re: Players’ union expects no fans at NBA games during 2020-21 season

Eradication as a threat was possible and is the goal, be it vaccine, herd immunity(your dumb strategy), or lockdowns and social distancing policies. But again, that is merely part of a holistic design strategy for why you flatten the curve.

And the fact you are asking me to do homework that you should have done before coming to this conversation with declarative statements says all I need to know.




New York actually looks similar to places like Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, and New Zealand, their issue going forward will be avoiding what places like California and Texas are experiencing, which is laxing things too much, too quickly, and not having the requisite testing and tracing to control new spread.

Based on America’s weak chest for this virus, an absolute failure of federal leadership, an increasingly weak chest for state leadership(in part exacerbatted by failure of federal leadership to support state needs), I have my doubts they will succeed.

As to what we should do? Depends on the area. the federal government is failing massively in being the backbone of support and that muddies the state situation. Florida, Arizona and Texas should be pulling back to phase one or locking back down entirely, New York, New Jersey, and other states that have met the requisite 14 day sustained drop in new cases and succeeded through phase 1 should be opening up cautiously and in further phases and probably limiting flow into and out of the state, mandating social distancing and mask policies. Basically read the Harvard Medical Review, Heritage Foundation, or CDC guidelines and you have my answer. Have you bothered reading any of those?