Gator Basketball NCAA Tourney cancelled

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I'd rather have a March Madness, but I understand cancelling it. How would it work if Uk or Duke plays but is losing half of its starters? How would the seeds work? You can argue those players would play anyway, but would they? Or, would they already be prepping for the June draft? We could try and find out. It would make it more interesting. The number of players with genuine nba chances is small.

If the players don’t want to play than that’s on them and the coach for not getting buy in :)

Plus, I can’t imagine many players NOT wanting to play in the greatest sporting event ever created..
 

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I think when the final stats come out death rate will be far, far, far lower than 2.1%. I think it will be well under 1 percent - perhaps even below 0.5%. Time will tell.

In 2009, 60 million Americans got the Swine Flu, 300,000 of them serious enough to get hospitalized. There wasn't even 1% of the hysteria then as we see now. It's ludicrous.

Ox, this post of yours won't age well. There is every reason and evidence to believe 20%-50% of people in this country will be infected. We are set up to be another Italy (or worse, per capita they have more hospital beds than we do, not enough ICU beds and doctors making making decisions about who lives and who dies). We will all lose loved ones and family members. The ludicrous action is to be ignore the science and experience of other countries. I am sorry to have to say this.
 

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Ox, this post of yours won't age well. There is every reason and evidence to believe 20%-50% of people in this country will be infected. We are set up to be another Italy (or worse, per capita they have more hospital beds than we do, not enough ICU beds and doctors making making decisions about who lives and who dies). We will all lose loved ones and family members. The ludicrous action is to be ignore the science and experience of other countries. I am sorry to have to say this.
We'll see which post won't age well, you flea-infested, filthy mutt.
 

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We will never know if this was an overreaction or not because we won't ever see what would have happened had our country just carried on business as usual without any precautions. It seems to me like people are being overly-careful... but that is what is going to slow down the rate the infection spreads which is basically the entire point of shutting things down. It probably ISN'T going to be that big of a deal because of the precautionary measures taken, so get ready for lots of, "I told you it wasn't that big of a deal." Yeah numnuts, that's because areas of this country were shutting down travel and large gatherings and that may end up being what slows it down so much...

Anyway, as a father of a 4 month old who had brain injuries from his birth and now has respiratory issues and has to be put on oxygen at night, I'm thankful that most people are, at the very least, taking some reasonable precautions to prevent this respiratory virus from spreading too fast. If my son does get it I would love for there to be open spots in the pediatric ICU so that he can get treatment. Anyone who thinks they know better than health experts are acting like giant ignoramuses.
 

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I can’t stop thinking about it. This is terrible man, March Madness is the greatest sporting event ever.

I get taking precaution, but why outright cancel and not just suspend it until this is under control and there’s a vaccine?
May Madness sounds just a good.
 

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Ox, this post of yours won't age well. There is every reason and evidence to believe 20%-50% of people in this country will be infected. We are set up to be another Italy (or worse, per capita they have more hospital beds than we do, not enough ICU beds and doctors making making decisions about who lives and who dies). We will all lose loved ones and family members. The ludicrous action is to be ignore the science and experience of other countries. I am sorry to have to say this.

If it is so deadly, how did Taiwan get it under control so quickly even though hundreds of thousands traveled back and forth to mainland China? By the way, I don't mean to say it is like the normal flu. Only that, as of right now, it isn't worthy of the mass hysteria.
 
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Espn is talking about the NCAA tourney being cancelled instead of suspended. The main reason, according to Jay Bilas and others, is that a tourney of that size is too large an undertaking as far as coordination is concerned.
 

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If it is so deadly, how did Taiwan get it under control so quickly even though hundreds of thousands traveled back and forth to mainland China? By the way, I don't mean to say it is like the normal flu. Only that, as of right now, it isn't worthy of the mass hysteria.

I agree that it's not worthy of any mass hysteria. People are overreacting and prepping like we are going to be locked down for 3 months. Those people are being quite stupid. Just as stupid as the people who think that we shouldn't have precautionary measures in place such as travel bans and restrictions on gatherings of large groups of people.
 

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Espn is talking about the NCAA tourney being cancelled instead of suspended. The main reason, according to Jay Bilas and others, is that a tourney of that size is too large an undertaking as far as coordination is concerned.

I volunteer to help coordinate.
 

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Every time I think about it I almost shed a tear. Cannot believe the tournament is canceled:cry2:
 

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If it is so deadly, how did Taiwan get it under control so quickly even though hundreds of thousands traveled back and forth to mainland China? By the way, I don't mean to say it is like the normal flu. Only that, as of right now, it isn't worthy of the mass hysteria.

The mortality rate is the mortality rate. Theirs is a story of containment. Taiwan had the experience of the 2003 SARS epidemic to draw from. It established a national center to focus on large outbreak responses. As soon as the news of the virus came to Wuhan, Taiwan implemented strict measures related to screening and travel to and from the country.

If you don’t get a leg up on travel restrictions, your next best bet is aggressive testing. This is a highly contagious and stealthy virus. Not so much a deadly virus as it is difficult to know how much of the population has it. Unless you test.

We’ve taken 11,000 testing samples so far. Think about that for a moment. We have no idea the number of people in the country who are carriers.
 

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Play on courts away from people. Maybe a bunch of courts in same city. No fans. Test players for corona before games. You can take precautions and not end life completely. I'm sadden we can't play some sports and still take it seriously. Problem is governor's and schools gave NCAA no other options.
 

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