The return of sports is not 'delusional'

Over at the Washington Post, Molly Roberts has called the return of sports a “delusional experiment.” And while she is right that we want sports back for some normalcy, her analysis gets everything else wrong.

Roberts writes, “The illusion starts with a delusion: that it’s really possible to wipe away risk altogether amid a pandemic. Next come the efforts to pretend, at least for nine sweet innings or four quarters, that there’s no pandemic at all.” Yet this two-pronged analysis misses on both fronts.