You know, if you're going to demand people be clear and explicit, back up your subjective and anecdotal "facts" with data that can be reasonably sourced.
Google Coronavirus website stats as of July 7:
Confirmed cases in the USA: 3.25 million
Deaths: 136,000
Deaths ONLY in New York: 32,000 or about 25% OF ALL DEATHS IN THE USA HAVE occurred in only 1 state. Maybe that's a good reason for any New York team to be banned from playing.
Death rate is steadily dropping as more "cases" are found, and is now passing below 4%.
Take NY out of it, and it is closer to 3% and dropping.
Quoted from the California Public Health Website:
With an overall death rate of 4%, the rate of death for 18 - 34 year olds (players ages), it is 1.2 % OF 4%. In other words the chances of an NFL player dying of Covid is .05 OF 1%. And that is of all people without regard to underlying health and while it is anecdotal, I would reasonably suspect that NFL players will fall within the least risk of having an underlying health issue, therefore reducing the remote chance of dying of Covid almost too low to measure.
84% of all deaths are from ages 60+. 56% of all deaths are aged 70 and above.
Bottom line; even if an NFL player gets the virus from playing and spreads it to his kids and wife, barring a severe underlying health condition the odds of any them dying from it are exceedingly low....well into the fractions of a percent.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/11/2020 09:04AM by RockRam.
