Yesterday Texas had almost 10,000 new cases (nationally spiked to over 54k cases), there has always been a Monday spike on the graph but this spike was particularly large and it is the sixth highest number of cases in Texas since this all began. That's before we reopen the schools and colleges and have people interacting in close quarters indoors on a much larger scale than is happening now.
I keep seeing coaches saying that it is safer for them to have the athletes in their programs and I absolutely think that is true but there is a difference between having them on campus and having them playing the games. What happens when they start going to class with 49,000 other students because they aren't in a bubble like the professionals will be, and then what happens when they travel en-masse to a road game and interact with hundreds of other players and coaches and officials during a game, all of whom have been interacting with people on their end. All assuming we don't have fans in the stands because don't get me started on 50,000 football fans interacting with each other and what that will do to spread this thing. However this plays out the concentric circles of exposure just get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger.
I want this thing to go away, I want normal life back, but this just seems to me to be a recipe for making things so much worse. In the end I cannot escape the feeling that while I want to see college football, and I get that life has to go on, I just don't see how we possibly justify multiple super spreader events across a good bit of our country every single Saturday for the next several months when the infection rates are where they are at?
Last edited: Aug 12, 2020