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The scary thing about the 1918 pandemic is that there were two phases to it, and the second phase was longer and more lethal: https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/influenza-epidemic/ The plague emerged in two phases. In late spring of 1918, the first phase, known as the "three-day fever," appeared without warning. Few deaths were reported. Victims recovered after a few days. When the disease surfaced again that fall, it was far more severe. Scientists, doctors, and health officials could not identify this disease which was striking so fast and so viciously, eluding treatment and defying control. Some victims died within hours of their first symptoms.

Frank got eligibility left? Pretty smooov.

Every one will listen, as they always do, to whoever they choose to listen to. No difference whatsoever in this regard. Truth is, oftentimes, very hard to distinguish from falsehood. In the case of Covid-19 I do not really think intentional falsehood is likely to be the rule, exaggeration is the rule. The effect is panic. I believe that people going after different goals (like having the public follow social distance rules) try to emphasize the magnitude of the problem on purpose by choosing to quote the worst possible estimates available. Therefore I think a lot of what you hear comes down to opinion backed by some fact. When all is said and done you can be absolutely sure that there will be a very large number of people diagnosed with the disease who recovered without problems, and a very small number of dead bodies resulting from the disease. You can count the dead bodies. The number of people actually contracting the virus and surviving with no obvious problems will always remain shrouded in estimates, claims that the number of tests were too low, and claims that the tests really produced very large numbers of false positive results. In other words, the number of dead bodies will be clear, the number of actual cases who recovered will not be clear. Mitigation procedures must be put into operation and we need people to follow the rules, period. If this does not happen, the number of dead bodies on the final end will be much larger than with the mitigation procedures in place. This epidemic is not the black plague, or the 1918 flu pandemic, but its potential to cause large numbers of dead cannot be underestimated. How large a number of dead bodies? The lower the better. The answer is yet to be determined although I made my prediction already.

Round of 32 action starts in 30 min here. If we win, we play the winner of Winthrop/ETSU. Great draw for SLU to make a Cinderella run.

We lose about 20,000 - 40,000 per year to the flu. Spain is closely tracking Italy in their rapidly increasing death totals. They're probably 4-5 days behind. We could see both countries hit 1,000 deaths a day in the next week. At that rate, those two countries could lose 40,000 people in just a couple of months. And we have a much larger population than either of those countries. The math doesn't look good right now.

https://www.ksdk.com/video/sports/college/slu/slu-basketball/the-woman-behind-slus-best-scorer/63-14c18faa-997b-4c18-b822-5f479d17132b Maybe the story of the year.

-with this thread going can we also have a 'joining the Valley' conversation?

Officiating was terrible. How they could call those nothing fouls on French boggles my mind.

Times have changed from the plague and the 1918 flu epidemic. Population density is much higher. Personal interaction is much higher. Cross border travel is much higher. The assumptions from 100 or 700 years ago do not apply as accurately to the current time.

Welp, that did not go the way I thought it would.

Got it, I misread, thx, can’t wait to see him back, he was killing heading into the tourney.

JAM TIME! Great work by David Pavlakovich

March 2, 2013. The Kwan-led Billikens traveled to DC to take on a decent GW team (Larsen, Garino, etc.). Billiken alumni clad in blue were everywhere. Chris May was there, saying hello to as many folks as he could before the game. Game was back and forth - tight. Then the “Let’s go Bills” chant commenced. SLU absolutely took over the Smith Center. Colonial fans finally woke up and started shouting and cheering in an effort to drown out the SLU roar.. Smith Center was “en fuego”....and then the Bills pulled away...and the GW crowd quieted...and the rest is history. My fondest SLU athletic-related memory out of many good soccer and basketball recollections.

Kirkwood Walmart was OUT of cases of Coke Zero that last time I went there.....The horror...the horror.....