MLB suspended, Opening Day delayed indefinitely UPDATED

[weams]

13 minutes ago, AnythingO's said:

Aren't the MFY still in camp?

Not after this. 

[Frobby]

8 hours ago, scOtt said:

California!....... is oddly corona free. Except for the tasty beer...

 

 

7 hours ago, UpstateNYfan said:

It is NOT corona free. 7,447 confirmed cases and 150 deaths as of 3/31. But, thanks for the disinformation.

 

It is a surprisingly small number so far considering that they had cases very early on compared to most states and it’s our most populous state by a wide margin.    

[pdiddy]

1 hour ago, jarman86 said:

As I've seen the White House has no plan.  We can't even make a decision on getting an aircraft carrier with 70 sailors onboard that have COVID 19 off a ship with 5,000+ sailors in non-wartime.  Or sending potentially contaminated recruits to boot camp, ala Marines and Army.  

Basically, because there is no national leadership, it is state by state which as you pointed out is going to prolong this process.  Seems the doctors want to see a downward movement in cases as concern is overloading hospitals, as we have very little ventilators. 

The plan seems fairly clear to me.  There's not a lot of good news but there's certainly a plan.

I hate the situation on the TR, but Guam gets a say in that.  As do all of the states...national leadership is providing information (publicly and more nonpublicly) but our system is our system.   Guam is already massively crowded from people fleeing the rest of Asia for the last 3 months so they need a place to put them.  The military is updating their planning and instructions on at least a daily basis across the world.  That also isn't easy. 

The bad news is there isn't an easy answer to any of it...staying at home for 30 days helps stops the spread, which is the most that most people are going to be able to do.  Hopefully one of the drugs being tried has a proven break through soon.

 

[survivedc]

2 hours ago, atomic said:

These stay at home orders need a plan. If you just say stay at home 30 days and then in 30 days stay home another 30 days.  It isn't solving anything.  If they are using that time to get more equipment and ramping up hospitals and getting more testing, and getting out masks to everyone in the community that makes sense.  But I don't hear about any plans.  If your plan is to keep everyone on semi-lockdown for 2 years that isn't going to work. I would like to hear someone tell me their plans. 

What could the plan be besides reduce risk of exposure, contain those exposed and continue to produce supplies to identify pockets of contamination and give our medical system a fighting shot? Seems that’s exactly what is happening. 

[scOtt]

9 hours ago, UpstateNYfan said:

It is NOT corona free. 7,447 confirmed cases and 150 deaths as of 3/31. But, thanks for the disinformation.

 

I was just going by that map from earlier that showed nothing. But thanks for the condescension.

[Going Underground]

1 hour ago, Frobby said:

 

It is a surprisingly small number so far considering that they had cases very early on compared to most states and it’s our most populous state by a wide margin.    

California was early was lockdowns ,even before NY. Also NYC density is nothing like any other city.PluS NY sort of had a patient zero that kept going out to a Bat Mitzvah,funeral and to an office in NYC. One person in a density population can really spread it .

[Going Underground]

6 minutes ago, scOtt said:

I was just going by that map from earlier that showed nothing. But thanks for the condescension.

Sorry if the map was confusing.Shows fevers in different places that shows what should happen over the next few weeks. California right now looks better then either NY,NJ and even Michigan.We shall see later in the month.

[atomic]

46 minutes ago, survivedc said:

What could the plan be besides reduce risk of exposure, contain those exposed and continue to produce supplies to identify pockets of contamination and give our medical system a fighting shot? Seems that’s exactly what is happening. 

That isn’t a plan. This isn’t going away. You can’t have everyone stay home for 18 months.

[survivedc]

14 minutes ago, atomic said:

That isn’t a plan. This isn’t going away. You can’t have everyone stay home for 18 months.

Of course that’s a plan. Keep people apart long enough for supplies and overall knowledge to catch up. 
As testing proliferates it will be easier to manage the virus. This won’t be solved/eradicated for a while I suspect but it should be able to be managed.

[orioles119]

4 hours ago, survivedc said:

Of course that’s a plan. Keep people apart long enough for supplies and overall knowledge to catch up. 
As testing proliferates it will be easier to manage the virus. This won’t be solved/eradicated for a while I suspect but it should be able to be managed.

More testing of the treatments will be a benefit in the long run - whether it be the combination of Chloroquine and Z-pack or something else.  Get the treatment out there and it will reduce quarantine times and make the virus manageable.  Then work on the vaccine that could actually come in the fall.  It is being fast-tracked more so than in the past.

https://katu.com/news/coronavirus/fast-track-coronavirus-vaccination-request-to-go-to-fda-for-approval

[UpstateNYfan]

11 hours ago, Frobby said:

 

It is a surprisingly small number so far considering that they had cases very early on compared to most states and it’s our most populous state by a wide margin.    

Yes, counselor, but it is not zero.

[UpstateNYfan]

9 hours ago, scOtt said:

I was just going by that map from earlier that showed nothing. But thanks for the condescension.

You are welcome. You call it condescension, I call it factual truth.

[osfan83]

16 hours ago, jarman86 said:

As I've seen the White House has no plan.  We can't even make a decision on getting an aircraft carrier with 70 sailors onboard that have COVID 19 off a ship with 5,000+ sailors in non-wartime.  Or sending potentially contaminated recruits to boot camp, ala Marines and Army.  

Basically, because there is no national leadership, it is state by state which as you pointed out is going to prolong this process.  Seems the doctors want to see a downward movement in cases as concern is overloading hospitals, as we have very little ventilators. 

It's turning out that ventilators are very little help. Latest numbers show 50-80% of the people put on ventilators don't survive. South Korea is the model on how to handle this. 

[Going Underground]

12 minutes ago, osfan83 said:

It's turning out that ventilators are very little help. Latest numbers show 50-80% of the people put on ventilators don't survive. South Korea is the model on how to handle this. 

By then it is a tough go for survival. One other problem at the hospital I know and many others are that trained respiratory therapists are tough to come by when have so many people on them. You need skilled people and they are getting many who have retired and some who have not even graduated yet but in their last year of school. . So you need a respiratory therapist .a nurse and a doctor, usually a pulmonologist. These people get sick or have to be quarantined then it thins the ranks ever more. 

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/19/818192507/are-there-enough-skilled-medical-workers-to-run-ventilators

 

 

[Going Underground]

A century ago, Baltimore had baseball fever.

In 1920, the Orioles won 110 games — including the final 25 — to capture the International League pennant. The team’s success buoyed the spirits of a city struggling through the third and final year of the flu pandemic that killed 675,000 Americans.

 

Baseball, too, was hit by the flu. At least eight pro players succumbed, as did an umpire and several sportswriters. Even slugger Babe Ruth caught it once, or maybe twice. Not coincidentally, 1920 saw baseball ban the spitball pitch for all but a handful of veteran hurlers who’d always thrown it.

The disease cut a swath through Baltimore, killing 5,400 in 1918 alone, but somehow spared its Class AA ballclub.

 

Lamenting its losses to both the flu and the Great War, the city rallied around the Orioles, tooted their triumphs and rode their team’s rivals without mercy. Several times, after games, Baltimore police wielding blackjacks were called to escort opponents off the field. In August, a rhubarb during a game with Buffalo sparked a melee with fans who pelted the visitors with pop bottles and stones; four spectators were arrested. Another time, when an umpire ruled against the Orioles on a close play, hundreds swarmed onto the field and began to strike the arbiter with rolled-up newspapers. More than once, fearing for their safety, umpires refused to work games at Oriole Park (29th Street and Greenmount Avenue), leaving the combatants to mediate themselves using one player from each team.

 

https://www.baltimoresun.com/features/retro-baltimore/bs-fe-retro-1920-orioles-20200401-3auvbp6j5fczlgsare2pdrhuim-story.html