11-21-2020, 08:25 PM
I have not seen evidence that college athletics is spreading COVID-19, although the virus is so widespread that it would be difficult to see (and you have the added challenge that we often don't find things out until after the fact). For example, there was no evidence that the Sturgis motorcycle rally caused the spread of COVID until a month after the fact.
I think the analogy is to a ship taking in water. You are trying to dump all the ballast you can to keep the ship from sinking. Maybe the piano in the corner is not contributing as much to the ship's weight as a bunch of other stuff, and it's keeping the passengers calm at a very tragic time. So maybe your instinct is to not throw it overboard if you can avoid it, but if you are trying desperately not to issue the abandon ship order then at some point you say push everything that is not bolted down out, and that might include the piano after all. I think that's where we are with college football, because the alternative is issuing a renewed lockdown, as much of Europe has had to do.
BC
I think the analogy is to a ship taking in water. You are trying to dump all the ballast you can to keep the ship from sinking. Maybe the piano in the corner is not contributing as much to the ship's weight as a bunch of other stuff, and it's keeping the passengers calm at a very tragic time. So maybe your instinct is to not throw it overboard if you can avoid it, but if you are trying desperately not to issue the abandon ship order then at some point you say push everything that is not bolted down out, and that might include the piano after all. I think that's where we are with college football, because the alternative is issuing a renewed lockdown, as much of Europe has had to do.
BC