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Will COVID-19 be the needle that finally bursts the sports bubble?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by BitterYoungMatador2, Apr 2, 2020.

  1. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    That is exactly the formula used by France and Germany to provide economic assistance now. Instead of unemployment benefits, they subsidize the salaries of workers who temporarily have no effective work to perform. The theory is that this makes the restarting of the economy much easier because there has been less disruption.
     
  2. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Russia basically extended that "national paid holiday" from one week to one month. But it doesn't apply to essential workers who still have jobs. Unlike here, where everyone gets a check even if they haven't lost a thing.
     
  3. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    Just Fox being Fox

     
  4. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    He's a man. He's 40 ... err, 52!

     
  5. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    He referred to this as “the Chinese virus.”
    He’s straight out of the Dabo School of Trumpist Thought.
    And he, like Saint Dabo, is a millionaire because of black athletes, whose fellow African Americans are dying at disproportionately high rates in the Trumpandemic.
    I wonder if he’ll face more criticism than Dabo, called by one fawning national media member, “exactly what America needs.”
     
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  6. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

  7. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    This is what I'm talking about: Why does Mike Gundy have a net worth of $10 million? He's not even in the top 100 of what he does.
     
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  8. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    He also mentioned he was spending a lot of time watching OAN because it's more trustworthy than other news channels. He's about a year away from being a full-blown Alex Jonesian Qanon fan.
     
  9. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

  10. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    A year?
    More like a week.
     
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  11. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    He lives in Stillwater.
    Which, come to think of it, is kind of like Clemson. Only flatter.
     
  12. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Gundy said this poorly. No getting around that.

    But I've written it elsewhere on this thread: I'd be hard-pressed to believe that 120 football players are safer in their individual hometowns - almost certainly not staying home that much, even in some hot zones for the virus - than they would be in a controlled environment, on campus, sequestered in dorms, checked daily for their health. Maybe my position is anecdotal, but I just find it unlikely that where they're at is better than where they could be.
     
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