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Do you think that Disney world will reclose its gates due to the rising number of COVID cases in Florida and around the country?
- Thread starter Logan L
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GoofGoof
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They had already cancelled tomorrow’s game too. Not a great start to the baseball season.
TeriofTerror
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Well, the Tribe is 4-2, so it's not all bad.
Archie123
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Expect this for basically all sports...except tennis. And maybe golf as well.
oceanbreeze77
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I dont think the season will last much longer....Teams dont want to play infected teams.
chrisvee
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seems impossible to have a season for that reason and also bc the cancellations + reschedules are going to have a material impact on outcomes
oceanbreeze77
Well-Known Member
Exactly. They can't keep postponing games. Theres no time.
GoofGoof
Premium Member
It‘s going to be difficult to make up all these games and there’s no way they can push the end of the season back so the only option is going to be to cut off the last week or 2 of the season and use the last few weeks of September to make up games missed. The teams have to play the same number of games but it’s looking more likely to be 45 or 50 games instead of the full 60. If this happens too often it may just be a cancel on the season, or they an alternate plan is they could start the playoffs 9/15 and have everyone make it, then it’s not an issue that some teams played more games then others. In each league you give the top seed a bye and seeds 2 through 15 play 5 game series in a week to get down to 8 teams in each league then the next week play round 2 to get to 4 teams in each league. Each 5 game series is all played at home for the higher seed so no travel days. Then normal playoffs starting 10/1 With 7 game series and travel again.
oceanbreeze77
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Archie123
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Wait till they try and get the NFL up and running again!! Can't wait to see that crap show.
chrisvee
Well-Known Member
The NFL is going to need to bubble up somehow if they want a season.
GoofGoof
Premium Member
NFL should go with a bubble approach similar to NBA and NHL. So far neither of those leagues has had an issue. Travel is the biggest risk with sports and the NFL won’t have any better luck with that then MLB is having. Disney just announced that a few thousand hotel rooms will sit vacant for quite a while. I think they could accommodate the league or at least half the league if they do 2 sites like the NHL is doing. It would be simple to convert some baseball and soccer fields to football. They might have to get creative with gym equipment and training space, but it’s doable.
Archie123
Well-Known Member
They should but even then I don't think that a full 16 game season will be played without someone contracting CV. They already cancelled all preseason games and multiple players have opted out for playing this season.
Epcotfan21
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Good news for the Phillies and MLB. https://www.fox29.com/news/mlb-phil...nst-yankees-team-received-false-positives.amp
SoFloMagic
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DisneyCane
Well-Known Member
I've been predicting that the daily infections will decline noticeably in about two weeks from now. It's going to follow the same pattern as NY and every other spike worldwide. The difference is that Florida didn't have a spike until June and neither did California or the other States having issues now.
I could be wrong but that's what I think is going to happen.
carolina_yankee
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In fairness, the last few days have been below 10,000. To me, "shocking" is the collective shrug that seems to be coming from Florida. I'm not defending Florida and find their approach appalling, but the numbers have been better the last few days. Death reports are definitely going to be a lagging indicator. No way to know if it's a bit of a dip before another peak or a sign of things to come.
The problem is we look at one number or another number to form a judgment (not you, "people" in general). Here in NJ, we have many good metrics (very manageable case numbers, declining hospitalizations, declining death reports, very good positivity), but the 2nd or 3rd highest rate of spread in the country. Worse than Florida, Texas, Arizona or other hotspots. We could be fine and that's a blip, or we could be about to explode.
The difference is rollbacks are likely to happen if numbers don't improve and there is a general sense of where these numbers are coming from.
The hardest part in all of this for me is that we haven't wrapped our minds around the reality we have to deal with this for another year most likely, and remain vigilant. This isn't a a storm that blows over. We're in a full scale World Calamity: World Pandemic I, if you will. "When will shows resume? When will cruising resume? When can we stop wearing masks?" Not in any predictable time frame.
I agree. People have that post tragedy disbelief or surreal grasp that hard times bring. People want schools to just start back and are demonizing teachers for asking more of their school districts for safety precautions that are either ignoring or not delivering on concerns, but many parents revert to treating schools as they often do, as babysitting and the kids need to go back physically "no matter what"
It is sadly going to be like Substance Abuse Deaths such as Drunk driving situations, the cause never matters much until it effects someone personally, and sadly, it will continue to do so for a bit beause until then many won't care.