The Super Bowl Parade That Wasn't Mighta Saved San Francisco

The last thing NFL fans -- from hardcore to pool players -- were thinking about on Sun 2 Feb was a news item in China that just kept on growing.

By night's end, Kansas City slinger Patrick Mahomes had brought his Chiefs back from 10 points down to win Super Bowl LIV, 31-20.

Little did anyone know there was more than his team's well-being at stake.

 

Thus, it was Kansas City -- the one in Missouri -- that hosted the Super Bowl parade.

Recently, Dr Niraj Sehgal -- a medical prof at UC San Francisco -- finished digging deeper into Covid-19 because he co-leads the university's pandemic response team and came to a game-changing conclusion.

Right about the time of that parade in KC, the home of Rice-a-Roni was being insidiously invaded by that particular strain of highly-contagious coronavirus.

 

Dr Sehgal has released a 1-hour 18-minute presentation making a convincing argument that if that parade woulda been staged in the City by the Bay, the Covid-19 spread throughout that event woulda been devastating.

Instead, as California took immediate lockdown action to mandate social distancing, the dreaded curve is now flattening.

This is good, because despite the bilge fact-twisters spout for whatever self-serving purpose they have, Covid-19 is uncool to a much more sinister level:

 

 

So, Mr Mahomes, the entire West Coast thanks you.

The pandemic hadn't reached the Midwest in full force when the Chiefs' parade was held, but still, as of Mon 13 Apr ...

• Missouri has reached 4,388 cases and suffered 114 deaths, and
• Kansas has reached 1,376 cases and 62 deaths.

 

Until a vaccine is found, there really aren't any winners, but at least Kansas City's victory provided a bit of a speed bump in Covid-19's spread.