Football Shutdowns

2 hours ago, theguru said:

Exactly!

2 hours ago, ApolloFan98 said:

This is the common sense approach and answer.  But common sense is dead.  Fear reigns supreme these days.

It makes zero sense to cancel games when kids and/or coaches do not have COVID.  If we're going to continue in this line of thinking, we might as well just stay locked inside our homes for the rest of our lives because what we're saying is, nothing is safe anymore.

Especially when the response to this illness is so far out of proportion to the response to other public health crises:

Leading cause of death in all people under age 40 in the United States? Trauma: no one is taking kids’ car keys from them.

3-4 of the top 5 diseases processes on which we spend the most money every year as a country are directly linked to cigarette smoking and poor nutrition (this one is truly a little dependent on the year). Yet I see no bans on cigarettes (especially in KY), and I certainly can’t get onto the McDonald’s parking lot these days for drive thru service. 
 

When it’s all said and done, Covid might creep into the top 10 for deaths this year, but it’s going to have to battle all of the lung cancers, all of the COPD victims, and all of the heart diseases to do so. So why the uproar?