Sacramento Kings forward Harrison Barnes announced that he has tested positive for COVID-19 and that he is currently quarantined. The Kings had previously announced that four members of the traveling party had tested positive but only Buddy Hield, Alex Len, and Jabari Parker had previously been announced.
Barnes announced the diagnosis via social media.
— Harrison Barnes (@hbarnes) July 14, 2020
Barnes says that he is feeling well and “primarily asymptomatic”, which is a little odd. You either have symptoms or you don’t. Saying you’re primarily asymptomatic is like saying you’re a little pregnant.
There had been previous speculation who the fourth positive case might be but due to medical privacy reasons teams are not saying which players test positive until the players themselves choose to identify themselves.
We’ll hope that Barnes has a speedy recovery and can join the team soon, but the health of Barnes and his family are top concern. Buddy Hield and Jabari Parker have already cleared initial testing and headed to Orlando.
Do the Kings lead the league in positive COVID-19 cases?
It’s great to be on top.
It makes no sense, given how well this team social distances on defense.
They’ve got the most positive tests because they’ve taken the most tests, which really is amazing. They’ve taken more tests then Germany, so of course they have more positive tests. If they are gonna want to make the playoffs they should slow the testing. They need to open the gyms so people can get back to work and watch sports in the evenings. Sports in the evenings…isn’t it wonderful? They tell me it’s wonderful. A beautiful thing…sports. I know more about sports than almost anyone.
Your niece is holding on line one.
(This is my canned reply to most anything you-know-who says)
I spent time parsing the ‘inject disinfectant’ speech once because I was making a case about how good leadership does anything other than that, and people were hung up on whether it said to ‘inject bleach’ or not.
It killed a number of braincells. I do not recommend trying to find meaning in its speech.
By MY thumbs up’d post, Everyone is telling ME that have a 96% APPROVAL rating from Sac Kings fans. LAW AND ORDER FANDOM.
Well, everyone knows you’ve always been the Law and Order poster.
Maybe Walton was really talking about increasing the pace of positive tests?
Positivity is good! Right?
“Saying you’re primarily asymptomatic is like saying you’re a little pregnant.”
I love stuff like this. “Somewhat finished”, kind of thing. 🙂
Yeah, not a very good statement. I expected better from Barnes.
how so?
he’s following quarantine protocol, per the same message – I took the ‘primarily asymptomatic’ as he’s having only minor symptoms – not sure what’s wrong with that verbage?
Almost complete
I don’t understand why all of these Kings players didn’t just decide to not catch COVID. It makes no sense.
It reminds me of all those people who choose to be poor. Just ridiculous.
or all those kids who chose 2020 to be of school age. Why’d they choose to be young?
Well, those people are just going to need to pull themselves up by their ventilator.
Meanwhile the NBA figures out the perfect social distancing player uniform additions.
Technical foul, DeMarcus Cousins.
I’m guessing when he says primarily asymptomatic what he means is he has very mild symptoms which would make sense. I’m hoping that’s the case and he makes a full and speedy recovery.
Then he should just state that he has mild symptoms.
I think it’s probably just that players aren’t trained on how to write their own medical updates.
Marvin Bagley ought to be pretty good at it by now.
Mild sprain, week 23…
Appreciate the down vote, Daddy Bags.
I think Daddy Bags must’ve told more of his friends about your comment and to go downvote it.
50% up, 50% down. That about matches his games played percentage.
50% above, 50% below, sort of matches where he should have been drafted too
::rimshot::
I’m just gonna say 50% with no context…and see if that gets me a down vote. There are a lot of glass half empty folks out there I suppose.
I’m thinking down voting Bagley and Luca comments are because it has grown tired. We’ve not had basketball since Feb. It was funny to do it when there was basketball and Luca was killing it and Bagley was on siesta. I think comments are now done, just for effect. So down votes are plopped with just as much energy.
I have noticed that Bagley bashing will result in many downvotes but somehow I don’t see the downvoters voicing their displeasure.
(For reference this glorious post of mine, sorry for self promo)
Very interesting.
He’s a European cmon he wound up great as the media said a lot of them wait years or never play here i guarentee 98% of you only knew Luca from mock drafts bagley is a legit big from Duke putting up 20 pts 10rbs in the real 2nd best league in the world hindsight pick Luca but give mb3 a chance he’s young & plays better with more minutes hopefully he’s not injury prone but damn give him a chance you guys troll OUR GUY from social media for a pipe dream missed opportunity? Wonder how your wives feel
P.S
I downvoted this thread for making me post this ex gf text message
You’re saying you knew of Luca before mock drafts? You’re also saying you watched more than highlights? It sucks he never plays & at best is bosh for the heat not Toronto he’ll never live up to the #2 pick get a life get over it & off his nuts
I’m pretty sure we all knew who Luka was because he was literally touted as the number one prospect for like 3 years heading into the draft. I’d watched more Luka than Bagley before the draft buzz started.
I have no real problem with Bagley. Aside from missing a bunch of games, he’s been pretty much the player I expected. It doesn’t have anything to do with Doncic. Where Bagley was drafted is on the FO. It sucks for us that they made a terrible choice, but it isn’t Bagley’s fault.
If he’d stayed in college all four years, he totally would’ve written that statement better, baby.
-Dick Vitale
I feel like we need a laughing emoji to add to the thumbs up and down. I want people to know this response made me laugh.
Be well, HB.
Remember that classic scene when Ferris told Cameron he was only primarily asymptomatic??:
I’m waiting for the ending .. Kings 2020 NBA Champs Parade in Orlando??
Shake it up baby Yeah …
NBA Bubble did you say … Ace Ventura in the Bubble .. Alrighty Then.. Laces out ..
Is covid anything more than a media frenzy punking politicians into action? Ok there’s a new virus it’s not andromeda strain!!! If they tested for the flu this aggressively and every death a medical examiner didn’t inspect was the flu or a cold would you really wear a mask 1/3 of the year
Worth a read if you are interested in intellectual honesty:
https://www.wired.com/story/larry-brilliant-on-how-well-are-we-fighting-covid-19/
I read in full
I believe there is a virus i also believe people are dying from covid what i don’t believe is this new virus is andromeda strain/t virus/insert here i don’t believe disallowing people to earn a living (I’ve been working full time) or enjoy the money they are making or even enjoy a good non home cooked meal is acceptable I’ll stop here
Then do you have a solution? Honest question. If you acknowledge people are dying from COVID (by all figures more than than the annual flu over the past 90 years), then what are we supposed to do?
By no figures*
.037%
If my memory is correct. 007% above the flu
Solution is simple life goes on or if you’re scared go to church
Edit:.044% & +.14 from cdc if you need a link
So if I’m scared of getting sick I should go where people congregate? I’m definitely having my chain yanked, right?
If you’re scared stay scared i enjoyed the freeway being open
.044% mortality rate? Sure, I’ll take the link.
Not finding original fact check here’s abc 39.82 of 100,000 = .039% simple elementary math closer to original number
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-coronavirus-mortality-rate-lowest-world-trump-claim/story?id=71647615
Skip to section US has 9th worst… top 3 paragraphs
So you’re saying that people who don’t have COVID-19 aren’t dying from COVID-19? Hot damn, that’s quite a bold statement.
No offense, but you’re not very good at this.
Gosh, who to believe – almost every expert immunologist/virologist/scientist, or a guy who won’t replace the broken shift and period keys on his keyboard?
My intention was to actually attempt to engage a bit on an informational level only (trying to leave out politics, judgment and whatnot).
But then I had to make dinner for the fam and when I returned … poof, that notion was gone!
I get it…facts are hard. I get a kick out of the logic that if I don’t go to the dentist, I don’t get diagnosed with cavities, therefore I don’t need to brush my teeth. It makes sense across the flat Earth I suppose.
Nobody shut the world down bc or your cavities & go to the dentist cmon do you really want missing or yellow teeth?
Why flat earth? Look at the moon the question isn’t if there a virus it’s if the 5th of 19 Corona virus’ to infect humans ids a big deal the other 4 you would call a clod/flu have you done any research?
Am I being chasm’d?
Yeah, I think it’s pretty much confirmed this is just a troll account.
A goat among sheep rip str have fun hating bagley & whatever else happens here
Run sanji
5th of 19 coronaviruses? Holy shit…so it’s like the Pete Best of viruses.
Niaid good enough? This all from memory months ago when i cared omg there’s 7 not 5
Btw national institute of allergies & infectious diseases (it’s .gov)
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/coronaviruses
Edit for link
You sheep need non Gov non national news? You want scientific American nat geo type? Don’t trust them either? Sorry I don’t want to show you links on masks
Do some damn research stop regurgitating propaganda
Can we go back to basketball? I’m sure there are forums for you to complain about us sheeple. You aren’t going to convince anyone on here and we aren’t going to convince you.
There’s this Kings site I used to frequent that’s totally cool with letting stuff like this go unremarked on… dare I say, welcomed and celebrated?… these days.
I like your comedy routine. Will you be performing here often?
You don’t know what the 19 stands for in COVID-19? You might want to look up the word “novel” as well.
| isn’t if there a virus it’s if the 5th of 19 Corona virus’
The French humorist Pierre Desproges used to say: It’s better to look stupid than to open your mouth and leave no doubt about it
Dap’s comments can make a blog thread which was washed up, go from 30 comments to 45 overnight. Also very amusing.
Regarding 19th
I think the Original quote came from Rush Limbaugh, then followed by Kellyanne Conway? +1 Otis
“If it’s the 19th, how can it be novel? Why not call it the traditional coronavirus?”
Awwww you were cute before but now it’s just tragic.
I am an oscillating fan blowing back and forth between amused and depressed.
A short video that sums up just about everything in the world today:
Yeah, saw that! I wonder what the footage looked like that they edited out? Hopefully there were some more people who took masks. Props to those two guys for trying.
I used to think “yep, that’s OC and all of those beaches down south acting like that, but here around Pasadena and all over LA there are so many people walking around without masks. It’s like I’m taking crazy pills or something.
Yeah, it’s amusing when the rest of the country paints CA as some cultural monolith of liberal elitism. It’s a crazy diverse place in every way: culturally, politically, intellectually.
The Sacto area has a crap ton of this too. Both close to the city center and even more as you get into the suburb/foothill communities.
So it goes.
I know what you mean, 1951. Wife and I took a drive through the country outside of LA and saw a cafe in a tiny town with a sign posted that read
“ANTIFA AND URBAN PEOPLE, WE WELCOME YOU WITH OPEN CARRYARMS”
I don’t know about Antifa, but we did not stick around long enough to take a photo.
And years back when I used to believe it was a south/north thing, I was awakened to the small towns in the Northeast. Played a 4th of July house party gig with my band in a small New Hampshire town (LIVE FREE OR DIE!) and had racial slurs and intimidation thrown my way.
Can confirm. I’m barely in the foothills outside of Folsom and our Nextdoor feed reads like a Breitbart message board.
Heh, Couldn’t stay on NextDoor. Lots of fearful people on there. People should just talk.
Does Nextdoor allow someone to report any L*ker jersey wearing neighbors? That’s what I would’ve used it for!
You should see the stuff up here in Placer county above Auburn. I know folks who won’t travel down to Sac because they are genuinely afraid of Antifa and leave disturbing notes on cars that have a rainbow flag sticker.
I like to swing by TJ’s Roadhouse on my way to Tahoe to pick up all my State of Jefferson gear.
What was it, six weeks ago that everyone was freaking out that Antifa was going to burn down the suburbs? My neighbor across the street (nice guy, but a pretty right-wing) was almost giddy with excitement that he’d get to shoot some rioters.
The Facebook rumors were that Target was burning, the Purple Place was about to be destroyed by roving mobs, and they would head up Green Valley road and start taking down Serrano and the surrounding EDH neighborhoods.
That was…. really saddening. Tell me it was scripted, please?
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