Bursting the Bubble: Why Sports Aren't Coming Back Soon
The NBA, NFL and MLB are dreaming up ways to play amid a pandemic, with talk of isolating players in Arizona or Las Vegas or maybe on the moon. It all sounds great, until you talk to people who actually know science.
Bursting the Bubble: Why Sports Aren't Coming Back Soon
The NBA, NFL and MLB are dreaming up ways to play amid a pandemic, with talk of isolating players in Arizona or Las Vegas or maybe on the moon. It all sounds great, until you talk to people who actually know science.
“If people just decide to let it burn in most areas and we do lose a couple million people it’d probably be over by the fall,” says Binney. “You’d have football. You’d also have two million dead people. And let’s talk about that number. We’re really bad at dealing with big numbers. That is a Super Bowl blown up by terrorists, killing every single person in the building, 24 times in six months. It’s 9/11 every day for 18 months. What freedoms have we given up, what wars have we fought, what blood have we shed, what money have we spent in the interest of stopping one more 9/11? This is 9/11 every day for 18 months.”
Right now we are having a 9/11 about every 2 days. And we really don't know how close we are to the peak.
You would have a ton of people dead if they tried to restart stuff now. But then you would also have a lot of other people get it but recover then afterwards would be immune. There should be some sort of a system set up if you recover from the virus that you can return to work with no restrictions. But the problem with that is a lot of people who aren't immune yet would try to pass themselves off as one of the people who got infected and recovered which would just cause the spread even more so.
You would have a ton of people dead if they tried to restart stuff now. But then you would also have a lot of other people get it but recover then afterwards would be immune. There should be some sort of a system set up if you recover from the virus that you can return to work with no restrictions. But the problem with that is a lot of people who aren't immune yet would try to pass themselves off as one of the people who got infected and recovered which would just cause the spread even more so.
That system is called 'testing and innoculation'. Those take time and even more time here as the testing effort here has gotten off to a rocky start. But we'll get there.
It all depends how many people were Aymptomatic but now are symptom free now so there could be a lot of people who are already immune but not aware of it.
Bursting the Bubble: Why Sports Aren't Coming Back Soon
The NBA, NFL and MLB are dreaming up ways to play amid a pandemic, with talk of isolating players in Arizona or Las Vegas or maybe on the moon. It all sounds great, until you talk to people who actually know science.
