The first impacts of COVID-19 are being felt in the baseball industry, beginning with the removal of press from the players’ clubhouses, and extending to the state of Washington cancelling public gatherings in three counties, which will force the Mariners home games to be moved out of state to start the season.
These are wise measures.
The CDC, and the powers that be are concerned about “close contact” between strangers — defined as six feet of distance or less, for ten minutes or more — as the virus can live on physical surfaces for hours at a time and appears to be highly transmissible.