Covid-19. Baseball. I Don’t Know. None of Us Knows for Sure.

With respect to the mess in Miami (the Marlins, that is, not the city as a whole; also, the Marlins and Covid-19, not the Marlins as a lousy baseball team), people have all kinds of answers:  Baseball shouldn’t have started; Baseball’s doing it the wrong way; Baseball can’t continue; etc.; etc.¹ 

The one thing I know is that I don’t know.  Actually, there is one other thing I know: Covid-19 is hard.  We don’t have all the answers.  We are learning new things about this virus every day.  Remember how the warm summer weather was going to slow the virus down.  Oops, that didn’t happen.

But the fact we don’t know tells us something we should remember: We need to work this thing through together.  The best experts are doing what they can to solve it without worrying about who to blame.  The best experts are also being tentative, acknowledging what they don’t know. 

One would hope, and wish, that the same would also be true for our elected leaders.  The best ones would acknowledge they don’t know everything and they don’t have all the answers.  And they would worry more about doing what they can, as opposed to blaming somebody else for what those other people are or are not doing.

Honesty, humility, and not blaming people who disagree.  That’s what we need from our experts and from our leaders.  It’s also what we need from each other.  Whether this will happen is, unfortunately, not all that clear – because blaming somebody else seems easier than acknowledging how hard it is and how little we know ourselves.
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¹ One possibility: If it's just the Marlins, and if they don't get better soon, maybe baseball just goes with 29 teams.  It's not great, but maybe it's better than no baseball at all.
PS Guys, please stop the high-fives and the hugging.  It can't help.