Staph is notorious for being in most lockers rooms and extremely deadly...Killing 25,000-40,000 yearly.
Yet, they've never stopped a season when a player is positive for staph. Because most young adults have this thing called a thriving immune system.
Covid has consistently shown in previous seasons and definitely during this major outbreak to be most notably affecting the elderly. Not 18-22yr olds.
These kids show up with a number of other highly contagious disease, some deadly, many with no known cure or vaccine, and it's sit them out and keep it pushing.
This is more aesthetics and the visual than the actual. No school or conference is going to push the narrative that we should be fine if we just follow the most stringent protocol and what most
health orgs and the surgeon general said from the jump....
"The most effective strategy against the spread of covid-19 is thorough handwashing."
I get safety first but these measures have proven to be anything but ineffective and more damaging.