I know it's just WWE but hopefully real sports leagues don't do what the WWE has done just to get their product back on television.
More than two months ago, WWE bribed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to designate professional wrestling as an essential business. The show must go on, you know. Wrestling continued but with no crowds at first. Eventually, WWE allowed their in training enhancement talent to be crowd members that wore no masks, but were socially distanced. That recently changed to even allowing family and friends be in the crowd and social distancing became a thing of the past.
The only precautions WWE took were random temperature checks and having people fill out questionnaires. They also told people if they were going to wear masks in the crowd, they may as well go home because that wouldn't be allowed.
On June 9th a WWE employee tested positive for Covid, the test being from the employee going to a doctor and not WWE mandated. Since then, WWE decided to finally test employees and over two dozen have reported being positive including several in ring performers. This is now causing some of their stars to re-evaluate their decision to continue to work and, as of this writing, at least one has decided to go home(2 others had done so at the start and others have been unable to travel into the country).
WWE in over 2 months never decided to test even one employee and never told their talent to "bubble" themselves when away from doing their performances. Essentially they took a very "Trump" like stance in their decision making, deciding to continue to stay open and ignore the fact that a global pandemic was exploding around them, even telling people to not wear masks.
And what do you know, increased testing showed increased cases. I only hope none of these positive cases have transmitted the virus to loved ones who might have severe or lethal issues with Covid.
Please, NBA, MLB, NHL, NFL and the NCAA, do not have the cavalier attitude that the McMahons(owners of the WWE) had in trying to minimize their revenue losses. You're going to lose money no matter what. Just be very careful with the lives of all involved in getting your product up and running just so you can also simply minimize your losses.
Topic: Coronavirus and Pro/NCAA Sports; Marcus Smart tests positive (Read 203922 times)