Corona Virus And Playoff Games

[billhoward]

MLB suspends.
Jesus, people are gonna have to talk to each other.  ::bolt::

The guy down in the Village who owns an independent bookstore and brings his cat to work, believes there'll be a big uptick in bored people buying print books.

[osorojo]

The pursuit of excellence is the motive for a love of sports. I detest attempts to digitize excellence in life, women or sports. Turn off your computers and watch the GAME! And when it's over don't digitalize it, chop it into little pieces, rearrange them, and spit them back out.

[Trotsky]

The pursuit of excellence is the motive for a love of sports. I detest attempts to digitize excellence in life, women or sports. Turn off your computers and watch the GAME! And when it's over don't digitalize it, chop it into little pieces, rearrange them, and spit them back out.

Alternative hypothesis: people who demand everyone think like they do are insecure unimaginative authoritarian fucktards.

Also.  "Women"?  Srsly?

"Turn off your computers!" he typed.

[djk26]

Turn off your computers and watch the GAME!

"Turn off your computers!" he typed.

Also, with most college hockey games, if you turn off the computer, then you CAN'T watch the game.

[djk26]

And when it's over don't digitalize it, chop it into little pieces, rearrange them, and spit them back out.

osorojo, you should know that Cornell hockey led the nation this year in scoring margin from the second half of the second period to the first third of the third period, on alternate Saturdays*, and as a Cornell fan, I'm damned proud of that.

* I've checked these stats carefully. (narrator voice: He hasn't.)

[osorojo]

Proud? I'm pleased, not proud - since I had no influence upon this team to be proud of. I watched my first men's Cornell hockey game in Lynah Rink in 1959 and have followed the team closely ever since. I love the game, support the team and my alma mater, and rejoice when they excel. I'm old and cranky and don't appreciate multi-page attempts to turn athletic competition into a binary enterprise - not that it isn't!

[adamw]

Looks like 1 million is gonna be light. Announced cases have increased by a factor of 10 in one week since I said that. Most likely, actual cases are 100 times what's known. That gives us less than a week before we hit 1 million. Hope everyone is taking it seriously now. This all sucks. And yes, the federal government effed it up

[Dafatone]

Looks like 1 million is gonna be light. Announced cases have increased by a factor of 10 in one week since I said that. Most likely, actual cases are 100 times what's known. That gives us less than a week before we hit 1 million. Hope everyone is taking it seriously now. This all sucks. And yes, the federal government effed it up

If you want to be optimistic, if there are tons and tons of asymptomatic uninfected out there, maybe that means the percentages of people who get hit hard by this is a lot lower than we think.

That's not to downplay the threat. Everyone should stay safe and stay home as much as possible. We'll get back to hockey next year.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Looks like 1 million is gonna be light. Announced cases have increased by a factor of 10 in one week since I said that. Most likely, actual cases are 100 times what's known. That gives us less than a week before we hit 1 million. Hope everyone is taking it seriously now. This all sucks. And yes, the federal government effed it up

If you want to be optimistic, if there are tons and tons of asymptomatic uninfected out there, maybe that means the percentages of people who get hit hard by this is a lot lower than we think.

That's not to downplay the threat. Everyone should stay safe and stay home as much as possible. We'll get back to hockey next year.

Various articles I've read from statisticians and epidemiologists suggest that the percentage of asymptomatic cases is rather high, but clearly undercounted due to the testing shortages.  In fact, one article I read suggested that the transmission rate and the rate of asymptomaticity (if that's a word) are actually comparable to conventional flu.  Another said that genetically this virus is 80% identical to the original SARS and he expected that the rate of transmission would be comparable, i.e. not especially high.  However, a key difference is that the fatality rate was so high with that SARS, that it extinguished itself a lot faster than this one, where this one has such a high rate of asymptomaticity which allows a broader spread.

However, they're still suggesting that we continue "distancing" to reduce the contact between asymptomatic people and uninfected people in order to reduce the spread.

[RichH]

Various articles I've read from statisticians and epidemiologists suggest that the percentage of asymptomatic cases is rather high, but clearly

From what I've read here, mother effing statheads have ruined everything and must be cast into the rising oceans.

[David Harding]

From the Smithsonian magazine a sobering article on the 1919 Stanley Cup:   "When the Stanley Cup Final Was Canceled Because of a Pandemic"

[Chris H82]

Yeah, that story has been in the news out here in Seattle.

[adamw]

still sadly doubling every couple of days.

[redice]

still sadly doubling every couple of days.

I've gotten over the worst sadness.  But expect April 11th to be another "down" day as I'll know in my heart that I'm missing an inevitable highlight of my life.  And, yes, the way this team was performing, I do think it was inevitable.  Now, it's just an impossible dream.

[scoop85]

still sadly doubling every couple of days.

I've gotten over the worst sadness.  But expect April 11th to be another "down" day as I'll know in my heart that I'm missing an inevitable highlight of my life.  And, yes, the way this team was performing, I do think it was inevitable.  Now, it's just an impossible dream.

I'm not sure about "inevitable" but no doubt it was about the best shot we've had since 2003