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

oldjudge · #1 03-11-2020, 01:13 PM

Card shows are easy to cancel. A better question is what will happen to spectator sports. Personally, I think there will be outright cancellations or games played in empty venues. March madness might be the first one.

90feetaway · #2 03-11-2020, 01:26 PM

I think shows that heavily rely on autograph guests may be at risk. Will the talent show up due to fear/travel restrictions?

Bugsy · #3 03-11-2020, 01:38 PM

Seattle just banned events with 250 people and San Francisco just banned events with more than 1000. The majority of large St. Patrick's Day parades have already been canceled. I think this is smart. You need to act early to minimize the impact of a pandemic. Our collective memory is surprisingly short. There are many lessons to be taken from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, including at looking what happens when you try to contain after the illness is already widespread...but most people don't even know there was an epidemic here in 1918.

Tony Gordon · #4 03-11-2020, 02:07 PM

There was a large crowd at my show in Milwaukee last weekend. I am setting up at the Wisconsin's Sports Collectors Association show this Sunday in Milwaukee. I plan to bring hand sanitizer. Milwaukee only has two reported cases of coronavirus.

Shoeless Moe · #5 03-11-2020, 02:12 PM

To continue on what Chris said, here is a very interesting article on the 1918 Flu as it pertained to Baseball:

https://baseballhall.org/discover/19...spare-baseball

Goudey77 · #6 03-11-2020, 02:33 PM

The Seattle Mariners have announced that the home series openers will be played at an alternate location.

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Originally Posted by Bugsy

Seattle just banned events with 250 people and San Francisco just banned events with more than 1000. The majority of large St. Patrick's Day parades have already been canceled. I think this is smart. You need to act early to minimize the impact of a pandemic. Our collective memory is surprisingly short. There are many lessons to be taken from the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, including at looking what happens when you try to contain after the illness is already widespread...but most people don't even know there was an epidemic here in 1918.

drcy · #7 03-11-2020, 02:38 PM

My church had its Sunday service via Zoom.

A close friend of mine happens to be an immunologist at Oxford University (Formerly at Harvard Medical School and the Portuguese national institute of medicine, with her doctorate from Oxford). She correctly predicted to me the widespread of the virus (She said it would be much more widespread than then advertised), but said the death rate would be much lower than advertised. Essentially, she says compare it to the seasonal flu not the black plague. She also predicted it would become a seasonal thing from now on, just like the flu. I trust her opinion on the matter over anyone else I know.

So think prudence, as with the flu season, not panic.

I'm no medical expert, but the funny thing is the people with no formal medical knowledge I've encountered who disagree with her opinion. I said to someone who said what said is wrong: "With respect, you're a 20-year-old barista serving me a coffee at the corner coffee shop. She's at Oxford."

Goudey77 · #8 03-11-2020, 02:45 PM

The biggest worry at this point is healthcare providers... their ability to quickly and efficiently treat respiratory illness that comes from this virus. Especially for the elderly.

There is no proven protocol to diagnose and treat this yet. Treating it like a normal flu until further notice is not something i'd like to see happen.

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Originally Posted by drcy

My church had its Sunday service via Zoom.

A close friend of mine happens to be an immunologist at Oxford University (Formerly at Harvard Medical School and the Portuguese national institute of medicine, with her doctorate from Oxford). She correctly predicted to me the widespread of the virus (She said it would be much more widespread than then advertised), but said the death rate would be much lower than advertised. Essentially, she says compare it to the seasonal flu not the black plague. She also predicted it would become a seasonal thing from now on, just like the flu. I trust her opinion on the matter over anyone else I know.

So think prudence, as with the flu season, not panic.

Tripredacus · #9 03-11-2020, 02:54 PM

There is a local show this weekend I wanted to go to, hope it is open. Worst case would be that it could be the last one I'd get to go to for awhile. I still haven't finished sorting the cards I got at the last one!

the-illini · #10 03-11-2020, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by oldjudge

Card shows are easy to cancel. A better question is what will happen to spectator sports. Personally, I think there will be outright cancellations or games played in empty venues. March madness might be the first one.

https://twitter.com/NCAA/status/1237838583630721027

JollyElm · #11 03-11-2020, 04:25 PM

Perhaps it's time for sellers to start offering some incentives to drive up attendance numbers, like "Buy a graded 1952 Mantle card and get 3 wax packs of 1990 Score absolutely FREE!!!!!!"

whitehse · #12 03-11-2020, 04:44 PM

This has nothing to do with card shows but I am currently sitting in a Starbucks that is normally PACKED and there is nobody here but my wife and I. I asked if this is happening more and the workers have said they see a reduced amount of traffic inside the store but drive through seems to be increasing.

I am not one to panic but I am being prudent. I have my hand wipes that I used to wipe down the table before I sat down but in this Starbucks, its probably a good idea anyway! LOL

insidethewrapper · #13 03-11-2020, 05:05 PM

How many people got their flu shot this year and always wash their hands etc. ?? Flu kills tens of thousands a year. Hope you haven't just started to wash your hands and using sanitizers. Next year their will be another Coruna strain, how many will get shots then ??? Probably only a low percentage of people. It's crazy , close a school, but the Casino's are open with 1,000 inside with older people.

nolemmings · #14 03-11-2020, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by insidethewrapper

Next year their will be another Coruna strain, how many will get shots then ???.

There are no shots to get--there is no vaccine. Nor is there likely to be one for THIS corona virus a year from now, much less a new strain.

Tripredacus · #15 03-12-2020, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by nolemmings

There are no shots to get--there is no vaccine. Nor is there likely to be one for THIS corona virus a year from now, much less a new strain.

There already is two strains, the L and S strain.

Cmount76 · #16 03-11-2020, 05:21 PM

I have worked in a suburban city just north of NYC, in Westchester County, called New Rochelle for the past 17 years. Perhaps you have seen it in the news recently.

Sadly, what started as one man on the north end of town, moved on to his family, and then to his next door neighbor (he was driving him to the doctor.). From there, it found its way into the local synagogue, and the rest, as they say, is history.

I am not an alarmist, but prudent, common sense measures are appropriate. I hope that we are not naive enough to believe that it cannot happen to us.

I applaud the actions being taken by several neighboring school districts that are closing out of an abundance of caution, the colleges and universities moving to online learning, the NCAA for playing games without fans (going to be quite a different experience to watch), and for all of the decisions being made to protect the American people.

oldjudge · #17 03-11-2020, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by insidethewrapper

How many people got their flu shot this year and always wash their hands etc. ?? Flu kills tens of thousands a year. Hope you haven't just started to wash your hands and using sanitizers. Next year their will be another Coruna strain, how many will get shots then ??? Probably only a low percentage of people. It's crazy , close a school, but the Casino's are open with 1,000 inside with older people.

Despite the fact that a significant portion of people in this country get flu shots, roughly 35,000 people die from it every year. That should not bring anyone comfort in this case. COVAD19 is more virulent and no one had any immunity to it. We have just seen the tip of the iceberg so far in this country. As a country we have been slow to respond to it so far. Hopefully, this does not come back to bite us too badly.

ullmandds · #18 03-11-2020, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by oldjudge

Despite the fact that a significant portion of people in this country get flu shots, roughly 35,000 people die from it every year. That should not bring anyone comfort in this case. COVAD19 is more virulent and no one had any immunity to it. We have just seen the tip of the iceberg so far in this country. As a country we have been slow to respond to it so far. Hopefully, this does not come back to bite us too badly.

I agree 100%... Seems that the orange man in chief has changed his stance should be interesting to hear what he says tonight.

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