Let's get real. Cancelling games due to player safety is BS. Covid is 99.99% not a threat to these tremendously healthy and fit individuals. Not only that, I'm sure they are all vaxed to the max. A positive test does not mean you can't physically play. The WI men's hockey team had 9 players available on a Friday, so they slid the games to Saturday and Sunday, Guess Watts? The whole freaking team played Saturday less actual injured players. Dressed 3 goalies 6 D and 13 F. You can't tell me that on Friday they were physically too sick to play, but Saturday they could. Not a one looked like they were playing sick or over-fatigued. This is a joke. The players themselves said the protocol made no sense. Now if too many players aren't physically able to play, then the game can't be played. I get it.
And speaking of getting real..... if we are so fearful of this, why fill NBA/NHL stadiums with 20000 people or NFL stadiums with 80000 people with no masks or cloth ones? Why are we stuffing people into airplanes and Costco's? These cloth masks are garbage against Omicron. And these N95 masks are EASY to breath through (and talk). You don't even know it's on. I bet you could play hockey wearing them. I find it hilarious to see pictures of HS BB or VB players wearing these cloth masks, which are ill fitting and hard to breath through. And they are readily available, go on Amazon and buy some. You can wear them multiple times.
So Watts is the point of cancelling these games? People at risk should be protecting themselves. My high risk sister in law has been out of her house 14 times since March of 2020 (20 months), to the Dr or a Walmart pickup. That's it, poor Tammy. She's being responsible. Folks who are at risk should protect themselves. Analyze your risk level and live your life according to it and accept the fate of your choice.
I know it's all about not overwhelming Hospitals. They are not full of 20 year old fit people who are vaccinated. They are full of older people who are or aren't vaxed. The vaxed walk out after a short stay, the unvaxed roll out after a long one. Cancelling these hockey games by saying it's player safety has zero affect on hospital covid load. AND these schools are totally cool with in person classes! Does that makes any sense? Can't play hockey Sunday but go to 3 classes and the bar on Monday to watch the big game!
If we are going defcon 10 on this...make N95 masks mandatory for all. That will even protect the unvaxed. The government should be shipping them to all, along with test kits.
Watts is happening right now in regards to covid in 2022 is completely illogical. At least in 2020 and 2021 things that we did made some logical sense, even though back then we knew so much less than now. It's a mad mad mad mad world right now.
