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CGold113's avatar

"Sports are like the reward of a functioning society."

This blog, and Sean Doolittle's above quote, are completely on the money. Heck, it applies to my thinking; before the NBA shut down in March, I equated COVID-19 on the same scale as swine flu, ebola, etc. Dangerous diseases that had run rampant in years past, and we had people get sick and die, but it wouldn't be on the scale of the 1919 flu epidemic or anything.

Then the games got canceled (and Tom Hanks got sick the same day) and my dumb brain started to think "Oh hey, maybe this is actually something I should be concerned about!" Now I do all the things you're supposed to (minimize going out, WASH YOUR HANDS, wear a mask, social distancing), but it's scary how many people don't and how many more are preaching that you shouldn't.

Thanks for writing.

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Socially distant armdancer's avatar

First of all, super excited about Defector! Nice to see the Crew getting together & if I had $25K, I would send it their way.

MLB & NFL should be cancelled. Any league forcing a player to play should be cancelled. Any league where players aren't being paid (I'm looking at you, college sports) should have been cancelled years ago. NBA being in the middle of Fucking DeSantisTown should be cancelled. But the NHL (which is in Edmonton & Toronto)? It's in Canada, where the infection rate is low and the risks of players spreading the virus in their bubble is substantially lower.

So yeah, cancel sports in America until people can fucking learn (which will unfortunately be never). Canada though? I'll raise a cup of Timmy Horton's to that, eh?

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