Ultimately, football got it right. It didn't curtail, it didn't panic, it didn't crush dreams or thwart ambition. It waited. It ignored the calls for action, the demands to do something, anything.
The first question of crisis management is always: what happens if we do nothing? Sometimes nothing is better than something.
So June 17 it is, then. Either in Manchester or Birmingham, the Premier League will restart with the two games in hand. That in itself shows this crisis is far from over.
The Premier League want to get those two matches played — Manchester City v Arsenal, Aston Villa v Sheffield United — because then the 20 clubs will be all square.