Have been trying to understand the thought process here.
It's not about saving the lives of college aged kids.
For every college athlete that has been killed by COVID, I can post one that's been killed by any number of things we do every day, but we continue to do them (with precautions) even though they kill people.
So, apparently, it's about saving other people.
Fair enough, Good concern.
How does keeping healthy people from competing in sports save other people?
Because corona virus can be spread person to person asymptomatically, whether direct person to person contact or via aerosols.
Fair enough. Good concern.
Has the world ever seen anything that can be spread asymptomatically in the same exact manner, and kills huge numbers of people?
Why, yes. Interestingly enough, influenza has been around for thousands of years. It's spread person to person via various modes of transmission very similar to how corona spreads.
It's spread in huge numbers by symptomatic as well as asymptomatic carriers. Flu is readily spread by people with no symptoms.
And it, too, kills massive amounts of people.
50,000 - 80,000 in this country alone annually, depending on the source you use.
And how was it spread in 2019? and 2018? and in the '90's, and '80's and '70's and '60's as millions perished in an open, maskless, and non-socially-distanced society?
By symptomatic and asymptomatic carriers. At football games. And schools. And by students. And by athletes. And at church. And by fat guys in the stands. And in local hardware stores. And at Walmart. And in the BIG conference offices. And in meetings held by chancellors and school presidents.
Those people took their influenza germs home with them, went to a nursing home to visit someone, and it was lights out for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people.
And we played football. With stands full of people. And performed many other activities. Even though lives were at stake. Even though it was -- literally -- killing people.
