And so, for better or worse, today (as long as I don't post this til midnight) is March 11, 2021 -- one year after the sports world crapped itself when Rudy Gobert was found, minutes before tipoff, to have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.
The world is not the same place it was then, it still isn't "normal", and there (especially because of the malfeasance of many here in the United States) may never be truly normal again.
I mean, yes -- as of today, we are going to have a 2021 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament -- but it will be held in one state, with limited fans, and with the shadow of COVID-19 over the entire enterprise.
We have idiocies like the Texas Rangers with full fans being planned for Opening Day in three weeks and Baltimore planning half capacity and the like.
Here's a fucking clue-by-four for all the Republicans, Libertarians, and YOLO druggies who want it all open: We are past the point this country should well have been destroyed by this (we hit at least two of the three All Stops I talked about a year ago (general loss of order being one)), and the fact is, because of both your malfeasance and your cowardice, we are probably ANOTHER SIX MONTHS from where we should be doing all this shit that we are proposing now.
Schools should NOT be reopening til the Fall now anyway. By my rememberance of the calendar, if you reopen schools in a month, you'd be closing them for the summer anyway in 4-8 further weeks.
Theme parks such as Disneyland should not be reopening until a significant amount of the general public has both doses of the vaccine. I know why Gavin Newsom is caving on this (Recall!!!), but the fact remains that it is clear (as I will rant on a later post here this weekend to a certain Libertarian economist I know who wants the irresponsible killed and butchered for food!) that many in the "OPEN EVERYTHING!" crowd want the rest of us GONE.
And they're too cowardly just to shoot us and be done with it.
So they're basically trying to throw banana peels and anchors on the progress which people have made over the course of the last year to force a Culling/Purge situation...
The fact is, though, is that because of our misshapen belief in "freedom", we aren't ready and aren't close.
Frankly, we should not be allowed to participate in the Tokyo Olympics (and that's even if they are held, which I still doubt) -- there should not be fans in MLB for a good part of this season (under the thought process we have that the reason that Justin Turner ended up positive was probably because of fans who entered the games and were infected) -- and I'm not sure that the very fabric of sports is going to survive this.
I still don't think the NCAA SHOULD survive (for reasons far beyond COVID-19), but the entire structure of sports as they were known one short year ago in this country is going to be forever altered.
There is now a significant movement of White people in this country who will not watch sports anymore -- of any kind. Significant ratings drops across the board indicate that people have tired of both professional and college sports.
And then there's the complete losses of order both last summer across the country and in January in Washington.
And in the next 2 weeks, stimulus check NUMBER THREE starts hitting people - with a fourth all-but-certainly needed as time goes on.
I could go on, and will, over the course of the next few days...
But we aren't ready yet. If there's a take-home point of this, it's clear that there are parties attempting to PROVOKE Wave 1D being the worst yet, because it will force the issue that those they deem unfit should get this virus and be expired by it.
Some of us aren't buying what you're selling. Get with the program or else.
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