So how depressed are the bookies?

[Peppermint]

On a serious note, how long you guys think this will last?

Or a better question, how long can the leagues, and casinos, and TV stations like ESPN and all the sports dedicated networks hold out?

Before the damage is irreparable? Or am I being dramatic?

IMO I think it lasts another 2 to 4 weeks , This is insanity these people going nuts on something that is no worse than the common cold

I think the people who say that, like yourself are ignorant as fuck. Unlike the common cold, or the flu, which actually have drugs designed to specifically treat them, vaccines that are released and updated every 6 months, over the counter remedies that soothe the symptoms, and while yes the common cold is caused by a type of coronavirus. This one, literally no one knows anything about at all, no one is even entirely sure how it entered the human genome so effectively. Plus, it’s highly contagious, and those infected can spread it without showing any symptoms, it’s also aggressive adapts to its environment, which is why spring and summer coming will change nothing, look at how much worse it is in warmer regions like Iran.

By all means, take it with as much ease and be as care free as you like. But when your lungs feel like they’re on fire and you’re coughing up blood and pieces of your lungs because it developed into pneumonia, you’ll remember me and what I told you and wish you played into the panic too.

Anyway, never going away. Welcome to the new normal boiz

Well, the reports were that they mapped the entire genome in like a couple weeks, which I thought a little suspicious, but I'm paranoid, lol

@Peppermint

But not that fuckin paranoid lol...

This is my question.... take Trudeaus wife, the Utah Jazz Players, Tom Hanks, okay?

They are going to die a painful, agonizing death, right? But it doesnt seem like that's the case, or that it's even a signifigant worry. It seems like they are expected to recover in about, what, 2-3 weeks maybe?

So is it a cold, or no? I've read the reports on cases in Illinois, there was a couple in their 50s I think, had it for 2 weeks, now have no symptoms. Is this like, a normal reaction for the average person?

Seriously, where did you hear this coughing up blood thing? Like is that real or are you exaggerating?

Yeah, no, I was just exaggerating. But I feel like if you were infected bad enough, with how badly it impacts the lungs as is that it could theoretically make you cough up blood.

Tom Hanks is a serious concern, he’s in his 60’s and is a diabetic. Chances are he’ll be fine, because filthy rich celebrity. Same with any other celeb, athlete or politician that is in good health, and not elderly.

My fear isn’t wide spread death, it’s infection rate, and adaptability. This is going to be an on going problem, that eventually is going to make the flu look like nothing. We very well may understand it’s genome, and I could see why we did so quickly. Because we already know of other Coronaviruses; common cold, mers, sars. But unlike this Coronavirus, we actually understand those other ones have treatments for them, vaccines, over the counter drugs, etc. I fear this, because of the impact it’ll have economically but more so our day to day lives, and society as a whole. Other than death, and spreading to your pets and killing them too. It’s a virus, that makes people sick enough, that it can cause nations to collapse. Sure, you can recover in two weeks. But that means nothing, you won’t be magically immune, with no treatments what so ever. You will catch it again, and the second time around it’ll be worse because it’ll have adapted to your immune system and hit you harder than before.

Perfectly healthy people have died, not many but they have and they are increasingly so, slowly but more younger healthier people are starting to die. Like any virus this one is capable of evolving and already has considering its ability to spread at a consistent rate regardless of it’s environment’s climate, which is unusual because respiratory illnesses aren’t supposed to thrive in warm climates.

Honestly I could go on and on, and I already have in the general forum, in a thread called “Coronavirus in Italy” where this in-depth discussion about the virus would be more appropriate.

[CabriniGreen]

You are right, this virus is going to infect this thread, lol

But not really funny.....

[Frank]

I was depressed yesterday that I was having a hard time finding a pound of ground beef. These people are stock piling like their not leaving the house for months.

[Villain]

I dont know about bookies, but in these types of situations the Mob usually knows its way around. Currently there are protective masks that are being bought for 6 times higher price than they previously were, same as gloves, respiratory machines, disinfectants etc., even though some of those stuff cannot protect you from it

[Villain]

Hell yea fuck these nerdz

Hi Maxipad.


Pogo

That handle is still around??? Damn

[TommyNoto]

I started day trading.

short casino stocks

Nice . Getting crushed overall put all my 401k into Treasuries in late Jan so I have some dry powder.

I don’t have day trading skills but I will be buying top Cloud stocks - Salesforce and ServiceNOW in boatloads once everything is shut down . They are profitable
Today & should still triple + in size in 10 years - probably sooner .

So many great stable companies to invest in . Apple / Amazon , Microsoft / Adobe / J&J , Disney , Gilead Sciences .

[Peppermint]

I dont know about bookies, but in these types of situations the Mob usually knows its way around. Currently there are protective masks that are being bought for 6 times higher price than they previously were, same as gloves, respiratory machines, disinfectants etc., even though some of those stuff cannot protect you from it

And I was called a moron for saying that gangsters are going to start scabbing these products for ridiculous profits.

[Philly d]

With this coronavirus putting all sports on the shelf, indefinitely, what will be the response from the gambling industry?

Will the bookies push traditional games like, I dunno, poker or numbers?
I mean, no March Madness? Shit seems inconceivable..

I'm beyond pissed that I can't place any action on the final 4 NCAA tournament , This shit is ridiculous !! The Flu this season was its worst in like 4 decades and thousands of people of all ages died and suffered greatly . This BS Coronavirus is exactly that , BS !! It's a cold basically they turned into some walking dead zombie apocalypse nonsense

AGREED! 22,000 from the flu this year in the US. How many have died from this? 127

[Cacuzza]

I could be wrong about this but is this virus the kind were once you have it (whether you know you have it or not, or whether you become mildly ill (general malaise) or very sick) once you had it your body builds an immunity (antibody) to it, similar to having the measles or chickenpox? Or is this more like the flu were you can get it over and over again? Fox News had a physician on (Dr. Segal from Langone Medical Center In NYC) who said once you have it or had it you should me immune to it and never get it again. The confusing thing is the CDC or Dr. Fauchi (or whatever his name is) haven't come out and said anything like that yet. Or if they have I missed it. Either way Italy is going through hell right now, that's for sure. The Chinese screwed the entire world. Our elected officials (U.S.) sold us out to the Chinese decades ago and now they are in control of our pharmaceuticals. Welcome to the New World Order. They have us by the balls and arrogantly defy us to presume to have the audacity to say anything or complain about it. Pelosi, Shumer and Biden use this as an opportunity to jump all over Trump while not saying a word about China and the problems origin. To do so would be considered to xenophobic. Something is inside out and up side down about this whole fucking thing. I just hope no American entities and or U.S. politicians were in cahoots with the Chinese on this in an effort to deny Trump a second term. Trump always brags about the economy and the stock market and how well it is doing since he is in office and that was exactly what was attacked, the economy and the stock market. The lives of the people who died (and will die) does not matter. China does not care about its own populace and cares even less about the populace of other countries. The innocent victims who have died and will die are nothing more than collateral damage while China denys everything and is allowed to get away with it. I hope I am wrong. There is nothing wrong with a bit of paranoia Cabrini. It could actually help you survive. The question is are you paranoid enough?

[bronx]

off topic, who knows how to post a story in n.y. daily news? about a cop being killed in 1930, suspect was lilo galante..thanks

[mafiastudent]

off topic, who knows how to post a story in n.y. daily news? about a cop being killed in 1930, suspect was lilo galante..thanks

I don't think they actually take/post stories like that, but you can contact a reporter via their email and tell them about it that way. Maybe find a reporter that covers crime...Larry McShane.

[crabby appleton]

I could be wrong about this but is this virus the kind were once you have it (whether you know you have it or not, or whether you become mildly ill (general malaise) or very sick) once you had it your body builds an immunity (antibody) to it, similar to having the measles or chickenpox? Or is this more like the flu were you can get it over and over again? Fox News had a physician on (Dr. Segal from Langone Medical Center In NYC) who said once you have it or had it you should me immune to it and never get it again. The confusing thing is the CDC or Dr. Fauchi (or whatever his name is) haven't come out and said anything like that yet. Or if they have I missed it. Either way Italy is going through hell right now, that's for sure. The Chinese screwed the entire world. Our elected officials (U.S.) sold us out to the Chinese decades ago and now they are in control of our pharmaceuticals. Welcome to the New World Order. They have us by the balls and arrogantly defy us to presume to have the audacity to say anything or complain about it. Pelosi, Shumer and Biden use this as an opportunity to jump all over Trump while not saying a word about China and the problems origin. To do so would be considered to xenophobic. Something is inside out and up side down about this whole fucking thing. I just hope no American entities and or U.S. politicians were in cahoots with the Chinese on this in an effort to deny Trump a second term. Trump always brags about the economy and the stock market and how well it is doing since he is in office and that was exactly what was attacked, the economy and the stock market. The lives of the people who died (and will die) does not matter. China does not care about its own populace and cares even less about the populace of other countries. The innocent victims who have died and will die are nothing more than collateral damage while China denys everything and is allowed to get away with it. I hope I am wrong. There is nothing wrong with a bit of paranoia Cabrini. It could actually help you survive. The question is are you paranoid enough?

That's pretty bleak. Maybe true, maybe not, but we'll see. Here's a little music to go with it.

Rage Against the Machine - Ghost of Tom Joad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqnMrynpq9U

[Grouchy Sinatra]

Seems China doesn't see Trump as the source of strength his supporters do. They're taking advantage of him.

[Peppermint]

With this coronavirus putting all sports on the shelf, indefinitely, what will be the response from the gambling industry?

Will the bookies push traditional games like, I dunno, poker or numbers?
I mean, no March Madness? Shit seems inconceivable..

I'm beyond pissed that I can't place any action on the final 4 NCAA tournament , This shit is ridiculous !! The Flu this season was its worst in like 4 decades and thousands of people of all ages died and suffered greatly . This BS Coronavirus is exactly that , BS !! It's a cold basically they turned into some walking dead zombie apocalypse nonsense

AGREED! 22,000 from the flu this year in the US. How many have died from this? 127

Anyone that dies from the flu, is either already in poor health, has AIDS, or thinks “no big deal I won’t take any medication at all”

The difference between CN2019 and the Flu, is that we know a lot about the flu. We have new vaccines for the flu every 6 months, we have antiviral medications specifically used to treat the flu from A to Z, we know all types of different remedies to suppress and treat the flu, we have all kinds of over the counter medications that suppress the flu, and most people simply just recover from the flu like myself without any use of medicine, although unlike the people that tend to die. If I start feeling significantly worse I will goto the doctor. Worse of all, our immune system at least has some sort of immunity towards the flu, where as like I said most people only need simple over the counter medicine and lots of fluids too treat it, and they get it once and not again for maybe another year. I myself only get the flu once every maybe 3 or 4 years. But the Coronavirus? No immunity. You get sick, you’re going to feel like and wish you had the flu, and guess what? Recovery doesn’t matter, it won’t make you now magically immune, you’ll catch again and it’ll be worse than the first time because it compromised your immune system and just like the Coronavirus that causes the common cold, this one will now lay dormant inside of you and trigger every time you come in contact with the infected.

We know literally nothing about this disease, and the outbreak just started here. Look at the rest of the world that have already been in the midst of the outbreak. In China alone 200 people were literally dying every 3 days, and probably more than that because they are definitely without a doubt concealing the real numbers of how many are infected and how many have died. This has just begun and you and anyone else, is fucking stupid if you are underestimating this virus.

[CabriniGreen]

With this coronavirus putting all sports on the shelf, indefinitely, what will be the response from the gambling industry?

Will the bookies push traditional games like, I dunno, poker or numbers?
I mean, no March Madness? Shit seems inconceivable..

I'm beyond pissed that I can't place any action on the final 4 NCAA tournament , This shit is ridiculous !! The Flu this season was its worst in like 4 decades and thousands of people of all ages died and suffered greatly . This BS Coronavirus is exactly that , BS !! It's a cold basically they turned into some walking dead zombie apocalypse nonsense

AGREED! 22,000 from the flu this year in the US. How many have died from this? 127

Anyone that dies from the flu, is either already in poor health, has AIDS, or thinks “no big deal I won’t take any medication at all”

The difference between CN2019 and the Flu, is that we know a lot about the flu. We have new vaccines for the flu every 6 months, we have antiviral medications specifically used to treat the flu from A to Z, we know all types of different remedies to suppress and treat the flu, we have all kinds of over the counter medications that suppress the flu, and most people simply just recover from the flu like myself without any use of medicine, although unlike the people that tend to die. If I start feeling significantly worse I will goto the doctor. Worse of all, our immune system at least has some sort of immunity towards the flu, where as like I said most people only need simple over the counter medicine and lots of fluids too treat it, and they get it once and not again for maybe another year. I myself only get the flu once every maybe 3 or 4 years. But the Coronavirus? No immunity. You get sick, you’re going to feel like and wish you had the flu, and guess what? Recovery doesn’t matter, it won’t make you now magically immune, you’ll catch again and it’ll be worse than the first time because it compromised your immune system and just like the Coronavirus that causes the common cold, this one will now lay dormant inside of you and trigger every time you come in contact with the infected.

We know literally nothing about this disease, and the outbreak just started here. Look at the rest of the world that have already been in the midst of the outbreak. In China alone 200 people were literally dying every 3 days, and probably more than that because they are definitely without a doubt concealing the real numbers of how many are infected and how many have died. This has just begun and you and anyone else, is fucking stupid if you are underestimating this virus.

Okay, so this is what I'm getting at.

Take Donovan Mitchell. He says he feels fine. We will check back in 2 weeks, but all indications are that his life is NOT in danger.

You think, say... in December he will get sick again?
Is his professional career in jeopardy, will he have lasting respiratory issues? ( Remember he plays in Utah, higher elevation, or no?)

Also, I'm no virologist, or any other kind of " o-logist", but with a fully mapped genome, how long do you think a vaccine will take to formulate and synthesize in mass quantities?