At this stage they might not ever play again if the state shuts down everytime someone gets a sniffle

^ what a fascinating insight

How about keep everything the same, take a deep breath and get through the next 6 weeks with limited deaths?

Once in a lifetime situation, let's not change something that ain't broken.

Oh my

It's not hard to pick the U14 parents angry they have missed out on club nationals here is it

Absolutely. Yeah because nothing is broken in Victoria at the moment. smh

3 people have tragically died in the past 6 weeks with Covid in Australia, last winter 3 people died everyday with the flu, numbers don't lie.

If our media weren't incentivised to keep the crisis narrative rolling, and actually reported the mounting evidence that 99% of people who contract this strain of coronavirus actually have mild or no symptoms, our lives including basketball would look very normal. I don't blame those on this forum who are afraid and agree with the strict measures being used to contain this so called pandemic, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I am opposed to the reasons why those scared people are in that state of fear.

Unfortunately we have people in charge who are lapping up their moment in the sun, and in Victoria at least it may be a very long time until we can resume as normal, whatever that is now.

Yep stop with the drama. It is 1 year and involves all his/her mates. If he/her sis an acl they would be behind a year but as a parent you would say move on love you will play again. Maybe you should practice this as September tryouts for 2021 May not even happen.

And its people like you #786 as to why there is another outbreak. People much smarter than you know the facts. So you miss a season of basketball. You miss some nights at the pub. Big deal. It's a major killer world wide. We have been lucky so far.

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Shit for brains some people and that's being polite. Have a look at the USA and tell me how the flu, sniffles as you call it is travelling in that country.

That's ok, typical response from someone who feels informed because they watch The Project. Here's the studies and views from hundreds of experts far smarter us forum users.


Facts about Covid-19 - Swiss Policy Research
https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/

There's a few hundred studies and reports you can read during the ad breaks of Big Brother. I'm not saying Covid isn't a real thing, it's just nowhere near what people initially feared.

And yes I do follow the rules in society because I respect that I know he person next to me may not share my views on the matter, and that's ok, it's just a good idea to question the narrative sometimes and I'd like to live in a world where we are still free to have an unpopular opinion.

Yeah places like Sweden think they did great. 73,000 cases and 5,500 deaths. That's brilliant if it’s your family isn’t it. But hey let’s just manage a few deaths. It’s not what people initially feared but it’s what the experts did. This is only in it’s infancy. Australia is lucky because we are so isolated but being complacent will put us backwards very quickly. It’s the selfish people with no knowledge who believe they will be immune to any serious illness who will be the countries undoing

So 100 people with an average age of 80 have died from Covid in our counrty, and now the mental health experts have said there have already been an additional 1000 suicides due to the lockdown response with an average age half that of covid, how many years of life have now been lost.

Initial lockdowns when we were unsure... Ok... to let them continue now with the latest data? different story. Surely it's time to just protect the 1% who are vulnerable.

Oh, and how's the healthcare system going to look for the next 20 years now the economy is stuffed, good luck protecting the vulnerable in the future.

You save your 80 year old Granny, 5 families loose a mother or father that provides for them, and another 5 families loose their brother, sister, daughter or son just as they're in the peak of their life.

Unpopular view, but hard to argue against.

Let's use cancer patients as an example. People with compromised immune systems are highly susceptible to the virus. Each year in Australia there are 150,000 new cases each year and in 2019 50,000 people died from that disease alone. So let’s just use 2019 and 2020 numbers for cancer sufferers of 300,000. All with compromised immunise systems and death is real possibility if they catch COVID. And as an aging population I think your save the 1% who are vulnerable is ridiculous at best.

Swedish government is getting the heat applied big time now, the policy has failed, there death and infection rate is five times higher than their neighbouring countries. They thought the infection rates would reduce to the more people that got it and hopefully limit the spread. It's failed.

Sweedish approach up for debate, it will only be known after a few years, remember they may avoid the catastrophic second wave! Once 60-70% of the population has caught a virus herd immunity takes effect, to even hypothesize that every cancer sufferer woild die is ludicrous.

Herd immunity theory is not working with this virus. Anti body generating cases are in the low teens percentage wise. Secondly such immunity only lasts for weeks. Only thing that spared swedish (and UK) population from a wipeout has been the low sick/carrier ratio.

lots of scientists commenting on a Vjbl thread. Not one comment related to the op's question

The very premise of 797's argument is flawed. It assumes that if we didn't lockdown and were allowed to roam free there would be less suicide deaths as a result of the mental health benefits of being out and about.

These problems cannot be assessed in a vacuum, it is totally plausible to assume there might even be more suicide deaths with out the lockdown due to the anxiety of passing COVID onto a loved one or catching a particularly shit case of COVID no matter the age. Even if we assume the media are overblowing the whole thing and that's a large contributor to the suicides (I do believe that the media, particulary social media may be having a large influence on the suicide rates) the problem isn't the lockdowns its the media and that is a totally separate conversation.

Lockdown, dont go out if not for one of the four reasons, get through it so our lives can restart on the other side hopefully with basketball to be played in 8 weeks!

https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/

You cherry pick one view, I'll raise you 100.

There won't be a nationals. People need to get over it.

Which sports go only in your age level; u11, u12, u13, etc?

I wasnt having a go I just didn't know :")

Cricket, Basketball, AFL football, school sport athletics all dont

Why will there be a drop out rate? No sport is playing.

At this stage they might not ever play again if the state shuts down everytime someone gets coronavirus. Edited for accuracy. Stupid Victorians

Fear is that kids who play multiple sports will resume with just one of those sports.

It's only vic kids missing out, maybe it’ll give the other states a chance to win for once.

#890 you posted earlier and got slammed. It's not a sniffle...FO

No sport in Victoria is playing. So why would kids playing multiple sports that include basketball lose engagement? No one is playing you simpletons

Love that idea ^

Guaranteeing all current players a spot???? What happens if someone better comes along or a kids gone backwards! Which clubs are you talking about I haven't heard this

Geelong United, Bellarine and Surfcoaster doing a substitute Friday night program with their Rep Teams. Good thinking and well done to these Associations. Maybe Ballarat could be added.

#012 is definitely a parent of a kid that isn't very good.

You think there's going to be enough 'spots' when volunteer coaches don't have time after the pandemic to coach the 8's so little jimmy can have a run. Look at Hawthorn cutting team numbers and tonnes of kids last season, although that was probably court-space related it ensured that club didnt have a team in VJL11. Rep isn't about participation - its not another game for decent domestic players, sometimes people just arent good enough.

004 which club is guaranteeing spots to players??