Posted on 04/14/2020 11:40:42 PM PDT by willk
On the first Sunday in February, as the San Francisco 49ers were in the middle of blowing a lead in the Super Bowl, a small group of doctors in the Bay Area was too busy to care about a football game. They were dealing with the region’s first cases of coronavirus.
They had no time to waste as they raced to bring the University of California San Francisco’s Covid-19 command center into operation. They worked overnight and had it running by the next morning—when two patients confirmed with the virus were transferred to UCSF’s hospital.
There could have been hundreds of thousands of fans on the streets of San Francisco at a Super Bowl parade a few days later.
Some experts who have studied the Bay Area’s containment of the virus have reached a surprising conclusion about these simultaneous events of Super Bowl Sunday: San Francisco likely won when the 49ers lost.
The Kansas City Chiefs’ comeback wasn’t just exhilarating. It also might have been the best thing that could’ve happened to 49ers fans.
The 49ers had a 10-point lead with seven minutes left in the fourth quarter until quarterback Patrick Mahomes rallied the Chiefs back to an epic win—which means they were seven minutes from a parade in a city where a parade could have been devastating.
Public health experts point to mass gatherings as places where highly contagious viruses spread easily, and championship parades are particularly vulnerable to infectious diseases. They bring together hundreds of thousands—and potentially millions—of screaming, hugging and beer-sharing fans on crowded streets in major cities. They’re ideal breeding grounds for respiratory illnesses. And the timing of this Super Bowl parade could’ve made it a super-spreading event.
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Lucky for New York the Jets had a lousy year?
The virus had probably not hit K.C. yet.
Funny, people were saying that about the SF World Series in 1989. Good thing the fans were at Candlestick Park and not out on the freeways.
It wasn’t called Covid-19 at the time, I don’t think
We’re these two cars even communicably transmitting in San Francisco. Weren’t these returnees from China.
An interesting fact: a structural engineer within the stadium authority complained about the Candlestick Park stadium the year before, that it could catastrophically fail if an earthquake hit. They had put off repairs for years to strengthen the stadium since 1983 when problems were found. The engineer was persistent and convinced the management to seismically strengthen the stadium and the work was done between the 1988 and 1989 baseball seasons, and completed before the World Series, when the Loma Prieta Quake struck. If not for the work done to the stadium, many thousands could have died within it if it collapsed.
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Could you translate that please?
Cases.
(Not to hard to figure out).
In SF, some people identify as cars.
Chiefs !!
If San Fran Nanzi’s congressional district is completely depopulated, does she get thrown out of The House of Representatives?
So the Kansas City Chiefs who held a massive city wide celebration with thousands of supporters should have caused a major outbreak in Kansas City?
But they do not have those numbers of infected at all.
This entire story is bunk praising the team who LOST THE SUPER BOWL.
Seriously, I’m happy we in KC kicked SF butt but don’t think we traded our win for your corona virus.
We won in more ways than one then because - we had our victory parade and still didn’t get the big city virus!
Or it went through SF and CA two months earlier.
And *we’re* is *were*.
Wouldn’t surprise me.
So now the Libs would like to say that Trump should have halted the super-tuesday primaries and the Super Bowl, with stay at home lockdowns. And if he had? They would have screamed like hell against it.
Can you please tell me where you found this. The original stadium was constructed to “split” in certain places, which it did in 1989, and keep the spectators safe, which it did. I wasn’t aware of any reinforcement at that time as the only construction listed was when $30 million was spent on improving the stadium by adding a new scoreboard, more concessions and luxury suites. I’d like to find what changes they did complete totally.
rwood
“So the Kansas City Chiefs who held a massive city wide celebration with thousands of supporters should have caused a major outbreak in Kansas City?
But they do not have those numbers of infected at all.”
Kansas City did not have any cases until later in March.
I don’t have the link about the work done to Candlestick Park.
Here is one firm that did some work, a study about the repairs needed :
http://www.intres.com/project/candlestick-park-0877_e00/
Here is a Wikipedia excerpt about Candlestick Park:
“An ESPN documentary about the earthquake revealed that the local stadium authority demanded that Candlestick Park undertake a major engineering project to shore up perceived safety red flags in the stadium. The authority pushed reluctant officials to get this done between the 1988 and 1989 baseball seasons, which prevented a “collapse wave” that would have killed thousands of fans and led to there being very few casualties of any kind in Candlestick after such a massive natural disaster. “
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlestick_Park
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