Re: 2020 SEASON SUSPENDED
Reply #17 –
I'm guessing Dangerfield speaks to the players and represents the majority opinion, as opposed to going off half cocked and just pleasing himself ? It should hardly come as a surprise that he advocates for the status quo, which helps the entire player pool.
At any rate, I think this drastically different post-covid world scenario is being somewhat overstated. There will surely be a period of relative austerity, but once things are back on track I expect the AFL arms race to resume, and we will be back to where we were before all this erupted.
Agree
It's BS, it's done, here and NZ at least.
we might get a modest 'cluster' here or there but even that is highly unlikely.
The thing doesn't linger in cupboards or drawers for months...
That said, the SD rules will endure to some extent but it must be unwound carefully. Absolutely.
Bottom line, Dan's just being a socialist twat. There is no science to support his current position.
Its hard to say this with absolute confidence.
Either the situation was highly over stated (doubtful) or we are yet to really run the race with this particularly virus (plausible).
The major issue I see with this is we still have a number of new cases on a daily basis which indicates the virus is still not fully contained, and most people will not have built any sort of immunity to it.
As far as I am concerned all we have done with this virus is kick the can down the road, and prepared the health services for an onslaught that may or may not arise, but the concensus (around where I work anyway) is generally that our peak is still going to be in June.
For anyone who wants to know, the statistics on Influenza nationally for april of 2019 (confirmed positive tests 18370). For 2020, April saw a little over 100 (99 at last measure early last week). If our distancing has that sort of affect on Influenza, and we still saw 6000+ positive Corona cases, we might still see a lot worse than anyone is expecting unless the virus is eradicated, and its worth noting that we have a Flu Vaccine.