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Warriors to play without fans in crowd following San Francisco order
- MarlonPro 7y agoCan they go back to Oakland if they so choose? Just curious.
- throwaway1777 7y agoProbably, but how is that relevant? Fans come from all over the Bay Area.
- skizm 7y agoWondering if they could have like 950 people in the crowd still and auction off tickets. Would be surreal, but kind of a once in a lifetime experience to be watching an NBA game, at or near courtside with so few people in attendance.
- coralreef 7y agoMarketing hack: buy expensive ticket, hire yeller with sign; make it onto expensive TV broadcast and go viral.
- stanski 7y agoIf you spread people out sufficiently, I feel like it should be fine?
- rtkwe 7y agoHave to maintain that separation through the whole game and you still have contact transmission possible through surfaces. Also with that tiny number of people various facility costs become prohibitive.
- davidw 7y agoGood. End crowds everywhere, right now. Do it before things get worse.
- alexbanks 7y agoCurious, what's the end goal? And when does it end?
- ISL 7y agoThe short-term goal is limiting the case-load entering advanced medical care. The long-term goal is limiting the number of people who die from COVID-19.
- jhowell 7y agoHopefully not here (or there): https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/merkel-coronavirus-germany/2020/03/11/e276252a-6399-11ea-8a8e-5c5336b32760_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/merkel-coronavir...
- danso 7y agoThe end goal is to mitigate and delay mass infection. It ends when the virus dies down and/or a vaccine is developed and mass produced.
- alexbanks 7y agoSo, a possibility of "never"?
- tejtm 7y agoFor some, a definite never. As lovers of life, we tend to feel the fewer the better. Will populations "never" normalize whatever comes to pass? Extremely doubtful, we seem incredibly adept at amnesicly moving on.
- Robotbeat 7y agoIt's likely that once the virus becomes endemic, it'll also be mutated to a less lethal form. Eventually, basically everyone will have had it and built up some level of (probably incomplete) immunity, so community gathering restrictions will no longer be needed to reduce load on hospitals. As far as timeframe, probably 20-75% of the population will have had it by the end of the year. Certainly by 12 months from now. Or a vaccine or anti-viral will have been deployed.
- gok 7y agoI wonder if they'd still be doing this if they weren't dead last place in the league.
- jhowell 7y agoI wonder if they'll receive some type of financial consideration given the loss in revenue. They aren't as good this year as in previous years but it looks like there are at least 1,000 spectators at the games most nights.
- wtvanhest 7y agoI actually wonder whether they will consider selling 500 very expensive tickets.
- jerf 7y agoNobody is going to be able to afford to compensate people for everything that's going to happen. Even insurance won't be able to, which is why they have the "Act of God" clauses, which I'm sure are already getting stretched and warmed up now and will be running many ultra-marathons in the months to come.
- munk-a 7y agoI mean, in theory, this would be a really good reason to go into deficit spending - this was unforeseeable, unnatural and preventing long term economic damage is in all of our interests - in actuality the US is too big to sanely manage such compensations and, given the current uncollectability and extreme size of the US deficit we probably don't want to try and draw any attention to it during a national crisis. All those economic stimuluses that got dumped into stock buy backs came out of the fund that should be there to cover our asses right now.
- freehunter 7y agoYup, that’s why many economists have been saying that during a good economy like we’ve had for the past ten years, we should have used the opportunity to rebuild the economic tools we rely on in case of an emergency. Instead we cut taxes and cut interest rates, so now there’s no room in the economy to recover this time. It could end up being nothing... or it could end up being the worst economic crisis we’ve ever seen. And if it’s the latter, we have no way to defend against it. The coffers are empty.
- 40acres 7y agoI envy the broadcasters who have to bleep out all the cursing that normally is drowned out by crowd noise and arena music.
- nemo44x 7y agoIt’s the best part of sitting close to the court. So much shit talking and bravado.
- duncanawoods 7y agoIt's made watching Sumo a very different experience. You can hear every breath. You can hear the swish of the bow in the ending ceremony. It has been quite interesting until Takayasu's injury today - hearing his howls of agony in a silent auditorium was heart wrenching.
- majos 7y agoYou can normally hear Carmelo Anthony calling for rebounds over the crowd, music, commentators, and probably your own internal monologue, so people have had some practice.
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- psychometry 7y agoHappened in an MLB game a few years ago due to violence in Baltimore. Eerie video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woP3cJxVR8Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woP3cJxVR8Y
- tentboy 7y agoThe upcoming Bahrain Grand Prix will do the same https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/a31279654/2020-f1-bahrain-grand-prix-no-spectators/ https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/a31279654/2020-f1-b... Although the Australian Grand Prix this weekend is going on as normal
- Balgair 7y agoWell, it is the Orioles. Aside: How close will Astros road games be to empty this year?
- bgorman 7y agoWhere does the authority come from to ban public events, forcibly quarantine individuals against their consent come from? I.e. if this went to the supreme court, would this be upheld? This is private property. From what I can tell there is little evidence that there is a large health risk to most of the population.
- slicebo123 7y agoI'm not lawyer, but if I recall correctly, that power derives from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_power_%28United_States_constitutional_law%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_power_%28United_States_... Less clear to me if that applies to forcible quarantine, but seems like it would definitely apply to public events. On the point of large health risk, it doesn't seem unreasonable to me that every Warriors game is a perfect vector for community spread. I'm sure the health care professionals in the Bay Area would applaud this move.
- jrowley 7y agoIt's a Public Health Order supported by California state law. > UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF CALIFORNIA HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTIONS 101040, 101085, AND 120175, THE HEALTH OFFICER OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO Also it's hard to understate how devastating this virus can be if it spreads quickly. e.g. for people > 80 years old the mortality rate is 15% https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-age-older-people-higher-risk-2020-2?op=1 https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-age-older-...
- aggie 7y ago> From what I can tell there is little evidence that there is a large health risk to most of the population. These measures will absolutely prevent a significant number of people from dying. Does it matter if that population is not 'most' people?
- sjeuueheh 7y agoSignificant compared to what? By the metrics this is no different than flu season with lots of hysteria lumped on.
- wrsh07 7y agoI really want to see this used as an opportunity - not like "how can we recoup our losses by doubling the number of ads shown per game," rather "what cool things can we do with drones or cameras or mics or any other element of production now that we don't have this crowd constraint?"