Guy Chamberlin
Heisman Trophy Winner
Both sides are correct. The disease/virus is terrible if you actually get it. It certainly can kill you and quickly. Some young people have died no question. But hiding under a rock is not the answer.
Personally if they play it will be fine with me. If they don't pretty much the same. Far more important things going on with this, than football.
I deal with it daily, 6 days a week unfortunately. Wife is on the front line. CNO with a far different opinion of doctors after this event. ER doctors are gods in her eyes, the rest could go piss up a rope. Most are useless and terrified of the virus.
The terror from this disease is so overblown it is beyond belief. What we have done is like killing and ant with a bulldozer. Makes no sense at all. Our community has had two deaths at her hospital from Covid. Both in their 80's and waited far to long to show up at the hospital. Why? Doctors are not taking calls, patients are terrified to go to the hospital or the Doctors office because of the continuous media claims they will die if they go out side. People are dying in our community of heart attacks, strokes, kidney disease, drug overdose, spousal abuse, and just about everything else under the sun because of the continuous terror program thrown on this country. by the news media. Many are not having surgeries that are needed because the surgery is considered non essential. The hospitals are going broke because of this. We should have attacked the source and protected the weak. Easy to say now in hindsight. But when the medical field can control something they will jump at the chance to do it.
I offered a different opinion from a Chair head at Stanford. He has a completely different opinion of what is going on. He says the virus has been here since late October early November. A lot of people here think they have had it. Me for one, was never so sick in my life as I was in early November. But not allowed to take the antibody test yet. I think when that is allowed in California we will find out if Dr. Atlas is correct.
I am out every single day, and have been since this all started. I work in communications and spend most of my time on mountain tops. If not there I ride my bicycle 25 to 30 miles a day. I am a high risk individual. 73 years young. Two heart attacks and other problems, but still face every day as an opportunity to improve my self physically. A Jar Head thing. It just never goes away. lol
All of us want this thing to end, but we have to be smart about it. There isn't a need for LA to be locked down until we have a vaccine. California has lost close to 3000 people out of 45 million. 3000 is not a satisfactory number by any means, but this lock down here will end up killing more people than the virus, is my guess.
I agree with most of this, but I think the jury is still out on a lot of things, including whether the media has overblown the fear. In the early going, the media probably underplayed the danger of COVID because Americans weren't dying in number yet. Then New York, Italy and Spain started having legitimate nightmare scenarios. The scientists were smart enough to consider multiple scenarios, because good case and horrible case scenarios were and are still valid. I think you have to report that. Not a lot of easy answers in the mere two months of spotty Shelter in Place directives, and anyone predicting 90,000 U.S. deaths in the two months since March 19 would have been called an alarmist. When we look back on the story, almost everyone will have gotten something wrong.
There are differences between the 1918 influenza pandemic and COVID-19, but there are enough similarities to require vigilance. Things are in fact re-opening -- rather quickly -- and I hope we don't dismiss the scientists, the media, or facemasks if things get inconvenient.
Re: football season. MLB appears ready to move forward with an abbreviated baseball season starting early June. No spectators. I think every other sport will be watching closely. The chances of a football season are better than they were a couple weeks ago.