Tennis tour cancelled for 6 weeks

**SamsNCharge99** · 03-12-20, 10:35 AM

wonder how player rankings will change or if they will freeze the point system as well, since players can't defend their points

**jjgold** · 03-12-20, 11:34 AM

crazy stuff

**Jeff_Black** · 03-13-20, 09:19 PM

French Open is at the end of May so if the amount of new cases doesnt spike we could see some tennis outside of the six weeks.
Outside of Italy it's actually not as deadly as it's being made out to be. 10 deaths in Europe and nine of those in Spain and France. And those countries have the biggest populations in Europe.

You could probably get away with hosting the Monte Carlo Masters considering the unlikeliness of things spreading there.

**HeeeHAWWWW** · 03-14-20, 09:48 AM

Uh, Spain has 191 deaths, including 58 yesterday. The number of cases are exploding everywhere - over 10k new cases yesterday, compared to 3.5k a week before, and 1.4k two weeks ago (and those are just those who have been tested, several govts think the number of actual infections are 10x greater).

**jjgold** · 03-14-20, 10:49 AM

It’s gonna be a crazy sports schedule down the road

**slayer14** · 03-14-20, 12:28 PM

Originally posted by HeeeHAWWWW

Uh, Spain has 191 deaths, including 58 yesterday. The number of cases are exploding everywhere - over 10k new cases yesterday, compared to 3.5k a week before, and 1.4k two weeks ago (and those are just those who have been tested, several govts think the number of actual infections are 10x greater).

What the age range for the Spain deaths

**jjgold** · 03-14-20, 06:37 PM

The older guys this is going to benefit

**milwaukee mike** · 03-14-20, 06:41 PM

only 6?

let's play it safe and make it 60 weeks to be sure, just in time for another sars/ebola/flu/corona/foot fungus to come around and start the cycle again

more people are dying in car crashes going to the grocery store to stock up on toilet paper than will ever die from the virus

**downtown2222** · 03-14-20, 06:44 PM

no tennis, march madness or mlb.....one of the best times of the year fukkk

**HeeeHAWWWW** · 03-15-20, 10:42 AM

Originally posted by milwaukee mike

let's play it safe and make it 60 weeks to be sure, just in time for another sars/ebola/flu/corona/foot fungus to come around and start the cycle again

Ok, deep breath. The last Ebola outbreak infected about 4000 people. It killed a lot of them, but was containable.

This isn't containable. We had ten thousand new cases yesterday. In a week that figure will be 20k, 30k, who knows.

Best case scenario: this infects 15% of the world population, which has been typical of the worst flu pandemics. Of those, 1% die. That's 11 million deaths.

More realistically, we have no immunity so it will infect more - governments are expecting a midpoint scenario of 60%. The death rate then also explodes, because health systems get overwhelmed with vast numbers of patients needing intensive care. In Italy it's at 7%, Spain 4%. But let's say we learn quickly, improve treatment etc, and keep it to 2%. That's 90 million deaths.

Treat this more seriously, please.

**milwaukee mike** · 03-15-20, 12:56 PM

Originally posted by HeeeHAWWWW

Ok, deep breath. The last Ebola outbreak infected about 4000 people. It killed a lot of them, but was containable.

This isn't containable. We had ten thousand new cases yesterday. In a week that figure will be 20k, 30k, who knows.

Best case scenario: this infects 15% of the world population, which has been typical of the worst flu pandemics. Of those, 1% die. That's 11 million deaths.

More realistically, we have no immunity so it will infect more - governments are expecting a midpoint scenario of 60%. The death rate then also explodes, because health systems get overwhelmed with vast numbers of patients needing intensive care. In Italy it's at 7%, Spain 4%. But let's say we learn quickly, improve treatment etc, and keep it to 2%. That's 90 million deaths.

Treat this more seriously, please.

best case scenario is 11 million deaths? might be the funniest thing i've ever read

**HeeeHAWWWW** · 03-15-20, 03:36 PM

Originally posted by milwaukee mike

best case scenario is 11 million deaths? might be the funniest thing i've ever read

Is this funny? The UK govt is expecting 80% infection rates:

UK coronavirus crisis 'to last until spring 2021 and could see 7.9m hospitalised'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/uk-coronavirus-crisis-to-last-until-spring-2021-and-could-see-79m-hospitalised?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tweet

Exclusive: Public Health England document seen by Guardian says four in five ‘expected’ to contract virus

Merkel said something similar, 70%:

Coronavirus: Up to 70% of Germany could become infected - Merkel

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51835856

The chancellor warns that as many as 58 million Germans could become infected by coronavirus.

Again, please treat this more seriously.

**Jeff_Black** · 03-18-20, 02:14 AM

Originally posted by milwaukee mike

best case scenario is 11 million deaths? might be the funniest thing i've ever read

I know hey, one percent of one percent of the population has it, and even when that peaks over the next two weeks even with lock downs it'll probably still be that.

**jjgold** · 03-18-20, 05:52 AM

lets relax sports will be back eventually

We cannot keep living in fear