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Coronavirus prediction woefully misses the mark

“I hope you are right,” said the CBSSports.com reporter and longtime friend.

The doubt in his voice was obvious.

At the time, your scribe wasn’t taking the virus seriously.

Within a day of that conversation, management of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette sent almost everyone home to work, and my opinion changed drastically.

With just 12 days left in July, the prediction that covid-19 would have peaked can go alongside the one made in 1979 when ESPN announced it would broadcast sports 24-7.

Never will work, it was written here.