Coronavirus: could the 2020 AFL season be called off?

[Happy Days]

Re: Coronavirus: could the 2020 AFL season be called off?

Yes it was pretaped and edited, but there was plenty of contact. Orton v Edge one prime example.

What I was getting at was there was a far greater deal of control in place than is possible in a sport where guys actually punch each other for reals. The decision to go ahead with WM was a debatable one at best, but can be rationalised a lot easier than having a fight card go on.

Btw that Orton v Edge match sucked so bad I think it gave *me* coronavirus.

[comrade]

Re: Coronavirus: could the 2020 AFL season be called off?

What I was getting at was there was a far greater deal of control in place than is possible in a sport where guys actually punch each other for reals. The decision to go ahead with WM was a debatable one at best, but can be rationalised to a far greater degree than having a fight card go on.

Btw that Orton v Edge match sucked so bad I think it gave *me* coronavirus.

Given the scripted nature of wrestling, the athletes can work together to get through a match so if training/conditioning was impacted in the lead up, they can manage it. With two MMA pros hungry for a payday and likely at least 1 having a compromised camp, I can see lots of fights ending badly. Who provides medical support on a freaking Mortal Kombat island? Or are losers fed to sharks?

Also, did they really have Ottobre choke Edge with some gym equipment? That seems a little...risky...to say the least.

[AndrewP6]

Re: Coronavirus: could the 2020 AFL season be called off?

What I was getting at was there was a far greater deal of control in place than is possible in a sport where guys actually punch each other for reals. The decision to go ahead with WM was a debatable one at best, but can be rationalised a lot easier than having a fight card go on.

Btw that Orton v Edge match sucked so bad I think it gave *me* coronavirus.

Really? I thought it was one of few matches worth watching, and I watched both days.

[jeemak]

Re: Coronavirus: could the 2020 AFL season be called off?

What the hell is going on?

[Twodogs]

Re: Coronavirus: could the 2020 AFL season be called off?

What the hell is going on?

No proper boxing, that's for sure.

[Dry Rot]

Re: Coronavirus: could the 2020 AFL season be called off?

A friend has an interesting theory.

Northern hemisphere countries are being hammered by CV at the end of their winters
-> lowest levels of the year of Vitamin D in their communities.

Southern Hemisphere countries have relatively fewer infections and deaths at the end of their summers
-> highest levels of the year of Vitamin D in their communities.

If correct, then we have not seen the worst of it as we head into winter. Also a good argument to boost your Vitamin D levels.

[GVGjr]

Re: Coronavirus: could the 2020 AFL season be called off?

A friend has an interesting theory.

Northern hemisphere countries are being hammered by CV at the end of their winters
-> lowest levels of the year of Vitamin D in their communities.

Southern Hemisphere countries have relatively fewer infections and deaths at the end of their summers
-> highest levels of the year of Vitamin D in their communities.

If correct, then we have not seen the worst of it as we head into winter. Also a good argument to boost your Vitamin D levels.

Vitamin D sales are up substantially so there is something to this as people prepare for this. The colder weather increases the chance of infections anyway.
I think the counter view of this might be that Northern Hemisphere countries are vastly richer and have completed more testing and are just further advanced in identifying it. African and South American countries might not have done the testing

[Dry Rot]

Re: Coronavirus: could the 2020 AFL season be called off?

What is it like for a healthy 34 year old to get COVID 19?

After 10 days of hell, take it from me: you don't want to catch this virus

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/after-10-days-of-hell-take-it-from-me-you-don-t-want-to-catch-this-virus-20200415-p54juk.html

[Twodogs]

Re: Coronavirus: could the 2020 AFL season be called off?

What is it like for a healthy 34 year old to get COVID 19?

After 10 days of hell, take it from me: you don't want to catch this virus

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/...15-p54juk.html

I took my mum to hospital this morning. She is 81 and I'm wondering if she will ever come out.

[comrade]

Re: Coronavirus: could the 2020 AFL season be called off?

What is it like for a healthy 34 year old to get COVID 19?

After 10 days of hell, take it from me: you don't want to catch this virus

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/...15-p54juk.html

Yet the majority of under 50s who get it recover without too much issue. There will always be outliers.

[josie]

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I took my mum to hospital this morning. She is 81 and I'm wondering if she will ever come out.

Oh that’s dreadful Twodogs. Hoping your Mum might be fortunate like that 94 yo in ?WA? who was just released from hospital after recovery from covid. My thoughts are with you and your Mum.

[Dry Rot]

Re: Coronavirus: could the 2020 AFL season be called off?

I took my mum to hospital this morning. She is 81 and I'm wondering if she will ever come out.

Really sorry to hear that.

Does she have CV symptoms or is it something else?

[jeemak]

Re: Coronavirus: could the 2020 AFL season be called off?

Yet the majority of under 50s who get it recover without too much issue. There will always be outliers.

Yep, but if you let the spread get out of control the outliers become significant numbers in themselves, notwithstanding the actual deaths that make the rarities outliers just escalate. Here's a video to give an understanding of the issue from a more alarmist though possibly real perspective.....unfortunately it's hard to understand like any YT video the veracity of the content because it isn't reference properly:

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Re: Coronavirus: could the 2020 AFL season be called off?

I took my mum to hospital this morning. She is 81 and I'm wondering if she will ever come out.

My Thoughts are with you and your Mum TD. Hope it turns out well

[Twodogs]

Re: Coronavirus: could the 2020 AFL season be called off?

Mum is out. She is pretty crook but she says that her mum and three of her siblings went into Footscray hospital and never came out again (or that *!*!*!*!ing hospital isn't going to kill me too as she put it) she's had a coronavirus test and we will get the result tomorrow hopefully.