[lex24]

 If, as implied in the article, schools may be opening for in person classes expressly to allow CFB to happen, that is negligence that will cost people lives.

The SEC schools have very few financial resources and exist in states unlikely to help much as their budgets will be overwhelmed by COVID 2nd surge and 2nd wave costs.   The football programs, if they were standalone entities, would be worth billions.   Therefore they have to keep those things going, if at all possible.

These are the same states that are opening public schools right now.   If the K-12 can go to school why not the higher education facilities? 

Sigh...
Only in the USA would it seem plausible to open schools and sports in a region overwhelmed by a deadly pandemic.
I guess that is why "Some People" suggest we are doing a great job against COVID19!

 Isn’t Stanford at this point playing football this year? 

I get that it’s (1) the Evil SEC which is in (2) the evil and backwards South.  But again, isn’t Stanford playing football this year.

 The quote attributed to the unnamed official (I love unnamed sources they are so unaccountable) may be inferred one of two ways: one, is that they are opening schools to play football. I highly doubt that. I’m pretty cynical, but not that cynical. Second, that they only would play if the schools were open. Those are different inferences from the same statement. The second is less “evil”. 

I’ll ask again - isn’t Stanford playing football this year?

As for K-12 - I don’t think it’s relevant to the discussion. But since you went there I’ll respond. It is of course possible that these evil people down in the south just don’t give a damn how many people die from this disease. It’s also possible, of course, that they wanna reopen schools because they already have higher poverty levels, already have bigger problems with their educational system to begin with, that more kids in that area will be adversely impacted by schools not opening than in some of the more wealthy areas of the country and that less kids are equipped to school virtually.

But it is very nice to have the moral clarity to simply make a knee-jerk reaction that an entire region of the country just doesn’t care about its people.

I hope you’ve written to Stanford to convey your outrage that they are (at this point) playing football.

[lex24]

 If, as implied in the article, schools may be opening for in person classes expressly to allow CFB to happen, that is negligence that will cost people lives.

The SEC schools have very few financial resources and exist in states unlikely to help much as their budgets will be overwhelmed by COVID 2nd surge and 2nd wave costs.   The football programs, if they were standalone entities, would be worth billions.   Therefore they have to keep those things going, if at all possible.

These are the same states that are opening public schools right now.   If the K-12 can go to school why not the higher education facilities? 

Sigh...
Only in the USA would it seem plausible to open schools and sports in a region overwhelmed by a deadly pandemic.
I guess that is why "Some People" suggest we are doing a great job against COVID19!

 Isn’t Stanford at this point playing football this year? 

I get that it’s (1) the Evil SEC which is in (2) the evil and backwards South.  But again, isn’t Stanford playing football this year.

 The quote attributed to the unnamed official (I love unnamed sources they are so unaccountable) may be inferred one of two ways: one, is that they are opening schools to play football. I highly doubt that. I’m pretty cynical, but not that cynical. Second, that they only would play if the schools were open. Those are different inferences from the same statement. The second is less “evil”. 

I’ll ask again - isn’t Stanford playing football this year?

As for K-12 - I don’t think it’s relevant to the discussion. But since you went there I’ll respond. It is of course possible that these evil people down in the south just don’t give a damn how many people die from this disease. It’s also possible, of course, that they wanna reopen schools because they already have higher poverty levels, already have bigger problems with their educational system to begin with, that more kids in that area will be adversely impacted by schools not opening than in some of the more wealthy areas of the country and that less kids are equipped to school virtually.

But it is very nice to have the moral clarity to simply make a knee-jerk reaction that an entire region of the country just doesn’t care about its people.

I hope you’ve written to Stanford to convey your outrage that they are (at this point) playing football.