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Fall Football

Over last weekend while visiting my daughter and her kids, we went to a high-school football game. I did not make any connection between a football game in an outdoor stadium and Covid. I did not wear a mask while sitting in the stands. Was I right or was I wrong?

Now granted we were not packed in like sardines at the high school game, but the more pertinent issue is the Covid risk of attending outdoor sporting events while sitting shoulder to shoulder, packed in the stands.

So now almost eight weeks into the college football season, what has happened? Are Covid cases spiking? What about the MLB playoffs? Has there been any Covid spread related to these packed baseball stadiums? 

Pro-football? Anything?

What does the “Doctor of Doom,” Dr. Fauci say on this issue?

“I don’t think it’s smart,” he told CNN last month. “Outdoors is always better than indoors, but even when you have such a congregate setting of people close together, first you should be vaccinated. And when you do have congregate settings, particularly indoors, you should be wearing a mask.”

Fauci wasn’t alone, of course. MSNBC host Joy Reid, looking at the crowds, told Fauci during an interview that she “thought COVID is about to have a feast.”

“I thought the same thing. I think it’s really unfortunate,” he replied.

From Townhall:

“But NBC fact-checked those concerns, pointing out over the weekend that fears about packed football stadiums being super-spreader events “never happened.”

“For weeks, crowds in the tens of thousands, mostly unmasked, have sat side-by-side now cheering on their teams at the halfway point of the season,” said NBC reporter Shaquille Brewster. “All while doctors warned of games becoming potential super-spreader events. A frightening prospect at the time with hospitals already on the brink.”

Data paint a different picture, however, after increased vaccinations and higher natural immunity.

“Covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths now all down nationwide,” Brewster said. “Cases are now in steep decline in every college football state across the south, including Florida, where hospitalizations fell 64 percent last month, even as some 90,000 fans packed the [University of Florida] Gators’ stadium.”

Last month, Outkick founder Clay Travis also pointed out that packed stadiums haven’t led to surges in Covid-19 cases.

“There’s been a 35% decline in Georgia, 32% decline in South Carolina, 30% decline in Mississippi, 22% decline in Arkansas, 23% in Alabama, 9% in Texas. Every single SEC state where millions of people have gone to college football games has not led to a feast of COVID as Doctor Fauci predicted,” Travis said, reports Fox News.

Could it be that the esteemed “Doctor of Doom” is wrong … again ?

10/21/21

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