It’s game over for sports as we know them, absent a widely distributed vaccine

Globe and Mail ^ | April 17, 2020 | Cathal Kelly

[clearcarbon]

I don’t get cable TV, but over the years I’ve read that it is expensive because of what it pays to broadcast sports programs. Is this true shouldn’t subscribers be paying less?

[Engedi]

I worked and retired from major hospital in Michigan. Majority of years it was voluntary to get the flu shot or not if you didn’t work around patients. I didn’t and rarely got the flu shot. Starting 4 years ago it became mandatory to get the flu shot even though you never saw or worked around a patient. Each dept had a Flu Czar and checked off and made sure you got your flu shot. If you didn’t it would go up to the CFO. You would get told to get it. If you refused your only recourse was to write a letter stating you refuse under conscience objective guidelines etc. If they accepted your letter in HR then you had to commit to wearing a mask at all times while at work. If you failed to wear the mask you could be fired. A few people did this and wore the mask but majority just got the flu shot.

So sometimes it’s not an objection. Get the shot, don’t get the shot and wear a mask at all times or don’t get the shot and get fired.

[BobL]

“Five years? You really spread the Covid doom, don’t you?”

I don’t know. 5 years sounds about right for the ‘least required’ mass gatherings if we rely on herd immunity, given the social distancing required to keep the infection rate under control.

Also, I did note that if a vaccine does get deployed, then much sooner.

[a little elbow grease]

It’s game over for sports as we know them, absent a widely distributed vaccine

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https://twitter.com/atptour/status/1251484608660557825/video/1

.... not for these tennis players :-)

[a little elbow grease]

Years back, I delivered product to over a 120 golf courses, usually early before sun up. The workers were already out spraying. It was obvious from the smell. They needed to be done doing that before the courses would open for the day.

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Yep.

I used to spread a lot of milorganite back in the early 60's here on western PA. courses, including Oakmont before the sun came up.

......... love the smell of milorganite in the morning.

[Persevero]

I read today that there has never been a vaccine developed for any coronavirus. If we manage this time it will be the first time.

While I am all for trying we need to realize that at least short term there will be no vaccine. IMO we need to accept this reality and get back to work. And worship. The vulnerable and the frightened can stay home as desired.

[Persevero]

To address your point, the flu is not even a coronavirus.

I get the flu shot every year. Still as you say it often misses the popular current strain and can be ineffective even when it doesn’t.

We are not getting an effective coronavirus vaccine any time soon.

[Persevero]

In re a third of us being immune I think that’s great but the problem is viruses mutate so then you catch the next one.

That’s why we have a new and only partly effective flu shot each year and the flu is not even a coronavirus.

Unless we’d like to shut down the world until we can quickly destroy pandemic viruses we are going to just have to accept that they are a risk for living. Because there are new ones all the time.

[SamAdams76]

Good post. I pretty stopped watching sports a few years ago. The kneeling for the anthem was the final straw. Don’t miss them at all.

[philman_36]

You can stick the vaccine in your own ass, Cathal Kelly.
Both you and Bill Gates.
I will not comply!

[scrabblehack]

“It’s Olympics Week on NBCSN, April 13-26.”
“That’s TWO weeks.” - Rocket J. Squirrel.

[Wuli]

No argument.

My point about a vaccine not being essential for most sports to restart is (a) yes, we have a flu vaccine, which less than half the population ever gets, and (b) we have tens of thousands deaths from seasonal flu every year, but somehow in spite of all those deaths and that the flu is passed from person to person, and ANY player could have it and any player could get, and any spectator could have it and any spectator could get it, life goes on, our sports are played.

And who mostly dies from the flu? Old folks with comorbidity issues are number one, and little kids are number two. And who mostly dies from the Wuhan Virus? Older folks with comorbidity issues.

Stopping sports just because there is no Wuhan Virus vaccine just does not make any sense.