Theirs is a luxury students and teachers, no doubt, won't have available to them throughout the upcoming school year. Back in April, baseball was considering Arizona as its landing site. Why would we think that if sport wasn't safe for its spectators, it could be safe for its athletes? Perhaps if we funded our schools like baseball -- if teachers got contracts like Mike Trout or Mookie Betts or, minimally, didn't have to pay for their own school supplies and bulletin boards -- they'd be better prepared to make it work this fall. So let's play ball, because right now, sports might be the only national public health examples we've got.

Source: CNN July 28, 2020 00:22 UTC