Cycling, football, basketball... it is just sport. Honestly, sport is meaningless. There is a serious virus floating around, collapsing the health systems of Italy, Spain, and european countries.
This is serious guys. Cancelling De Ronde, Roubaix, Champions League or whatever sport competition is cancelled is good if it helps avoiding hundreds or thousand of infections.
Probably most of us will be safe if we get Corona, but think about our parents and loved ones who have conditions that could be potentially mortal combined with coronavirus. Even people with smaller diseases potentially will not get the treatment they need because hospitals cannot take more patients. In some places of Italy hospitals are deciding who to save because they cannot treat everyone.
We all need to take precautions, to be sensitive and think about all the lives that will be saved if we try to slow down the infection.
But sport isn't meaningless, at least to a lot of people. The big question here is, is it the quality of human life that matters, or only the quantity of it (to prolong it, to live for as long as possible)? The shutting down of most aspects of human life could seriously impact on the happiness and legacies of individuals lives, both famous and not. In the sense that 2020 could be your biggest year in life, for a particular success in sport, art, in the work force; or maybe you are about to take a dream overseas adventure with your partner and she's just fallen pregnant and with the busyness of life, this might not be possible to take again. This isn't to suggest that CV is not serious and that nothing should be done about it. But it is that there is major human hypocrisy here. Because the theme when it concerns CV is to do everything possible to restrict the harm done to the health of humans. But why is this not taken to these same extremes in other aspects of life? Why do we drive motor vehicles then? These cause GUARANTEED deaths, in huge numbers, every single year, with many victims being killed in the prime of their lives, or in the case of the very young, losing potentially 80, 90, 100 years of lifelong experiences; which is surely more tragic than the loss of life of someone who is over 80, and who therefore likely doesn't have as many years to lose. I see no suggestion of returning to horse and cart (probably still some deaths, but far less), nor should there be. Or what about something like cigarette smoking? It is restricted a little more now, but humans can still choose to do it, even though it causes almost guaranteed negative health outcomes (plus there is also passive smoking). Italy is a good example as many still smoke here, so if CV kills many 80 year olds, wiping off roughly 10% of their life expectancy, what is the difference with cigarette smoking wiping off a similar amount of life expectancy, in fact probably more (plus CV would be a faster and perhaps less painful death, whereas ill health caused by cigarette smoking could impact greatly on the QUALITY of a human life for decades before it finally puts its final nail in your coffin)? But nobody is forcing people to stop smoking, because we are so caring for the health of all other humans.
Then there is the allowance for excessive drinking of alcohol, and of high consumption of meat, etc, etc, etc.
IF CV can be properly removed as a major threat because we stop the human world for 3 months, then doing so is probably worth it. But given its contagion level, and given the world of international travel that we live in today, this is highly unlikely. And it is inconsistent with our freedom levels allowed for concerning other aspects or pastimes that kill us before our time.