(06-05-2020, 06:56 AM)Farm93 Wrote: As the NCAA says, there are thousands of student-athletes.You may be right that it works out like you predict, but my guess is that it would NOT go smoothly like that.
My guess is at least a few will accidentally, or intentionally, discover a competitive advantage this season - COVID19 Antibodies
For one, it’s not like chicken pox. Even if every player hung out with the confirmed positive cases for hours in a small room, not all of them will get infected. Try as they might, their young immune systems may protect them — that time. We still don’t know exactly who will shed virus and when, it’s not like clock-work. But given the exhaustion of two-a-days, maybe they get infected a month later, or two, and suddenly you still have a lot of players sick during the season.
Second, once people get wind of this they’re gonna shut it down. If a whole team is infected and some kids go to a local restaurant, get the staff sick, and an elderly family member dies, and the community learns the players got infected *intentionally*, there’s going to be deserved outrage, and maybe even criminal or financial liability.
Also, so many people feel sick and are convinced they have Covid, but they don’t. Even in March, only like 10% of tests were coming back positive. People who had terrible flu-like symptoms earlier this year who get seroprevalence tests often find out it wasn’t Covid. So, unless everything lines up, the kids could just be spreading colds among themselves. Just imagine an entire team sick for a month because they thought they were giving each other Covid, but they instead had given each other the flu.
