COVID-19
Coronavirus invasion of major league baseball was bound to happen sooner or later
Well, we knew something like this coronavirus invasion of major league baseball was bound to happen sooner or later. Now, all we can do is hope that other sports organizations do not go through similar messes.
But don’t bet against it happening somewhere else, and soon.
My guess from the beginning was that baseball would be first on the list of pending and potential disasters. Operating without the semblance of a safety “bubble” was accurately described as either arrogant or foolhardy — of course all players would avoid mingling in the public or attending places where individuals sing or dance or cavort in nameless ways.
Hockey, so far, owns the biggest safety record: thousands of tests and no positive findings. In addition, few of the NHL’s players have openly elected to step away from the test, quarantine and isolate-when-necessary philosophy introduced by commissioner Gary Bettman, whose political instincts have ranked him among the least popular and most effective leaders in the sport’s history.
In a Bettman-directed universe, favoured hockey stories would all be politically correct, linked only to hard-fought victories, lovable team pets, young children and well-publicized contributions to charity by league, franchise or a smiling individual.
Today, it is obviously unfair to take offence at his quiet-at-all-cost stance. As long as occasional players choose to come forward when COVID-19 affects them, much of the media, and therefore most of the dedicated, banner-waving outsiders will be content with whatever information becomes public.
No such refuge is possible for baseball, despite the good fortune provided when Canadian decision-makers ruled against the possibility that U.S teams could cross a mostly-locked border and fly freely through our land for as long as necessary to complete a 60-game season and possible playoff games. Try to imagine the fuss that would be brewing at this moment if anyone who had been within reach of the Miami Marlins was scheduled to land at Pearson Airport in Toronto any time in the near future!
On Tuesday, it was reported that four more Marlins had been found with the infection, bringing the team total to 17; two coaches and 11 players were infected previously. At least half-a-dozen games have been cancelled or postponed, with more schedule changes expected.
Predictably, players who first objected to the baseball plan to operate without clear protection spoke out quickly. Los Angeles Dodgers lefthander David Price was among the first to remove himself from the season.
“Now we’ll really get to see if baseball is going to put players’ health first,” he said. “Part of the reason I’m at home right now is because players’ health hasn’t been put first.”
Washington manager Dave Martinez, whose Nationals are in a four-game home-and-home series with the Toronto Blue Jays, also commented: “My level of concern has gone from an eight to about a 12. I’m going to be honest with you: I’m scared.”
“Cheer up, things could be worse.” So, we cheered up. Things got worse.
Alberta
Whistle Stop Cafe owner challenging lockdown and authorities




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COVID-19
“The elephant in the room is early treatment works.” Doctor testifies covid can and should be treated.


In the early months of the covid pandemic, doctors were unwilling to use what they felt, and what they were told would be ineffective, experimental drugs to treat their patients. But Houston Doctor Richard Urso refused to send his patients away without trying to help. Dr. Urso was an early proponent of drugs which became controversial in the media. He was accused by three of the patients he successfully treated, of malpractice. It took months, but eventually the Texas Medical Board dismissed the charges and stated the treatment offered by Dr. Urso was in fact, appropriate. Urso has yet to lose a single patient to covid.
In March, Dr. Urso was invited to testify as the Texas Senate Health and Human Services Committee examined how that state’s medical system approached the covid challenge.
Within two days of this testimony (March 10) the Texas Senate introduced legislation to mandate information on early treatment be provided to every positive covid-19 patient. The key now is for doctors to act.
Click below to see another remarkable testimony from Dr. Peter McCullough.
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