Posted on 05/11/2020 10:46:48 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Donald Trump’s top coronavirus adviser, claimed that the NFL’s football season could be seriously affected by the pandemic even if the virus is waning by fall.
Speaking to NBC Sports, Fauci insisted that teams could have a significant problem if more than one, perhaps as many as four players, were diagnosed with the virus during the season.
“You got a problem there,” said the director of the National Institutes for Health since 1984. “You know why? Because it is likely that if four of them are positive and they’ve been hanging around together, that the other ones that are negative are really positive. So I mean, if you have one outlier [only one player testing positive], I think you might get away. But once you wind up having a situation where it looks like it’s spread within a team, you got a real problem. You gotta shut it down.”
If an entire team ends up being “shut down” for 14 days in quarantine, then they would have to forfeit the games they are missing. If several teams end up in this situation, it could disrupt the entire season, Fauci said.
Fauci added that it would be “malpractice in medicine” to put players who tested positive on the field.
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There are always going to be viruses. This is getting ridiculous. If we shut down all sport and music and schools when there is anything infectious about, we might as well never do anything.
[[If several teams end up in this situation, it could disrupt the entire season, Fauci said. ]]
And if the power drunk powers that be keep the nation shut down- the season is shot anyways-
Mr Zero Risk- not wanting to relinquish any power-
[[even if the virus is waning by fall.]]
Psst- it’s waning right now in many spots-
i wished Trump would just fire this asshole
Why the Fauci is the jackass still yammering on the national stage?
Fauci is an educated moron.
someone should ask fauci for his thoughts on forced admission of elderly covid19 patients to NY nursing homes when some local hospitals were effectively empty...
If it were up to Dr. Fraud the country would be closed down until everyone was tested and no one got the virus for 30+ days, then maybe, we could think of reopening.
The virus is Fauci.
I think the virus is starting to weaken. The numbers should be going up rather than down because the states are starting to open up again and people started leaving the house again by end of April.
This is when public opinion will go decisively against the fascists. If they try to shut down the most popular sport in America, they’re done. Just in time for the election.
Fauci, mini-dictator wannabe.
Eh... I could care less if the NFL Kneelers ever came back. Screw ‘em.
However, I know there are many Freepers in the Cult Of The Oblate Spheroid that will continue to make excuses and want to hang me for uttering the above. :P
Amen.
The NFL is a 9+ billion dollar industry on the books... and a 99 billion dollar industry off the books... Fauci will have NO say in whether they play or don’t play... They will decide when and where they play and Fauci will accept their decision.
Is there any show this guy hasn’t gone on? Fame whore.
I can’t imagine the shutdown lasting until then. The idiocy must end.
Sorry, a virus is not a sentient being.
Some liberal tyrant will make the decision.
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