Coronavirus and the 2020 Season (Season Postponed, pg3)

[Gypsy Lou]

How will history remember 3/12/2020 Black Thursday? Bloody Thursday? March Sadness?

[pioneer98]

Swine Flu Has Killed Up To 17,000 In U.S.: Report
Article from February 12, 2010

H1N1 swine flu has killed as many as 17,000 Americans, including 1,800 children, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday.

The swine flu pandemic put as many people into the hospital as during the normal influenza season - but most were younger adults and children instead of the elderly, and it was during the months when usually very little or no flu is circulating, the CDC said.


No shut down of Baseball or any other sport then, and the reporting by the media was a few blips here and there, not we are all doomed 24/7

Just in Italy there has already been over 1,000 deaths and the total is approaching 5,000 worldwide and it's still just getting started. I also do not always trust the media, but they do actually tell the truth sometimes.

[ghostrunner]

Swine Flu Has Killed Up To 17,000 In U.S.: Report
Article from February 12, 2010

H1N1 swine flu has killed as many as 17,000 Americans, including 1,800 children, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday.

The swine flu pandemic put as many people into the hospital as during the normal influenza season - but most were younger adults and children instead of the elderly, and it was during the months when usually very little or no flu is circulating, the CDC said.


No shut down of Baseball or any other sport then, and the reporting by the media was a few blips here and there, not we are all doomed 24/7

This is from an article Freed posted in Politics.

How much deadlier is still unknown, but of the cases reported to the WHO so far 3.4% have resulted in fatalities. That’s probably misleadingly high because there are so many unreported cases, and in South Korea, which has done the best job of keeping up with the spread of the virus through testing, the fatality rate so far is about 0.7%. But even that is 35 times worse than H1N1 in 2009 and 2010. Multiply 12,469 by 35 and you get 436,415 — which would amount to the biggest U.S. infectious-disease death toll since the 1918 flu. Hospitalization rates are also many times higher for Covid-19, meaning that if it spread as widely as H1N1 it would overwhelm the U.S. health-care system.

That’s one very important reason governments (and stock markets) around the world have reacted so much more strongly to Covid-19 than to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Another reason is somewhat more hope-inspiring. It’s that public health experts generally don’t think influenza can be controlled once it starts spreading, other than with a vaccine, whereas several Asian countries seem to have successfully turned back the coronavirus tide, for now at least.

Panic is what's going on with toilet paper. The shutdowns and cancellations are just sensible measures to stop spreading.

[DeadMoney]

I'm going to have to actually talk to my wife a lot more the next few months aren't I guys?

[BottenFieldofDreams]

Awesome.

https://sports.theonion.com/orioles-sug ... 1842312100

[Magneto2.0]

The joint decision by MLB/PA to shut spring facilities for anything but training (read: no on-field baseball) means there'ill have to be a 2d spring training when the sport resumes at some future date. The longer they are out, the longer the spring training will be. - Joel Sherman

[CardsofSTL]

I'll be watching baseball movies until baseball resumes

[Donnie Ebert]

If you start Ken Burns' Baseball right now, the final credits will be rolling when the season starts.

[CardsofSTL]

So resumes the winter of our discontent

[lukethedrifter]

Wait, it snowed here?