“What if?”
Two words with which Gopher football fans are intimately familiar.
What if the Gophers hadn’t blown a 31-point lead in the fourth quarter against Michigan?
What if Joel Maturi had hired literally anyone else but Tim Brewster?
What if Jerry Kill had been able to coach at Minnesota without health problems?
And now the latest: What if COVID-19 had never reached the shores of the United States?
Others may have their own variation of that question – perhaps couched in their personal politics — but for the sake of this article I’m choosing to focus on the source of the ongoing pandemic (rather than the response to it).