Topic: 2022–23 PBA Commissioner's Cup - page 655. (Read 102574 times)

The things would not be settled till the time we have red zones in our areas or in the country. Because somehow if those travel outside or anywhere without they knowing they are infected could create further more positive patients and this way the spread will continue to rise in future till the time we have vaccines available for the same.

So yeah, continuing the PBA 2020 season would be a big problem if the situation of the coronavirus pandemic in our country is still at high level. How about, the ECQ that would be lifted at 15th of May. It occurs that those 20 year old above are now allowed to go outside. That's scary.

Agree with you, it's a gamble because some people does not have symptoms but they are already infected with the virus.
The fact that the Philippines lacks medical equipment to determine if a certain person is covid free or not immediately, that would put our country at big risk.

That's a huge gamble for the org if they'll insist on considering the continuation of the game allowing the fans to watch live. Though having such prior requirements to enter the stadium itself, it isn't effective as we imagine it would since there were cases that can't be seen by a given materials. Hence, if number of cases blows out after the event, there are several things that is for certain would happen here, and that's total cancellation of the game or still resume but no fans are allowed to watch the game. So apparently, it would just go air on TV or online.

They can't just risk lives over the love of the game. So no matter what would it be, if vaccines are yet to be created, if the community isn't virus free, fans still would always end up staying indoors.

We cannot rely on thermal scanners since it cannot detect accurately since there are asymptomatic which is not showing symptoms and we have several cases here that's why this virus spread faster than we though, And its a big risk since this could contribute for the spread.

And besides I don't think social distancing will be implemented since when people got into the climax of the game for sure they will forget the distancing things.

you can see in my post, expert says it will take a year to create the vaccine, of course we want to see it sooner than the expectation but they can't compromise the life of the people here, the vaccine could have a side effect that will ruin the life of the people who get vaccinated in the long run.

Doctors and scientist are just trying to make it safe for everyone, that is why there is a process.

The thing is that I don't have any idea how long creating the vaccine, etc works... I just hope that vaccine wouldn't take that too long and so everything goes back to normal.

Yeah, I think they can. Proceeding with the social distancing by having a seating plan not allowing every middle of the seats and checking all the temperature of the fans that those just have 37° below are allowed to watch. But that's hard and still a risky to pull off.

With this lockdown people /fans are already excited if the commissioners will resume the game they will be there at the arena to watch live. There's no guarantee that they can sort all those possible affected person to enter the place because even there's no sign of a virus the chance of carrying it is really risky.
We can extend the wait than risking fans health it will also help the government to lessen the casualties of this pandemic virus.

Vaccine would take long, according to some experts, it will take a year or more to develop it as there will be a lost of test that will be done before it will gain  approval. Don't know about the law of the Philippines, maybe they can fast track it, but let's hope the vaccine was already discovered by now.

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-timeline.html

That's if a vaccine would take that long. Yeah, I agree on the cancellation of the 2020 season if vaccine take that too long as it'll deduct more the potential of spreading the virus as we know there are a lot of PBA fans that want to watch a game live.

No, the season would not continue when there is no vaccine, so the organization are just being realistic with their plan, it's better to know what's coming and make a timely decision that let the fans expect on anything that would not likely to happen.

The decision could be probably on the situation we are on that day.

If the situation of our country against the midst of the coronavirus pandemic has been stabilize. A huge possibility that the 45th season would be continue. Vice versa.

Maybe it's possible to reset the season because this 2020 season, the start is the Philippine cup and they only played one game before the PBA was suspended, resetting is just like cancelling the season too I guess. If the season will start, they will not start right away, maybe they will still follow the schedule but I am sure the players are well aware and they will start training again.

2020 season source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_PBA_season

Just being being optimistic here lol, by August the covid situation here in the Philippines will be good. June scenario might be looking bad but with the adjustments made by the government and people cooperating that time, by July things will improve. April and May were the months where we have the worst scenario as some people think that this problem is not serious but once they will feel the effects of the lock downs it would somehow change their idea of the crisis thus making them obey the rules. So by August we have an improved scenario as far as the covid crisis is concern.

If the PBA would resume by that time i think the season would only cater the AFC which for me would still be okay and if the would decide to cancel the whole season then i think the biggest winner here is JMF lol. It would be destiny if he would capture his seventh MVP trophy by then.

I'm also positive about the outcome in next 3 months since I believe that by that time we have successful cure since for sure 1 of those vaccine/drugs that are in clinical trials right now will be successful.

But for now even if we are un GCQ still we cannot expect to see the PBA coming back since for sure the government would not let any gatherings that will contribute for second wave.

And best to reset the season so that it cannot ruin the history and start again with new season since for sure the fans would love to see a new action rather than seeing an old competition where we don't know if players are fit to run since they are just newly coming back from quarantine.

The upcoming GCQ after May 15th will not allow any sports events. Businesses will slowly open but all workers aren't allowed to report for work every day, still, they will be on the skeletal work mode system. The number of confirmed cases in the country increases every day. Some who recovered are not totally virus free. It means there is no shortcut to have 100% virus-free within 3 months even today the vaccine will be available.

PBA board of governors should already know that 3 months timeframe to see what's the progress of the Covid-19 in the country shouldn't be the basis if they will still push the current season. "Virus-free or not within 3 months", they must not engage quickly into mass gathering activity because it might trigger again the gun.

I'm positive that we will have good progress within 3 months but let the whole community back to normal slowly without going back literally to where we are or what we do prior to the pandemic virus.

Resetting the PBA season next year will not really harm the current season since only a single game played and they are just in the first conference of the season. Or if they really like to continue the season, as we understand their employees also need to come back at work, extend their timeframe by a month or two, and only push the AFC. Limiting the crowd, or totally not having a crowd can also consider. Even fans missed watching the PBA live I doubt they will consider doing it right away even the government will say, it's now ok to go outside without any caution.

Unfortunately, we can't expect that the vaccine will be available soon, there's no cure yet, the government has no announce any, what they announce is that they are close to finding a cure but that words are empty if we can't see a medicine that is proven to defeat the virus.

2019 is a nightmare for all of us, our country will struggle for sure, as the virus still active, our government will have to spend for the people which is not even enough for most of us to buy our daily needs for a certain period of quarantine.

There's no option if the government insist that this kind of gatherings still prohibited  the commissioners needs to follow. It's really alarming since the numbers of affected people are still increasing while the government are planning to ends up the lockdown till May 15.
It's acceptable in case until August the affected numbers are not doing any better.

For many this type of events when get cancelled is heart-breaking as people who are fan or love for this game and passionate about it waits for this event. Unfortunately, Covid 2019 has just being a nightmare which has broken the hopes that this event could still be held due to various reasons. Though we still hope that vaccine if can be available soon things may turn around quickly.

We still have plenty of time, we can still remain positive although the rate is still increasing now. PBA provides entertainment for the Filipino people who loves basketball but them cancelling the season is due to a big valid reason, we will accept if they'll do. Total cases in the Philippines is close to 10,000.. everyday there's an increase, only quarantine would be the solution for now.