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They aren't worried about the players themselves -- I forget the mortality rate of individuals under the age of 40, but it is very low, especially among healthy individuals like professional athletes. 

No, they are worried about its continued spread to those who are, statistically and undeniably, at high risk of death. 30-35% of people over the age of 80 die from it, about 20% of people between 70-79 die, and somewhere near 5% of people between 50-69 will die from it. (By the way, a majority of MLB managers fall into that last category). 

Do you want professional sports, a source of non-essential entertainment, to be responsible for the deaths of anyone? I certaintly don't like that possibility. Basically, my point is think about the bigger picture here, not just about the players. 

Then some wonder why...

https://www.freshdaily.ca/news/2020/07/bahamas-closed-borders-us-canadians-still-welcome/?fbclid=IwAR3BjCFjvyBHp2rWFfEE9OwBQW0QqZEM258jpCwobUeY7MiguDpsrcPPRWY

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/stay-away-biggest-petri-dish-in-the-world-the-view-from-canada-of-us-isnt-so-nice/?fbclid=IwAR20mqtZnjJOIham0ZPT5tNutY9JIurKngBDVEU2dVC5kdYs3OWSKaEWM1M

Don Mattingly, who wears his mask like this,

knew that multiple Marlins tested positive over the weekend, but not playing was "never our mentality." Idiots like this are why we're lagging behind the rest of the world in getting past the virus ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I hope Mattingly and the Marlins get fined into oblivion and that the players refuse to play for this garbage franchise.

Has Mattingly tested positive?

Possibly. I believe they're up to 13 positives right now, and they can't announce who without permission from the players/staff.

Breaking your leg doesn't usually kill you. But I still don't want to do it.

Plus even if COVID doesn't kill you, it can still have long term last effects such as permanent lung damage.  Frankly we do not know how damaging COVID can be.

Research shows some patients experience lung symptoms such as pain and a dry cough, weeks after recovering from the virus. Physicians have also found evidence of scarring in Covid-19 patients' lungs. According to Parshley, some CT scans show Covid-19 patients have light gray patches on their lungs called "ground-glass opacities," which don't always heal. they did not have a % of how many. So that would make is a very low chance of it happening after all if it was happening more then just some as it reads they would post a % for it and the news would be selling that doom.

That was all I could find on the medical website.  

Problem is that much of the collateral damage is still only being investigated so yes the numbers are low.  But it is not just the lungs.  Here are a few articles on some of the things doctors are finding.

Brain - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200622-the-long-term-effects-of-covid-19-infection

Heart, blood-clotting, lungs, neurological - https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2020/06/02/covid-health-effects

Mental illness, lung, brain - https://www.healthline.com/health-news/what-we-know-about-the-long-term-effects-of-covid-19

Brain in the young generation - https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-19-children-doctors-see-link-between-virus-neurological-side-n1235501

Personally, I will continue to take precautions even though I live in a low-risk area (rural and smaller communities). I rather not be part of that 1 or 2% that make up the statistics.

Sorry, I don't take medical advice from websites that are not written by doctors and are not on true medical websites. 

Think about it one starts "what we know about the long-term effects" We have no clue on that. It's only been around a few months it has not been around very long to study long-term effects. A few people dose not make it a study. 

Can??? May?? nice "could be" words

and don't make me laugh with one from nbc? lol too late. I do read medical journals and real medical papers. Coming from a family of nurses, You learn what to read and know how to spot the bs from the facts. 

Remember this, the test for it can only test for all cv viruses, if you test positive it means you have had one of them. it may not be 19 and you will have antibodies for all of them so if you do pick up 19 you will fall under the Asymptomatic group. That means you had it and have no clue you were sick. Because your antibodies are doing their job. The test is only around 40 to 50% accurate. It's not a solid test. We do have a cure, people in their 100s are surviving. Look it up. I forget is it was Switzerland or Norway they mandated everyone to take HCQ they had really low numbers. Then they stopped it and the death number start to go up. After a week they started the mandate again and no one has died and their school are open. 4 states never closed in the US they are on par with the rest of the country. there numbers are not higher and no mass numbers like NY had. But NY did everything wrong. But the news never talks about it. The fact that hospitals are bumming up the number of deaths has been proven. So numbers of deaths are really lower then what is reported. They lied for the extra money to make up for the losses of having to turn people away. The number one killer of people being heart disease. Has been cured! No one has died from it in months. Cv-19 cure it!?

You really need some other health problems for it to kill you and bad hygiene.  This is why people in nursing homes have lead the death numbers. When you get older the body does start have health problems as it ages. Your immune system gets weaker and people in nursing homes don't shower regularly. Plus when your very old a cold or flu can kill you. CV is a flu. Without any health problems, you have a 99.8% of getting over it. Mask only stop you from spreading it, they do not stop you from getting it. Over 90% of what people are wearing as masks do nothing. cloth is useless, the surgical masks even say it on the box "Will not stop CV-19". But people are using them? No one is using the right masks. All viruses die in direct sunlight they also die in a temperature that is over 86f. This is why we don't have a flu session in the summer and why we get a high fever when we are sick. That is your immune system kicking in. Staying inside and not getting sunlight is bad for your health that is a fact we have known this for over 100 years now. Cv is a flu, it's a new strain and that is why it's infection a lot of people, but when you look at the numbers compared to the population they are very low. We did not even get close to what the news was predicting. Millions will die they keep says. it did no happen. Now the news keeps screaming more people are infected and the numbers are going up. But they fail to tell you they did get over it and the deaths are really low now. Here read this it's from March 23ed. He was right.   https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nobel-prize-winner-shares-some-good-news-about-the-coronavirus-pandemic-2020-03-23

As of August 7, 2020, there have been around 160,000 deaths related to COVID-19 in the United States. the population of America in 2020 is 331,002,651. That is really low, 160 thousand compared to 331 million. You can do the math. Also, note they now say "related to" not died from. because of all the numbers that were added by hospitals that were not deaths from cv, the wording was changed. You have to know about that one guy in NY that shot himself, He put a gun to his head, but was listed. They really made a mess of it. Here is the page with the numbers that is updated every. day. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/

In my state, more people die in car crashes every month then for all the days of cv. We really should teach people to drive better. But we don't care about them to do so. But now people say we do care and walkaround with cloth on our face that does nothing. Were I live no one cares if you wear a mask or not, I don't there is no need to. Kids are outside every day playing and the only people that have died here were over 80 years old and that was 12 people for the country. There has not been a death from it in over a month here.

If your older and have health problems you should be quietening yourself. That is the smart thing to do. But to "lockdown" everyone is stupid. Ever think about why they don't say quietening everyone, but use the words lockdown? Only one has to do with health. The other does not. 

Do go to the medical website to get your info and not journalist pages. Knowledge is power.