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Post#581 » by beanbag » Wed Jul 15, 2020 1:12 am

ash_k wrote:this is just not a bubble...I would have thought any delivery would not have been possible; so casual. They can just casually show up without being intercepted miles away from the players

It looks like the NHL has much better shot to pulling this off, who would have thought that like 6 weeks ago?!


The NHL has the same protocol. They will be free to order delivery from outside the bubble.
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Post#582 » by ruckus » Wed Jul 15, 2020 3:15 am

If y'all haven't seen them already, check out Matisse Thybulle's Youtube posts from the bubble:



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Post#583 » by execoftheyear » Wed Jul 15, 2020 8:57 am



this guy is speaking facts. This is like the most predictable outcome to a horror movie except this is real life and people's careers/health/lives are at stake. I feel kind of uncomfortable looking forward to watching people risking their lives just for entertainment, knowing that some of these athletes may never be the same after testing positive. Not to mention that Florida hospitals are almost at max capacity and these NBA players are going to have priority/preferential treatment over people that live in this state in terms of getting tests and most likely medical treatment. Just imagine living in this state and needing an ICU bed but being denied because the hospital is full and then watching the news and seeing athletes having no issues getting treatment.

I really do hope nothing bad comes out of this but the NBA has done a terrible job of planning this out. I mean they chose Florida of all places....FLORIDA, the world's new epicenter. I don't want to be negative but I can't just ignore how blatantly bad of a decision the NBA is making.
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Post#584 » by ash_k » Wed Jul 15, 2020 11:07 am

execoftheyear wrote:watching people risking their lives just for entertainment.


y'all drama queens going to need to stop with that nonsense.
-Donovan Mitchell
-Rudy Gobert
-Kevin Durant
-Nikola Jokic
- and hundreds of top athletes (NHL like Austin Matthews, NFL like Ezekiel Elliott,..) have tested positives for COVID. I saw Donovan Mitchell looking just fine the other day.

Mikel Arteta (you might have never heard of him) coach of Arsenal tested positives back in March/April...Lately, EPL fans have gotten to see him every 4 days coaching his team on the sideline. No problem looking just fine..

Y'all need to stop over-dramatizing. If there is an outbreak in the (fake) bubble. Adam will just send everybody back home.
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Post#585 » by Kevin Willis » Wed Jul 15, 2020 11:49 am

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execoftheyear wrote:watching people risking their lives just for entertainment.


y'all drama queens going to need to stop with that nonsense.
-Donovan Mitchell
-Rudy Gobert
-Kevin Durant
-Nikola Jokic
- and hundreds of top athletes (NHL like Austin Matthews, NFL like Ezekiel Elliott,..) have tested positives for COVID. I saw Donovan Mitchell looking just fine the other day.

Mikel Arteta (you might have never heard of him) coach of Arsenal tested positives back in March/April...Lately, EPL fans have gotten to see him every 4 days coaching his team on the sideline. No problem looking just fine..

Y'all need to stop over-dramatizing. If there is an outbreak in the (fake) bubble. Adam will just send everybody back home.


True but we won't know the full effects until they play games and do back to backs. They might be more winded than usual but for now they're fine.

Also Florida lied and at the time of the contract said they had it under control. Can't blame the NBA for that considering it was the perfect place to have it next to ESPN, warm weather, facilities and activities in the bubble. If they had to do it over again they would probably go to Nevada - I guess?? Although Nevada is real close to California. If they can find facilities in CT or Delaware or even Alaska and Maine that would be preferable. :lol:
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Post#586 » by WuTang_CMB » Wed Jul 15, 2020 1:22 pm

Glad to get going again and to resume the year !!

Lowry says NBA has tight protocols .. I believe the season will finish
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Post#587 » by makeready » Wed Jul 15, 2020 1:58 pm

Kevin Willis wrote:Also Florida lied and at the time of the contract said they had it under control. Can't blame the NBA for that considering it was the perfect place to have it next to ESPN, warm weather, facilities and activities in the bubble.


i'm not opposed to the season being played out, but you definitely can blame the NBA for picking florida. the stats were clear as day the entire time, pointing to a surge of infections in the south.

NHL got it right by waiting to first see how each local government would handle reopening.
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Post#588 » by makeready » Wed Jul 15, 2020 2:11 pm

last few months have been strange because honestly i'm used to being wrong at least like half of the time. however i'm like 5/5 on big predictions w/r/t the virus, call me covidstradamus. so in honor of throwback here's the play: make sure you are not holding any stocks or other market-based assets when september/october rolls around. that's when the chickens will come home to roost and the market will run out of fumes. either schools will be forced open and then close again a month or two later, or not open at all. the resulting childcare crisis will be what bursts the dam.
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Post#589 » by Kevin Willis » Wed Jul 15, 2020 3:11 pm

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Kevin Willis wrote:Also Florida lied and at the time of the contract said they had it under control. Can't blame the NBA for that considering it was the perfect place to have it next to ESPN, warm weather, facilities and activities in the bubble.


i'm not opposed to the season being played out, but you definitely can blame the NBA for picking florida. the stats were clear as day the entire time, pointing to a surge of infections in the south.

NHL got it right by waiting to first see how each local government would handle reopening.


Do you remember the day the NBA made the decision on choosing Florida? I want to go back and check projections and cases on that day.

Edit: I checked. They made the decision around June 3. That means they were going through the process in May. May the amount of Florida cases were going down from April so the trend was that it would be safer than let's say Ontario.
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Post#590 » by makeready » Wed Jul 15, 2020 3:27 pm

Kevin Willis wrote:
makeready wrote:
Kevin Willis wrote:Also Florida lied and at the time of the contract said they had it under control. Can't blame the NBA for that considering it was the perfect place to have it next to ESPN, warm weather, facilities and activities in the bubble.


i'm not opposed to the season being played out, but you definitely can blame the NBA for picking florida. the stats were clear as day the entire time, pointing to a surge of infections in the south.

NHL got it right by waiting to first see how each local government would handle reopening.


Do you remember the day the NBA made the decision on choosing Florida? I want to go back and check projections and cases on that day.


florida started to reopen on May 4th.

on may 18th Rebekah Jones was fired for refusing to manipulate the florida stats: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/newswire/2020/06/12/fired-scientist-rebekah-jones-builds-coronavirus-dashboard-to-rival-floridarsquos/3174482001/

presumably the numbers were cooked since at least then, but lets give FL the benefit of the doubt. here's what the official numbers looked like in early june - a rise in cases triggered by the reopening. florida would have been a safe location if the numbers continued to decline after the reopening - the way ontario's have.

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the board of governors approved the orlando plan on June 4th, and should have already known better: https://www.newsday.com/sports/basketball/nba-return-to-play-plan-orlando-1.45322326
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Post#591 » by execoftheyear » Wed Jul 15, 2020 3:29 pm

ash_k wrote:
execoftheyear wrote:watching people risking their lives just for entertainment.


y'all drama queens going to need to stop with that nonsense.
-Donovan Mitchell
-Rudy Gobert
-Kevin Durant
-Nikola Jokic
- and hundreds of top athletes (NHL like Austin Matthews, NFL like Ezekiel Elliott,..) have tested positives for COVID. I saw Donovan Mitchell looking just fine the other day.

Mikel Arteta (you might have never heard of him) coach of Arsenal tested positives back in March/April...Lately, EPL fans have gotten to see him every 4 days coaching his team on the sideline. No problem looking just fine..

Y'all need to stop over-dramatizing. If there is an outbreak in the (fake) bubble. Adam will just send everybody back home.


Ummm Gobert still has yet to gain his sense of taste or smell and it's been, what, 3 months? People are treating this as like if you don't immediately die from it your fine but this can cause long lasting lung/brain/heart/kidney damage even in asymptomatic individuals. This is almost like some sick science experiment and the athletes are the guinea pigs. We won't really know how significant the effects of the virus will be until we see these athletes in game action, pushing their lungs to it's limits. There's also reports of people being reinfected.
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Post#592 » by Kevin Willis » Wed Jul 15, 2020 3:48 pm

makeready wrote:
Kevin Willis wrote:
makeready wrote:
i'm not opposed to the season being played out, but you definitely can blame the NBA for picking florida. the stats were clear as day the entire time, pointing to a surge of infections in the south.

NHL got it right by waiting to first see how each local government would handle reopening.


Do you remember the day the NBA made the decision on choosing Florida? I want to go back and check projections and cases on that day.


florida started to reopen on May 4th.

on may 18th Rebekah Jones was fired for refusing to manipulate the florida stats: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/newswire/2020/06/12/fired-scientist-rebekah-jones-builds-coronavirus-dashboard-to-rival-floridarsquos/3174482001/

presumably the numbers were cooked since at least then, but lets give FL the benefit of the doubt. here's what the official numbers looked like in early june - a rise in cases triggered by the reopening. florida would have been a safe location if the numbers continued to decline after the reopening - the way ontario's have.

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the board of governors approved the orlando plan on June 4th, and should have already known better: https://www.newsday.com/sports/basketball/nba-return-to-play-plan-orlando-1.45322326


Haha, you beat me to it. They made the decision in May and voted on it on June 4th. In May the numbers were going down from April and if they took Florida at face value, dumb I know, then they would feel confident. The numbers were absolutely cooked and I agree with you that they should've been suspicious but based off the presentation given by Florida I can see why they chanced it.

The person that should take more blame is the Florida governor. NBA did not enter the Florida bubble agreement in good faith because Florida cooked the numbers. Unfortunately that would be impossible to prove, they would say they had no idea it would spike soon after signing the agreement. What a coincidence.
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Post#593 » by execoftheyear » Wed Jul 15, 2020 3:55 pm

Kevin Willis wrote:
makeready wrote:
Kevin Willis wrote:
Do you remember the day the NBA made the decision on choosing Florida? I want to go back and check projections and cases on that day.


florida started to reopen on May 4th.

on may 18th Rebekah Jones was fired for refusing to manipulate the florida stats: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/newswire/2020/06/12/fired-scientist-rebekah-jones-builds-coronavirus-dashboard-to-rival-floridarsquos/3174482001/

presumably the numbers were cooked since at least then, but lets give FL the benefit of the doubt. here's what the official numbers looked like in early june - a rise in cases triggered by the reopening. florida would have been a safe location if the numbers continued to decline after the reopening - the way ontario's have.

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the board of governors approved the orlando plan on June 4th, and should have already known better: https://www.newsday.com/sports/basketball/nba-return-to-play-plan-orlando-1.45322326


Haha, you beat me to it. They made the decision in May and voted on it on June 4th. In May the numbers were going down from April and if they took Florida at face value, dumb I know, then they would feel confident. The numbers were absolutely cooked and I agree with you that they should've been suspicious but based off the presentation given by Florida I can see why they chanced it.

The person that should take more blame is the Florida governor. NBA did not enter the Florida bubble agreement in good faith because Florida cooked the numbers. Unfortunately that would be impossible to prove, they would say they had no idea it would spike soon after signing the agreement. What a coincidence.


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Post#594 » by makeready » Wed Jul 15, 2020 3:59 pm

how was doug ford, of all people, the only one to realise that an effective covid response would bring him massive political benefits? he seems to be the only provincial/state leader who changed his stripes in response to the crisis. the bump in his approval ratings since then is wild, it's a bigger spike than bush on 9/11.
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Post#595 » by Kevin Willis » Wed Jul 15, 2020 4:08 pm

execoftheyear wrote:
Kevin Willis wrote:
makeready wrote:
florida started to reopen on May 4th.

on may 18th Rebekah Jones was fired for refusing to manipulate the florida stats: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/newswire/2020/06/12/fired-scientist-rebekah-jones-builds-coronavirus-dashboard-to-rival-floridarsquos/3174482001/

presumably the numbers were cooked since at least then, but lets give FL the benefit of the doubt. here's what the official numbers looked like in early june - a rise in cases triggered by the reopening. florida would have been a safe location if the numbers continued to decline after the reopening - the way ontario's have.

Image

the board of governors approved the orlando plan on June 4th, and should have already known better: https://www.newsday.com/sports/basketball/nba-return-to-play-plan-orlando-1.45322326


Haha, you beat me to it. They made the decision in May and voted on it on June 4th. In May the numbers were going down from April and if they took Florida at face value, dumb I know, then they would feel confident. The numbers were absolutely cooked and I agree with you that they should've been suspicious but based off the presentation given by Florida I can see why they chanced it.

The person that should take more blame is the Florida governor. NBA did not enter the Florida bubble agreement in good faith because Florida cooked the numbers. Unfortunately that would be impossible to prove, they would say they had no idea it would spike soon after signing the agreement. What a coincidence.




Wow, he deserved that and so much more.
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Post#596 » by ash_k » Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:00 pm

execoftheyear wrote:
ash_k wrote:
execoftheyear wrote:watching people risking their lives just for entertainment.


y'all drama queens going to need to stop with that nonsense.
-Donovan Mitchell
-Rudy Gobert
-Kevin Durant
-Nikola Jokic
- and hundreds of top athletes (NHL like Austin Matthews, NFL like Ezekiel Elliott,..) have tested positives for COVID. I saw Donovan Mitchell looking just fine the other day.

Mikel Arteta (you might have never heard of him) coach of Arsenal tested positives back in March/April...Lately, EPL fans have gotten to see him every 4 days coaching his team on the sideline. No problem looking just fine..

Y'all need to stop over-dramatizing. If there is an outbreak in the (fake) bubble. Adam will just send everybody back home.


Ummm Gobert still has yet to gain his sense of taste or smell and it's been, what, 3 months? People are treating this as like if you don't immediately die from it your fine but this can cause long lasting lung/brain/heart/kidney damage even in asymptomatic individuals. This is almost like some sick science experiment and the athletes are the guinea pigs. We won't really know how significant the effects of the virus will be until we see these athletes in game action, pushing their lungs to it's limits. There's also reports of people being reinfected.

Callum Hudson-Odoi caught Covid in March/April..and has been playing in games in the last couple of weeks in one of biggest football/soccer club in the world...there you "guinea pig" :roll: .
We are all at "risk" everyday stepping outside. Those top athletes can get tested pre-games/post-games/on-demand with access to the best doctors..I would not worry too much about them if I were you. I would worry more about that worker taking packed public transportation everyday to work (unable to get that daily testing)
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Post#597 » by execoftheyear » Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:14 pm

ash_k wrote:
execoftheyear wrote:
ash_k wrote:
y'all drama queens going to need to stop with that nonsense.
-Donovan Mitchell
-Rudy Gobert
-Kevin Durant
-Nikola Jokic
- and hundreds of top athletes (NHL like Austin Matthews, NFL like Ezekiel Elliott,..) have tested positives for COVID. I saw Donovan Mitchell looking just fine the other day.

Mikel Arteta (you might have never heard of him) coach of Arsenal tested positives back in March/April...Lately, EPL fans have gotten to see him every 4 days coaching his team on the sideline. No problem looking just fine..

Y'all need to stop over-dramatizing. If there is an outbreak in the (fake) bubble. Adam will just send everybody back home.


Ummm Gobert still has yet to gain his sense of taste or smell and it's been, what, 3 months? People are treating this as like if you don't immediately die from it your fine but this can cause long lasting lung/brain/heart/kidney damage even in asymptomatic individuals. This is almost like some sick science experiment and the athletes are the guinea pigs. We won't really know how significant the effects of the virus will be until we see these athletes in game action, pushing their lungs to it's limits. There's also reports of people being reinfected.

Callum Hudson-Odoi caught Covid in March/April..and has been playing in games in the last couple of weeks in one of biggest football/soccer club in the world...there you "guinea pig" :roll: .
We are all at "risk" everyday stepping outside. Those top athletes can get tested pre-games/post-games/on-demand with access to the best doctors..I would not worry too much about them if I were you. I would worry more about that worker taking packed public transportation everyday to work (unable to get that daily testing)


Well I hope so. I guess we'll find out. Everyone's risk really differs depending on where you live and the measures being taken. I think I'd feel more at risk in Texas, Florida or Arizona than here in Ontario. Florida is having anti-mask protests and people still believe this whole thing is a hoax while masks are mandatory in Toronto.

The athletes getting preferential treatment over Floridian residents, the one place that could use all the testing/treatment they can get being the new epicenter of the virus raises ethical issues but that's a whole other debate.
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Post#598 » by beanbag » Thu Jul 16, 2020 2:56 am

ash_k wrote:
execoftheyear wrote:
ash_k wrote:
y'all drama queens going to need to stop with that nonsense.
-Donovan Mitchell
-Rudy Gobert
-Kevin Durant
-Nikola Jokic
- and hundreds of top athletes (NHL like Austin Matthews, NFL like Ezekiel Elliott,..) have tested positives for COVID. I saw Donovan Mitchell looking just fine the other day.

Mikel Arteta (you might have never heard of him) coach of Arsenal tested positives back in March/April...Lately, EPL fans have gotten to see him every 4 days coaching his team on the sideline. No problem looking just fine..

Y'all need to stop over-dramatizing. If there is an outbreak in the (fake) bubble. Adam will just send everybody back home.


Ummm Gobert still has yet to gain his sense of taste or smell and it's been, what, 3 months? People are treating this as like if you don't immediately die from it your fine but this can cause long lasting lung/brain/heart/kidney damage even in asymptomatic individuals. This is almost like some sick science experiment and the athletes are the guinea pigs. We won't really know how significant the effects of the virus will be until we see these athletes in game action, pushing their lungs to it's limits. There's also reports of people being reinfected.

Callum Hudson-Odoi caught Covid in March/April..and has been playing in games in the last couple of weeks in one of biggest football/soccer club in the world...there you "guinea pig" :roll: .
We are all at "risk" everyday stepping outside. Those top athletes can get tested pre-games/post-games/on-demand with access to the best doctors..I would not worry too much about them if I were you. I would worry more about that worker taking packed public transportation everyday to work (unable to get that daily testing)


It's perfectly okay to worry about both of them.
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Post#599 » by Wo1verine » Thu Jul 16, 2020 3:32 am

beanbag wrote:
ash_k wrote:
execoftheyear wrote:
Ummm Gobert still has yet to gain his sense of taste or smell and it's been, what, 3 months? People are treating this as like if you don't immediately die from it your fine but this can cause long lasting lung/brain/heart/kidney damage even in asymptomatic individuals. This is almost like some sick science experiment and the athletes are the guinea pigs. We won't really know how significant the effects of the virus will be until we see these athletes in game action, pushing their lungs to it's limits. There's also reports of people being reinfected.

Callum Hudson-Odoi caught Covid in March/April..and has been playing in games in the last couple of weeks in one of biggest football/soccer club in the world...there you "guinea pig" :roll: .
We are all at "risk" everyday stepping outside. Those top athletes can get tested pre-games/post-games/on-demand with access to the best doctors..I would not worry too much about them if I were you. I would worry more about that worker taking packed public transportation everyday to work (unable to get that daily testing)


It's perfectly okay to worry about both of them.

You do you - If you're paranoid about the corona so much not sure how you are going to live because who knows what happens in 5 months, 1 year, 5 years, 10 years or 35 years if you catch covid - I think most should live life we aren't here long to begin with.
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Post#600 » by beanbag » Thu Jul 16, 2020 3:35 am

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beanbag wrote:
ash_k wrote:Callum Hudson-Odoi caught Covid in March/April..and has been playing in games in the last couple of weeks in one of biggest football/soccer club in the world...there you "guinea pig" :roll: .
We are all at "risk" everyday stepping outside. Those top athletes can get tested pre-games/post-games/on-demand with access to the best doctors..I would not worry too much about them if I were you. I would worry more about that worker taking packed public transportation everyday to work (unable to get that daily testing)


It's perfectly okay to worry about both of them.

You do you - If you're paranoid about the corona so much not sure how you are going to live because who knows what happens in 5 months, 1 year, 5 years, 10 years or 35 years if you catch covid - I think most should live life we aren't here long to begin with.


What does living life have to do with feeling empathy for the well being of others?

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