All the breathless verbiage and ink spilled about the draft, trades and prospects seems pretty pointless now. Even shutting down pro sports in NA and around the world seems pretty trivial.
The human population is closing on 8 billion people. And with a mobile population, a virus outbreak like this one was more than predictable it was inevitable.
Will any lessons be learned? Viruses are Mother Nature's implacable enemy of all living organisms. They can kill indiscriminately and lethally, from the top to the bottom of organism chain.
And with the human population exploding, the unsafe and arrogant practices of past around food supply, chemical fertilizers and preservatives; fossil fuel pollution and oceans swimming in plastic, have to trigger dramatic changes. We're being warned.
Without change, the cancellation of the seasons for a few high-priced pro athletes will be at the least of our worries.