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

Well reported and written story.
It's just so surprising because only a week ago, St. Dabo of the Upstate told us, "This Is Gonna End Real Soon."

 

One month ago tomorrow, the NBA was still playing.

 

Sure hate giving Maven any clicks.

 

The public health experts quoted in that article used it to show the basic impossibility of creating a virus-free environment for any large-scale activity for the foreseeable future. Once again, it seems to me that even the sports people coming up with and discussing these ideas know they are so impractical as to be ludicrous. Each trial balloon sinks to the bottom of the sea at considerable speed.

 

Yes, and the Atalanta match in Milan they mentioned is exactly why we can’t go forward with sports at this time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...match-italy-linked-epicenter-deadly-outbreak/

 

Live sports...in Belarus

 

Tajikistan's league is going, too, for those truly hard up for a live sports fix.

 

This passage is nonsense:

But there are a million ways the Jenga stack could fall: What if the person delivering groceries to the biodome walks by someone who coughs on the lettuce and a week later, a player tests positive? Is there an option other than shutting down the whole operation for 14 days?

“No,” says Bergstrom.

Why? People are coughing on lettuce every hour of every day in every grocery store in America.

Journalists are not good with science and academia. At all. They just hear something, go with it, and if sounds doomy and authoritarian, hey all the better.

 

So you know more about this than the epidemiologist at Emory University?

 

Agreed - she talked to two people, neither of whom has any business/economic/sports background, neither of whom offered anything close to definitive proof that there will not be sports.

 

A football coach talking about “sanctity of life” while he makes millions sending other people’s kids off to sustain CTE for no pay is rich.

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