Fauci and the near future of sporting contests

[WhoISthis]

If only there were some kind of protocol for when people are unexpectedly unable to play sports due to medical issues...

There isn’t, at least not a good one for the contingency I’m talking about. I don’t recall a team ever losing significant numbers for a couple weeks, but they’ll figure something out.

The point is, threats to competition are bigger than spread risk. Spread risk isn’t going to stop the millions/billions that can be made from sports back in some capacity.

 

[WhoISthis]

would society really wait years to protect 1% of the population from death or will we accept that reality and go back to mostly normal with masks and hand sanitizers with everything reopened.

Wait years? You mean months. The football season is 4.5 months away.

Going back to mostly normal is inclusive of watching sports on TV for most of America. Let’s not pretend fans no able to go to a stadium a handful of times a month isn’t mostly normal.


I think there will be sports, but not thousands of fans until we’re closer to herd immunity and widespread testing. That could be this fall, but will require a competency we haven’t seen

 

[goody2012]

If only there were some kind of protocol for when people are unexpectedly unable to play sports due to medical issues...

The entire team would be unable to compete, not just the affected ones...

 

[CyJack13]

The entire team would be unable to compete, not just the affected ones...

Right I don’t get what happens once one player tests positive. You have to quarantine the whole team for 14 days. They just forfeit all the games during that time?

Also let’s be real on the sequestering these guys, you think they’re just gonna go without getting any ***** for the entire season?

 

[goody2012]

Right I don’t get what happens once one player tests positive. You have to quarantine the whole team for 14 days. They just forfeit all the games during that time?

Also let’s be real on the sequestering these guys, you think they’re just gonna go without getting any ***** for the entire season?

Let's just give them all the 'rona before the season starts then we're good to go.

 

[Rural]

Just heard some ESPN chatter (rare occurrence for me) that college football may play a February to June season.

That would be wild.

 

[HFCS]

Golf and tennis are the widely watched sports where it would be relatively easy to get it back with no spectators and not even put any athletes near each other.

The Masters might look even more beautiful on HDTV without the gallery.

Football/basketball/baseball lose a lot on TV without a crowd. As does soccer, I've seen the biggest soccer leagues play empty stadium games as a punishment for racist fan behavior and it's just not the same.

 

[WhoISthis]

Right I don’t get what happens once one player tests positive. You have to quarantine the whole team for 14 days. They just forfeit all the games during that time?

Also let’s be real on the sequestering these guys, you think they’re just gonna go without getting any ***** for the entire season?

Right, because they’re not going to get ***** and potentially spread otherwise. These guys aren’t sitting in their homes studying all day.

 

[HFCS]

Just heard some ESPN chatter (rare occurrence for me) that college football may play a February to June season.

That would be wild.

I already scheduled Texas and Oklahoma for mid February dates in Ames.

 

[nfrine]

The PGA is starting back up at the beginning of June. I would think that is one of the safest pro sports to start back up.. Honestly, they could probably be playing right now. The entire risk is the travel.

Golf won't be the same without some jackwad in the gallery hollaring "Get in the hole".

 

[madguy30]

It usually takes years not months to develop new vaccines so would society really wait years to protect 1% of the population from death or will we accept that reality and go back to mostly normal with masks and hand sanitizers with everything reopened.

Well if 3.5 million Americans die of this before August I guess you'll be ok with it as long as you're entertained?

 

[Rural]

Even Fauci's plan for baseball would be a monumental undertaking to produce just TV content (granted, it'd be highly watched because there is nothing else and gets gamblers off the ledge).

 

[jdoggivjc]

Right I don’t get what happens once one player tests positive. You have to quarantine the whole team for 14 days. They just forfeit all the games during that time?

Also let’s be real on the sequestering these guys, you think they’re just gonna go without getting any ***** for the entire season?

Depending on who ends up testing positive and the timing of the whole thing, it could actually be several teams that end up getting quarantined. When what's-his-name of the Jazz tested positive at the beginning of this thing, at least 4 other different teams (including the Detroit Pistons, which is why I still remember this) also had to be tested because they were recent opponents.

 

[WhoISthis]

Well if 3.5 million Americans die of this before August I guess you'll be ok with it as long as you're entertained?

This as a bad as those saying it’s a hoax.

You can have sports (or whatever proxy you want for some normalcy) without 3.5 million deaths. There’s a vast in between.

Also, for 3.5 million to die by before August, we’d nearly have to intentionally spread it. We’d also have achieved herd immunity.

 

[madguy30]

This as a bad as those saying it’s a hoax.

You can have sports (or whatever proxy you want for some normalcy) without 3.5 million deaths. There’s a vast in between.

Also, for 3.5 million to die by before August, we’d nearly have to intentionally spread it. We’d also have achieved herd immunity.

To be clear, I wasn't vying for that.

People act like 1% is no big deal. It's a huge deal.

For anything to open up there's going to need to be a balance but there also needs to be a well executed plan.

 

[ISUAgronomist]

I already scheduled Texas and Oklahoma for mid February dates in Ames.

Knowing our luck they would be played in the UNI-Dome w/o fans.

 

[MuskieCy]

I heard that San Francisco was lucky to have lost the Super Bowl. A parade with millions of spectators at that time and it would have been worse than NYC has been.

 

[isutrevman]

To be clear, I wasn't vying for that.

People act like 1% is no big deal. It's a huge deal.

For anything to open up there's going to need to be a balance but there also needs to be a well executed plan.

The mortality rate is more likely closer to 0.2%-3% than it is 1%. Still a big deal, yes, but I will be shocked if it's actually near 1%.

 

[isutrevman]

I heard that San Francisco was lucky to have lost the Super Bowl. A parade with millions of spectators at that time and it would have been worse than NYC has been.

That would make sense if KC was getting hammered right now.

 

[madguy30]

The mortality rate is more likely closer to 0.2%-3% than it is 1%. Still a big deal, yes, but I will be shocked if it's actually near 1%.

I'm not even sure if it'll be that vs. all the cases that were unknown about but opening up to an explosion of cases is a scary thought.