(08-02-2020, 06:17 PM)TheDogCatcher Wrote:

(08-02-2020, 02:02 PM)JackCity Wrote: It's actually very applicable because the flu isn't as Infectious and doesn't have potentially have long term effects as bad as covid has, which is why athletes are opting out of playing. There's a pitcher who isn't playing right now from a heart issue he developed from covid. 

I'm not raining on any parade, just telling you what's happening and what's likely to happen. But it is very telling you would take it personally and get triggered over it.

You just proved my point. One pitcher opted out because of a preexisting condition. That's not a high percentage, and I'm including all the other baseball players who've opted out. Even if it's infectious, the mortality rate is super low, particularly among young, healthy adults such as athletes. This is not worth shutting down the economy over. There is more collateral damage being done to people's lives overall, and I'm not talking about the lack of sports viewing opportunities. I'm talking suicides, closures of family businesses, domestic violence spiking during quarantines, kids being kept out of school, etc. The "cure" is worse than the virus, as a chorus of reasonable people is saying.

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no he got it after covid infection. The big guys in the NFL are high risk for covid and as we have seen the after effects can last months (von miller said he took months to recover). Even if you don't die from it reduced lung or heart ability in a pro athlete can end their career, losing them millions, which is why guys are opting out + can have high risk family at home.

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