Dr. Anthony Fauci’s penchant toward lockdowns and Bubble Wrap has turned out to be wrong several times throughout the pandemic, with it sometimes being clear he was wrong the moment he made an assertion. But that hasn’t stopped him from trying to orient normal life around COVID-19 yet.

The latest example comes from three doctors, Elizabeth Plummer, Marty Makary, and Ge Bai. They examined the COVID case numbers for the counties with football teams in the Southeastern Conference Conference. SEC schools in Louisiana, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, and Kentucky started the 2021 season with large crowds and little-to-no restrictions.