The United States continues to see COVID-19 cases rise throughout various states, with some having it worse than others.
Seattle Seahawks free safety Quandre Diggs told Sports Illustrated that his home state of Texas has been hit particularly hard primarily because governor Greg Abbott reopened businesses too soon and resisted mask requirements.
Diggs stated that the nationwide spread of COVID-19 has been exacerbated by many Americans refusing to wear a mask and their beliefs that doing so is a restriction on their freedom.
“It’s cockiness,” Diggs said. “It’s the absolute cockiness of America, of Americans, to think, ‘I don’t need a mask.’ I don’t understand it, there’s nobody taking away your freedom, you’re still able to go walk a street, you’re still able to go into the store – just put a freaking mask on, it’s not that serious.”
“If you were sick in the first place, wouldn’t you want to keep a mask on so you don’t get anybody else sick?” Diggs continued. “If you have the flu or you had a fever or you had something else, you would want to wear it or you wouldn’t be out in public, you know what I mean?”
Diggs also voiced his concerns with social injustice and racial inequality that this lack of care among Americans is prevalent in as well.
“My thing is, it’s about protecting others, and as a nation, we’re so self-[concerned]. We’re so cocky, and we’re so worried about ourselves and not worried about others and that’s kind of what got us in this predicament that we’re in now, with corona, with social justice, with the police brutality. We have one race worried about themselves instead of everybody just caring about each other. We do our own thing, and that’s kind of what got us into this predicament now.”
With COVID-19 still rampant in America, the chances for a 2020 NFL season are looking increasingly precarious.
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