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Mankind not in survival mode from COVID-19, but the NBA might be

With no disrespect to Adam Silver, but when looking at him, Mister Barlow from the TV horror movie, Salem's Lot comes to mind. The comparison doesn't end there. Barlow virtually emptied the town of Salem's Lot of it's occupants, and Adam has his work ahead of him from having the same happen to NBA arenas around the country. Battling a centuries-old vampire might be a cakewalk compared to taking on a sub-microscopic entity that exists in a state somewhere between life and death ( per Scientific American's Luis Villareal ): First seen as poisons, then as life-forms, then biological chemicals, viruses today are thought of as being in a gray area between living and nonliving:  So even though viruses can't be totally classified as living things, they have the power to sicken and kill human beings. That is what Adam Silver is up against. No longer protected by a bubble environment, NBA players are being infected with COVID-19 at an increasing rate. Spectators are almo...