[quote="panther2" post=388679][quote="Paul Massell" post=388675]I agree with you guys about priorities and while there are plenty of selfish narcissists and psychopaths (most of them are politicians or work in Silicon Valley) I don't think it does any good to create this concept of the mindless, selfish horde who don't care about the welfare of others and just want their selfish comforts, screw everyone else. Most people care regardless of their race or background. But beyond that, another facet to sports/entertainment is that this is a profession for these people and the vast majority in the profession of sports, even some that are relatively famous, live paycheck to paycheck and aren't Lebron or living lifestyles of the rich and famous. The same goes for other entertainment industries. So it isn't just about fans wanting to be entertained or even the pampered stars. Most of these guys don't have a fallback job at the local electronics store like Artest...
My daughter works in a hospital for low pay and already has compromised health but she desperately wanted to go back to work and not just for the paycheck. People want to live their lives and do what they do, for various reasons. There are no easy answers.[/quote]
Much respect for your daughter and her commitment to help others. My wife and I both worked in Health Care before we retired. Speaking to some of our former co workers, we have been told that there is a definite improvement in New York. A friend of mine who is a RN at NY Presbyterian Hospital of Queens told me this morning that there are only 3 covid units left in the hospital and the Operating Rooms will go full blast on June 15th.
My concern was about opening up everything too soon and then having a full scale recurrence. There is nothing that I would like more than to be at St. Johns in October for Midnight Madness and then for the Mass for Coach Carnsecca the following day.[/quote]
Just my two cents on this and not meaning to hijack the thread. I’m not positive a massive spike will happen again at this point in time. This disease has travelled sooo fast and cases shot up so quickly that I think we saw our major spike. I believe the asymptomatic population out there is a bit greater than estimated and even the cdc suggests it may be almost 40% that are asymptomatic. When the disease first started, we didn’t know who would be effected. Now we see a very clear stratification of age groups etc that are heavily effected and Those that are to an extent much lesser or almost not effected at all like young children.
Our approach should be much more measured moving forward to protect our vulnerable population. Hospitals are no longer overwhelmed and in truth will end up closing if they don’t go back to business as much as possible.
Sports in the grand scheme of things don’t seem a priority, but the American spirit is really hurting in a lot of ways right now. The athletes out there and that age group are amongst the lowest risk for severe sequelae of this disease and in my opinion, should be able to play without much risk to themselves. It’s the spectators that I understand as logistically avoiding big crowds indoors is difficult.
