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It’s not the science, it’s the interpretation of the science by the “experts”. There are examples of differing interpretation from all over the world. Lots of flip flopping about what to do, like fish out of water, from the “experts”. Getting COVID is usually an annoyance for younger people. Let them play.
The damn epidemic getting controlled is, it seems to me, a bit more relevant than throwing a ball through a hoop. These young people have family and friends. Besides, what the heck is a spectator sport with no spectators (ok, it was UConn football the last 5-6 years). And in case you haven’t noticed, pro and college games in every sport continue to be cancelled. It’s chaotic in an effort to try and make things seem normal when they aren’t. We all love sports and UConn sports in particular, but right now it’s trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Personally. I’m more unhappy that I haven’t been able to fly to see my west coast family since last Feb and I just had to go to a funeral through Zoom for a friend who died. Oh, died of COVID-19 alone in a convalescent facility.
You're wrong on all of this and every sport is being played, just watched Bud Crawford knock out Kell Brook last night and Notre Dame beat up on BC yesterday.
People who are afraid should stay home, people who think they’re at-risk should stay home, people should wear masks, but otherwise let’s play the games and get reduced capacity for fans. It’s working elsewhere.
Sorry, but the fact that some sports are being played doesn’t negate the fact that many games are being cancelled on the eve of the game. UConn itself is in a growing dorm quarantine. My son, a college prof in NY state is contorting his teaching to pull off virtual presentations. My other son, a lawyer in NYC hasn’t had his rather large firm open in person since April while his kids were running around his makeshift home office all summer because their camp was cancelled and now their reduced in person school schedule might be going back to all virtual. All 3 of his kids play soccer, which is underway, and just last week all practices were cancelled because of what was a relatively isolated COVID case for a player. So great, most games manage to be played, with no or very limited spectators. UConn hoops, if played, will have zero spectators save for a small handful. They are still trying to figure out if some games might have to be cancelled. Yesterday, Coast Guard played its annual rivalry football game against I think Maine Maritime. The only game on both teams’ 2020 schedule. Nothing unusual there.
It’s getting limited attendance games played if that is what you mean by “working”. In the meantime. businesses are having trouble staying open as are schools and again hospital capacities are being taxed. I love UConn sports. But this year isn’t normal because we have an uncontrolled epidemic.
Every sport is being played, I could care less if there are no fans. Not trying to be a jerk but I could care less about your son's law firm, everyone's life is more difficult right now but there's no reason sports can't be played...I think it's important they are played.
Why is it important? Symbolism? Trying to seem normal? I guess people have different definitions of important. I wasn’t expecting you to care about my son’s firm. I kinda think you’re smart enough to figure out the reason businesses are going through this crap is because we are trying to make abnormal seem normal. It’s totally normal that athletes can’t be anywhere near the rest of the student body. Let’s suit up the football marching bands and have cheerleaders lead nobody in cheers. Those kids want to do their thing too along with the music majors who don’t have an orchestra or choral group or the players of sub major sports or the players at lower level college divisions who also don’t get to play. I guess they aren’t important.
Because it's incredibly important for the kid's, they dedicate their lives to this. They all want to play and the virus isn't a threat to them. They already let the virus ruin one season for them, it would be ridiculous to let the virus ruin another season for them.
You're all over the place.
Ok. You are concerned about the future earnings of how many kids who might not get to play for one year. At the moment they will be playing. Maybe one, tops two potential NBA kids for this years draft who are on full scholarship, play or not this year. The whole men’s team will find a spot overseas even if they never play another college game. They all will have an extra year to play college if they want. How many Potential NFL players who could be drafted this year out of 85 or whatever on the team. This isn’t meant to be a pissing contest, the point was about delaying things. And I know that other things are unimportant to you, but for the record about my sons gigantic international law firm, almost all of just the NYC branch several hundred members support staff of paralegals, secretaries, clerks have been laid off since March. But a few kids not getting to showcase for a year their wares for a future millions of dollars a year is important. I cant tell you you should think that’s unimportant. Our definitions differ. Peace and love and GO HUSKIES.
A few kids? There's 4,500 D1 men's basketball players.
The underlined part of this is not true. It is not "likely", it's possible but unlikely.
Some good points here - I agree there's a need to consider other potential outcomes. That said, those too should be based on facts (as much as we have them) instead of fear-induced theories. It's easy to fall into the spiraling thought of "oh my god, what if covid will also do THIS to me in a year!" when that's not backed by any evidence.
I don't think you understand how probabilities and expected value works.