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Originally Posted by Westheim
Fear-monger more, perhaps? New virus strains are discovered probably not every day, but certainly regularly and all the time. Having "pandemic potential" means ****. Every car that gets started has the "potential" to run you over. This has nothing to do with the current crisis. You're gonna link everything if you think it serves your point of view.
The BBC should also be slapped and fined for even tweeting like this, but unfortunately they're holier in England than the pope's in the Vatican.
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Has nothing to do with fear mongering. Things are plenty bad enough over here thank you. The hospitals in the southern and western States are already bursting with COVID patients. If that virus develops, we don't need it crashing in on top of everything else. Moving players/staff/journalists/broadcasters etc around in planes particularly from the hardest hit areas of this disease is the definition of insanity. It's nowhere near under control in this part of the world, but yeah sure, f**k the health care workers, let's make it worse, and needlessly make their jobs way more difficult in order to get one of the least essential businesses moving again. That's some brilliant logic right there.
Cars kill a ton of people every year. But they're not crazy contagious like this disease is, particularly in locations where the vast majority of teams in this league are. Smoking kills a ton of people every year. Incredibly contagious? Nope. Heart attacks, strokes, cancer etc kill a ton of people every year. Contagious? Nah. Flu kills lots of people every year. This is much worse and more contagious than flu, and now it's starting to hit young people hard too.
It is absolutely absurd to even consider starting baseball up in this part of the world at this point in the pandemic. It's been demonstrated over and over again that no matter how hard you try to contain this thing, it will spread. It doesn't respect borders, and it's been shown to be darn near impossible to set up "bubbles" to contain it. Broadway has shut down for the rest of the year, and they're saying that the earliest that they can return is early spring, 2021. Why do the sports leagues think they're so goddamn special? Why do they think their athletes are super human, and will neither get sick, nor become vectors for this illness? Answer: They don't give a s**t because it's all about the Benjamins. I hope more players opt out, and sanity prevails. Call me crazy, but I'd like to get this thing under control, and get some relief from the lunacy in this part of the world. There's also the brutal economy, and huge social unrest. Let's just go back to the way it was though right? No can do, because the way it was ain't there anymore. Let's try to deal with what is, shall we?