PWS: More Wrestlers with COVID-19 (Update Pg 30)

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Renee😢

Wish her a quick recovery and hope Mox is alright.

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To all those talking about who may possibly have it, I wanna open up about something which I haven't told anyone on here about what's happened in my life during the pandemic.

My Cousin had it. Around last month she had to go to Quarantine because she had the Corona Virus. However she did not let it keep her down and she stayed her chipper happy self as we talked with her on the phone almost everyday. After a few weeks she had recovered and her life was back to normal as she had gone back to work as well. I recently saw her this past Sunday

The important thing is whether you have it or someone you know does, is to keep your spirits strong and not give into depression and doubt as that just increases its hold over you.

We can get through this.

[polarbearpete]

Jun 24, 2020 21:28:16 GMT -5 @kn said:

Jun 24, 2020 21:21:42 GMT -5 polarbearpete said:

They do stuff like that on the Network/YouTube.
If you aired that for 3 hours on USA on Monday night, though I doubt you’re cracking 1 million viewers.

Numbers don't really matter when you've got a global virus on the loose. At the end of the day the performers' safety is most important.

I agree, they should be airing old stuff or block taping a month or two at a time.

[Final Countdown Jones]

I hope Renee and everyone else who's got this pulls through. There can be some really nasty complications and long-term effects from getting this, and I know people throw around the whole 'athletes won't die they're in great shape' talking point a lot, but the fact is some people find their cardio flattened or get lasting lung damage, thickened blood, tons of possible problems that could shorten or end careers on the spot.

[The Captain]

Yeah, there's so many unknowns with this virus still. There are people who recover and are fine like nothing happened. There are people who get it, recover, but there's long-term damage to the lungs and other organs that is difficult at best to repair.

Both AEW and WWE need to shut down production, and at the very least get the f*** out of Florida once people recover. 

[xxshoyuweeniexx]

Jun 24, 2020 15:31:54 GMT -5 Zone Was Wrong said:

It isn't just wrestling. EVERYBODY is being stupid. Sports in general are opening even as more and more players test positive. States are opening and then getting hit with higher spikes in weeks. It's a problem with the country in general.

B-but there's money to be made!

It's gonna take a big name from a sport actually dying from this before someone goes 'holy shit maybe we should stop thinking with our wallet and f***ing STOP'

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I don't know what WWE is going to do, but AEW will have a big decision to make when everyone gets there for Fyter. I have a feeling they're going to be going on a taping spree again, and that's honestly all for the best if they do, just f*** it, do all the build you can for All Out, and then chill.

WWE's situation is even worse, they NEED to shut down, if they stay running they need to do a big taping of shows, but I don't even know if they're in the position to do so at this point.

The other option is getting the hell out of Florida and setting up shop where COVID isn't going crazy like Florida right now, if they can. WWE probably could and would, AEW probably would have some place they could find... but yeah, that's the other option.

The next week is gonna be very interesting.

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Vince McMahon right now like: COVID-19?

[lionheart21]

Jun 24, 2020 22:15:59 GMT -5 hashtagdaley/JudasDay said:

Poor Renee...

Well, if there was any slim chance that Moxley would ever want anything to do with the WWE again...having his wife getting COVID potentially because of their lax testing just killed that, and I wouldn't blame him in the slightest.

[FHgrad99]

Hopefully anybody who tests positive has a speedy recovery. I can't imagine how on edge everybody in the WWE must be right now.

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So is Smackdown just going to be Vince in a room with one camera playing with a bunch of action figures?

[JoDaNa1281]

Jun 25, 2020 0:25:07 GMT -5 mj0mn0m said:

Vince McMahon right now like: COVID-19?

"19? Why haven't I ever heard of COVID's 1-18?!"

[mattyy]

Jun 25, 2020 0:57:09 GMT -5 @uppitynerd said:

So is Smackdown just going to be Vince in a room with one camera playing with a bunch of action figures?

"So then Vince called me and was like, can I use your action figures?" - Zack Ryder in roughly three days.

[cosmo]

Jun 25, 2020 0:57:09 GMT -5 @uppitynerd said:

So is Smackdown just going to be Vince in a room with one camera playing with a bunch of action figures?

It'll be Spaceballs: The Wrestling Show! Think of the merchandising!

[flowercity]

Jun 24, 2020 23:43:27 GMT -5 xxshoyuweeniexx said:

Jun 24, 2020 15:31:54 GMT -5 Zone Was Wrong said:

It isn't just wrestling. EVERYBODY is being stupid. Sports in general are opening even as more and more players test positive. States are opening and then getting hit with higher spikes in weeks. It's a problem with the country in general.

B-but there's money to be made!

It's gonna take a big name from a sport actually dying from this before someone goes 'holy shit maybe we should stop thinking with our wallet and f***ing STOP'

The problem with that is that professional athletes are in stellar shape. They have excellent cardio vascular health and are in the best shape to take on the virus. The realistic chances an athlete dies of this is practically zero. It’s not going to happen. So to hope that happens, is wasteful.

Now, granted, this does not mean the athlete’s family or random contact can’t die from it. And that is why we need to be careful and possibly shut down as you say. But athletes will think of themselves. They are the ones bringing in millions for their families. Which is why they will take that risk because it will not affect them.

[Chainsaw]

I don't know if it's been debunked or not, but really, if USA and Fox are still holding WWE's feet to the fire about providing a certain amount of live shows per their contract, they need to get their heads out of their asses and let it go. Screw this whole "this is a business" mentality, people are getting horribly affected by this. And that's not said to excuse WWE from all of this, because honestly, I still think this whole contractual obligations thing is because they don't want to lose money, and will and have put their workers at risk for that reason. Just go into repeats for the summer, run classic shows and PPVs that people want to see. Tape interstitials in studio from Stamford, talking about the shows and the matches, what it meant to the wrestlers. CT is a relatively safe state right now, Florida is a friggin Hot Zone.

Do anything and everything but what you're doing now. Because this ain't it.

[mcmahonfan85]

Jun 25, 2020 1:46:01 GMT -5 cosmo said:

Jun 25, 2020 0:57:09 GMT -5 @uppitynerd said:

So is Smackdown just going to be Vince in a room with one camera playing with a bunch of action figures?

It'll be Spaceballs: The Wrestling Show! Think of the merchandising!

Yogurt wishes he was as shameless with merchandising as WWE

[Final Countdown Jones]

Jun 25, 2020 1:58:35 GMT -5 flowercity said:

Jun 24, 2020 23:43:27 GMT -5 xxshoyuweeniexx said:

B-but there's money to be made!

It's gonna take a big name from a sport actually dying from this before someone goes 'holy shit maybe we should stop thinking with our wallet and f***ing STOP'

The problem with that is that professional athletes are in stellar shape. They have excellent cardio vascular health and are in the best shape to take on the virus. The realistic chances an athlete dies of this is practically zero. It’s not going to happen. So to hope that happens, is wasteful.

Now, granted, this does not mean the athlete’s family or random contact can’t die from it. And that is why we need to be careful and possibly shut down as you say. But athletes will think of themselves. They are the ones bringing in millions for their families. Which is why they will take that risk because it will not affect them.

This is objectively not true, and I don't mean this to try and just hit the same response I gave you in another thread. Complications from coronavirus are many and they have hit athletes just as hard. Long-term effects, lung damage, cardiovascular issues. Just because the body is stronger doesn't mean it can't still break down. Blood clots are coming up as a frequent side effect, and blood clots are something you're very much not recommended to do contact sports with. Maybe nobody dies; this could still be career-ending, and we need to stop spreading things that aren't true about how the wrestlers are safe and will be fine. Nobody is inherently safe.

Here's a New York Times article entirely about athletes struggling post-recovery with the long-term effects.

[3cheers4ramirez]

Jun 25, 2020 0:44:09 GMT -5 lionheart21 said:

Jun 24, 2020 22:15:59 GMT -5 hashtagdaley/JudasDay said:

Poor Renee...

Well, if there was any slim chance that Moxley would ever want anything to do with the WWE again...having his wife getting COVID potentially because of their lax testing just killed that, and I wouldn't blame him in the slightest.

I'm not saying the WWE isn't to blame, they obviously are. But a bit of personal responsibility wouldn't go amiss. There are wealthy people with clout within the WWE who should be able to tell the difference between sufficient and insufficient controls for the virus. I would include Renee within that.

I think the WWE are terrified, and rightly so, that if they stopped producing shows their ratings would tank and never recover. Talk of them doing Zoom watchalongs or showing old episides are pie in the sky I think - they wouldn't get large enough ratings for Fox in particular to bother showing them.

However there is, was and always has been a way to produce shows safely. Block tapings every month and testing/isolation for all in the period leading up to them. It's a failure of their duty of care to staff, and of their own creativity, that they haven't done that.

[msc]

Jun 24, 2020 23:43:27 GMT -5 xxshoyuweeniexx said:

Jun 24, 2020 15:31:54 GMT -5 Zone Was Wrong said:

It isn't just wrestling. EVERYBODY is being stupid. Sports in general are opening even as more and more players test positive. States are opening and then getting hit with higher spikes in weeks. It's a problem with the country in general.

B-but there's money to be made!

It's gonna take a big name from a sport actually dying from this before someone goes 'holy shit maybe we should stop thinking with our wallet and f***ing STOP'

That's what I'm worried about. I think a lot of people still view that as a sort of severe cold most folk get over, bar those with severe health problems. A old uni friend of mine got covid in late April. In pretty good health, bar mild asthma, and he was dead within 3 days. Which is still a right mindf***er to type that down. He was 41. This thing is too dangerous, and worse, too seemingly random in its affliction*, to take for granted like WWE have been doing.

*Obviously its not random but as this is a new virus we still don't know why it can kill seemingly healthy folk, yet terminally ill people can survive it. It *feels* random due to this lack of current knowledge but really none of us know if we'll be the ones to have a minor sniffle or a dash to ICU. I've been stuck in shielding since early March due to being on the high risk list.