No more NBA games after tonight. (At least for a while)

[FloridaMan88]

Originally Posted by DaFace

You're wrong here, Pete. Is the world ending? No. But this is gonna kill a **** ton of people.

So did the 2009 Swine Flu pandemic (the most recent officially classified pandemic until COVID-19) and society didn’t overreact and shut down like this.

Also LeBron James was among several NBA players who tested positive for the Swine Flu in 2009, yet the NBA continued with its games.

[tk13]

Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88

So did the 2009 Swine Flu pandemic (the most recent officially classified pandemic until COVID-19) and society didn’t overreact and shut down like this.

Also LeBron James was among several NBA players who tested positive for the Swine Flu in 2009, yet the NBA continued with its games.

You, and many others, are still failing to understand the incubation period on this thing. The swine flu had an incubation period of like 2 days. This thing it's like 5 days to 2 weeks. That's enormous.

That is 100% why this is different than all these other viruses and diseases that people keep comparing it to. We aren't all going to die and there's no reason to panic, but this thing has no treatment and you can have it for a week or more and spread it around and not know it. The only way to stop it is to keep people away from other people.

[PAChiefsGuy]

Originally Posted by tk13

You, and many others, are still failing to understand the incubation period on this thing. The swine flu had an incubation period of like 2 days. This thing it's like 5 days to 2 weeks. That's enormous.

That is 100% why this is different than all these other viruses and diseases that people keep comparing it to. We aren't all going to die and there's no reason to panic, but this thing has no treatment and you can have it for a week or more and spread it around and not know it. The only way to stop it is to keep people away from other people.

Exactly and the more it spreads the more people will die. There is no vaccine so you are relying on the immune system to beat it. There's no guarantee even for a healthy individual although obviously cases of healthy ppl dying from it are rare but it has happened.

[FloridaMan88]

Originally Posted by PAChiefsGuy

Exactly and the more it spreads the more people will die. There is no vaccine so you are relying on the immune system to beat it. There's no guarantee even for a healthy individual although obviously cases of healthy ppl dying from it are rare but it has happened.

There was no vaccine during the first six months of the Swine Flu pandemic.

I am not saying there isn’t legit concern about the threat of COVID-19, but it is unclear why the reaction to COVID-19 is way more intense than the public response to the Swine Flu pandemic in 2009-2010.

The Swine Flu was actually way more deadly among younger people than COVID-19 currently is.

Nearly 13,000 Americans died from the Swine Flu pandemic yet the public hysteria never approached what we are seeing now with COVID-19.

[PAChiefsGuy]

Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88

There was no vaccine during the first six months of the Swine Flu pandemic.

I am not saying there isn’t legit concern about the threat of COVID-19, but it is unclear why the reaction to COVID-19 is way more intense than the public response to the Swine Flu pandemic in 2009-2010.

The Swine Flu was actually way more deadly among younger people than COVID-19 currently is.

Nearly 13,000 Americans died from the Swine Flu pandemic yet the public hysteria never approached what we are seeing now with COVID-19.

There's a lot more unknowns w the coronavirus then there was w the Swine Flu. Who knows when there will be a vaccine for the CoronaVirus. Its going to be a while.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88

There was no vaccine during the first six months of the Swine Flu pandemic.

I am not saying there isn’t legit concern about the threat of COVID-19, but it is unclear why the reaction to COVID-19 is way more intense than the public response to the Swine Flu pandemic in 2009-2010.

The Swine Flu was actually way more deadly among younger people than COVID-19 currently is.

Nearly 13,000 Americans died from the Swine Flu pandemic yet the public hysteria never approached what we are seeing now with COVID-19.

Are you so confident that this won't dwarf the swine flu outbreak that you don't think precautions are wise? I know it's preliminary, but this thing seems to kill far more people than swine flu. It seems perfectly reasonable that far more than 13k people will die from this if nothing is done.