China puts itself on lockdown to stem spread of Covid-19 (no politics, please)...

[Saban4Ever]

So will A-day be cancelled or played with no fans there?

I was wondering the same thing. I bet it will be cancelled. I just read that Samford is basically shutting down, going online until April 6 and students can't return to campus until then. I don't know the details of what they will instruct student athletes to do at Bama if Bama decides to do something similar. (Especially softball, baseball, and football). If the athletes have to be off campus and do go home, then they will be exposed at the airports/airplanes, etc. Maybe they will keep the football players/other athletes quarantined?

So far there are no cases reported in Alabama, but there have been several cases in the news around here in Cobb County GA the past 2 days.

 

[We_are_Bama]

Ivey league just canceled all spring sports and said that football is already being taken into consideration for the same course of action.

 

[B1GTide]

Ivey league just canceled all spring sports and said that football is already being taken into consideration for the same course of action.

Yeah, but sports are a totally different thing for them.

 

[We_are_Bama]

If college football is cancelled on the whole for 2020, that means that we won't play again until 2021. Which means the back to back iron bowls at Auburn

 

[TIDE-HSV]

If college football is cancelled on the whole for 2020, that means that we won't play again until 2021. Which means the back to back iron bowls at Auburn

The least of my worries at the moment...

 

[B1GTide]

If college football is cancelled on the whole for 2020, that means that we won't play again until 2021. Which means the back to back iron bowls at Auburn

IMO, worst case is they play in empty stadiums. America will need the distraction if this continues to be a problem in the fall.

 

[crimsonaudio]

So will A-day be cancelled or played with no fans there?

That would depend entirely on whether Saban thinks the scrimmage is beneficial.

 

[crimsonaudio]

IMO, worst case is they play in empty stadiums. America will need the distraction if this continues to be a problem in the fall.

And most experts I've read are suggesting we'll probably see the worst effects of COVID-19 this fall.

That said, the epidemiologist I listened to today (on JRE for podcast people - worth the listen)has worked intimately with both SARS and MERS (which are related to COVD-19) and says the idea that warmer weather will affect COVID-19 is a literal guess at this point, as SARS was contained via reaction once they understood it's transmission, and MERS lives in the Arabian peninsula where it thrives in the 110° heat.

IOW, theres zero guarantee warmer weather will do anything to this. It might make it worse, as people tend to move about more when it's warmer...

 

[We_are_Bama]

This is just insane. Summer break has in essence already begun as some schools are calling it a school year. Of course, they are trying to relay to the students that this isn't the end of the school.year, per se, this is just doing everything remotely for the remainder of the school year. Yeah... right. They've already sent them home. So, how exactly do they plan on enforcing kids to do the online stuff? I, like a lot of people thought that the summer heat would slay this beast. Now I'm hearing that the summer heat may be just the fuel it needs. If this thing thrives in an Alabama summer....then I don't know what to do.

 

[NationalTitles18]

This is just insane. Summer break has in essence already begun as some schools are calling it a school year. Of course, they are trying to relay to the students that this isn't the end of the school.year, per se, this is just doing everything remotely for the remainder of the school year. Yeah... right. They've already sent them home. So, how exactly do they plan on enforcing kids to do the online stuff? I, like a lot of people thought that the summer heat would slay this beast. Now I'm hearing that the summer heat may be just the fuel it needs. If this thing thrives in an Alabama summer....then I don't know what to do.

If you believed that you need a new source of information. Sorry if that comes off as a chiding, but it kinda is.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

NBA has suspended the season.

 

[We_are_Bama]

If you believed that you need a new source of information. Sorry if that comes off as a chiding, but it kinda is.

Its what I heard. Grain of salt and all

 

[NationalTitles18]

Its what I heard. Grain of salt and all

As I said, you really need to ignore that source of information for the duration of time itself and find another source.

 

[We_are_Bama]

As I said, you really need to ignore that source of information for the duration of time itself and find another source.

It was a guy on the street. Just kidding 😁 It was on a channel on Sirius XM radio. Some stuff MAY have gotten taken a tad out of context 😂

 

[We_are_Bama]

Alabama still hasn't been hit. It has sort of an eerie quietness to it. Either this is just the calm before the storm, or we are doing something right. We are literally surrounded by it to our north, south, east, and west. There have been a few scares, but that's about it. I almost wish the other shoe would go ahead and drop.

 

[NationalTitles18]

Alabama still hasn't been hit. It has sort of an eerie quietness to it. Either this is just the calm before the storm, or we are doing something right. We are literally surrounded by it to our north, south, east, and west. There have been a few scares, but that's about it. I almost wish the other shoe would go ahead and drop.

As of yesterday 20 tests in the state. It's there.

 

[Bazza]

1,323 confirmed cases in the US
38 deaths
8 recovered

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

 

[B1GTide]

1,323 confirmed cases in the US
38 deaths
8 recovered

100,000+ cases in the US
100+ deaths
50,000+ recovered

Jim's calculation based on common sense.

 

[We_are_Bama]

As one of 4 states remaining with no confirmed cases (yet), I can't help but think of that song Fins by Jimmy Buffett. "Can't you feel em circling, can't you feel em swimming around? you've got fins to the left, fins to the right, and you're the only bait in town".

 

[TNElephantitis]

Shelby county schools (Memphis) out until March 30. University of Memphis has extended spring break from now until March 23 at which time all classes will go to online or remote. American basketball tourney cancelled.