outside the campus in which case many of them will certainly contract the virus (without knowing it) and spread it to others.

[emunney]

Are the nets going to be able to field a team?

Do they even have a coach?

[paulpressey25]

Windhorst’s podcast from yesterday was really good. Malika Andrews talked about going into quarantine down at Disney and how she’s tested daily. She also noted that once she clears quarantine, she then gets one of those tracking rings that monitors you for symptoms.

It is good stuff the NBA is trying to do here. Trailblazing for pro sports and perhaps other businesses.

Also interesting to hear them theorize that the Raptors might be the team to beat, because they are staying healthy locked down in Naples the last two weeks versus being at the their facility “in market”.

[BucksFanSD]

When do NBA players report to the "bubble with a hole"?

[StickeeFingaz]

When do NBA players report to the "bubble with a hole"?

Some teams arrived today.

[vegaspacker]

I don't see this thing happening with how Vegas has evolved in the past few days.

[midranger]

I don't see this thing happening with how Vegas has evolved in the past few days.

What's going down?

[midranger]

NBA preparing for more positives upon arrival?

I'm guessing anyone who tests positive down there will be on a 1 way ride out of town. Can't imagine too many NBA players sitting in a Disney hotel room, quarantining alone for 2-3 weeks while awaiting 2 negative tests.

[drew881]

I don't see this thing happening with how Vegas has evolved in the past few days.

What's going down?

Hold my beer; I'm down in the Texas where here in San Antonio we've had daily cases of 1200 and 1300 the past few days. Houston has had days with 2400 new cases.

[steger_3434]

Serious question which I’m sure won’t be answered seriously, but if the death count continue to drop like it has for months now and most people recently that are contracting this are pretty much not showing any signs of even being sick then why is there still a panic? Most everyone goes to work with a sore throat multiple times a year and doesn’t think twice. If this thing has mutated to the point it’s not really all that deadly and in fact most people don’t even know they are sick why do you have the panic still?




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[midranger]

Yesterday was the highest death count in a month. Could be a reporting anomaly due to the holiday weekend. Could be deaths starting to catch up with diagnoses. We’ll see.

Regardless, improved testing numbers mean less symptomatic or asymptomatic people are being diagnosed, I think hospital treatment/management strategies have improved in the past 2 months, and the age of diagnosis has dropped precipitously. Additionally, you’ve already selected out 130k people who were susceptible to severe manifestations of the disease.

All together, I think that’s why you’re seeing the drop in death rate. If the average age starts to tick up again, so too will the deaths.

[jute2003]

It sure looked an awful lot like an anomaly following a holiday weekend. Testing numbers were all goofy over the weekend as well.

[Finn]

Serious question which I’m sure won’t be answered seriously, but if the death count continue to drop like it has for months now and most people recently that are contracting this are pretty much not showing any signs of even being sick then why is there still a panic? Most everyone goes to work with a sore throat multiple times a year and doesn’t think twice. If this thing has mutated to the point it’s not really all that deadly and in fact most people don’t even know they are sick why do you have the panic still?




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It's not really worthy of a serious response. And the idiots who go to work with a cold or sore throat need a kick in the ass. When my wife gets a cold, 9 times out of 10 she ends up with a chest cold & bronchitis requiring steroids to knock it out after 6 weeks of coughing so hard it seems like her lung is going to come out.

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[RogerMurdock]

Serious question which I’m sure won’t be answered seriously, but if the death count continue to drop like it has for months now and most people recently that are contracting this are pretty much not showing any signs of even being sick then why is there still a panic? Most everyone goes to work with a sore throat multiple times a year and doesn’t think twice. If this thing has mutated to the point it’s not really all that deadly and in fact most people don’t even know they are sick why do you have the panic still?

Besides the fact that it has already been mentioned that deaths (obviously) trail infections and besides all the other information you should have already absorbed about this pandemic in the last few months, let me ask you something:

Before COVID-19, when was the last time you saw hospitals around the country overrun? When was the last time you saw mass graves dug in a park because morgues couldn't handle the volume of corpses?

[DingleJerry]

It's simple, but this crowd continues to have their head in the sand. because if you let it spread like people like this want then the vulnerable people will eventually catch it and be at high risk of death. And second, even if the rate/% is much lower (it will be) the total numbers will continue to be at a level the vast majority of the country is not willing to accept as good enough. Especially when you see almost all other rich countries doing so much better. Third, due to exponential growth it will keep getting bigger and bigger. Which is bad for total numbers as I said, but also the medical system.

[paulpressey25]

Gentlemen, let’s talk about Covid in tighter detail as it relates to the reopen versus getting into the “it might just be the flu” discussion. Thank you.

[MartyConlonOnTheRun]

Serious question which I’m sure won’t be answered seriously, but if the death count continue to drop like it has for months now and most people recently that are contracting this are pretty much not showing any signs of even being sick then why is there still a panic? Most everyone goes to work with a sore throat multiple times a year and doesn’t think twice. If this thing has mutated to the point it’s not really all that deadly and in fact most people don’t even know they are sick why do you have the panic still?

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From a bubble perspective, if hospitalizations keep rising the NBA could have a scenario where they told coaches and execs to go to this area, they contracted the virus, and then can't find a hospital to go through. Also, there has been evidence of lung/brain damage. These are finally tuned machines and if a player gets a bad infection while in the NBAs bubble, I assume there could be some legal issues.

[midranger]

Forgot who the baseball player who said it was, but paraphrasing,

“Sports is the reward of having a functioning society. It’s a reward our country hasn’t earned yet.”

[paulpressey25]

Bill Simmons had Shams on his pod last night to talk re-open.

Was not particularly impressed with Shams acumen on CBA specifics. Simmons went down this rabbit hole about renegotiating the CBA to allow for each team to have one guy whose salary wouldn't count against the cap, under the belief the cap would be contracted by $10 to $30 million for next year. So example, the Bucks could exclude their highest dollar contract (Middleton) from their cap.

I'm at a loss why these NBA media types are having such a hard time with this. All they simply have to do is reduce all existing contracts by a specific percentage (35-40%). Then if BRI next year meets a certain level, said contract values would float higher based on that. You don't need to rewrite the entire CBA, just put in the adjuster clause based off BRI.