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

Make that 3 p.m. tomorrow, @playthrough.

 

I am worried as hell about this. Just too many moving parts.

 

Sadly I am envisioning a classroom full of toddlers working in makeshift cubicles...

 

Yeah, but we're all rooting for pro sports and then college sports and then high school sports and then all of education to fail. I think I read that somewhere on one of these threads. Many of us have jobs because of the education sector, but we're just dying for it all to crumble because of a libruhl hatred of the power structure. Or something like that.

 

Thanks.

This doesn't seem alarmist or defeatist to me. It reads like common sense. As Gee has posted a couple times, the first critical or fatal instance of C19 will shut down the whole shebang.

I understand the economic imperatives, but those have to be balanced against the risks. Especially in team sports. Especially to students.

And again, the leagues can begin whenever and however they want. They're not waiting on Barry's agreement to restart. They're just looking for a working model that doesn't spread the disease.

The one thing I'd ding the writer for here is not explaining that increased testing means an increased number of "cases."

(But I think the rate of new positives in Arizona - his example - is running ahead of testing increases. )

And it still seems counter-intuitive to me that a sports writer would want to cancel sports for no reason - as media layoffs, furloughs and firings rise.

 

This is all a bunch of wants and needs.

Team sports and in-person education fifth grade and up is a want. We don’t have to have these. Any fifth grader and older should be able to follow digital instructions and click links and get enough education to make this work. It’s not worth the risk of having them meet in person.

k-4 needs to meet in person. Their meeting in person and developing socially outweighs the risk.

Now, if your 13-year-old cannot learn on their own, that’s your problem, not mine. Teachers also should have been using this time to work on their digital delivery.

This is a time of great sacrifice.

 

I will also add if soccer can play team sports successfully, it might open a door to others like baseball. Football is a dream right now. Basketball probably is too.

 

The sports stuff I’ll leave aside. The material about education is breathtakingly off. This is where privilege comes into play. You have single parent families, in some cases refugee families, no broadband service, no engagement, kids dependent on school lunches, not to mention the socialization aspect.

In person school is a big deal for teens, too.

Not worth the risk to whom? The kids? The kids aren’t getting side effects or symptoms from having this. They’re more susceptible to the regular flu. The teachers? You talk about a time of “great sacrifice” and education isn’t worth sacrificing for?

 

And I would say you are breathtakingly unaware of schools can do.

Bus drivers can deliver and receive paper packets, flash drives, laptops, and school lunches to students who need them.

Teens are already meeting in person with each other.

Even if secondary schools open, it will be extremely limited.

Also, there will be a state, county or town that goes back to normal school in August, the size of the shitshow by September will be epic.

You can’t see that coming?

 

There are cities, counties and states that plan to go back to school in August with plenty of precautions, including mask-wearing, dividers, etc.

Bus drivers. My god.

 

I'm not willing to do anything. I don't have the answers sitting behind my keyboard and my guess is that you don't either. I'm not moralizing either way.