No Better Way to Spread Coronavirus than the Boston Marathon

Let me know when a single NBA, MLB, or MLS game gets cancelled.

Until then I don't care. wrote:

Let me know when a single NBA, MLB, or MLS game gets cancelled.

Will there be March Madness?

Need to delay the spread as best as we can. They should start having baseball games and hockey and basketball games without crowds too.

We need to try to flatten the demand for medical care over time. If we don't the medical system will be overwhelmed.

I was planning on running Boston but see the risk is too high now. I don't want to act as a vector that potentially spreads this thing to others. We don't even know how many people have it right now. A number of people could be walking around spreading who show very mild symptoms.

Until then I don't care. wrote:

Let me know when a single NBA, MLB, or MLS game gets cancelled.

In case you don’t know the Boston Marathon isn’t affiliated with any of those organizations. Nor does it generate even remotely similar revenue streams.

Until then I don't care. wrote:

Let me know when a single NBA, MLB, or MLS game gets cancelled.

Is the point you are trying to make that we shouldn't care since other events will spread it? That is like saying we shouldn't care about people texting while driving because there are drunk drivers out on the roads.

Until then I don't care. wrote:

Let me know when a single NBA, MLB, or MLS game gets cancelled.

April 16, 2018. Boston Red Sox game cancelled for fair weather fans. Marathon goes on. Just saying.

old and slower wrote:

Until then I don't care. wrote:

Let me know when a single NBA, MLB, or MLS game gets cancelled.

Is the point you are trying to make that we shouldn't care since other events will spread it?

Correct.

from in infield wrote:

Until then I don't care. wrote:

Let me know when a single NBA, MLB, or MLS game gets cancelled.

April 16, 2018. Boston Red Sox game cancelled for fair weather fans. Marathon goes on. Just saying.

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Aint Happenin wrote:

Until then I don't care. wrote:

Let me know when a single NBA, MLB, or MLS game gets cancelled.

In case you don’t know the Boston Marathon isn’t affiliated with any of those organizations. Nor does it generate even remotely similar revenue streams.

As a matter of fact, it does, and the city of Boston has the power to shut down any one of those events.

Aint Happenin wrote:

Think about it, the whole process presents a multitude of ways to spread this thing. Start with taking subway to the Common, where everyone then crams onto school buses. Then pack in like sardines under the tents at the village. Stand shoulder to shoulder in corral. Sweat, spit and snot everywhere while running the race. Thousands of volunteers interacting with racers pre, during and post race. Fans all along the course. Port a Johns by the thousands.

No way health officials are going to green light the Boston Marathon. The only delay in making an announcement is figuring out whether to reschedule or cancel and future options for people who are currently entered.

Subway is actually pretty empty at 6-7 before the marathon, waaay more crowded on any workday and even more crowded before and after a Celtics, Bruins or Sox game. Then people standing in close quarters waiting to get in and on the stairs and escalators once they do get in. Then sitting very close to each other while yelling and high-fiving for 2-3 hours, and waiting in crowded lines in the restrooms and food stands. Also people don't train hard for months to be able to attend a ball game, there'll be plenty of other games to go to, and they can just watch at home, so the bar for cancelling should be much much lower.

But pro sports did ban the media from locker rooms, so I guess that will stop the spread!

The Big West Basketball Tournament just announced they will be playing as a closed tournament. No fans will be there live.

Probably a matter of time before the entire NCAA Tournament will be closed tournament.

old and slower wrote:

Until then I don't care. wrote:

Let me know when a single NBA, MLB, or MLS game gets cancelled.

Is the point you are trying to make that we shouldn't care since other events will spread it? That is like saying we shouldn't care about people texting while driving because there are drunk drivers out on the roads.

Man, the fear is real. It’s unbelievable how some are so scared of coronavirus.

I can’t believe you’re making comparisons to texting and driving or drunk driving. I think the consequences of those actions are far worse than spread of coronavirus.

But with enough people still having this type of fear, I guess recession is coming and many of us will be laid off.

I guess people better be out of jobs than take a chance of getting coronavirus.

Aint Happenin wrote:

Until then I don't care. wrote:

Let me know when a single NBA, MLB, or MLS game gets cancelled.

In case you don’t know the Boston Marathon isn’t affiliated with any of those organizations. Nor does it generate even remotely similar revenue streams.

No, it generates for more revenue than any of those games. 30,000 people x $200 entry fee (far higher than the average ticket price to NBA or MLB games). Also, most are from out of town and filling up the hotels and restaurants for at least 2 days, likely more.

not only that, but everyone's immune system is going to be shot at the end of a hard marathon effort.

it sounds suicidal to me.

Isn’t the marathon on a Monday?

r2k83 wrote:

Aint Happenin wrote:

In case you don’t know the Boston Marathon isn’t affiliated with any of those organizations. Nor does it generate even remotely similar revenue streams.

No, it generates for more revenue than any of those games. 30,000 people x $200 entry fee (far higher than the average ticket price to NBA or MLB games). Also, most are from out of town and filling up the hotels and restaurants for at least 2 days, likely more.

The mayor said the marathon generates about $211 million in economic activity for the city. Compare that to the Super Bowl, which only generates an estimated $30-$130 million.

stop this fear wrote:

old and slower wrote:

Is the point you are trying to make that we shouldn't care since other events will spread it? That is like saying we shouldn't care about people texting while driving because there are drunk drivers out on the roads.

Man, the fear is real. It’s unbelievable how some are so scared of coronavirus.

I can’t believe you’re making comparisons to texting and driving or drunk driving. I think the consequences of those actions are far worse than spread of coronavirus.

But with enough people still having this type of fear, I guess recession is coming and many of us will be laid off.

I guess people better be out of jobs than take a chance of getting coronavirus.

There is good reason to have fear. If too many in the USA need ICU care at the same time as is now the case in Italy and was likely the case in China then doctors will be choosing who receives the ICU care and who is left to die.

missed wrote:

wait until April wrote:

Subway is actually pretty empty at 6-7 before the marathon, waaay more crowded on any workday and even more crowded before and after a Celtics, Bruins or Sox game. Then people standing in close quarters waiting to get in and on the stairs and escalators once they do get in. Then sitting very close to each other while yelling and high-fiving for 2-3 hours, and waiting in crowded lines in the restrooms and food stands. Also people don't train hard for months to be able to attend a ball game, there'll be plenty of other games to go to, and they can just watch at home, so the bar for cancelling should be much much lower.

But pro sports did ban the media from locker rooms, so I guess that will stop the spread!

Isn’t the marathon on a Monday?

It's a holiday.

ICU Care Rationing wrote:

(Italians crying that they only had 900 ICU beds)

How the hell does the richest part of a country that big have only 900 available ICU beds? They would have been overwhelmed by a bad flu season too. This has nothing to do with covid being so dire.