Everyone is hoping for the best as America's major sports move forward with their restart plans, but there's nothing in our disastrous response to the pandemic to say we deserve themSince the first cases of coronavirus were detected in China in December, no country has been harder hit than the US, which accounts for roughly 4% of the world's population and more than a quarter of total cases. Things have gone from bad to worse in the nearly four months since the pandemic changed life as we know it, with the flattened curves we were promised giving way to soaring case totals nationwide, helped along by a dumbfounding lack of leadership and one unforced error after another by government and citizenry alike. It didn't just go away.That hasn't kept America's major sports from moving full steam ahead with their plans for restarting. Yet with more than 133,000 deaths in the US and so many regions moving so plainly in the wrong direction, it's all coming off a bit tone-deaf and out of touch.It's been a week and a half since Major League Baseball finally opened training camps ahead of a planned 60-game season to be played in all 30 ballparks starting on 23 July. An exhaustively detailed...
Sports are returning to America before we’ve earned them
July 10, 2020 at 3:40 AM
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