I accept there are far more educated and smarter minds than me out there dealing with this current crisis but I really, really fear the financial consequences and emotional toll is far in excess of the impacts from this virus. Again purely from an NRL perspective I see no reason why we cannot have fans attending games in accordance with social distancing requirements from May 28. From a NSW perspective play all or most games at the Olympic Stadium with appropriate spacing in between seats, one fan for every three seats, use only every second row, social distancing around the food and beverage facilities, toilets etc and I see no reason why it cannot be done in a controlled manner. Transport to and from the ground is an issue, but not insurmountable. Seriously if we couldn’t provide an entirely safe environment for 20,000 fans at ANZ even if there was someone in the crowd who had the virus I’ll give the game away. It just seems to me in all this hysteria we are all about why we cannot open the economy as opposed to making things happen in a safe and workable manner.
Every death is sad regardless of the age of the person, but really when we look at the overall perspective we are not shooting ourselves in foot here, we are actually shooting ourselves in the chest and the economic consequences are dire and far worse that the consequences of the virus. My opinion only, but we are digging a massive hole for the community as a whole that is going to take a decade or more to recover from, long after this virus has passed. There is probably not a person out there who has not been impacted directly or indirectly by this situation, my sister lost here job yesterday, she is a single mum, she is in dire straits and given here occupation it didn’t need to be this way. I think our Governments for the most part have done a terrific job up until now but cometh the hour cometh the man and we need to start opening our economy up again otherwise this pain will far exceed missing just the NRL.
