Just when I thought the Canucks might get into the playoffs for the first time in years.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/nhl-covid-19-suspended-season-1.5495002
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/nhl-covid-19-suspended-season-1.5495002
Just when I thought the Canucks might get into the playoffs for the first time in years.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/nhl-covid-19-suspended-season-1.5495002
I don't think the concern is about what it might do to an elite level athlete that is (by all accounts) fit and healthy - it's about spreading it to others that might not be as fit and healthy as an elite level athlete. You don't have to be a scientist to understand that in a basketball game (empty arena aside) that everyone touches the same sweaty basketball and the players certainly come into close contact with other players directly as well. Maybe the shower after the game doesn't fully disinfects a player, they go home potentially spreading it to their kid, the kid goes to school and transmits to other kids and one of those kids goes sees grandma and grandpa on the weekend. Yes, the elite level athlete will probably be okay, but they are trying to limit transmission to those in the more high risk groups.One case knocks out the whole pro sports world. I wonder if there is a documented case of someone in the same physical shape as these athletes who has contracted and suffered seriously from COVID-19. They get colds and flu all the time.
All of us now stuck at home. At least let the teams play to empty arenas to give everyone something to watch. The players must be even more pissed than the fans.
Agreed but they are within striking distance of a wild card spot. Team 1040 came up with some equation saying if they get 92 points, they should get in. They’re at 78 points now and have 13 games remaining. Yes I’m being optimistic as would any fan who has supported a team for 50 years.Their injuries were piling up, their position was at the edge of the wild-card (and dropping) already.
Nobody yet knows if the whole season's scrubbed, including the playoffs. But time off could be a blessing in disguise.
In 1918, the world had maybe 2 billion people, mostly rural.Spanish Flu 1918 https://www.inquirer.com/health/cor...influenza-penn-quakers-football-20200311.html
We have better medicine today