CouchCoach
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Right now, it's really unknown because we're seeing spikes in daily deaths and FL, home to 3 teams, has set records for 3 days in a row. CA, with 3 teams will not allow anything more than 25%, if that, and NYC has already said no fans for those 2 teams.
I don't think some are considering the impact of after the game and the number of people those fans come into contact with and therein lies the real problem. Have an outbreak that starts to shut the city down again and cost more jobs that can be traced back to a football game and this is not going to go well for sports and the NFL in particular since they own the greed award.
Add to this that just today, they predicted the Midwest is the next wave of this based on their model and that looks to be peaking about the time the season is supposed to start.
Here's the problem, jobs and the economy, not attending sports. We must protect that first and foremost as this country just had it's worst quarterly GDP in history, let that sink in, history. Think we can stand much more of that? And getting kids back in school is critical to the economy as well.
We cannot risk setting the economy back anymore or any more 1M+ unemployment claims a week for 18 straight weeks. Let's get as many back to work and back in school as possible before we start thinking about non-critical parts like attending football games.
The New Normal is life as we knew it is on hold and we need to grasp that and work with it. If we do not take the preemptive temporary steps then we risk some very permanent problems for many of our fellow citizens.
We have already proven we were not up to the task of handling this. What makes anyone think they are now. Putting people in crowds is one of the worst all time ideas.
I don't think some are considering the impact of after the game and the number of people those fans come into contact with and therein lies the real problem. Have an outbreak that starts to shut the city down again and cost more jobs that can be traced back to a football game and this is not going to go well for sports and the NFL in particular since they own the greed award.
Add to this that just today, they predicted the Midwest is the next wave of this based on their model and that looks to be peaking about the time the season is supposed to start.
Here's the problem, jobs and the economy, not attending sports. We must protect that first and foremost as this country just had it's worst quarterly GDP in history, let that sink in, history. Think we can stand much more of that? And getting kids back in school is critical to the economy as well.
We cannot risk setting the economy back anymore or any more 1M+ unemployment claims a week for 18 straight weeks. Let's get as many back to work and back in school as possible before we start thinking about non-critical parts like attending football games.
The New Normal is life as we knew it is on hold and we need to grasp that and work with it. If we do not take the preemptive temporary steps then we risk some very permanent problems for many of our fellow citizens.
We have already proven we were not up to the task of handling this. What makes anyone think they are now. Putting people in crowds is one of the worst all time ideas.