Now I'm firmly in the FTS* camp
But let's lay out the thought experiment: NHL Playoff Enclave(s)
Step 1. Pick a location with the requisite infrastructure for multiple games (NHL surfaces, workout/treatment space, room and board for staff/players/limited media/support staff) that also has infrastructure for pop-up amenities (e.g. NBA picking COVID-hotspot Orlando's Disneyland)
Step 2. Establish protocols for bubbling off this space and all within from outside society; airlock quarantine all entrants 14-20 days, near-daily testing, emergency lockdown procedures, masks all around, etc.
Step 3. Play the tournament and as teams get knocked out, remaining teams have their families (optionally) added to the bubble (through the 14-day decontamination airlock process) to fill out the stands (along with amenities staff)
Step 4. Yay a Cup
Participants of this enclave would technically be
safer than the outside world, which is at the mercy of inept governance and b-holes who feel masks are an infringement to their personal freedoms. Now, I know it reeks of rich folk hiding from a global crisis and forcing poor(er) folk to work at their beck and call... but that's really the only way something like this plays out.
As for why I think it won't work? People are liars. People cut corners. This is thousands of people hanging out in one little campus for 3 months, some of them are noted dumb-dumbs, and people get way dumber when bored together.
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