Rudy Gobert touches all the microphones Monday ahead of Jazz/Raptors.Jazz go to OKC where tonights game is postponed and Gobert is confirmed to have COVID19.March 12, 2020
Of course symptoms can show themselves a week or so after you’re contracted, so licking all the microphones and recorders may not have done it. If it was earlier, it means a whole bunch of other teams and cities will be directly affected.ESPN reported that Jazz and Thunder players were “currently quarantined” in the arena.
The Jazz and Thunder players are currently quarantined in the OKC arena, league sources tell ESPN. This is following Rudy Gobert testing positive for the coronavirus.
PERSPECTIVE: The 2009 H1N1 outbreak KILLED 284,000 people, 70 times as many as COVID-19. Did the NCAA Tournament ban fans? Did the NBA cancel their season? Did we have nationwide quarantines? Did schools close? Did ANY of that happen? No. Why? No media hysteria!!!
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