If one student gets Covid from a B12 Game and dies from it, was it worth it?
I hate the idea of cancelling the season, but we all could grumble, watch golf, and live with it.
Go on and project this out ad absurdum: Won't somebody die in a car accident on the way to the game? Won't somebody get food poisoning at the many tailgates before the game and die? Won't the heat be bad enough to cause sunstroke/heatstroke and cause death? (Because we'll have a 2:30pm kickoff fer sure)? Some kid might fall out of a tree while playing in the lots. Some drunk might trip over a beer keg hose and crack his skull. On and on... Cancel the season and those people might be saved!
We can wrap ourselves in bubble wrap and exist miserably in a germ-free bubble, safe from all possible risk. Or, we can live our lives and accept the risks that go with living.
The people at the
least risk of dying are the younger folks: The players themselves. The curves towards bad infections go up as older people are exposed. At the upper end of the 50's, I would not have any trouble at all attending a game, without a stupid and useless face diaper or the quack-mandated goggles. (Although I would likely have a purely medicinal beer to stave off infection. Perhaps two...) In your 70s and have emphysema (or other breathing/immune system issue)? Probably ought to watch from home.
This is crap, and it's gone on long enough. The vast majority of people dying from this are old and sick already. They aren't playing the game (although Rape U. is looking to schedule them). There is not equality of risk involved in this disease. There is also no way of fingering a precise point of infection or any sort of evidence chain.
It's an airborne virus.Trying to hold TCU, or any other institution responsible for infection is insane, as they cannot control each and every interaction that people have. They can take precautions, but the effort is ultimately futile.
Play ball!