2019 Novel Coronavirus

[Road Guy]

I may feel different when football season rolls around - that will certainly be strange without, since its also engraved into Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years..

 

[csb]

I miss baseball, but I'm also into a lot of other boring things like engineering and bicycle touring. 

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

bicycle touring

NOT BORING. EPIC!

 

[Dleg]

 

[Platypus Engineer]

Not in the least.  Anything between the BCS Championship and the start of football in the fall is just dead space to me.  

I am that way once hockey playoffs end until football starts. about 6 to 8 week period in summer is my sports dead zone

 

[Platypus Engineer]

I made the trip into the office last friday to get hard copies of the more recent submittals for review.  It was eerie.  

I went to my office yesterday to pick up some tools I need for an inspection tomorrow, First time in about three months. 

Very quiet, but on plus side, getting elevator was fast.

 

[jeb6294]

Does anyone really miss baseball?

Definitely. The local Fox Sports network has been airing some of the games from last season. Not sure about other people, but I've really liked it because I was there working for almost every game last season so I didn't get to see a lot of the games unless I was in a spot where they had a TV.

Even when they were playing last year, it was funny, you could tell people were ready for something different towards the end of the season because the TV's that we could control would be turned to NFL games instead of the Reds game. If I was at one of the clubhouses, the players would even come out to get updates on the game.

 

[Platypus Engineer]

Definitely. The local Fox Sports network has been airing some of the games from last season. Not sure about other people, but I've really liked it because I was there working for almost every game last season so I didn't get to see a lot of the games unless I was in a spot where they had a TV.

Even when they were playing last year, it was funny, you could tell people were ready for something different towards the end of the season because the TV's that we could control would be turned to NFL games instead of the Reds game. If I was at one of the clubhouses, the players would even come out to get updates on the game.

Nearly every other sport has sharp ratings decline once football season starts. Very noticeable in NASCAR.  I never understood why NBA and NHL dont wait until December to start seasons. College football isn;t as prominent then.

 

[jeb6294]

Was watching some "reality show" the other day and it was the end of the season wrap up and all the people from the season were on there yelling at each other via Zoom. The host said something to the one lady that she was glad she was okay. Lady says that right after the end of taping for the season, she got the flu and ended up in a coma on a vent for like a month. Host asks if she was tested for COVID and she hadn't because it was December 2nd so COVID wasn't a thing yet, but now her doctor is pretty sure that's what it was. Lady lives in Las Vegas.

Certainly not scientific at all, but still...

 

[Road Guy]

Id love to make a fall vegas trip, but i think I will have to put that out of my mind for a while too... the pics of people playing blackjack with the dealer behind plexi glass, everone wearing masks, just didnt look all that fun...

 

[leggo PE]

Does anyone really miss baseball?

YES.

 

[leggo PE]

I'm a baseball and NBA girl. I will watch football during its season, but by far and large, I will take a baseball or a basketball game over a football game any day.

That being said, GO NINERS.

 

[snickerd3]

miss watching my kid play baseball and soccer...watching the prof versions not so much

 

[mudpuppy]

Id love to make a fall vegas trip, but i think I will have to put that out of my mind for a while too... the pics of people playing blackjack with the dealer behind plexi glass, everone wearing masks, just didnt look all that fun...

I've been following the Vegas stuff like a hawk, and many reports are only 5% to 20% of people are wearing masks.  Either way it doesn't sound like fun to me (despite my avatar, I'm not willing to risk infection for BJ.)

 

[Dleg]

 I'm not willing to risk infection for BJ.

:eyebrows:  

Good for you, it's always hard to think objectively about the risk of infection when BJ is at stake.

 

[Road Guy]

I’m tempted to look up the budget to see how much we have paid these fools the last 30 years but I am afraid what I’ll find.....

 

[Platypus Engineer]

Most of this has been basically throwing bull excrement at wall to see what sticks.

 

[Dleg]

Science has progressed tremendously since the 1918 influenza pandemic.  The microorganism that caused it was unknown at the time. That influenza is caused by a virus wasn't discovered until the 1930s, and a vaccine wasn't available until the 1940s.  The actual strain of H1N1 that caused the 1918 pandemic was not fully identified until 1997.

The SARS-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was identified and fully sequenced within 2 months of its first known emergence, and vaccine candidates were developed within days of that. Even Anthony Fauci believes that more than one of them will work and be available around the end of the year.

But knowing how the virus affects the human body and spreads can still only be determined by observation, and statistical analysis of those observations. Unfortunately good statistics requires a lot of observations, and even more unfortunately these observations are often in the form of deaths, and especially rare outlier deaths that indicate some of the more unusual ways the virus kills, which take even more time to accumulate.

And until a vaccine is available, the only way to reduce the spread of infection and deaths is through the age old practices of isolation, quarantine, and social distancing.  The effectiveness of certain specific measures such as masks, surface disinfection, eating in restaurants etc. can also be measured only after the accumulation of even more data, often much more subtle and difficult to obtain than deaths.

But hey, yeah, let's just throw away our public health infrastructure because their experts haven't been 100 percent correct on a brand new disease and in an instantaneous fashion, or have had to go back and revised recommendations after more data has been collected. Things worked just fine back before science, right?

 

[P-E]

With you @dleq A lot we don’t fully know yet and we are a long way from being done with this.  If we get a vaccine by the end of the year, it will be like the modern day accomplishment of landing on the moon. 

 

[Road Guy]

Sounds like excuses to me..

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But Imagine if engineers were allowed the same mistake tolerances as scientists.....

Oh damn..... guess that bridge design model didn’t work... oh well let’s build it again a little stronger this time...

30M people were put out of work. I think they deserve some heat for that.

They didn’t really develop a vaccine for the last round of SARS they (scientists) just got lucky cause it killed people so quick there wasn’t a chance for it to spread... but I am sure the scientist think they did something..

And if there is a cure or vaccine it won’t be developed by the cdc but some private company. The CDC will be like the worthless politician or government manager that shows up to the ribbon cutting ceremony for a project they didn’t do any work on and gets to hold a shovel..