News Coronavirus and NRL

[Pommy]

Sure....but how does that protect the players and staff? ....how could the NRL know if a player may have been infected since the last time he was ( if at all) tested?

How does any employer protect staff? I think it’s more about reducing risk, there’s no way to eliminate the risk without us al staying at home until a vaccine is developed.

 

[herbert henry1908]

Sure....but how does that protect the players and staff? ....how could the NRL know if a player may have been infected since the last time he was ( if at all) tested?

Good question, I’d assume they’d put in some testing protocols for the players and key staff. I know this is what the NBA are talking about doing.

But if a player came down with it, then I think we’d be looking at game cancellations.

 

[Knight76]

The start of the second paragraph ( the post was in question to age related percentage of mortality. Not number of deaths.)
"While flu seasons can vary in severity, during most seasons, people 65 years and older bear the greatest burden of severe flu disease. Approximately 90% of influenza-related deaths and 50-70% of influenza-related hospitalizations occur among people in this age group. "

That doesn't really say anything about mortality rate.

Simply older people will die more from Influenza than young people.

I read further in to the study example.

The study linked states, that for people over 65, for influenza, 6% either died or were transferred to a hospice. Over 85 was 8.7%, 75-84 was 5.3%, 65 - 74 was 3.8%.

For Corona virus, the mortality rate for people
over 80 was 14.8%
70-79: 8%
60-69 3.6%

The figures don't support the point that Covid19 is just the same or no worse, than influenza.

 

[unforgiven]

That’s in the breakdown of who gets the flu. If an elderly person gets coronavirus they are far more likely to die than if they got the flu.

it’s not even close. Coronavirus is far more deadly to elderly people than the flu.

https://www.livescience.com/new-coronavirus-compare-with-flu.html


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You are right in the death rate for Coronavirus being higher than the flu, but that is quite common for a novel virus. There are many things that will lower that death rate over time. I am not saying that this is not a serious situation and that precautions need to be taken (at the moment washing your hands regularly and correctly and limiting touching of your face) but there is no need to panic yet.

One of the best pieces of advice I have seen on this was actually on one of the US news/ comedy shows.
I am paraphrasing but basically said.

How worried should you be about coronavirus? A little bit, what I mean by this if you are washing your mouth out with bleach than you should probably calm the _______ down! If you are walking around licking subway handrails then you should probably stop that and follow the advice of the authorities.

Just saying follow the advice of the authorities in this situation and stop panicking!

 

[herbert henry1908]

You are right in the death rate for Coronavirus being higher than the flu, but that is quite common for a novel virus. There are many things that will lower that death rate over time. I am not saying that this is not a serious situation and that precautions need to be taken (at the moment washing your hands regularly and correctly and limiting touching of your face) but there is no need to panic yet.

One of the best pieces of advice I have seen on this was actually on one of the US news/ comedy shows.
I am paraphrasing but basically said.

How worried should you be about coronavirus? A little bit, what I mean by this if you are washing your mouth out with bleach than you should probably calm the _______ down! If you are walking around licking subway handrails then you should probably stop that and follow the advice of the authorities.

Just saying follow the advice of the authorities in this situation and stop panicking!

I agree completely. But we only need to look towards Italy to see how serious it can get in terms of impacting our daily lives.

 

[Knight76]

I don't think anyone here is panicking.

This thread I started to discuss the effect Covid19 was going to have on the NRL, not really debate if it is worse than flu etc.

Certain people are arguing that covid19 is not worse than flu, which is just incorrect. Thats a fact.

The government is going to take steps to stop it's spread. And those steps include banning attending NRL matches.

 

[Das Hassler]

How does any employer protect staff? I think it’s more about reducing risk, there’s no way to eliminate the risk without us al staying at home until a vaccine is developed.

Many essential services employers can put some (arguable if effective) strict workplace rules in place such as no physicsl contact...masks..24/7 disinfecting etc but unfortunately none of that applies to the contact sports workplace ....don't wish it to be so but wishing it isn't won't make it go away

Just to add....not having a shot at you at all...just musing the issue in general

 

[Knight Vision]

I don't think anyone here is panicking.

my guess is you know exactly how many toilet rolls you've got left.

 

[unforgiven]

I don't think anyone here is panicking.

This thread I started to discuss the effect Covid19 was going to have on the NRL, not really debate if it is worse than flu etc.

Certain people are arguing that covid19 is not worse than flu, which is just incorrect. Thats a fact.

The government is going to take steps to stop it's spread. And those steps include banning attending NRL matches.

But people are panicking, that is the point, people are out buying up all the toilet paper they can get their hands on. The washing mouth out with bleach quite from my earlier post came from a question on the TV show the quote is from. Other such questions were can I get Corona from eating Chinese food?

People all over Australia and the rest of the world are in fact panicking!

 

[sempmrh]

But people are panicking, that is the point, people are out buying up all the toilet paper they can get their hands on. The washing mouth out with bleach quite from my earlier post came from a question on the TV show the quote is from. Other such questions were can I get Corona from eating Chinese food?

People all over Australia and the rest of the world are in fact panicking!

Because they're stupid.

 

[unforgiven]

Because they're stupid.

No disagreement here but that is kind of the point of my post!

 

[Knight76]

my guess is you know exactly how many toilet rolls you've got left.

Well, I had 5 rolls left when the maniacs started hoarding and emptied the shelves. For a family.

So, I went, when the store opened yesterday at 7am and there was about 20 others there waiting also. When the store opened I calmly walked and bought two packs of toilet paper, I could have bought 4 as that was the limit at that stage.

Other people though, were actually running past me to get there.

Some people jump right off the deep end with Covid19, yet others take the opposite end and tell themselves all is well and this is no worse than flu. I'm more in the middle of the two.

 

[unforgiven]

a 45 year old aussie from defence force dead, 3 others infected

Link? I can't find anything about this!

 

[Spot On]

Because they're stupid.

Correct.

Herd mentality.

 

[Zadar]

The meltdowns will really start when Folau makes comments about the issue.

 

[Pommy]

The meltdowns will really start when Folau makes comments about the issue.

He won’t, his morals went out the window when it turned out he had next to no playing options. He’s out on his arse if it happens again.

 

[Knight76]

The world thinks we are a laughing stock for the dunny paper hoarding, they must be losing their shit over Italy quarantining 16 million people.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51787238

If only Italy read LU and could have found out this Covid19 thing is no big deal and really, not worse than influenza!

 

[franklin2323]

The world thinks we are a laughing stock for the dunny paper hoarding, they must be losing their shit over Italy quarantining 16 million people.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51787238

If only Italy read LU and could have found out this Covid19 thing is no big deal and really, not worse than influenza!

How many of that 16 million have it to a fatal extent? Italy is land locked to a few other countries yet no quarantines in France etc... Safe to say it is an overreaction

 

[Pommy]

How many of that 16 million have it to a fatal extent? Italy is land locked to a few other countries yet no quarantines in France etc... Safe to say it is an overreaction

Is it though? If China hadn’t implemented such measures where would they be now?

 

[franklin2323]

Is it though? If China hadn’t implemented such measures where would they be now?

Hard to say. A communist country is hard to get information out of afterall