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Also IMO it's wrong to blame the media for reporting events. . . 

So, you think the media is only "reporting events" without any agenda?  Really?

If you believe that, then there is probably no point in further discussion.  But do yourself a favor:  when the next time you read an article about how many high profile individuals test positive for Covid 19, see if the same media "reporting events" talks about whether the people testing positive have symptoms, require hospitalization, or better yet, how those positive test might affect the actual hospital capacity in their community.  You can start with the reports on the Florida Marlins.

And if you don't want to take the suggestion because it's from me, then I commend to you BC's post, where he said positive testing, by itself, isn't particularly newsworthy.  What's newsworthy is positive test rate, hospital capacity, ICU usage, and deaths.  

But whatever, if you

This looks like a solution in search of a problem. 

And, it doesn’t make any sense either. It doesn’t matter how many Marlins are experiencing symptoms or if they end up in hospital per se. what does matter is each person is a possible spread vector for others, and there is no doubt that some people will get quite sick, some will require hospitalization, and some will die, show those players be links in transmission chains.

That is true for every single working person who contracts the virus.  I would bet good money that some employees at the local Costco have acquired the virus (from whatever activity) in the past several months.  But Costco doesn't shut down.  The person (I presume) is sent home from work and asked not to return until X days and Y negative test(s).  Maybe there is some protocol for any company that reaches X% of infected employee base to shut down that operation (like the meat packing facility).  That makes some sense and could be applied to MLB as well.  .

The point is that MLB could send the players home and send up replacements to play in the next game.  If the nature of the player interaction is that you must wait an incubation period for everyone "to clear" so to speak, then you could do that, too.  Great way for players to conform; great way for younger players to get up to the Bigs.

The fundamental point is that everything is a policy decision.  

P.S.  That NYT resignation letter was pretty damning . . . but not surprising . . . unfortunately.  (I actually think the comment about conformity from journalists just happy to have a job at prestigious place in a shrinking market is the most telling).

[teejers1]

Also IMO it's wrong to blame the media for reporting events. . . 

So, you think the media is only "reporting events" without any agenda?  Really?

If you believe that, then there is probably no point in further discussion.  But do yourself a favor:  when the next time you read an article about how many high profile individuals test positive for Covid 19, see if the same media "reporting events" talks about whether the people testing positive have symptoms, require hospitalization, or better yet, how those positive test might affect the actual hospital capacity in their community.  You can start with the reports on the Florida Marlins.

And if you don't want to take the suggestion because it's from me, then I commend to you BC's post, where he said positive testing, by itself, isn't particularly newsworthy.  What's newsworthy is positive test rate, hospital capacity, ICU usage, and deaths.  

But whatever, if you

This looks like a solution in search of a problem. 

And, it doesn’t make any sense either. It doesn’t matter how many Marlins are experiencing symptoms or if they end up in hospital per se. what does matter is each person is a possible spread vector for others, and there is no doubt that some people will get quite sick, some will require hospitalization, and some will die, show those players be links in transmission chains.

That is true for every single working person who contracts the virus.  I would bet good money that some employees at the local Costco have acquired the virus (from whatever activity) in the past several months.  But Costco doesn't shut down.  The person (I presume) is sent home from work and asked not to return until X days and Y negative test(s).  Maybe there is some protocol for any company that reaches X% of infected employee base to shut down that operation (like the meat packing facility).  That makes some sense and could be applied to MLB as well.  .

The point is that MLB could send the players home and send up replacements to play in the next game.  If the nature of the player interaction is that you must wait an incubation period for everyone "to clear" so to speak, then you could do that, too.  Great way for players to conform; great way for younger players to get up to the Bigs.

The fundamental point is that everything is a policy decision.  

P.S.  That NYT resignation letter was pretty damning . . . but not surprising . . . unfortunately.  (I actually think the comment about conformity from journalists just happy to have a job at prestigious place in a shrinking market is the most telling).