It feels like a lifetime ago, but there was a point in the Major League Baseball season when combatting the COVID-19 pandemic was off to a fantastic start.
MLB announced its initial wave of testing in early July produced a manageable 1.2 percent rate of positives, while the turnaround time for results was smoothing out and players appeared to be buying into safety protocols. All in all, it was a start to be celebrated and an encouraging sign that perhaps a pro sports league didn’t need a bubble to keep its act together.
Now we know that it was right about then that some hubris was kicking in and the bottom was about to fall out.