re: Players’ union expects no fans at NBA games during 2020-21 season

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Well Bronc it probably depends on what definition of "gone" you chose to apply. In the beginning we were told we need to "flatten the curve." That has been done for some time.

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Take out New York and NJ and the country has not done that. Many places, like Florida, never flattened their curve and are now seeing record hospitalizations and positive testing percentages. Same goes with Texas.

Also not sure where people are getting this revisionist death percentage from? I’m guessing some one-sided sourcing looking at testing numbers and estimates of infection, ignoring completely the problem of excess deaths and undercounting?

US:
2018 Flu/Pnuemonia deaths: 59120
2018 Feb 1 - May 31 Flu/Pneumonia deaths: 22,908
2020 Feb 1 - June 6 Flu/Pneumonia deaths: 112,235 ( 90% increased from the entire year of 2018, 390% increased from the same period in 2018
Excess deaths from 2018 Feb-May: 89,327
Official COVID-19 deaths: 94,371

Texas up to June 6:
2018 Flu/Pnuemonia deaths: 3516
2018 Feb 1 - May 31 Flu/Pneumonia deaths: 1229
2020 Feb 1 - June 6 Flu/Pneumonia deaths: 5886 (67% increased from the entire year of 2018, 379% increased from the same period in 2018)
COVID-19 Pneumonia: 673
Official COVID-19 deaths: 1545


Florida up to June 6:
2018 Flu/Pnuemonia deaths: 3091
2018 Feb 1- May 31 Flu/Pneumonia deaths: 1181
2020 Feb 1 - June 6 Flu/Pneumonia deaths: 6301 (104% increased from the entire year of 2018, 433% increased from the same period in 2018)
COVID-19 Pneumonia: 1180
Official COVID-19 deaths: 2262


Same trend we see with heart failure. Deaths greatly in excess of past years in which correlate to trends with Covid. More people may have been infected than once thought, more people are also dead from COVID than official numbers suggest.