Why risk disaster to play truncated makeshift seasons?
the beginning of full-contact practices, in which players collide face mask–to–face mask dozens of times during drills and scrimmages.
While there are few enough pro players and staffers that the leagues may be “lucky” enough not to see any cases become severe, conservative back-of-the-envelope math suggests thatof the country’s 10,000 college football players will require intensive care hospitalization if current levels of viral spread persist and the season proceeds as normal.
, the range of long-term dangers that medical professionals are concerned about include “prolonged fatigue, shortness of breath and chest pain, blood clots, lung scarring and, in the worst-case scenario, heart inflammation triggering a cardiac arrest.”While polls found that majorities of Americans were willing to lock down and wear masks in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus, minority political and business factions succeeded in pushing through premature reopenings.
, resuming games also eliminates the leverage that those players have to force changes within their own communities.
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