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It's a cluster fuq and no sports season will be completed.

Iowa started its HS baseball and softball season. Multiple area schools "suspended" their season after players tested positive. Some are now restarting their seasons after 14-days.

In baseball and softball, players are mostly socially distanced. This is in contrast with football, and wrestling.

However, in baseball and softball, players and staff are sitting in the same dugout, which they don't have to do. They could maintain more distance. We live one-block from the HS softball park. When I hear the school bus start, it makes me cringe. I noticed one school brought two school buses.

I am concerned how this will spread when the kids return to school. I am not seeing much on efforts to contain the spread at school.

Over the past week, Iowa is trending upward on a rising curve, but Iowa is not trending as sharply upward as Texas, Florida, and Arizona. The prior week it was slightly downward. It probably takes two weeks to determine if there is a trend. Unlike Europe, Iowa has not mashed down the curve.

Coming back to football, it seems schools will wait until the last possible moment to decide. We were going to start in the Fall, but I see there is some sentiment building over waiting until spring. If a vaccine that could be distributed by February were expected, the Spring argument would make sense. 

If the early vaccines are only 50% effective, and only 50% get the vaccine, there will still be considerable spread.

I am concerned how this will spread when the kids return to school. I am not seeing much on efforts to contain the spread at school.

A lot of online learning, but for in-person learning, they'll have nightly disinfecting of high-touch surfaces, with masks on at all times.  Good luck with that with K-2 students.  

Basically, all the kids are being herded back to school for 2 reasons, both of them legit:
1 - kids being home hamstrings the economy
2 - kids being home all-day, every-day is driving people nuts

I think any vaccine will be highly effective, some people may not respond to it.  Thus far, we have apparently one strain of COVID, perhaps with some slight modifications.  It does not appear to be splitting or morphing very fast (I think).  Even if half the people get vaccinated, it slows down the spread, it just won't stop it.  And the other half probably will get it over time.

Then Bill Gates will be able to track me as I go about my daily routine.

might be very weird 

If we see a 30% infection rate among younger people, or just college age students, and I think it possible, everything will shut down whether government does it or just fear.

The NFL could self quarantine and possibly play, but everyone would have to reside in a bubble.  Baseball has already messed up.

Once a single player tests positive, it's basically over.

Even if it is just Fall football that is at risk, with possibility it could be played in the Spring, there will  be dramatic cuts to salaries in football and basketball coaching. I would think volleyball, basketball, hockey, college wrestling, and soccer seasons are all at risk of not being played.

College gymnastics could become a popular TV spectator sport.