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If Pandemic Is Expected To Last 18+ Months, How Can The 2020 Season Be Played?

It's beginning to look like the 2020 baseball season will be cancelled.

Matt Stieb, New York Magazine, March 18, 2020:

U.S. Coronavirus Plan Warns Pandemic 'Will Last 18 Months or Longer'

On Friday, the day that Trump declared a national emergency while taking "no responsibility at all" for his administration's coronavirus failures, the Department of Health and Human Services warned lawmakers that the pandemic "will last 18 months or longer" and that it could include "multiple waves of illness." ...

Despite calls from governors to boost the federal response to the crisis, Trump has largely failed to do so at this point in the crisis.