re: The Original NBA suspends the season thread

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It is a virus. All wash your hands, drink fluids, stay home if you get sick same as if you have the flu... No reason to cancel the nba season

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I get what you’re saying. The fact is, no one has any clue about the details of the virus. Even doctors are giving mixed opinions. The main problems with “just washing your hands and drinking fluids are”:
-there is a ~4 day period after initial infection where you are contagious, but asymptomatic, so you have no clue that you’re transmitting the disease at all during that time
-it is airborne, and the fibrosis in the lungs and throat causes it to be transferred through the air by simply exhaling

In the NBA’s case, if one person has it, next a whole team has it, next the whole league has it. They would most likely be fine considering their prior health history, but that opens the opportunity to transfer to the vulnerable, then boom, more people NEED hospitals. I understand you think everyone is a snowflake SJW that will go to the ED with cold symptoms, but that’s just a straw man and not near the main problem with the health system over-populating