Mega Thread Coronavirus & the AFL - season postponed. (Thread part 1 - cont in part 2, link in thread)

[Chief]

This is part 1 of this thread.

Continued in Part 2:

Mega Thread - Coronavirus & the AFL - season postponed. Part 2 * CONTINUED ABUSE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED *

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[Tiger Toffee]

It's literally just broken out of China, how many cases and deaths did you want? It's exponential at this stage.

All of your points are correct.

However, this virus doesn't yet have a vaccine like most you are probably referring to.

Given the mortality rate, rate of spread and the fact a vaccine is still 12-18 months away at best;

Early predictions are stating as much as 70% of the Australian population might get it, which would amount to approximately 400,000 deaths from it.

400,000 deaths isn't serious?

We've seen a reduction in GDP of 0.5% in the months since it's outbreak, do you understand what effect that's going to cause across the economy?

Yeah yeah whatever, stop acting like this is the only illness that can kill people, **** me people panic.

 

[RUNVS]

More chance of Steve Smith getting dropped from the Aussie team than that happening. This is just another illness in the world like the many others out there that pose the same dangers that no one gives a crap about.

I am not saying the coronavirus is going to be that infection. It won't be as it is no where near deadly enough. However, one day a illness will come that will be that deadly. It came 100 years ago, and throughout history has done the same thing. Sure modern medicine is a lot better now, but modern medicine is still slow to adapt to new situations, and if lets say 5 years time from now another Spanish Flu hits it will kill millions. We are just lucky it has been a century since the last really bad infectious illness.

 

[Brutalitops]

I am not saying the coronavirus is going to be that infection. It won't be as it is no where near deadly enough. However, one day a illness will come that will be that deadly. It came 100 years ago, and throughout history has done the same thing. Sure modern medicine is a lot better now, but modern medicine is still slow to adapt to new situations, and if lets say 5 years time from now another Spanish Flu hits it will kill millions. We are just lucky it has been a century since the last really bad infectious illness.

HIV/AIDS is a continuing pandemic which infects 1.7M a year and kills 770k. COVID19 ain't shit

 

[Wayne Dwop]

I told you so!!

 

[ItsAllAboutMe]

Gov doesn't work like that. They won't let the AFL steamroll CA or MCC like that. Worst case scenario they'll bring in a mediator. The AFL have a case to make given the extenuating circumstances if the virus impacts the season significantly.

Or the AFL just say to SA, WA or NSW governments would you like to host the AFL GF and then the MCC come begging back.

 

[ItsAllAboutMe]

I also don't think he quite understands who and how big the BCCI are (who are touring here this year).

That includes influence over the Victorian government, who undertook an entire trade mission to India no more than 18 months ago, headed by Daniel Andrews.

BCCI only care about the tv audience, they won’t give a f if it is played at MCG or Timbuktu

 

[Tiger Toffee]

I am not saying the coronavirus is going to be that infection. It won't be as it is no where near deadly enough. However, one day a illness will come that will be that deadly. It came 100 years ago, and throughout history has done the same thing. Sure modern medicine is a lot better now, but modern medicine is still slow to adapt to new situations, and if lets say 5 years time from now another Spanish Flu hits it will kill millions. We are just lucky it has been a century since the last really bad infectious illness.

I get what you are saying but the carry on worldwide over this is out of control and quite frankly needs to stop but it doesn't help that the media are feeding this frenzy sending those who panic at the best of times into total meltdown, hate to think what would happen if NASA announced a global killer asteroid was going to smash into earth like with the dinosaurs.

 

[ItsAllAboutMe]

I get what you are saying but the carry on worldwide over this is out of control and quite frankly needs to stop but it doesn't help that the media are feeding this frenzy sending those who panic at the best of times into total meltdown, hate to think what would happen if NASA announced a global killer asteroid was going to smash into earth like with the dinosaurs.

 

[Ron The Bear]

hate to think what would happen if NASA announced a global killer asteroid was going to smash into earth like with the dinosaurs.

 

[Brutalitops]

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Toilet paper was funny the first time I heard it. Not so much the 745th time.

 

[JB1975]

hate to think what would happen if NASA announced a global killer asteroid was going to smash into earth like with the dinosaurs.

Big Footy would still go on, that's the main thing, including plenty of helpful types to tell us that the looming shadow of said asteroid just means that we need to switch the lights on for day games as well.

 

[faible]

You know you can catch an illness of someone purely by bumping into them in the street where hundreds of thousands of people cross paths every hour right, overreacting and cancelling soccer games isn't going to change that.

So what you're saying is that minimising reasons for mass congregation and movement of people is going to help slow the spread. Glad you've caught up.

 

[Pykie]

Yeah yeah whatever, stop acting like this is the only illness that can kill people, fu** me people panic.

You can't exactly go and catch cancer and heart disease down at the supermarket can you?

Nearly all highly infectious diseases currently have a vaccine.

Oh, no, but the WHO is just overreacting......

 

[Pykie]

BCCI only care about the tv audience, they won’t give a f if it is played at MCG or Timbuktu

Wrong.

They care about India winning.

They are avoiding the GABBA like a plague, you think they'd be happy if we just up and went and played in Hobart after they've just been demolished in New Zealand?

 

[Mordecai]

I get what you are saying but the carry on worldwide over this is out of control and quite frankly needs to stop but it doesn't help that the media are feeding this frenzy sending those who panic at the best of times into total meltdown, hate to think what would happen if NASA announced a global killer asteroid was going to smash into earth like with the dinosaurs.

I don't understand your point? It would quite obviously be absolute bedlam.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

The AFL has more stroke with Australian governments (federal, state and territory) than the BCCI.

 

[Brutalitops]

The AFL has more stroke with Australian governments (federal, state and territory) than the BCCI.

BCCI are outright campaigners though. If they weigh in it'll be a street fight

 

[10571z]

Anyone care to explain why we haven’t shut the borders to the major countries infected?

We more of less would have zero cases if we did that.

WTF is so important about letting people travel from Iran or South Korea here?

 

[FRUMPY]

You can't exactly go and catch cancer and heart disease down at the supermarket can you?

Nearly all highly infectious diseases currently have a vaccine.

Oh, no, but the WHO is just overreacting......

 

[Tiger Toffee]

So what you're saying is that minimising reasons for mass congregation and movement of people is going to help slow the spread. Glad you've caught up.

What i was saying flew totally over your head didn't it.

Here let me put it too you in more simplistic terms so panic merchant you can understand.

You don't need mass congregations for an illness to transfer from one person to another, heck you don't even need to be anywhere near a person to catch their illness if they leave it on handrails, doorknobs, touchscreens at ATM's, etc etc so overreacting and cancelling soccer games isn't going to change that.

 

[Tiger Toffee]

You can't exactly go and catch cancer and heart disease down at the supermarket can you?

Nearly all highly infectious diseases currently have a vaccine.

Oh, no, but the WHO is just overreacting......

You.

 

[rumply]

My local Woollies half hour ago...silly silly people

 

[faible]

What i was saying flew totally over your head didn't it.

Here let me put it too you in more simplistic terms so panic merchant you can understand.

You don't need mass congregations for an illness to transfer from one person to another, heck you don't even need to be anywhere near a person to catch their illness if they leave it on handrails, doorknobs, touchscreens at ATM's, etc etc so overreacting and cancelling soccer games isn't going to change that.

What you've written in no way disputes what I've written.

 

[projectv]

Anyone care to explain why we haven’t shut the borders to the major countries infected?

We more of less would have zero cases if we did that.

WTF is so important about letting people travel from Iran or South Korea here?

Because to follow that thread to its logical conclusion we'd have to stop everyone from coming in, because people who are travelling from Iran, China, Italy, South Korea etc also travel to and from other places.