PGA Champ to be cancelled due to Coronavirus? (NO POLITICS)

[bscinstnct]

Fortunately, no one is panicking

Report: 38% of Americans won’t drink Corona beer because of coronavirus

[duffer987]

Surely that's an improvement on the % of Americans who wouldn't drink Corona, before the coronavirus started making the news.

[bscinstnct]

“Online searches for “corona beer virus” spiked in early February,”

[Socrates]

Ok. Now that no one is panicking, time for some rational thought. Usually when a city or a region declares a state of emergency, it is to allow them to request and use Federal money and allow them to do certain things without having them bogged down in red tape. For people to jump to the conclusion that the PGA might be cancelled is just fear mongering and irresponsible journalism.

Now that I've interrupted you with some rational thought, back to irrational fear mongering. Feel free to run amok and join the Prepper's in stockpiling food and guns.

[Fade]

I am downing a 6-pack tonight to get my immune system prepped.

[Oldboy]

Geneva car show

SIX nations rugby match between ireland and italy

Facebook global marketing summit and annual developers conference

major music acts including BTS have cancelled tours

religious pilgrimages in saudi arabia

these are some of the global events that have been cancelled. Fear mongering? irresponsible journalism? Governments are cancelling world events. these are facts.

[bscinstnct]

Thing is

 

I don’t see anybody worried.

 

Im in NYC, fear mongering capital of the world ; )

 

Subway is packed, nobody cares, people sneezing, “God Bless you”. Nobody wearing masks or staying home.

 

Everyone I talk to, soldiers to leaders, think it’s overblown.

 

Good sign? I think so. If nothing blows up as far as new pockets of infected people, should be fine.

 

But, consider this is just year one of this particular virus and nobody really knows what evolves from these viruses that jump from animals to people.

 

Virus is a scary piece of work. These classes that jump species (animal to people etc) are potentially devastating as the new hosts (us) have no organized immune response.

 

Ok, ok, back to my Corona ; )

[manku]

Just got back from Costco in van nuys. Virtually out of bottled water. No thermometers. No gloves. No purell.

Vibe in store was like a major disaster movie. No smiling or lingering. People shopping for food and medical. Other aisles were empty.

Really weird. Like end of days.

Fortunaltekly, Stella has a $21rebate if you buy a case. So I got that going for me if I don't keep over first!

[Krt22]

Stella is basically water anyway, win win!

[rawdog]

Stocked up on 2 weeks of food for me and the GF just in case Ohio Dept of Health says stay home for a week or two. Not worried about the virus itself, more about potential disruption to supply chain.

I'm a huge wuss, but it's the prudent move since I have a work from home type job.

[sailfishchris]

https://images.app.goo.gl/eGZ8K1ZWMUY1TcpU8

[Hawkeye77]

I still have the ones I bought before the outbreak!

[Socrates]

 

 

[jgonz69]

Love that the moderators put no politics, yet most of the comments have big inferences to just that, hitting all the key words and phrases.

 

 

[QuigleyDU]

How were the lines for the little pieces of corn dog?

[SPIF]

All due to irrational fear boosted by irresponsible journalism.

The Flat Earth Society has an annual convention. That is a fact. Nothing about that makes the earth flat. It's just a sign that people want to believe what they want to believe. The current rage is constantly creating insurmountable mountains out of less than mole hills.

[Malvern]

I'm hearing through "reliable" sources that Jason Day has pulled out of the PGA. He's normally spot on with Zika and other viruses.

[Sean2]

Facts yes, but possible over-reactions as well. Yesterday in our town a teacher at home had a fever. She decided to self-quarantine herself. The high school was evacuated and everyone sent home.

[Ignatius Reilly]

"Possible" overreactions for sure. There are some that are and some that aren't.

But with so many lives "possibly" at stake, it's more about taking reasonable precautions. I wouldn't conflate the overreactions of a high school principal with the much more considered reactions of the people organizing international events.

At this point, we really don't know how this will all pan out. It's come out of nowhere, suddenly, spread like wildfire all around the world and is killing people.

"I don't think it's as bad as they say it is" would be a dangerous assumption on which to base any actions. I'm pretty sure that's what the Japanese generals said, just before Hiroshima and that went poorly....

[Oldboy]

So I can assume you believe in science, the world is not flat. but you don't believe the scientists at the WHO, the CDC or the NIH among many others? threat level is at its highest now according to the WHO. the Olympic Games are at risk according to organisers why would the PGA championship be excluded. the Geneva car show in 2019 had 600,000 visitors. how many attended the PGA championship last year? the outrage over the outrage is outrageous ...

[DFinch]

https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/01/coronavirus-outbreak-sars-swine-flu-viral-history.html

"In June 2010, a joint investigation by the British Medical Journal and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism concluded that the WHO had taken advice from scientists in the course of its pandemic planning who were also being paid by pharmaceutical companies that produced vaccines and anti-virals."

Not entirely unreasonable to maintain a bit of caution and skepticism. Doesn't mean they are wrong, but doesn't automatically mean they are right, either.

 

[Fairways_and_Greens]

It’s very different from the flu in the fact it hasn’t killed anyone under the age of 9. It’s spreading because healthy people don’t know they have it.

It’s a respiratory virus that hits those with weak lungs the hardest. In China men have died at twice the rate as women. Also, China isn’t known for the best air quality.

If you’re in shape, exercise, don’t have asthma, and don’t smoke you have next to nothing to worry about.

[bscinstnct]

 

I assume this is not a child...

 

“A man in Washington state has died of coronavirus”

 

“The state confirmed two coronavirus cases with no known origin late last night, bringing the case count for those with no known travel or contact with an infected person to four people, all on the west coast.“

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/29/coronavirus-lab-tests-fda-118316

 

 

[Les Strokes]

This. And more people should get in the habit of washing their hands

[manku]

Van Nuys location seems to attract families feeding their families....no corn dog, but some excellent Aidell's sausage road show!

[stlouismark]

Captain Trips

[QuigleyDU]

Haha. Nothing ticks me off more than trying to get through the crowd of people standing in line for a spoonful of whatever at Costco..

[Doc420]

Valhalla was purchased in part to be the backup location. If this tournament was moved I would expect to see it moved to Louisville. The course would play completely different in the spring, you want to see big rough, that can definitely happen in May.

[Steele47]

Yeah be careful folks. I just got a warning that expires a year from now.

[mosesgolf]

annual flu deaths worldwide - Google Search

Hundreds of thousands of deaths per year worldwide. Millions per decade and the world is panicking over a few thousand deaths worldwide.