![]() ![]() The best that humanity can hope for is a vaccine that works, or to find Immunity but it will likely mutate and render the vaccine useless. Just like polio and smallpox, it will always be out there.Įven though there are really effective vaccines for these, there are stillĪnti-vaxxers that will allow it to rear its head up.Ī vaccine might prevent it from coming back and allow for some There will never be a time that you will be "safe" from it. I just have a strong suspicion that any big time coach would be eviscerated by the public if a player got seriously ill or, God forbid, died from Covid. But how would a Covid death be viewed? Would it be seen more as negligence since football isn't necessary? Obviously there's a possibility this player could get Covid somewhere down the road even without football, but being together with the football team on campus probably makes it more likely. Only in situations like Maryland where this is real negligence and possible abuse is there public backlash. Generally a player dying is viewed as a tragedy and not a scandal. You also bring up the other important fact here: nearly every year a player dies on the practice field, usually from something like an undiagnosed heart defect but occasionally from negligence and incompetence such as the Maryland tragedy a couple years back that resulted in the firing of Durkin and his staff. How will the public view this? Or how will schools and conferences deal with the possibility of this happening? Is the fear of that enough to cancel the season? If CFB is played across the country this year, eventually some player with underlying conditions is going to get really sick from Covid and potentially die. I was just talking to a friend about this last week. The sooner we accept this the quicker we can move on. It was refreshing to hear someone with a national platform talk common sense. An admission that most of this is about transfer of liability. One of the most telling statements was basically that if lawyers and liabilities weren't involved (people trying to cover their butts) we would handle this totally differenly. BUT THEY DID! We are all going to be exposed, why not let the healthy population (football players and other student athletes) return, get the virus, get over if (if there are sympotoms at all) and contribute to building herd and individual immunity. They seemed to be a little heistant to break from the herds and talk in terms of real risk. Yesterday talking to Ben Leber they discussed how little impact COV19 has on the college athlete demographic. finally someone using common sense RE: COVID ![]()
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