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

Specifically, the party that does not include a President who ignored the virus, refuses to help solve the problem and demands unmitigated loyalty from SEC governors who follow his lead. What a terrible thing to oppose a party that ignores a deadly disease.
Is it better to be in the tank for the party that wants to solve this disease or the one that ignored it and still resists attempts to mitigate its spread? Tell us.

 

For years, I thought college footbawwwl was the most important thing to SEC people. I was wrong.
The most important thing in their lives is, apparently, loyalty to their president and their guvnurs. Or, to put it another way, opposition to those damned libruhls.
A Trumpist SEC media person on Twitter today cheered the fact that his kids' school in Georgia is going to be all in-person starting in a few weeks. I hope his kids and all the staff are safe and that it works out. But at this point, how can you be totally on board -- zero trepidation -- with your kids in a conventional classroom and no requirement that any of them wears a mask? Even if you send your kids out the door with masks and you believe in the efficacy of said masks, can you be sure -- in Gov. Trumpfluffer's Georgia -- that things will be safe?
This is the mindset that has killed any chance this country had of returning to normalcy any time soon.

 

Yes, it does ... if you ignore the Clay Travises and Dave Portnoys and assorted other folks around the sports media world who aren't.

 

It’s very reductionist, in mid-July, to put the current surge, all over a vast nation, squarely on a political figure that at least half the nation didn’t trust one lick before the pandemic.

(Especially when SI was saying months ago 2 million people would die if college football came back.)

 

They said 2 million would die if Trump's America did nothing to mitigate the disaster. They did not report that 2 million would die as a result of college football's return.

 

D3 news ...

Southern Athletic Association cancels fall sports for 2020

 

He's the President of the United States. Trust isn't really the issue. He has the power to take action. He chose not to.

 

Who got rid of the existing pandemic plans, observers of China, and cut CDC and NIH funding? Who minimized the threat from the very beginning? Who did not make amassing supplies of PPE a priority? Who has failed to support the rapid manufacture and stockpiling of Covid tests? Who is actively discouraging testing even now? Who left hundreds of people stuck on ocean liners infected with Covid because "he didn't what the numbers to go up"? Who disputed his own experts, to the point of firing people whose educated opinions disagreed with his gut feeling? Who pushed as a cure a completely unproven drug for this application which was later shown to have dangerous side effects? Who has actively discouraged mask wearing, and exerted his huge influence over his party to pressure Republican governors to? Who has shown zero credible leadership, to the point of being seen once in public wearing a mask this far in?

Trump is not just some Joe who did not do these things. He is the President of the United States, which is now an object of pity and scorn for our active refusal to take the public health measures that most other countries have taken, resulting in a huge number of infections and deaths.

Who do you propose that we blame instead, Alma? Hillary? Obama? Do you disagree with the opinion that either of them would have handled this more effectively? No, the disease is not Trump's fault, but his handling of it has been an unmitigated disaster.

 

College football may not happen because U.S. has failed on COVID tests

 

California high school sports could be moving toward a not in fall scenario. Also, Newsom is expected to make an announcement on schools today. We'll see if things start to move.

 

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it's not the skyrocketing number of infections nationwide that keep us from playing sports, it's the criticism of the skyrocketing number of infections nationwide that keep us from playing sports.