Boston Red Sox: MLB season and much more still in jeopardy
With Boston Red Sox players reportedly testing positive for coronavirus the season seems to be destined to be canceled.
A report that some Boston Red Sox players have tested positive for coronavirus has to be greeted with great skepticism that there will be a 2020 MLB baseball season at all.
This new report was a sobering indication of the reach and seriousness that the virus still presents, not only to sports teams but to all Americans and people worldwide.
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Major League Baseball has done its best to move forward to try to conduct an abbreviated season. This in light of the devastating illness that has swept across the United States and the world over the past six months.
Recent news reports that the virus has afflicted members of the well-trained and well-protected baseball player community of our nation has come as a blow to all who think the virus has been contained. A report noted that eight other MLB franchises have been impacted in some way by the virus. This did not include the Boston Red Sox.
As time goes on, it becomes increasingly clear that the cancellation of the 2020 MLB season is becoming more and more likely. The health and safety of players and staff even in the absence of fans in the seats has to be of paramount concern. With this in mind, it seems only a matter of time until the season is canceled.
This is not a recreational issue. This is not a fan issue. This is not a competitive issue. This is not a sports issue. This is not a baseball issue. This is an issue of health, life, and death. For all baseball players and staff and all Americans and all people of the Earth.
The illusion that the coronavirus has been defeated is just that. An illusion. It rages on impacting the unprotected, the unsuspecting, the unprepared, and the unwary, meanwhile devasting the most elderly among us with a harsh sentence to those who have the least ability to fend off its deadly impact.
As we open our society, we have not merely the necessity, but rather we have an obligation. We are obligated to protect those among us who may be more susceptible to the devastation of the disease than we. It is our duty Our responsibility. Our obligation.
Our actions impact not only ourselves but our families, our friends, our colleagues, and anyone with whom we may interact during a day out in an opening society. Though society may be opening, the necessity to close any potential avenues for the disease to spread remains.
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This is a clarion call to all of us. The MLB fraternity is a close and a well-cared-for one. If they are still susceptible to this deadly menace, so are we all. Even more so. The lesson here is clear for all of us. Remain careful. Remain vigilant. Remain safe. Our health, and for some of us, our very lives depend on it.