We don't even have 12 contracted players!

Award their scrimmage to Perth!

WA advising the Eastern States on COVID19 is like Tony Abbot advising the EU on border protection.

Good health and luck to all concerned, including their families. Absolutely shit this virus.

https://www.news.com.au/sport/basketball/12-melbourne-united-nbl-players-test-positive-for-covid19-amid-victoria-disaster/news-story/c53a18c0a9253b4f4a57d643049e4b04

I hope the Melbourne based WNBL/Opals players have stopped training too.

This might end the NBL/WNBL before it starts

If restrictions on crowd numbers are still in place come NBL season starting, can the NBL go ahead? Is half bums on seats viable to make money?

Can't we let it just hurry and and go through everyone so we can move on with our lives like the rest of the world is doing.

Waiting for a vaccine is like waiting to win the Lotto.....it might or might not happen but you don't stop living waiting for the winning ticket!

Thats the shittest analogy I've ever heard.

"Can't we let it just hurry and and go through everyone so we can move on with our lives like the rest of the world is doing."

My mum is 72. She is quite healthy but I'd rather not potentially sacrifice her life just so you can hurry things up. Thanks though.

Mike sounds tough.

Spot on Mike, protect the vulnerable and the rest of us move on, government should spend big on protecting them. If someone is in the vulnerable group then chooses to live normal too then that's their right, we haven't banned smoking or drinking for pensioners have we.

So many experts on pandemic virus's... maybe if you know so much, why not reveal the cure to the public through the dhhs?

Hydroxychloroquine, oh wait, the patent has run out on that one so it only costs 60 cents per dose, better ban that one... Remdesivir, that's better, $390 per treatment paid by tax payers straight to Big Pharma.

Nope, the government decides for you Mile

Survival of the fittest!!

We are keeping alive the weak/poor when pandemic's throughout history have killed these people.

Like any species in order to move forward the weak/injured that is slowing everyone down will be killed by the predator and thus the rest remain stronger.

Based on the crazy's we see on the internet dropping a few along the way might be a good thing!

"Can't we let it just hurry and and go through everyone so we can move on with our lives like the rest of the world is doing."
The world is not "moving on with their lives". Even countries that have had it pretty bad early on are worried about a resurgence of the virus, and are re-introducing measures. And countries like the US or Brasil are hardly living the dream or doing well economically.
No country is anyway near herd immunity.

"protect the vulnerable and the rest of us move on"

How do you know you're not vulnerable?

"we haven't banned smoking or drinking for pensioners have we. "

What?

Hydroxychloroquine hasn't been banned. It has just not been proven to be effective at all.

Hydroxychloroquine was removed from the approved treatment list in most countries including Australia after the Lancet published it's study, after that decision was made the US government purchased 500 million doses of remdesivir that same week, the following week he Lancet retracted their study due to false information.

There is now growing evidence in the medical community about the effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine especially when administered early in the infection, but because the patent expired many years ago it is able to be manufactured anywhere and no one profits.

By the way I work in the medical industry and hydroxychloroquine was used successfully in many Australian cases in the first wave of infections.

"There is now growing evidence in the medical community about the effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine"

No there isn't. There have been no placebo-controlled trial of the efficacy of the drug.

"By the way I work in the medical industry..."

Was this after you got sacked from being a tv chef?

Has the source been identified?

Unfortunately crackpots are becoming more and more prevalent because of the availability of misinformation, which these people think is doing their own "research" after watching a youtube video.