Baseball players, some of whom are considered to be at higher risk for significant COVID-19 complications, have been expressing displeasure with MLB’s testing protocols. They made the decision to play because they anticipated that the league would exhaust all of its resources to ensure safety. Just one week into the start of summer camp, MLB has already proven otherwise.
Just this past weekend, 15% of players failed to get tested or receive results because no one anticipated the difficulty in getting testers and shipping samples due to the holiday. Then came the unwanted publicity as MLB’s most infamous umpire, 67-year-old Cowboy Joe West, broadcast his gross negligence by insinuating that COVID-19 isn’t a dire public health threat and that hospitals and governments were conspiring to boost profits.