Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

The whole tangent on here began when someone said that as a country our priorities are whacked, and posted something about how health care providers at UCLA Medical Center aren't being tested, yet UCLA college athletes have had something like 1500 tests. And that became an AlmaTM narrative about elites and what is cool and who the media favors, and maybe some of the other greatest hits that I missed as I skimmed through the thread.

Yet, the original point is pretty simple to understand (whether or not you think it says something negative about us societally or not). This was a story in the WaPo that was saying essentially the same thing, but on an even larger scale: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/11/27/nurses-athletes-sports-coronavirus-tests/

From Nov. 8 to 14, the NFL administered 43,148 tests to 7,856 players, coaches and employees. Major college football programs supply dozens of tests each day, an attempt — futile as it has been — to maintain health and prevent schedule interruptions. Major League Soccer administered nearly 5,000 tests last week, and Major League Baseball conducted some 170,000 tests during its truncated season.

Sandoval, meanwhile, is a 58-year-old front-line worker who regularly treats patients either suspected or confirmed to have been infected by the coronavirus. In eight months, she has never been tested. She says her employer, California Pacific Medical Center, refuses to provide testing for its medical staff even after possible exposure.

 

Football championships are this weekend too. Word is they are moving them so they can allow fans (currently to be played in Pueblo in an empty stadium). Basketball is supposed to start Jan. 7 and so far they are moving forward with it.

 

You were right.

This isn't complicated to me, though. The thing about Hollywood being "cool" and how football "sux" was silly. And I understood your point about the entertainment industry being more than George Clooney and Lady Gaga.

It's beside the original point to me. Who is emphasizing testing and who isn't still says a lot to me about us societally.