Logged in and then out due to boredom. Just trying to keep a dead forum alive in this time. NO to shit Dalton. He sucks

Only one of the potential vet acquisitions I’m interested in is Carr, but I’ve resigned myself to Rivers.

I agree with you about Carr. I've resigned myself to another year of Jacoby, but it might not matter. There's a possibility that there won't even be a 2020 season due to coronavirus. We shall see. Good luck and God speed to all of us here.

There will be a season. Just one with no one in the stands for the first half of the year.

Maybe longer. Corona isn’t seasonal. So it will stick around for a while. And the older you are the deadlier it is. I have to imagine half the people who can afford and pay for tickets is in the middle age and above bracket.

Deadlier?! Why is there so much hysteria surrounding this? It's a type of flu, and a few, mainly older people have died from it, similarly to how deadly pneumonia can be. Sure, take precautions to not spread germs, but pump the breaks on the "we're all gonna die" hysterics.

Can’t ascribe to the hysteria you are talking about, at least I haven’t seen any. But I don’t think talking about something and taking it seriously makes you hysterical. I didn’t realize I said “we’re all going to die”. Oh wait, I didn’t.

But yes, it has the potential to kill you. It is still pretty new to dismiss it as just another flu. Death rate of the flu is 0.1% in the US. So far it seems corona is about ten times that. It is not the end of the world, but its not something to ignore either. People with compromised immune systems are definitely at risk. But people over 50, the stats start rising.

The WHO has the opinion that it will recede (not go away, just recede) during the summer and then return with a vengeance this coming winter. I'm just hoping for the best during this madness.
And now the NBA has suspended the current season indefinitely. OMG

I think part of the worry is it has the potential to mutate and come back as a different strain every year, or every couple years. I have seen spanish flu comparisons and final numbers may be something similar. (although spanish flu numbers are hard to pin down.) Still I think we are in the early stages so really it is hard to know. I'm just glad with two very young ones at home that children seem to be relatively unaffected.

On a side note, Tom Hanks and his wife tested positive today.

If you go to the CDC site you will see that is not true. It's not just any flu. This is one that has evolved from one species to now attack people. There's not flue shot for this and there won't be for a while. The death rate for a typical flue season is 0.01 % for people. The death rate for this thing, internationally has been trending at 3.3 %

Do a little math. 0.01% of 1000000 is 1000. 3.3% of one million is 33000. 19 million get this thing, 627,000 will die. That's the same number as the 1918 spanish influenza, in this country.

And apparently, it's easier to catch this flu than others.