Major League Baseball learned during its regular season to be cautious, so naturally, now that the postseason has begun, the league has chosen to be reckless.
The coronavirus pandemic continues to rage. Cases continue to spike. More than 210,000 Americans are dead. And MLB is inviting fans to travel to Texas, currently the most infectious state in the union, to watch baseball games.
When the league announced that it would make tickets available to the National League Championship Series and the World Series, some fans surely rejoiced. Scientists cringed.
Zach Binney, a PhD in epidemiology who wrote his dissertation on injuries in the NFL and now teaches at Emory, frames it this way: Every step we take toward normalcy involves risk and benefit.