re: Why does everything have to be a damned conspiracy?

On August 5th the Big 10 released their revised football schedule. Practice was allowed to begin on Aug 7th. Then, THREE DAYS after releasing the schedule the presidents/AD's etc all of a sudden had emergency meetings to discuss whether the season should be canceled. Unless you have been asleep since March, we have been dealing with the coronations overreaction for FIVE months (and counting). What "new" medical/scientific evidence could have possible come out...in THREE DAYS...that caused a complete 180? The answer is N-O-T-H-I-N-G. The powers that be saw that shite was getting real and knew they had to step in in a hurry to shut it down.

Given the fact that testing at all of the member schools had shown a very small % of the players were testing positive for the virus and that the doom and gloom "statistics" weren't really doomy or gloomy enough, they had to quickly find a new justification for such an abrupt reversal. That's when you immediately started seeing articles talking about the scary unknown long-term complications. So for 4 months no one thought about the possibility of long term complications until the schedule was release and practice was about to start? They even identified a big, scary, scientific word to scare you...mayocarditis. The problem is that, FACT, the risk of mayocarditis associated with viral infections has LONG (i.e. for decades) been known by medical professions. In fact, it is well known potential complication of another viral infection called influenza. Yet, that risk had NEVER warranted shutting down sports in the past.

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“As time progressed and after hours of discussion with our Big Ten Task Force for Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Big Ten Sports Medicine Committee, it became abundantly clear that there was too much uncertainty regarding potential medical risks to allow our student-athletes to compete this fall," Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren said in a news release.

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So before August 5th none of this "uncertainty" was discussed? Only three days after releasing the schedule did someone say "You known. There might be some uncertainty."? Give me a fricking break.

Action happens at deadlines. It's easy not to worry about something when you are 3 months out. But the "shut everything down forever" crowd saw it looking very likely the Big 10 was going to play football (the players and coaches haven't just been siting on their asses all summer) and they had to react quickly. This was decision in search of a justification. Not the other way around. So if you want to be naive and think "new" evidence just all of a sudden popped up this week, feel free. The rest of us will reside here in reality.