I live in Indy and that’s not happening here at all other than a handful of schools closing. I work downtown and this has been the worst week of traffic I’ve dealt with on my daily commute in about 5 months.
I get central authorities aren’t making these decisions. It’s likely insurance advisors telling the event host to cancel and avoid years in defense costs.
H1N1 wasn’t that different. 61 million cases in the US with 12,469 deaths. 575,400 deaths worldwide.
Obviously early, but not even close to those numbers yet. Mortality rate for COVID-19 is higher right now, but South Korea has shown that’s pretty much due to testing and the virus hitting two of the worst areas possible off the bat. Wuhan has a large number of long time smokers over 65 and Italy is the oldest population in Europe.
So the B1G is trying to make it fun for the players, family members, media, etc., who will be permitted to attend the B1G tourney. There will be a bobbing for apples section on one side of the concessions, with jacuzzis and kissing booths on the other.
H1N1 played out. Corona just started. South koreas was only so low because of their prevention efforts. Right now I’d expect America’s mortality rate to be much closer to Italy’s
There is no chance the NCAA Tournament is played at this point. As soon as one player, coach or staffer tests positive, it is over — if it isn’t already.
A cancellation of the Big Ten Tournament is certainly possible, as well.