one preventable case is too many

i am grateful for how clearly @nkalamb frames this issue: "There's a climate here [in the South], where there's absolutely no concern for working conditions in the public discourse, right? I mean, you know, 'workers should be grateful for their jobs.'"

he was speaking about college football players specifically: "And certainly college football players should be grateful for the jobs, their jobs, because you know, we hero-worship them. That's more than enough to compensate for the literal sacrifice of their minds and bodies."

"[The SEC] thought this was a private call that was only being shared with players. So they said to them explicitly, 'we're gonna have cases on every single team in the SEC. That's a given. And we can't prevent it.'"

"The SEC, they're just on board with the sacrifice, but there's no, there was no illusion here that they could do it safely. They never cared about doing it safely. It was just worth the cost of the players' lives."

but i can't help but think that CFB is a canary in the coalmine for higher ed writ large: "A lot of times, people point only to the fatality question, right? Obviously, there is a risk of fatality. And we've seen, in fact, two young athletes die."

"But we also know about myocarditis, the heart condition. We know about long COVID. We, in other words, right, we know that there are tremendously dangerous complications. And in fact, the real issue is that we don't know most things that there are to know about this virus..."

"But we know it is, it affects most systems in the body. And it is incredibly, I mean, potentially incredibly dangerous to anyone who contracts it."

but tell me again that low case counts mean we're "doing well."

quotes above are from @nkalamb's appearance on this week's episode of Residential Spread: https://anchor.fm/residential-spread/episodes/Hail-to-the-Vectors-elg40e