I dont know how anyone can say whether or not we'll have a season this year or not, forget about next year. That is so far away. Some asian pro leagues have announced that theyre getting ready to start back up already. Not playing in front of fans but still playing.
I think we should all quit pretending we have any clue what will happen going forward.
Best reasoned course of action here. Wild mass guessing gets us nowhere. Even the people making these decisions have NO idea how this will play out tomorrow let alone a couple weeks from now. They are basically throwing all plans against the wall right now.
This isn't a scenario like normal rebuild talk where there are a couple very cut and dry paths to take. Wild guessing does nothing but cause panic and/or frustration. Trust the process, trust the people in the medical field who have more of a handle on this than Joe Six Pack. Keep an eye on China as they start to unlock their social lives in the next little bit. If they lax a bit and cases shoot right back up to scary levels, it could be some deep shit. If they open up and things stay more or less the same as they are now with cases dwindling down... maybe we aren't as terrifyingly buried in fear as we are now.
That's the scariest thing to me. We will not be able to maintain this social distancing, lock everything down version of life for the long term. It will not be possible. The pool of resources is not a infinite bin of money. I do not know the time when it would reach a critical point... but at some point, we will need to balance operating as a society with avoiding the spread of a virus. I'm not saying that as "I want sports back". I'm saying that that if the lockdowns and whatever continue into the fall with no signs of stopping... all of these stimulus packages will have to slow down. Just like if we didn't start social distancing the virus would have kept spreading like wildfire... the "virus" of people unable to maintain their businesses or put food on the table will spread just as virulently and deadly as if SARS-2 got them.
In the short term, quarantines and lockdowns are fantastic steps. But to have a functioning economy (not a flourishing, but just a workable one), people need to be able to work and produce.