If players want to play and make money and fans want to see the games and both want to accept the risks, they should be allowed to do just that. That is the foundation of the United States - freedom.
This idea that is insensitive to others doesn't hold water. Anybody wanting to not take risks has those options. Don't meet with anybody and stay in your house and when you go to the grocery story or doctors wear a mask and keep 5 feet of social distancing and the odds of getting infected with the virus are so low without any interaction. Any person who wants to be safe can do just that so that idea that people that want to make a living working and are willing to take that risk is insensitive to others is a big reach.
The exceptions are nursing homes and people working in the medical field, but those people are at risk regardless and taking preventative measures and the probabilities of risk exists regardless.
What will eventually change is when everybody finally realizes that the virus just doesn't go away. It is here forever so either at some point society opens back up or the shutdowns imposed are done indefinitely and professional sports are done forever. Until the herd immunity takes hold, the virus will continue to spread and there will be peaks and valleys based on the time of the year and the amount of interaction taking place.
This idea that everybody lays low for a few months and it disappears just is not going to happen and the vaccine to save the day may take place, but that won't be what ends the spread. The end will happen when the Herd Immunity sets in and whether the vaccine was real or some saline solution, that is what will be needed in the end. Vaccines have been attempted on the flu for decades and people get the flu all the time even though they get the flu shot.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/06/2020 08:39AM by Rams_81.
