People are getting too worked up over this. He's just saying that until there's a vaccine, things aren't going to return to "normal" because all we can do with social distancing is to tamp the virus down. It will keep reappearing until a time comes when there's a vaccine available that will prevent it re-infecting us and starting up again.
It's pretty much a foregone conclusion unless there is a widely-available vaccine by August. To which there wont be.
With fans? I'm not sure about that. I think especially major sports leagues will be terrified of litigation and bad PR if they come back and an outbreak occurs, I could definitely be wrong it happens often.
FWIW I read a few minutes ago that MLB thinks they can start in May, it sounded like it would be fanless, but if they start that soon, Im sure fans will come not too long after.
I saw that the NBA is looking into rapid Coronavirus blood tests as a way to potentially allow the games to restart. Presumably, players, coaches, refs and everyone involved with running and broadcasting the games would get tested before each game. I assume that this would be a model that would not include live audiences.
So what do they do in the occurrence one person tests positive? Spend all the money, do all these things, play two games then have to shut it down again? Or would they just quarantine and keep going...?
I’d guess that they would do the testing before being allowed into the arena. But, like MM, I know nothing. Just something that they are looking at.
Once the Hydroxychloroquine is the proven vaccine we can go back to normal then? Trump will also be boesting that he's the one who thought of that first!
