Paulie Walnuts
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They could play in a remote place like St. Helena, they even have an airport now. Pitcairn island is remote too but no airport.
This is probably a personal problem, but I have zero idea why we "need" sports organizations to have some sort of handle on a situation that's constantly changing and evolving simply to make ourselves feel better. Our governments, yes ... our professional sports leagues? I mean, fine but also ... whatever.How much of this is intended to be behind the scenes? How much is because people keep asking?
these leagues are all businesses and they do need to look at what options they have. We can’t on one hand expect them to continue to pay employees with no revenue coming in and not look at options to change that and get money flowing in.
It’s not insensitive to be looking at how to get things going as quickly as possible in these times. This extreme lockdown situation has a very limited shelf life before it becomes untenable. The essentials for living on our society rely on a functioning economy. That’s not to underestimate the seriousness of this virus or the sadness. If you go back to the early 1800s if you were a farmer and cholera went through and killed 2 or 3 people in your family you didn’t have the option to sit in your house and wait it out or you would starve. Our current situation buys us some time compared to that but there’s a limit. We can’t remain in lockdown until next spring.
You can’t optimize the solution on either COVID19 mitigation OR the economy because either route leads to massive suffering and death. So we have to find ways to do both
...Maybe the NHL and the other leagues could be sensitive to that fact and simple issue a statement that says something like ... "we'll have an appropriate plan at an appropriate time, which is not now."
This is probably a personal problem, but I have zero idea why we "need" sports organizations to have some sort of handle on a situation that's constantly changing and evolving simply to make ourselves feel better. Our governments, yes ... our professional sports leagues? I mean, fine but also ... whatever.
Maybe we all need to better appreciate the role of sports and other entertainments in our lives. Those things are secondary, at best, when there is stress on the public health and welfare on this kind of global scale. Maybe the NHL and the other leagues could be sensitive to that fact and simple issue a statement that says something like ... "we'll have an appropriate plan at an appropriate time, which is not now."
And personally, I actually do think it's insensitive to have personnel at hospitals begging for more reagents for testing and to be talking *right now* about testing 750+ presumably asymptomatic players, staff, managers so they can play baseball.
I mean, honestly ... I don't give a crap about that. Like at all. They are employed in an industry that couldn't be less essential in a public health crisis. That's ALL that matters for now.Especially when pro athletes are all in the top 1% of income in the US.
In the context of the narrow point I was making, it does ... at least to me. Sports just isn't a big enough sector of the economy to argue that it is a life and death matter to temporarily suspend operations.This health crisis is clearly not ALL that matters, and it’s not insensitive for the leagues or any other businesses to be looking to their best interests. People work to make money to buy food and other essentials. So their jobs tend to be essential to them. The economy is vitally important to millions of lives. It’s life or death just as much or more than this virus.