NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships

Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by danso on Thursday March 12, 2020 @04:38PM (#22561471)

The concern is not exclusively about the players' own health. Most of these players interact with other human beings.

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by ascagnel_ on Thursday March 12, 2020 @04:42PM (#22561509)

The real risk isn't with the players -- the real risk is that if you have someone (spectator, foodservice worker, officail, etc.) who's been infected, but hasn't yet shown any symptoms, they're interacting with a ton of other people in a short span in an uncontrolled way. It's a huge potential driver for community spread.

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by kissickas on Thursday March 12, 2020 @04:46PM (#22561550)

They had already announced that the tournament would be held without audiences (and presumably food service workers and so on) yesterday.

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by slantyyz on Thursday March 12, 2020 @05:08PM (#22561756)

I thought I heard that "without audiences" still meant family, etc. would still be allowed onsite in the stands.

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by CydeWeys on Thursday March 12, 2020 @04:37PM (#22561465)

We don't even know who's sick and who isn't because we don't have enough test kits.

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by techntoke on Thursday March 12, 2020 @04:42PM (#22561503)

But the President said that anyone that wants a test can have one, and that it is our fault for not getting tested.

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by sdinsn on Thursday March 12, 2020 @06:28PM (#22562601)

Not true.

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by ta999999171 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @05:08PM (#22561759)

Citation Needed.

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by bosie on Thursday March 12, 2020 @05:19PM (#22561853)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/politics/trump-coronav...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_XwC9IQKBc

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by techntoke on Friday March 13, 2020 @02:35AM (#22565245)

Never seen someone get downvoted for posting proof before

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by ta999999171 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:19PM (#22564424)

Thank you!

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by thawaway1837 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @04:55PM (#22561623)

The kids playing are the least at risk. It’s their fellow passengers, people they meet and who serve their food, clean their hotel rooms, fans, etc who are at risk.

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by BOBOTWINSTON on Thursday March 12, 2020 @04:45PM (#22561544)

So socially responsible.

This hurts a lot for some of us. I am a Creighton fan and this was our first big year in a long time, maybe our best of all time.

Sports fans get accused of forgetting "it is all a game" sometimes. It is certainly more than a game when you think of how much some people's lives depend on the money from these events, but limiting the impact of this virus is certainly not "soft".

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by zwily on Thursday March 12, 2020 @05:55PM (#22562227)

Same with me and BYU. We had potential for the best tournament run since Jimmer Fredette, and we’ll likely end the year #1 in men’s volleyball with no championship to play for. (Our last title win was in 2003.)

Will teams that finish #1 in various polls claim national titles?

Of course none of it matters that much in the long run but it is a big bummer for the athletes and fans!

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by RocketSyntax on Thursday March 12, 2020 @04:58PM (#22561648)

It's not a game to those players. It's their life. If they don't want to get the flu it should be their choice not to play.

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by jgwil2 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @05:19PM (#22561854)

I really don't think I should be having to make this comment, but it's not the flu. You know it's not the flu, we all know it's not the flu. Please stop trolling.

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by gdulli on Thursday March 12, 2020 @05:20PM (#22561872)

The decision is not about the players, it's much bigger than that.

It was also the players' choice to make their life about something that was always going to lose in priority to public health, if it ever came to that.

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by slantyyz on Thursday March 12, 2020 @05:05PM (#22561722)

> Next thing you know tennis matches will be canceled.

That was already announced before the NCAA cancellation.

[1] https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/28891268/atp-suspends...

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by gnulinux on Thursday March 12, 2020 @04:49PM (#22561578)

Great majority of cases are asymptomatic, great majority of symptomatic cases are very mild possibly indistinguishable from common cold so people may be inclined to ignore it. So, it's not safe to have any gatherings of this scale since inevitably many people will be infected.

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by tunesmith on Thursday March 12, 2020 @05:07PM (#22561743)

Is it actually true that the great majority are asymptomatic? I know the great majority of cases (currently, in the US) are untested, but they might very well be symptomatic.

Also, is it true that the great majority are as mild as the common cold? I ask just because I heard "mild" encompasses "feels like death but doesn't need hospitalization", like the kind of cold I've had perhaps twice in my life.

(Asking from the point of view of being all-in-favor of canceling large gatherings, to protect the folks that would be hit hard by the illness.)

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Re:NCAA cancels March Madness and other championships by egdod on Thursday March 12, 2020 @04:35PM (#22561443)

Except that people become contagious before they have symptoms, and we don’t really have a good testing regimen.

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