UFC Fighters Living Off Tax Money During C19 Crisis

[ReadWrite]

“I’m very disappointed,” Sam Alvey told MMA Fighting. “I thought for sure [my fight] was going to happen, but I’m still convinced that this pandemic is going to pass in the minds of the American people. It’s really embarrassing for me, for our country that it hasn’t yet already. But it’s one of those things. You can’t see the future all the time.

“It’s a huge overreaction. Deaths are terrible, and I’m very sorry for all the families that have suffered through that but pneumonia, just a typical flu season right now has killed close to 20,000 people, and people just don’t pay attention to that.

“It’s terrible that people are getting sick and not that many people are dying, but they still are, and that’s terrible, but when you compare it to any other flu season, even our current flu season, it’s killing 15 to 20,000 people in a three-month span.

“I think the entire world of knowledge we can get at any time of any day. We just have to click on our phone so everyone’s opinion is out there. If one state has banned bars from opening at 9 o’clock, then we have to do that, because if we don’t do that … and it explodes like that. I was convinced my fight was going to continue next week because I’m convinced in the next week or two the American people are going to be sick of this.

“I still suspect it’s going to be like a light switch. It’s going to turn off and people are going to stop caring. People are just going to be upset that stuff is getting closed. I feel like as fast as this is getting everyone riled up, I think everyone is going to be done with it almost as quickly.

“Unlike the NBA, we pay for our camps. We pay for our nutrition. We pay for everything. The UFC helps with the nutrition. I’ve been working with Trifecta this and they’ve been helping a bunch, but we pay for just about everything.

“We put our lives on hold. We put our bodies through stuff that we probably shouldn’t all for that one day. Then that day just gets taken from us cause some government somewhere says it would be unsafe for us to fight in front of cameramen. It’s very upsetting that it just gets taken from us like that.

"When I was on the Manila card a few years back, it got cancelled about two weeks out and they paid me a little bit for it. They gave me some money and a rescheduled fight right away. So I would be thrilled if that’s the case. But I don’t feel like they owe me anything.

“Not going to lie, my family and I, we’re going to have to tighten our belts for a little while. I fought in July, I was supposed to fight in November, but I broke my hand. So what was going to be tax money is now living money.

"And we’re just going to have to budget responsibly and make intelligent decisions with where we spend our money. I’m sure that’s the same as all the staff of the UFC and the staff for every other business that can’t be open. I’m sure they’re going to have to tighten their bootstraps and makes some smart and probably tough decisions.”

https://www.mmafighting.com/2020/3/...huge-overreaction-to-the-coronavirus-outbreak

 

[The-AxeMurderer]

The real question we are all wondering......

Is Sam Alvey still smiling?

 

[Genisys]

The real question we are all wondering......

Is Sam Alvey still smiling?

Brilliant

 

[Deleted member 290675]

The govt is working on getting out some sort of stimulus. Could be a few hundred per person, could be a thousand. Could be for one month, could be for two or three. Or they could just fuck us.

And freezing mortgages, utilities, and rent would help a lot. Also:

 

[SuperNinja]

He clearly has no idea what he is talking about. The coronavirus has only kill a few hundred people so far. The flu has a .1% mortality rate. This flu has a mortality rate of some where around 2%

There are 327 million people leaving in the United States. If even half the country gets it then that is 3.2 million people dead. . . . Which is a bit more than 20,000 from the regular flu.

 

[Spiderbite]

Yes Sam Alvey,

Please explain to me again how difficult and complex being an MMA fighter can be while at the same time flippantly minimizing the science behind Epidemiology.

More importantly though, this dude is in his mid-thirties and light years away from the top ten, like, how the fuck is this his only job?

 

[zxyss25]

Yes Sam Alvey,

Please explain to me again how difficult and complex being an MMA fighter can be while at the same time flippantly minimizing the science behind Epidemiology.

More importantly though, this dude is in his mid-thirties and light years away from the top ten, like, how the fuck is this his only job?

Plus apparently he has a rich wife

 

[CTE_Fan]

The govt is working on getting out some sort of stimulus. Could be a few hundred per person, could be a thousand. Could be for one month, could be for two or three. Or they could just fuck us.

And freezing mortgages, utilities, and rent would help a lot. Also:

theres a second gif thats important also

 

[kdday]

He clearly has no idea what he is talking about. The coronavirus has only kill a few hundred people so far. The flu has a .1% mortality rate. This flu has a mortality rate of some where around 2%

There are 327 million people leaving in the United States. If even half the country gets it then that is 3.2 million people dead. . . . Which is a bit more than 20,000 from the regular flu.

I they're currently saying there could be 2.2 million deaths in the US and 500 thousand UK, I wouldn't be surprised if your number is more accurate too many people think it's a joke and nothing serious and will continue to spread this bullshit, also fuck China

 

[Fishmonger]

 

[poor form]

Get a real job!

People with “real” jobs have been losing them by the thousands every day.

 

[TriangleMonkey]

Sounds like bad money management, or a shitty job you cant count on. Im going with number 2.


Im glad I am part of the “essential” work force and will continue to work w/o any days off no matter how bad it gets. I will then buy up all the good shit with my money after the the great recession we are gonna hit.

 

[TheChance]

True story and if this shit goes all by plan and there is some sort of treatment by August it only means 60/70% of small and medium businesses just die. Get ready to find a new job no more buying ppv cards

It's a virus buddy there will be no new treatment for it. Only thing you can do is prevention and if you get it manage symptoms.

That Said Alvey needs to sut down and shut the fuck up.

 

[Post 2 Decision]

He clearly has no idea what he is talking about. The coronavirus has only kill a few hundred people so far. The flu has a .1% mortality rate. This flu has a mortality rate of some where around 2%

There are 327 million people leaving in the United States. If even half the country gets it then that is 3.2 million people dead. . . . Which is a bit more than 20,000 from the regular flu.

You're right that he's wrong, but that 2% number is baloney.

2% of people confirmed to have it die from it? There's no way. That may be of confirmed cases, but there's millions of people who contract the virus and show little to no symptoms and won't be a confirmed case to count into the mortality rate.

 

[Doughie99]

Confirmed that Sam Alvey has a Room-Temperature IQ.

He is as uninformed and just plain wrong and naive as you can be.

 

[Elmo]

He clearly has no idea what he is talking about. The coronavirus has only kill a few hundred people so far. The flu has a .1% mortality rate. This flu has a mortality rate of some where around 2%

There are 327 million people leaving in the United States. If even half the country gets it then that is 3.2 million people dead. . . . Which is a bit more than 20,000 from the regular flu.

Finally, someone talking sense...some guy at work today telling me about 1.5% death rate and alot of those people would die anyways...jeez..was all pissed off lol.
Basic math escapes people.

 

[Elmo]

You're right that he's wrong, but that 2% number is baloney.

2% of people confirmed to have it die from it? There's no way. That may be of confirmed cases, but there's millions of people who contract the virus and show little to no symptoms and won't be a confirmed case to count into the mortality rate.

I don't know what you are looking at, but how low do you think the death rate will go in the US. On CLOSED cases (dead or recovered) it's at 62% right now.
Think about it.
Look at numbers for poor Italy, where multi generational families are common.
Go look at the numbers. Half .

 

[MMAGA]

People with “real” jobs have been losing them by the thousands every day.

...and, they’ll eventually find another one.

 

[fortheo]

A bill passed the other day granting paid leave to people who's work is affected by the virus. He should hop on that.

 

[fortheo]

You're right that he's wrong, but that 2% number is baloney.

2% of people confirmed to have it die from it? There's no way. That may be of confirmed cases, but there's millions of people who contract the virus and show little to no symptoms and won't be a confirmed case to count into the mortality rate.

Works both ways. According to italy, a ton of people have died from corona but their deaths aren't being attributed to corona because the testing isn't fast enough and they're not doing post death examinations because they're over worked already.

 

[Deleted member 290675]

True story and if this shit goes all by plan and there is some sort of treatment by August it only means 60/70% of small and medium businesses just die. Get ready to find a new job no more buying ppv cards

They're saying it could take 1-2 years for a vaccine. Until then, social distancing is so that fewer people get sick at once so it doesn't overwhelm the healthcare system. Which it already is pretty much. If the govt. doesn't get a stimulus bill passed soon and take other measures, unemployment could hit 20%+ just in the US.

And for us young prime seven-foot tall and full-haired sherdoggers, you're still at risk. There are reports of healthy people under 40 dying, falling into comas, and the ones who survive but get ICU treatment ending up with a $30K+ medical bill without insurance. It's possible the virus attacks your lungs differently and at different rates so old men may live and young ones may not.