On Monday morning, it was reported that over a dozen members of the Miami Marlins baseball team had been diagnosed with COVID-19 — a gut-wrenching occurrence a mere few days after the MLB season began its shortened 60-game campaign. Erik Spoelstra, head coach of the NBA’s Miami Heat, responded to his fellow Miami sports team’s plight, courtesy of Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Spoelstra called the Marlins COVID-19 outbreak “humbling.”
Spoelstra continued by saying that he appreciates the effort that the NBA is taking to combat this virulent disease but that, in the end, “we are not in control.”
Indeed, that lack of control is likely what causes many around the United States to bristle at being told what to do and what garments to wear in order to help curtail COVID. Of course, the simple fact is that masks definitely do help to stop the spread of airborne particles – which can carry the virus with ease.
As of this writing, over 16.6 million people around the world have contracted, or currently have, COVID-19 per worldometers.info. Tragically, over 650,000 of those people have died due to the disease.
The U.S. is both No. 1 in total cases of the virus with 4.4 million as well as No. 1 in total deaths due to COVID-19 at 150,444. Clearly, people refusing to wear masks and dismissing concerns about social distancing are causing the U.S.’s “curve” to skyrocket in terms of cases.
While the NBA’s Orlando “bubble” plan is clearly the best one of any of the professional sports teams so far, Coach Spo is right – in the end, it’s out of our hands.
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