Somebody High Up Needs to Say This.....

[O'Royken]

Sports is an essential business. It keeps people home watching and not out spreading. For that reason sports leagues shouldn't feel guilty about paying for and administrating the Abbot 5-15 minute test.

Sports leagues are afraid of the backlash about getting Abbot Test ahead of health care workers. Sports in danger of not returning in 2020 because of this.

 

[John Kelly]

Essential, indeed.

Sporting events are a fabulous source of community pride.

Young and old, black and white, male and female, etc. all coming together to root for the home team.

Here in Chicago, I'm amazed by the militant stance of the mayor (Lori Lightfoot) and state governor (J.B. Pritzker).

They're dragging their feet with a five-phase reopening plan that denies fans from attending sporting events in the state.

Phase 5, a return to normalcy, will not take place until a vaccine or reliable treatment hits the marketplace.

Meantime, neighhoring state Indiana is proposing a "business as usual" policy as early as July 4.

 

[billysink]

Are there different due diligence employment statutes from State to State and better mitigation efforts, testing capacities?

 

[FairWarning]

Essential, indeed.

Sporting events are a fabulous source of community pride.

Young, old, black, white, male female, etc. all coming together rooting for the home team.

Here in Chicago, I'm amazed by the militant stance of the mayor (Lori Lightfoot) and state governor (J.B. Pritzker).

They're dragging their feet with a five-phase reopening plan that denies fans from attending sporting events in the state.

Phase 5, a return to normalcy, will not take place until a vaccine or reliable treatment hits the marketplace.

Meantime, neighhoring state Indiana is proposing a "business as usual" policy as early as July 4.

Indiana opened up restaurants today. Can’t sit at the bar, 50% max occupancy.

 

[John Kelly]

Are there different due diligence employment statutes from State to State and better mitigation efforts, testing capacities?

Above my pay grade.

 

[WildBill]

Here in Chicago, I'm amazed by the militant stance of the mayor (Lori Lightfoot) and state governor (J.B. Pritzker).

They're dragging their feet with a five-phase reopening plan that denies fans from attending sporting events in the state.

Meantime, neighhoring state Indiana is proposing a "business as usual" policy as early as July 4.

They desperately need a federal bailout in the worst way and Indiana doesn't. Simple as that.

They won't block sports in the end because it would be easy to move them temporarily if everyone else is open and they aren't. Bears could make a deal with ND or Purdue, or even share with the Colts. Same stuff is already being discussed about the California NFL teams. When the time is right the NFL will challenge the states and the states will fold. They will agree to change the policies but try to maintain the right to limit the crowds and the seating.