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Ed Zachery

I'm guessing, because I'm not a scientist or an "expert", but common sense tells me that having football means there are thousands of players, coaches, and staff that are being more careful and being tested on a daily or more regular basis than if football was cancelled.

My uneducated guess is that football, basketball, baseball, other sports with all the added precautions are helping slow the spread of the virus.

Seems to me the players and coaches and parents think differently. If they all isolate properly, it's not a problem. That is totally on them. If they want to play, they need to be careful. End of story.

Same goes for any of us.

Is golf and stops in bars essential?

absolutely not!


in some folks opinion I'm a giant asshat.

the government should be restricting my opportunities to spread the virus since I'm too stupid or selfish to do it myself.

there are obviously two ways of thinking on this.  I don't feel one way is right and the other way is wrong.  But, many folks can't open their minds that far.  It's only right in their opinion and it's obviously WRONG if someone thinks differently.

similar to politics.  Therefore, a country divided.

It's unfortunate that this Chinese attack has been politicized. 

Makes me wonder what would happen if another 9/11 occurred. Would we rally as a country like last time? Or, would we blame the government for not doing enough? 

We know the administration before GWB didn't do enough with Osama when it had the chance. Nobody bitched and moaned about that though. What has changed?

One thing that has not happened apparently is widely spread infections of health care workers.

Thankfully,i'm sure because mostly they have followed proper procedure/protocol.I'm sure based on people in health care I've spoken with some of it has been on inflated/inaccurate numbers with healthy and patients with weakened/compromised condintions

Ed Zachery

I'm guessing, because I'm not a scientist or an "expert", but common sense tells me that having football means there are thousands of players, coaches, and staff that are being more careful and being tested on a daily or more regular basis than if football was cancelled.

My uneducated guess is that football, basketball, baseball, other sports with all the added precautions are helping slow the spread of the virus.

That would be my guess as well, we have folks being hyper-vigilant playing sports and doing other things.

One thing that has not happened apparently is widely spread infections of health care workers.

False choice. Not playing football/sports means that they don't have a large outside pressure to protect themselves; it does not mean that they will automatically become reckless. 

I'd venture to say that I have a MUCH lower chance of infection than any collegiate or professional athlete that is currently playing (except maybe NBA/NHL because they set up real bubbles). I WFH and generally social distance otherwise, my wife works in a very small office where they wear masks and she generally social distances otherwise. We rarely go out for non-essential reasons, and wear masks when we do. The kids (who we have 40% of the time) are required to wear masks at school. So far amongst three kids there are no known cases across either of the two schools. 

Now, you can claim that a collegiate athlete, if they weren't subject to that outside pressure, might be [like most college students] stupid about what precautions they take. I can't argue what COULD happen. But I argue that taking good precautions and not playing contact sports is less dangerous than taking good precautions and playing contact sports. 

Now, you can claim that a collegiate athlete, if they weren't subject to that outside pressure, might be [like most college students] stupid about what precautions they take. I can't argue what COULD happen. But I argue that taking good precautions and not playing contact sports is less dangerous than taking good precautions and playing contact sports.

like I said, I'm not an expert, but common sense tells me thousands of athletes are taking better precautions because of that outside pressure.

You argue whatever side you'd like.  human beings overall, not just this age group behave better with an outside pressure.  Get some scientific evidence. If psychology can be scientific. I don't have any.  Just my common sense.

the other common sense tells me that having these thousands of athletes being tested much more regularly and then having the outside force to quarantine themselves properly if/when they test positive is also better overall

Ed Zachery

I'm guessing, because I'm not a scientist or an "expert", but common sense tells me that having football means there are thousands of players, coaches, and staff that are being more careful and being tested on a daily or more regular basis than if football was cancelled.

My uneducated guess is that football, basketball, baseball, other sports with all the added precautions are helping slow the spread of the virus.

The best part is that we'll have no clue how many fans go back home and get sick or die and spread it to others.