The Thunder-Jazz game currently in a delay. Apparently Gobert was a late scratch for illness and they are waiting for league approval to play. All kinds of run it’s flying around.

I think we're right on the cusp of seeing all sports cancelled for some time.

Uhhhhhh

PA announcer says “due to unforeseen circumstances the game has been postponed. You are all safe”

— Sarah Todd (@NBASarah) March 12, 2020

Twitter

BREAKING: #Jazz C Rudy Gobert and PG Emmanuel Mudiay are being taken to Mercy Medical Center in downtown OKC to be tested for the coronavirus.

It is inevitable that a player will get it. Not only all the travel they do but interaction with fans, going to nightclubs, etc...

Once one does its game over.

Just great logic by Adande - esp when he gets all his tickets for free :rolleyes:

Rather than refunding the tickets, give the money to the arena workers whose paychecks are going to take a hit. It’s literally disposable income for the people who bought the tickets. It isn’t for the people who need to work these events to pay their bills

— J.A. Adande (@jadande) March 11, 2020

30 day travel ban from Europe

He’s surely going to contradict half of this speech by tomorrow. It’s amazing how poorly he reads.

He sounds and looks sick

Nasally.

That was weird.

Pretty fair summary here...

That included some good advice, some potentially sensible policies, and some measures that could help. That's good. It's criminally late, in a way that may cost lives, and it's wrapped in self-serving bullshit and seething resentment, but it's not all bad.....

— OneMileContainmentHat (@Popehat) March 12, 2020

Talks about coming together tonight, bu tomorrow AM he will be hate tweeting Joe Biden or Pelosi.

Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson have it.

They're in Australia.

No Trump owned properties in Europe, outside of the UK right?

Rudy Gobert tested positive for it.

Well it’s a plan, right?

After making fun of people for freaking out about it and purposely touching things to make a point.

source?

Annnnndddd the NBA regular season has been suspended

where are you guys seeing this?

SportsDigs. Sorry, had to be done.

As part of the Jazz’s COVID-19 response, shootaround availability was done in the ZBBC media room today rather than on the court. As Rudy Gobert got finished discussing the situation, he stood up, leaned over and made it a point to touch every mic and recorder in front of him. 😂

— Eric Walden (@tribjazz) March 9, 2020

The NBA has suspended the season.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 12, 2020

Gobert, you asshole! I wonder if they would have just played in empty arenas if he didn't do that.

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Feeling Strong enough to play! A well conditioned athlete probably has little cause for concern of their own personal well being.

I look forward to hanging out with you guys while we're all under quarantine.

Do people still say God don’t like ugly?

On Monday, Rudy Gobert made a point of touching all the microphones and recorders at his media availability. Tonight, he tested positive for COVID-19.

(🎥: @DanWeiner)
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— theScore (@theScore) March 12, 2020

Not meant as a religious commentary, I can just hear the voices of some of the old people from my childhood.

I'm jumping ahead like seventy steps but if Gobert got it from somebody coming back from Europe, and he's done that with the media and it leads to an outbreak... holy shit that's a bad look.

Is the US predicting similar 70% total infected? I like the Merkel's upfront approach.

Coronavirus: Up to 70% of Germany could become infected - Merkel - BBC News

Quick math for Germany - 58 million people, assuming 1% fatality (from Fauci), that is 580 thousand dead.

Quick math for US - 328 million people, 70% is 229 million, assuming 1% fatality, that is 2.9 million dead.

Yup, this is the part that is missed by most of the people posting on Facebook and posting memes about how it's killed less than Flu/Obesity/Childhood Poverty and/or how we're all going to get it anyway so let's just go on with our lives. The contagiousness of this is within a range that is backed by science, the numbers are going to be huge, do we want most of them in the next 2-3 weeks and 20-30 million cases that need hospitalization fighting for somewhere between 300-500k hospital beds, or do we want to play for time, spread it out over months and hopefully when critical mass is reached a vaccine is available for the most critical cases. It's simple maths and playing for time.

My wife and I were talking and this came up:

Towards the end of last year, there was a bad bug going around that a lot of people caught. From what she read, it was a bug that no one knew eactly what it was. Most chalked it up to a bad flu season. Was it this instead?

Just a thought exercise (not saying its realistic to do)...

Is the answer to temporarily segregate the older and pre-existing from everyone else for let's say 15-30 days? Essentially tell them (and anyone that needs to help care for them) stay home. No travel, someone will bring you food and other necessities.

Segregate the hospitals, do a better job maintaining a sterile environment in hospitals, nursing homes and like. For those that can, work from home. For those that can't, paid sick leave will provide (not sure about funding though).

Won't this flatten the curve that Fauci and others want and still let rest of US function for the most part?

I posted about 10 pages ago we should shut the USA down for 2 weeks.

Had we done that, we would not be having these problems.

I should be President.

The difference is I'm talking about approx 51 million 65+ and older, so not quite as drastic.

But yes, you should be President to protect the BAAAA-den sheeples :)

When you're president can I be Secretary of Energy?

Will the suspension of large events have a profound impact on spread? I definitely hope so. It sadly takes cancellations and infected celebrities to make the typical American even care

While we are at it, can I have the DHS position (specifically the INS dept)?

We should have a pool on which FOFC member tests positive 1st.

I can't keep up with y'all's postings so apologies if this has already been covered...

When do the Benghazi-style hearings begin for President Numbnuts? They tried to pin four needless deaths on Hilary's head, how many are they gonna pin on him?

Pelicans refusing to take the floor for the last NBA game of the foreseeable future.

White House has already had to release at least two clarifications about what Trump said-about trade goods and American citizens abroad

Nebraska head coach Fred Hoiberg been taken to the hospital, source told @Stadium. Was sick, left the game early and was told to go to be checked out immediately. https://t.co/OPs1nmNTZg

— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) March 12, 2020

Well, some people would. A lot of people have already well displayed they are on the money > well-being of others side.

I just spoke to someone connected to the NHL. He expects the NHL to shut down games tomorrow like the NBA

Good thing Football season is over.

They better not fuck with baseball.

Opening day is 2 weeks from tomorrow. That shit ain’t happening. Two weeks from now there will likely be millions infected. Baseball ain’t happening.