(03-29-2021 10:39 AM)quo vadis Wrote: (03-29-2021 10:33 AM)sctvman Wrote: What are your thoughts about this? Dan Wetzel suggested changing the Sweet 16/Elite 8 schedule so the Sweet 16 would end on Sunday, and also suggested that it be held at one site. The problem is you’d have to find cities large enough for 2 15,000 seat arenas or have one arena at 10-15K and one large arena.
Also, Tuesday night Elite 8 games are kind of rough.
I like the traditional round schedule we've had in the past, but this is a unique year so I don't mind how they are doing it this year. Going forward though, once things "return to normal", if Fauci and Biden ever let us, I would prefer to go back to the old rounds-schedule. I liked the Thursday and Friday SW16 games.
Dangerously close to being a political post. Be careful.
Current vaccination rates, which are conservative given much more supply is coming via Johnson and Johnson, should see 170 million Americans age 18 and up fully vaccinated by the end of summer. This is conservative, and the number is likely to be as high as 200 million, It gets hard to get more at that point because the remaining 10-15% of adults includes anti vaxxers and Covid-19 refusniks. Nearly every college kid will have to be vaccinated to go to school.
That should be enough to easily fill the arenas even with a required "passport" to attend. Of course some governors will grandstand to oppose a vaccine card, but this is mostly virtue signalling to their base, as they themselves are pretty much all already vaccinated. Be that as it may, we should be back to normal. The >80% of American adults vaccinated will demand that they have the right to go back to normal. It'll only be the hard core refusniks left out.
People are already planning on this for the fall and later. And even for younger kids. The current timeline will see trials for 12-17 year olds, that is middle school and high school kids, completed before the end of Summer, and vaccination of this roughly 28 million children take place in the Fall, and actually should be mostly completed no later than Thanksgiving. That is in time for my Basketball league, and it should allow an earlyOctober (after first shot) return to onsite instruction for pretty much all High Schools and Middle schools. Unfortunately the trial dates for elementary aged children is a good three months behind, so K-6 timeline is more like the start of 2022 for vaccinations.
It's a long winded way of saying, if you want a vaccine, you should be able to get one before the end of summer, as nearly 1 million people a day complete their vaccine regime, and many more than that are getting their first of two shots.
So be more optimistic.