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Football may not happen at all this year, Fauci warns (CNN) — The defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs are scheduled to kick off the 2020 regular season at home on September 10 against the Houston Texans. Players are due to NFL training camp on July 22 with the Hall of Fame Game taking place in Canton, Ohio, on August 6.
And the NCAA, which began to allow voluntary athletics activities in all Division I sports this month, on Wednesday approved a plan for summer athletic activities and preseason practice for the upcoming 2020 college football season, which is slated to get underway on August 29.
But should there be any football played this season amid the coronavirus pandemic?Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, tells CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, "Unless players are essentially in a bubble -- insulated from the community and they are tested nearly every day -- it would be very hard to see how football is able to be played this fall. If there is a second wave, which is certainly a possibility and which would be complicated by the predictable flu season, football may not happen this year."
On Monday, several Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans players tested positive for the coronavirus, according to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero. None of the players were in the teams' facilities, and both teams followed proper health protocols, per the report.When asked how the positive tests impact the league planning in terms of beginning training camps and the upcoming season, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told ESPN on Monday, "We expect we are going to have positive tests. That is part of the increased testing that we will be going through and that is something that we just want to make sure that our protocols are working and to date. We are seeing very positive reactions in the sense that we are making sure we respond quickly, protect the personnel that may be impacted by that and others that may be in contact with them."
One thing I read elsewhere, is that the NFL is mandating no camps start until all camps can start across the states.
They don't want any franchise to get an unfair advantage over another.
I'm going to start calling him Dr. Grouchy if he messes with my NFL season.
Depressing. This thing keeps vacillating between encouraging news to discouraging. I suppose that's normal. And will continue for quite some time.
I flew to San Francisco last weekend and there were people out on the beach at Crissy Field as if it were a normal summer day. Distanced of course, but out running, biking, swimming. Came back and Denver's airport seemed oddly busy. Next day, my son had a baseball game. Parents in the stands, distanced, but probably not as much as we should've been. Still, it felt good. Felt like summer. Felt like all was right with the world. That feeling is contagious, and I suppose a little dangerous.
But as I've said all along, we have to be able to tolerate a certain degree of increased cases as we try to slowly get back to our lives, get people back to work, etc. Spiking and careening out of control, no, shut it all down again. But we have to expect an increase as we carefully finesse the right amount of laissez-faire.
People need to stay vigilante even though they are going thru virus fatigue. But they can NOT shut down the economy again. Can't happen. It will have truly long-lasting and devastating results. Even the medical doctors agree with that.
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People need to stay vigilante even though they are going thru virus fatigue. But they can NOT shut down the economy again. Can't happen. It will have truly long-lasting and devastating results. Even the medical doctors agree with that.
If it goes to that extreme, then a real shit show of a 2nd wave came back and I agree, that would be devastating to lives and the economy too.
I sure hope we have an NFL season. My psyche needs it. I have no intention of going to a game this year without a vaccine, but I want to watch football again.
It is really hard to get excited about anything now ain't it.
I take it one weekend one event at a time. Going to try and have as normal a summer as possible. Things just started feeling normal. Somethings I enjoy are starting back up. One thing I found out was lost permanent. I wear my mask in public. I keep my distance. Hell even before all this I was about not getting in people's faces or them mine.
Football is a passion for me/us. It's every fall weekend plan. I have decided to wade in carefully this year. I don't want to invest too much emotionally just to lose it before the season starts. I've gotten used to emotional let down at the end.
This uncertainty is taking the enjoyment out of the excitement of a new season.
Thanks Dr Grouchy.
I think anything Fauci says needs to be taken with a grain of salt at this point. Don't think i'd want him as a bookie.
Quote: @StickyBun said:
People need to stay vigilante even though they are going thru virus fatigue. But they can NOT shut down the economy again. Can't happen. It will have truly long-lasting and devastating results. Even the medical doctors agree with that.
So what do you do if say 2 weeks from now the trend upward in deaths has us right back to the higher teen to low 2 thousand deaths per day like we where when NYC was getting slammed? We've got 4 states that are trending significantly upward. Do you close state boarders with those states and only close them down? Is it local measures? What at this point can be done to figure this thing out?
I can tell you as a father, if there isn't school this fall/winter/spring that will devastate the economy even if there isn't a general shutdown.
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@ StickyBun said:
People need to stay vigilante even though they are going thru virus fatigue. But they can NOT shut down the economy again. Can't happen. It will have truly long-lasting and devastating results. Even the medical doctors agree with that.
So what do you do if say 2 weeks from now the trend upward in deaths has us right back to the higher teen to low 2 thousand deaths per day like we where when NYC was getting slammed? We've got 4 states that are trending significantly upward. Do you close state boarders with those states and only close them down? Is it local measures? What at this point can be done to figure this thing out?
I can tell you as a father, if there isn't school this fall/winter/spring that will devastate the economy even if there isn't a general shutdown.
It sucks all the way around, brother. Colleges are shitting their pants with worry over how many parents aren't going to bring their kids to school in the Fall.
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