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Originally Posted by Knut
I bet you a lot of players are leaning that way too.
Testing positive in China makes you miss the Olympics and have to quarantine for 3 weeks in China before coming back. That can sewer your season.
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Politics and Economics and the NHL season aside, I have to agree with the sentiment that this is batcrap nuts.
I mean, I just watched Bayern Munich slaughter Barcelona in Munich yesterday.
In an empty stadium.
Two teams in the NHL have had their schedules postponed due to outbreaks, a number of soccer teams throughout Europe ditto.
Cases are on the rise, variants are rampant and the Political and Social will to ramp up restrictions is as close to non-existent as makes no difference.
The Olympics? In China? Cramming untold numbers of people from around the world shoulder-to-shoulder? This just seems like a bad, bad idea.
It does suck for the Athletes. You'll get no argument from me there, but unfortunately this is just the way the World is right now. Its a giant #### sandwich and everyone has to take a bite.
Europe is preparing to close their doors, there are travel restrictions to big chunks of Africa, the Pacific Island states are debating closing their borders entirely and here in North America....
Here in North America we're playing sports in front of full stadiums. God only knows how many people would be interacted with in China.
And then....to put the cherry on top of the giant #### sundae...after all that all of these people are going to go back to where they came from with completely different restrictions, regulations and quarantine requirements?
Forget Chinese politics or NHL economics for a minute and just focus on the ridiculous logistics surrounding huge groups of people congregating in a Pandemic hotspot bringing whatever with them, catching whatever is there and then bringing it home with them.