Topic: Vaccine against Covid-19 should be made before sports events will take place? - page 10. (Read 2006 times)

They should start planning now because they can't expect a vaccine to be available this year. If they want to resume the sports the they better have a good plan on how to prevent the spread of the virus so the government will look into it and they will be given the approval.  Let's just say that it's the new normal of sports, no crowd because people are just watching on their homes, which is a good alternative then we remain bored as well.

The average time frame of a cure for a new strain of a virus is 12-18 months and that is the fastest already. Some take more than 2 years to create a cure. Yes there are many scientists around the world right now who is creating virus and some of them are accepted already for clinical trials like the "Remdesivir" vaccine which is right now on trials.

The technology right now is upgraded so there is a possibility that creating a cure for this new strain will take lesser time. I just hope that they can create a vaccine as soon as possible.

It will depend on the situation of the country.

We saw USA starting to open some of the establishments for NBA players to train already so at least we some movements coming from the NBA.

Waiting for vaccine before opening is impossible. We saw some of the companies at loss especially in NBA and it is only one month that has passed. What if they will wait for more months or years before re-opening it? Waiting before reopening will greatly affect the economy of the country so I'm against to this.

Letter B is better for me. At least they will start slowly. Having one arena then at that place, all of the games will happen there for indoor games. For outdoor games like soccer or football, I think little to no audience is possible and a limited number of staffs. They will resume it in a place where there are low to no case rate.

It all depends when is the Vaccine against Covid-19 is discovered or developed. All the sporting organizations can wait for another 2 -3 months for vaccine but if the vaccine is not developed in this time frame, then obviously they have to choose from different options because players and those sporting organization can't remain idle forever.

For sure that those sports management will postponed the game and events all over the world especially if the curve of the charts that indicating the persons who having coronavirus are still not flattening. Trump says that the vaccine will be made in the US before the 2020 ends, let us hope that the virus should now be contained and it will not spread anymore. Most of sports are affected because of the virus and of course the Olympics are also postponed and I know that the events and major sports will only continue if the pandemics end or if there will be now a vaccine.

No doubt that Option A would be the best thing to do. Continuous quarantine is the key for us to slow the spread of the virus until there will be no new cases recorded. Through this, the eradication of the virus would be a lot easier. However, sad to say but this option seems not feasible for everyone especially for those poor countries because their economy status will fall drastically. And if this happen, worse problems than the virus might happen . That's why I understand if some governments are willing to take the risk (Option B). Hmm, maybe the least thing they can do to avoid anyone's health compromised is to maintain social distancing and strictly implementing rules for the civilians.

I think that for a possible vaccine it will still take a really long time and it will not be available before the start of the new year, on the other hand the economic losses for the stop of sports, for the matchs not played are huge, in my opinion once all the medical checks where done to the players and ascertained that they are all negative, they could start playing again without the presence of the public

The world is not ready for the covid-19, until now there is no statement yet that the vaccine will be available soon as no country has said they already found it, it will take time because there's a process that needs to be followed, if we are using one vaccine only from whichever country will process, they need to ensure that it's safe to be use for millions or billions of people in the world.

cant understand why vaccine takes along time to be created when in fact we are now already on a year where we  have the best medical equipments compare on the past  or maybe i am missing out something  .

what if they can create a vaccine in a short period of time  but they refrain to release it for now because they love the situation and they love seeing people suffer like this  . my choice would be letter b anyway  .  we are now have a hard time on here ( limited food and cash )  cant take this life anymore

Option B is better specially now that we're temporarily quarantined and going out of your house is very limited, at least it ables to let people stay at their home watching their favorite sports and do online betting.
If we're going to wait for the vaccines, then that will take a lot of time, a year at the very least.

Sports organization should consider to open a single facility were players will stay at the same place for the whole season without going out in order to avoid contacting from the people outside. That way, we can enjoy live sports while getting rid of contracting the virus at the same time.

I tend to agree with you that the virus will continue to spread IF there's no social distancing to be implemented and limit people in one place to avoid crowded. As an OP stated on option B it is a case to case basis, it should no audience and less staff. If the number of cases in Covid19 victims in a graph will show the result of flattening the curve in a place, probably it is a good sign to continue and resume slowly any sports events. There are some places was on GCQ after the ECQ being implemented.

We don't know when the release of the vaccine but we can avoid the virus with high precautionary measures should be implemented, probably it is good to resume the gambling business industry slowly. Generating businesses to continue the revenue is very needed to recover from a possible recession because we are on the economic crisis as of now.

However, all of these are subject to what our government implemented in our place. We should follow the Covid19 protocols.

I guess it would be better if the vaccine came out first before conducting any such crowded nor even any events that would take people to gather. Most gamblers and even normal people would prefer being safe than being on an event that has no assurance whether the unseen virus would attack. Though it seems to take years to impossible to have a vaccine, yet the fact that most of professionals and even supported by the all country's governments are helping each other to make one, would lessen those impossibilities.

But one thing is for sure, the pandemic thought us to value health more than anything. So better have a patience than to make a "new normal" event.

I disagree with your choice op. Option A will always be the better choice in the long term. Vaccines are already being developed and I think everyone will be vaccinated by this time next year. Its a tough choice, but the right one in my opinion.

You are missing the point. COVID has the power to spread from a single person to thousands in an instant wreaking havoc all around which is why option A will always be the right choice in this case.

Both options lead to death and destruction ultimately, but option A will save more lives in the long term.

Perhaps, option B will be good to do, but the event needs to be very cautious because the pandemic time is not over yet. The event needs to prepare everything, including to make sure about the safety of the audience (if they invite people to watch by live). But they can consider for no audience while the match starts to minimize the risk of the virus spreads.

But to found the vaccine, and it could need years because the vaccine needs to test first before it can be distributed to the hospital.

But let's wait for whatever sports even will be because they need to think about many things before they decide to do something. Perhaps, we will not see a live sports event for a long time before the pandemic can get over.

Speaking of Covid19 vaccines, all scientist over the world was competing with each other who will first discover it.

IMO, I'll go for (b) that sports events must resume prior to the creation of vaccines with conditions and high precautionary measures must be implemented first since a high number of people not only the players rely on these sports for their living. We might immediately think that this is only for the profit of those players and sports organizers but try to imagine there are also other people like the utilities and assistance that are being paid per game.

In fact, some businesses are starting to operate again not only for the profit of the company but also for the employees to start earning again the same as with sports events they must start again for people in each game should start to earn for their living. It's a risk since there's no cure for the virus however, waiting for the vaccine before we resume sports events may really cause starvation to those people who get paid per game.

@chaser15 with all due respect to the options quoted above, it’s not in our hands to decide when sporting events will resume again with or without the vaccines in place. Furthermore many leagues are already planning to resume their season from May, and I believe that most of these leagues game fall in the option (b) category. Lastly you need to understand that it all comes down to revenues, if they’re not suffering major losses then they’ll be willing to wait for a while, but if they’re suffering major losses then they’ll do everything in their power to resume again even if it means putting their players health at risk.

Sporting activities that are resuming and example of revenue loss:

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/52576780

https://www.timesnownews.com/sports/football/article/after-german-bundesliga-italian-serie-as-fate-to-be-decided-soon/588508

https://www.cbssports.com/mma/news/ufc-249-tony-ferguson-vs-justin-gaethje-fight-card-date-price-odds-complete-guide-location/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8193655/Liverpool-furlough-debate-toxic-Premier-League-clubs-suffer-COVID-19.html

Vaccine will take time by now this is clear.

In my opinion there are two reason why this virus has spread to every country in the world.
1. China did not disclose the world about this deadly virus in December last year.
2. World leaders were not serious about this Virus becoming a pandemic.

Lockdown has been done now is to control the spread of this virus and every country is trying to do its best. But, controlling the spread does come with serious economic effects.

Now, it is not possible to continue with the lockdown as people are suffering more from it than the virus.

So, what is the solution?
Educate people to live with it untill a cure is out.

Is it possible
Yes, every individual globally now knows how this virus spreads and how to keep themselves safe from the virus.

Therefore I think this the right time to open the lockdown in a phased manner and start all the activities that were halted after the lockdown. Let the people decide and let them take control of the situation.

They can't wait for that long because that would mean they'll continue to lose money and that would not help for the economy of a certain country and even the country can't stand for that long since they can't get any taxes when there is no business operation from this big tax payers.

With proper planning and implementation, I think this is possible to resume the sporting events.

The only time where sports can be continued or resumed completely is when the virus is completely eliminated. Until there's still a virus and the vaccine is not yet discovered, there is still a risk of getting the virus from one person so it is not safe to continue those events. Most especially that sports includes a lot of people and olympics have many participant from any part of the world.

It is risky to do those events when the pandemic is still active, vaccine is always necessary and the most essential during this kind of pandemic because it will make people immune to the virus and become comfortable doing something or attending gatherings. I think that it will take more time for that to discover because this virus sudden appeared without us knowing it and we're not prepared to come at this point where we are all suffering.

I don’t think is possible as the testing will start at earliest in September this year from some research pharmaceutical groups.That is testing only but it will take about 1 or 2 years after the testing to come to a real possible conclusion and in a definitive vaccine.I don’t think sporting events will wait that long before resuming.

I think they can resume but they have to follow a strict measures, if we are waiting for the vaccine to be produce, it will take a very long time before a sporting even will take place, if other country were able to do that, therefore it's possible to resume the event,...

I like to watch it live even if there is no fans at all if that is the only option for them to resume.