NFl 2020 USA Sep30
The first reaction is, or should be, to hope everybody is healthy. Nine people in the Titans organization have tested positive for COVID-19, a virus that has killed more than 200,000 people in the United States alone in less than a year, and so reasonable people—and even unreasonable people—should agree: Let’s hope everybody is healthy. Think of it this way: The five-year survival rate for melanoma skin cancer is 99%. If a friend said, “I have skin cancer,” you would presumably worry and hope they are healthy. The chances of anybody in the Titans’ organization dying are impossible to know—we don’t know whether there will be more cases, or the age and health of those who tested positive—but it’s possible and scary. So let’s say that first. An outbreak at an NFL facility was inevitable. Postponing games was inevitable. As of this writing, the Titans are not allowed to return to their facility until Saturday, and it is hard to imagine they will play Pittsburgh on Sunday, as planned. ...