Anybody around the country seeing sports shows being cancelled because of Corona

[marzoumanian]

Greetings. I live in Chicago and was planning to go to the Fanatics show today out at Rosemont (by the airport).
I've been checking the website often, saw all the autograph cancellations and couldn't understand why they didn't already cancel for public safety reasons.
I just checked out the website a few minutes ago and now see that the entire weekend show HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
What did it take for Fanatics to cancel? The governor's banning of any gathering of more than 1000 people. In my opinion show operators should of acted much more quickly. So, thank you governor. Public safety should always rule.
Take care.

[ibuysportsephemera]

I was going to stay out of this because it is way to political (and in my opinion it shouldn't be). My wife is a Pharmacist so she doesn't get her news from Fox or MSNBC. The underlying problem for all of the deniers out there is that we have not been testing on a regular basis so we really don't know how many people are actually infected. 80% of us could get this virus and could be asymptomatic or have minor cold like symptoms. There is no vaccine so if 80% of the population continues to walk around spreading this we have somewhere around 60 million people at risk. Is it a plague to end the world...no, but if we are not careful and don't take appropriate measures now, it could be months before the virus is contained and the economic and life toll could be significant. Just my 2¢.


Jeff

[Goudey77]

Perfectly stated. The healthcare systems are at capacity.
On a side note the governor of Oregon has closed all K-12 schools through the end of March. Preventative measures at this point which is our only defense.

Originally Posted by ibuysportsephemera

I was going to stay out of this because it is way to political (and in my opinion it shouldn't be). My wife is a Pharmacist so she doesn't get her news from Fox or MSNBC. The underlying problem for all of the deniers out there is that we have not been testing on a regular basis so we really don't know how many people are actually infected. 80% of us could get this virus and could be asymptomatic or have minor cold like symptoms. There is no vaccine so if 80% of the population continues to walk around spreading this we have somewhere around 60 million people at risk. Is it a plague to end the world...no, but if we are not careful and don't take appropriate measures now, it could be months before the virus is contained and the economic and life toll could be significant. Just my 2¢.


Jeff

[Republicaninmass]

Awful lot of political statements overflowing out of the sewer

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Goudey77

Perfectly stated. The healthcare systems are at capacity.
On a side note the governor of Oregon has closed all K-12 schools through the end of March. Preventative measures at this point which is our only defense.

That is great but where are all these young kids going to go with both parents working? To find the good side, maybe that condo in Newport I'm looking at will be cheap.