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Kentucky Radio Caller Okay With Letting a Million People Die “Because We Would Maintain Our Freedoms”
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This is quite the phone call from “Big Al,” who dialed up a show known as ‘Kentucky Sports Radio’ today to talk about COVID-19:
KSR Caller #2 today:
Big Al says he is ok if 1 million people die with Coronavirus if we get to have Football and our Freedoms pic.twitter.com/fmDkZIR4KS
— Matt Jones (@KySportsRadio) June 30, 2020
Part of the exchange:
Host: I’m just asking your opinion; I’m not worried about the numbers. If a million people died, so that we could have sports, would you be cool with it?
Big Al: Yes, because we would maintain our freedoms.
I think it’s worth pointing that the one million deceased would no longer have their freedoms. Minor detail there. And look, Big Al was trying to make a point using numbers, which is cool, but the Spanish Flu pandemic began in 1918, which was more than 100 years ago. That’s a hard parallel to draw in 2020.
Anyway, that’s it for me today. Have a fantastic Tuesday night.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com