08-25-2020, 06:45 PM
If you think ~100 people in a Biogen meeting was a superspreader event??
Imagine 20,000 people watching Bama or Georgia in an SEC stadium for 4+ hours.
Bama will get ~$2 million in ticket revenue.
Tuscaloosa might get a similar amount in service sector business revenue.
And the USA will likely pay several times that tally in healthcare costs over the next 4 or 5 months.
I think the SEC officials are putting far too much faith in the safety of outdoor gatherings, especially after what happened in South Dakota with Sturgis over the last two weeks.
I have always believed the players will be more or less OK, especially for Bama since many of its players tested positive with COVID already. I remain less and less confident that the essential stadium workers around the SEC will be as lucky.
The SEC teams trying to squeeze out a few million in ticket revenue appears very inappropriate given the amount of COVID19 in the region and the problems the region has had with campus parties and other gatherings.
Imagine 20,000 people watching Bama or Georgia in an SEC stadium for 4+ hours.
Bama will get ~$2 million in ticket revenue.
Tuscaloosa might get a similar amount in service sector business revenue.
And the USA will likely pay several times that tally in healthcare costs over the next 4 or 5 months.
I think the SEC officials are putting far too much faith in the safety of outdoor gatherings, especially after what happened in South Dakota with Sturgis over the last two weeks.
I have always believed the players will be more or less OK, especially for Bama since many of its players tested positive with COVID already. I remain less and less confident that the essential stadium workers around the SEC will be as lucky.
The SEC teams trying to squeeze out a few million in ticket revenue appears very inappropriate given the amount of COVID19 in the region and the problems the region has had with campus parties and other gatherings.