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re: How realistic is the idea of playing a game to a 1/4 capacity stadium?
Posted on 5/25/20 at 12:40 pm to tylerdurden24
Posted on 5/25/20 at 12:40 pm to tylerdurden24
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So long as State public health departments deem this to still be a threat, it’s going to remain an issue for schools and athletic departments looking to avoid lawsuits.
Not at all. Is there a threat of getting a fractured eye socket from being hit by a foul ball if you sit down the third baseline at an MLB game? Contracting COVID will become a standard assumed risk when you go to a ball game, concert, etc. The ticket you buy will have the language clearly worded in contract.
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Posted on 5/25/20 at 1:01 pm to BamaGradinTn
There are also nets at baseball games and constant reminders Over the PA to be alert for foul balls. The language on a ticket doesn’t absolve the venue of responsibility, proper precautions still have to be take .
If schools also take proper precautions according to their state health departments which are going to say use masks, take temps, maintain distancing, then whatever language they use on tickets will hold up. Inviting the general public to a mass gathering during a pandemic means exhibiting that you took all necessary precautions and if someone still got sick THEN it was on them for incurring the risk of attendance. You can’t just put it on fans and invite 90k to show up and think you’re legally safe.
If schools also take proper precautions according to their state health departments which are going to say use masks, take temps, maintain distancing, then whatever language they use on tickets will hold up. Inviting the general public to a mass gathering during a pandemic means exhibiting that you took all necessary precautions and if someone still got sick THEN it was on them for incurring the risk of attendance. You can’t just put it on fans and invite 90k to show up and think you’re legally safe.
Posted on 5/25/20 at 2:47 pm to BamaGradinTn
This situation is so absurd. We know from testing that the case mortality rate for COVID in the US is similar to past flu epidemics. VERY few young people die from COVID. 85% who die have a comorbidity. We also know that in the US, a person who dies while COVID poz is considered a death from COVID, even if the death is really due to something like homicide.
Let fans in the stadiums at their own risk. I will be there if I can get in. Are we supposed to do this every time some new bug is on the scene? No way to live.
Let fans in the stadiums at their own risk. I will be there if I can get in. Are we supposed to do this every time some new bug is on the scene? No way to live.
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