The statistics from the virus-induced pandemic don't lie. The chance of dying from the disease rises dramatically, exponentially actually, if the patient is aged 60 and over. The ailment is not nearly as deadly for the young. The NBA, for one, has alerted its older coaches and officials that they are at significantly higher risk, especially those with a pre-existing medical condition. What about prep coaches in that vulnerable demographic? Will schools and districts urge, or even mandate, that senior citizen mentors (and trainers, referees, P.A. people, scorekeepers, etc.) take a year off? We're about to find out.
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- Thread starter colhenrylives
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This is a big part of the storyline. There are a lot of people who are involved to make a sports program run and going into this season (whatever it looks like) will take even more people to run it with new criteria.
...noted in the original posting...but thanks for the emphasis on a vital part of any game...
How about fans? I yell at these guys more than some of those young'uns... think they'll notice?
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We are already facing an officials shortage. Removing all of those officials "north of 60" for a season would be devastating to the coverage of games.
For some current statistical perspective on this matter, here's one Bay Area example: San Mateo County health authorities have reported a total of 103 virus-caused deaths as of this weekend, according to their excellent website. There have been just two recorded deaths suffered by people below the age of 50 _ and 81 deaths for those 70 and above (71 of those 81 fatalities have occurred among patients from long-term care facilities, by the way.) The differences in morbidity rates are really striking. So the obvious recommendation becomes: Senior citizens, be doubly careful out there as the economy opens up.
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