[Travis McGee]

[P.O.E.]

They easily could create a pretend crowd and fake crowd noise via CGI, and who would know the difference?

I've often wondered if they don't do that already. I've noticed the camera angles at games rarely going above ground level, but seeing crowd-sourced pics showing lots of open space in the "cheap seats" (i.e., non-corporate levels).

[eyeamok]

Second, many want to create a crisis that they can blame on Donald Trump in hopes of electing a Democratic president.

This is the only reason, and they gleefully validate it publicly every hour on the hour.

[dp0622]

Second, many want to create a crisis that they can blame on Donald Trump in hopes of electing a Democratic president...

That one doesn’t wash so well now that MANY countries are taking this thing incredibly seriously and it is having devastating effects in a country in Western Europe.

NOW BLAMING IT on Trump..that’s another story THEY WILL lie and distort every single chance they get.

But it is a crisis. Just because it hasn’t reached flu numbers yet doesn’t make it not one.

And just because more people have died in car accidents this year doesn’t make it not one..

I think with good containment it can be under control by june or july with plenty of time for a rally and a big Trump victory

[real saxophonist]

As someone with pretty severe social anxiety (to the point of having to take meds), I like self-quarantining just fine, thank you.

[PGalt]

Quarantine CONgre$$ CoVid - 535. Ankle bracelets would be nice too. OK...I’ll chip in for the specially sized one for Hillary. Can you lend me some of the “foreign aide” moolah, Joek?

signed: DEPLORABLE

[walkingdead]

I have also thought that maybe virtue signaling is part of this. Look how much I care, I care so much that I shut down the NBA.

Seems a bit of that may be going on also.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Lawsuits are gearing up for the first US inmate who dies from this virus . . . somebody who wasn't imprisoned for life or sentenced to death. If one dies in custody, the floodgates will open.

Maybe Trump could commute Stone and Manafort, considering their ages

[OrangeHoof]

I think fear of lawsuits is the #1 reason you see all these major events closing. If league X closed there games and yours didn’t, then if somebody gets the sniffles or a tummyache, they can blame it on the coronavirus and have a lawyer sue you for millions. Because a certain percentage die from the disease and since it can take up to two weeks to manifest itself, there’s no way the league can defend itself and say they weren’t the cause of the spread.

These leagues are potentially losing a ton of money over this so you can bet they are looking at the potential legal fallout for playing during the heart of the crisis.

[glorgau]

Self quarantine = I can binge watch every season of Game of Thrones again.