Sports industry begins the painful process of shutting down

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Guno צְבִי

We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
The NBA has suspended its season. The NHL seems likely to do the same Thursday.

MLB will look long and hard at delaying the start of its season after initially moving early Mariners games away from Seattle.

The NCAA decided to hold its basketball tournament without fans, following the lead of some conference tournaments. It, too, may decide to just shut it down as the momentum towards social distancing gathers steam.

Ditto for the MLS, which has already postponed games in impacted areas. The Tokyo Olympics are in some peril. European soccer has been hit hard.

Losing sports as a diversion is down the list of things America has to worry about these days, but it is a real blow nonetheless.


The sports industry will take a massive blow. Think about the Blues and those anticipated sellout crowds down the stretch and those sellout crowds for playoff games.

Think about the Cardinals and Ballpark Village and downtown hotels and the hundreds of thousands of fans who come from across the Midwest and Mid-South regions to see them play.

Think about all that money going away and all the people losing work and the multiplier economic impact that will have.

And that’s just one industry.


https://www.stltoday.com/sports/col...cle_b0c6934e-9ef3-5124-bf85-40807f51c588.html
 
guno said:
The NBA has suspended its season. The NHL seems likely to do the same Thursday.

MLB will look long and hard at delaying the start of its season after initially moving early Mariners games away from Seattle.

The NCAA decided to hold its basketball tournament without fans, following the lead of some conference tournaments. It, too, may decide to just shut it down as the momentum towards social distancing gathers steam.

Ditto for the MLS, which has already postponed games in impacted areas. The Tokyo Olympics are in some peril. European soccer has been hit hard.

Losing sports as a diversion is down the list of things America has to worry about these days, but it is a real blow nonetheless.


The sports industry will take a massive blow. Think about the Blues and those anticipated sellout crowds down the stretch and those sellout crowds for playoff games.

Think about the Cardinals and Ballpark Village and downtown hotels and the hundreds of thousands of fans who come from across the Midwest and Mid-South regions to see them play.

Think about all that money going away and all the people losing work and the multiplier economic impact that will have.

And that’s just one industry.


https://www.stltoday.com/sports/col...cle_b0c6934e-9ef3-5124-bf85-40807f51c588.html
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Ouch.

And then consider all those people who work the games. They are all losing their income.
 
All over this:

Total cases: 1,215
Total deaths: 36

It's really quite dumb. But hey, we are becoming a society of willful idiots dumbed down by the leftist controlled educational establishment. ;)
 
Truth Detector said:
All over this:

Total cases: 1,215
Total deaths: 36

It's really quite dumb. But hey, we are becoming a society of willful idiots dumbed down by the leftist controlled educational establishment. ;)
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U.S. coronavirus testing threatened by shortage of critical lab materials

A looming shortage in lab materials is threatening to delay coronavirus test results and cause officials to undercount the number of Americans with the virus.

The slow pace of coronavirus testing has created a major gap in the U.S. public health response. The latest problem involves an inability to prepare samples for testing, creating uncertainties in how long it will take to get results.


CDC Director Robert Redfield told POLITICO on Tuesday that he is not confident that U.S. labs have an adequate stock of the supplies used to extract genetic material from any virus in a patient’s sample — a critical step in coronavirus testing.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/10/coronavirus-testing-lab-materials-shortage-125212
 
guno said:
U.S. coronavirus testing threatened by shortage of critical lab materials
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FACTS:
Total cases: 1,215
Total deaths: 36

More people died in that urban shit hole of Chicago last week. :rolleyes:

Mar 03, 2020 · In Chicago, 357 people have been killed this year. That is 51 fewer than 2018.
 
Hello Micawber,

Micawber said:
What will the sportswriters write about? And Pardon the interruption. .I'm worried about Jason Wilbon.
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They could begin an hour by hour wrap up of the competition between cities to see which leads in the corona virus stats.

It would be sick, man.
 
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