They are still playing and I haven’t seen a player having any issues. And that phrasing you used makes it sound like it’s a plague lol. It’s an infection that lasts maybe a week if you are symptomatic and have antibodies. Are we going to need to force players into health and safety protocols for every minor viral infection? Michael Jordan - DNP health and safety - influenza infection
No, just for COVID right now. Last I checked, Michael Jordan did not play his flu game during a pandemic.
It's weird how such a mild infection has killed 0.25% of the US population in 2 years (1 out of every 400 living Americans), put a million plus in the hospital and overwhelmed the health care system so much - despite the entire world shutting down and taking crazy precautions. Of the known diagnosed cases in the US, 1.5% of people have died so far. Even post-vaccine, it's around 1%. So yeah, it's no big deal if a player players and infects 10 other players and then those 10 players maybe spread it in an indoor arena filled with 10,000 maybe-not-always-healthy fans. I'm sure the NBA would love the publicity of some of their fans dying of Covid because the NBA knowingly let Covid-positive people in the arena. I'm sure all the cities they play in that are trying to prevent spread and dealing with local health crises would on board with this. I'm sure the NBAPA would love the NBA telling players as well "hey, we're just going to have all the Covid-infectious people with you and you can all get sick - but at least you can play. Hope you don't deal with long-Covid or anything." Oh, and the 60+ yr old coaches and refs and other NBA personnel, good luck! Hopefully only a few of you get hospitalized. This sounds like an all-around brilliant plan. After being wrong so many times on this issue, it's bizarre that you just repeat the same nonsense and act like it's no different than a cold or a flu. You claim to be data driven but then repeat this same drivel over and over despite the data.
You are bringing up things that I’m not saying. Different variant and a young group with antibodies. Young healthy people that are vaccinated or prior infection don’t get severe infections if they do get a symptomatic infection. The mild infection (cold/flu) part is relating to those people. You agree with that, right?
Hard to call this a “pandemic” among a group of young healthy people that are vaccinated and have antibodies. It’s hard to put one size fits all descriptions on Covid.
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Infection rates and severe infection rates are dramatically different in people that have antibodies versus ones that don't. Calling it a "pandemic" among that very large group is getting hard to justify.
Just because people, scientists made progress, does not mean it did not start out as a pandemic. For easier reference, you can call it pandemic, epidemic or whatevs. The goal should be to beat it enought that it is not in the news all the time and people can do their thing again normally. No matter what you want to call it then.
We aren't beating or controlling covid. It's endemic and omicron is far too transmissible and genetically nimble to control. A doctor I talk with regularly on another message board from Canada said the data was indicating a R0 value of over 12. That means you absolutely can't control this variant. That said yes you and others might be correct that more caution is warranted until we have more information. I just haven't seen the need for alarm like with delta and since it does seem having antibodies still does help convey protection. It seems so far to be relatively benign since it doesn't replicate as heavily in the lungs.
I have seen that with Ebola Zaire, the African version was so lethal that transmittance could be somehow contained. Some minor versions like the Reston virus were far more transmissible but also not lethal at all.