Will COVID-19 be the needle that finally bursts the sports bubble?

The Trumpists have cast their lot in those states. They won't be going back to shelter at home. Two-thirds of the law enforcement agencies in Texas have said they will not enforce the mask order.

Mooooooooooo.

 

FIFY.

That's fine and all, but it will be just like Gov. Abbott and masks. If it gets bad enough and enough people clog the hospitals (and bodies fill the refrigerator trucks) they'll do it. They'll have to.

Dozens of Florida hospitals max out of ICU capacity amid surge in COVID-19 cases

 

I really think it’s going to take one administrative type person close to Trump or a Trumpist governor or Senator to catch it and die before stupid people start taking this seriously.

But probably not even then. Because they’re stupid.

 

None was flattening out sufficiently according to the guidelines the CDC had established for responsible reopening. But when the citizens demand their Applebee’s and their president disparages his own CDC and their governors are craven, gutless cowards who choose political appeasement over public health, you get premature evacuation of responsibility.

 

Even if all 712 SEC football coaches had made a PSA urging mask-wearing, it wouldn’t have worked. SEC states wouldn’t have believed them. Why not? Because their president, following a tradition of the party, had disparaged science. Because the earliest days of this Trumpandemic ravaged libruhl states. The virus did not strike this large country in all spots all at once. SEC states, led by governors in Florida, Georgia and Mississippi, decreed the issue irrelevant to them. They demanded credit for six weeks of isolation. Then summer came.
It’s easy to shut down when it’s not yet warm enough to go in the water. They failed the test.
I’m going to be impacted by this failure. I’ll be out of a job by October. So I’m not reveling in it.

 

Saban and Coach O have done them and it hasn't mattered. If they won't listen to them, then there's nobody who can change their minds

 

I’m telling ya: A lot of the folks not wearing masks are young adults, under 25. And a lot of them did not vote for Trump or even like him.

Trump bears his share of responsibility. But he’s too easily used as a scapegoat too.

The bottom line is we have a giant nation full of individualists who just don’t like to be told what to do and will do as they damn well please.

 

We've talked about this.

Getting a haircut in a place where the only people in the building are the two barbers/stylists and the two clients, everyone wearing masks? You're not catching it there.

Young'ns going to a packed bar at 10 p.m. looking for a little sum' sum'? Yikes, no good.

There is a path to dealing with this and having a "somewhat" normal life. But bars, concerts, sporting events, etc., are out. They have to be. But some people can't handle that.

 

And we have a lot of states that have no interest in stopping this thing. They are largely in Trumpland.

 

Please. The most powerful person in the country had no desire to stomp this out at an early point / work or politic with those below the federal level to make that happen. Do you honestly think if Trump didn't put pressure on DeSantis and Abbott that what's happening now wouldn't?

Of course there are always going to be people who would be against masks, or a shutdown, or whatever measures were put in place. You'd be lucky to get a decent chunk of 330 million to go along with it. But the people railing against science with their conspiracy theories and just general bullshit -- that starts at the top.

 

There are always young, stupid people and selfish individualists in a country of 330,000,000 people. Trump didn't merely ignore this virus and the disease it causes; he encouraged their growth. As POTUS, he could have set a tone and an example. He could have held off-the-record phone calls with SEC state governors to tell them it was OK to listen to $cience and keep the bars and the hair salons closed. But he didn't. He told them to reopen because contempt of knowledge and science has been a core principle of his klan for decades.
An easy scapegoat? Sure. That's part of the gig. POTUS is the first person to receive credit or blame. He was fine with taking the credit for the economy he inherited from Obama. That economy was certain to bounce back after Bush because that's what the economy does; it goes in waves and dips from time to time. The real test of leadership is how a leader handles the unexpected. And the guy who you think has been unfairly and disproportionately blamed by libruhls has failed to a remarkable degree. Why? Because he had no experience when he was elected, and he has shown no interest in learning on the job. That's on him. And on everybody who has enabled him, including those whose hatred of libruhls has blinded them to the past four years of failures.