The Fort Collins Coloradoan reports more than one football player and at least one athletics department official believes Colorado State University is covering up coronavirus fears.
“I believe there is a cover-up going on at CSU,” said a current football player who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. “But they could only cover it up so long and now that we have so many cases across athletics, they can’t cover it up anymore. It’s not about the health and safety of the players but about just trying to make money off the players.”
The news from Colorado comes one day after multiple college football players expressed fears they were being “gaslit” about the danger of playing the sport this fall.
For many Americans of my generation, Beirut was seared into our memory banks following a horrific terror attack that killed almost 250 people, almost all of them U.S. Marines, in 1983.
Today, the current generation now has its seared-into-the-memory-bank moment of Beirut. And like for my generation, it is one of heartache and death.
The twin explosions near the city’s port have again ripped the soul out of Beirut. A land that almost certainly has known civilization for 7,000 years is again grieving. Whether today’s tragedy is accidental or intentional will address the cause, but the answer won’t bring back the dead. It won’t prevent children from the inevitable nightmares. And it won’t change the desperate need for millions, perhaps billions, of dollars in aid.
Millions of people will look at the news and shrug, comfortable in their decadent isolationism. Millions of others will offer a prayer or financial support. Be one of those people.
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