News Coronavirus and NRL

[T-Boon]

Did anyone see Richard Wilkins got it? It seems to be targeting B grade famous people.

 

[Quicksilver]

Did anyone see Richard Wilkins got it? It seems to be targeting B grade famous people.

I didn't know robots could get it.

 

[franklin2323]

No one is doubting there would be significant impact on industries. But if you anyone is given the option of the collapse of their health system or a economic downturn - I guarantee most logical and rational people would take the economic downturn.

320,000 have the flu each year
Estimates have 150,000 cancer patients

We don’t shut down for them just take precautions to limit the damage

Compared to those this is a drop in the ocean yet the place comes to a standstill

 

[King hit]

Did anyone see Richard Wilkins got it? It seems to be targeting B grade famous people.

Why is that guy even somewhat famous anyway

 

[Quicksilver]

32,000 have the flu each year
Estimates have 150,000 cancer patients

We don’t shut down for them just take precautions to limit the damage

Compared to those this is a drop in the ocean yet the place comes to a standstill

this is more deadly than the flu and will spread the same way.

 

[Springs09]

32,000 have the flu each year
Estimates have 150,000 cancer patients

We don’t shut down for them just take precautions to limit the damage

Compared to those this is a drop in the ocean yet the place comes to a standstill

Way more than 32,000 people in Australia get the flu each year.

 

[franklin2323]

this is more deadly than the flu and will spread the same way.

More deadly on the figures yes but I doubt everyone that has it even knows yet reports it.

No virus is worth shutting down a place for months

 

[franklin2323]

Way more than 32,000 people in Australia get the flu each year.

Yeah sorry I left a zero off
326,000 was last year

 

[greenBV4]

NRL go;s broke, from corona virus, we need to start a fresh competition


4 sydney teams
4 brisbane
2 melbourne
perth
aderlaide
2 nz teams
north queenland
newcastle
canberra

and the 18th team would be ?

4 Sydney, 3 SE qld, 2 Melbourne, 2 Perth, Adelaide, 2 NZ, NQ, Newcastle, Canberra, Wollongong

 

[TheFrog]

This article says the NRL has nearly $150 million in cash reserves. Vlandys is just making sure we're not left out when the other codes go cap in hand to the government.

According to the 2019 Annual Report, the NRL has total assets of $225m of which $181m is "cash and cash equivalent". It has total liabilities of $144m. Grants to clubs were $228m last year. So it can be seen that liquid reserves only exceed liabilities by $37m which was the figure they were bandying about. It can be also seen that it would not take many months at all without TV revenue for the books to fall into the red.

 

[T-Boon]

What site is giving the fastest up to date statistics on comet Corvid19?
It is slower moving that Dogs v Eels.
This media would have labelled the Reed Mahoney try a surge.

 

[TheFrog]

4 Sydney, 3 SE qld, 2 Melbourne, 2 Perth, Adelaide, 2 NZ, NQ, Newcastle, Canberra, Wollongong

Imagine the cost of SEVEN new franchises starting up all at once, most of them in locations that have failed previously, when the parent body is already insolvent.

 

[Frailty]

320,000 have the flu each year
Estimates have 150,000 cancer patients

We don’t shut down for them just take precautions to limit the damage

Compared to those this is a drop in the ocean yet the place comes to a standstill

There is currently a vaccine for the flu that is brought out every year. It is relatively controlled beyond the need to attend a hospital. This is not the case for COVID-19.

The whole point of the lock down is to flatten the incidence curve to ensure the health system can operate. Until a point that immunity is pretty well stable and a vaccine is available.

 

[Spot On]

Way more than 32,000 people in Australia get the flu each year.

100,000 in NSW alone in 2019.

 

[T-Boon]

Yeah sorry I left a zero off
326,000 was last year

Which makes you wonder how many people in Wuhan get the flu each year and die from it.

 

[franklin2323]

There is currently a vaccine for the flu that is brought out every year. It is relatively controlled beyond the need to attend a hospital. This is not the case for COVID-19.

The whole point of the lock down is to flatten the incidence curve to ensure the health system can operate. Until a point that immunity is pretty well stable and a vaccine is available.

Not everyone needs to be hospitalised with COVID-19 either. Infact plenty probably wouldn't get tested in normal circumstances
And if that vaccine isn't available until next year?
You would think the aim is Northern Hemisphere winter we can't put everything on hold until then

 

[moffla]

Imagine the cost of SEVEN new franchises starting up all at once, most of them in locations that have failed previously, when the parent body is already insolvent.

This. If anything you'd have to cull teams and have a smaller comp of viable teams.
All hypothetical of course.

 

[franklin2323]

Which makes you wonder how many people in Wuhan get the flu each year and die from it.

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2019-02-21/why-arent-people-in-china-dying-of-the-flu-101382286.html

This has 600,000 a month in all China. 11,600 deaths

 

[Frailty]

Not everyone needs to be hospitalised with COVID-19 either. Infact plenty probably wouldn't get tested in normal circumstances
And if that vaccine isn't available until next year?
You would think the aim is Northern Hemisphere winter we can't put everything on hold until then

No. Not everyone needs to be hospitalised with COVID-19. But you're comparing it to the flu which has an dramatically lower rate of hospitalisation and mortality.

There is two ways to deal with this:

• Do nothing. The outbreak will spread faster, and the end will be quicker as most will build immunity. However, during this time the mortality rate for COVID-19 and every other illness will increase due to a failing health system. This has been experienced in Italy, and China.
• Put controls in place to reduce the rate of spread, but the outbreak will last longer. This will allow the health system to cope, save lives, and potentially allow time for a vaccine to minimise risk of infection or reduce severity for those who have not contracted COVID-19.

This is not the flu. It is more severe than the flu. To suggest otherwise is either ignorance or wilfully deceptive.

There will be significant impact on society - the medical community is leaning to save lives. You're suggesting to save the economy. One can definitely survive and recover.

 

[Cactus]

One can definitely survive and recover.

Humanity and the Economy will both survive.