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« on: Yesterday at 08:47:47 AM »
As a hockey fan, I like hockey. As a human who has a basic grasp of what a global pandemic entails, this is a foolish venture.
The plan is to test people frequently; okay but there's a lag between test application and test result wherein any affected person is still interacting with others. The plan also asks that players/staff self-report when feeling ill. HAHAHAHAhockey. The plan is forcing players to abandon their families for a couple of months (unpaid because playoffs, baby) during a global pandemic to congregate 1000s of people from all over the world at this point in a city that did not have too much of a problem before but will now be stressed to accommodate.
How will it actually help the economy if players and staff are not to leave their set routes and premises? At best, the hotel and transportation and whoever is catering the foodstuffs gets a bump back to almost normal while incurring significantly greater risk than before.
The reason other countries have bounced back (South Korea, Taiwan) is because they invested in infrastructure after SARS and take testing, tracing, and quarantine enforcement seriously. We cannot possibly say the same about Canada or the US.
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