"I am feeling well and experiencing only mild symptoms."
Let’s play make believe. Imagine you are the CEO of professional surfing, an Oklahoman by way of Oprah who bounded in filled with exuberance, grasping an unparalleled corpo-speak handbook and SUP oar, ready to finally but finally make the Pastime of Kings profitable and/or widely accepted by Middle America.
Imagine the various difficulties in the learning curve. An intransigent grumpy local core, Kelly Slater, Hawaiians, co-Waterperson of the Year Dirk Ziff, pandemic.
Imagine that you sorted it, though, (sort of) and got both the women’s and men’s tours launched in the Hawaiian islands just barely pre-vaccine. Months after the NBA and MLB finished their seasons, sure, and with much easier parameters but still.
Launched.
Imagine that a fatal shark attack cancels the women’s event and you, yourself, cancel the men’s because you tested positive for the dreaded Covid-19.
How would you feel?
Ashamed?
Embarrassed?
Shy?
Devil-may-care?
Well, all of this really happened and to the real CEO of professional surfing Erik Logan who just so happens to be an Oklahoman by way of Oprah, filled with exuberance, corpo-speak on lock, SUP oar firmly in grasp and let’s read his latest missive together.
As the CEO of World Surf League, I feel a strong sense of responsibility to share the news of my positive Covid test to highlight how deeply serious this matter is. Fortunately as of now, I am feeling well and experiencing only mild symptoms. My intention is to be transparent and for you to know that the partnerships and protocols we have with the local community in Hawaii are paramount. I’m looking forward to continuing the conversations with local officials to establish the best path forward and I’m deeply grateful to the team on the ground with me working to navigate through this incredibly challenging time.
Wait.
He feels a strong sense of responsibility to share the news of his positive Covid test to highlight how deeply serious the matter is because he is feeling well and only experiencing mild symptoms even though the 2020/21 Championship Tours hang very much in the balance?
No shame?
No devil-may-care and/or scare?
That’s straight party pooper business right there. Punting the apocalypse.
Self-centered and odd.
I would have written:
As the CEO of World Surf League, I feel a deep and abounding sense of embarrassment over the news of my positive Covid test and would like to apologize to all the professional surfers, Joe Turpel plus those who participated in the Surfvival League, especially those who picked Italo Ferrari as he was looking extremely solid. Big sorrys. I’m headed into quarantine where I will binge watch Sex in the City as punishment.
Or:
As the CEO of World Surf League, I am vacationing in Hawaii and you wish you were too so I will be paddling out at Pipe instead of Plump Pip and you wish you were me so… barrel. Check out my sick view.
Wait, should I be CEO of professional surfing?
What would you have written?
More as the story develops.
Personally, I give a fuck for one, given my condition. But hey, let’s throw grandma to ravages of the plague while we’re at it – great thinking. But, really I don’t care what your personal politics on covid are, I care that surfing got stopped and denied me entertainment!!!!!!! I demand to be entertained dammit!! 😂
You are all over the map – are you using CDC #’s or NPR now? ‘Could’ means no one knows for sure, so again the rate you posted is not entirely correct without context and pointing to the assumptions made to arrive at that number.
End of the day there are 300k dead Americans from either Covid or Covid complications. That’s not a small number.
The main point though is not even deaths, it’s taxing the system. It’s been like the waiting tables during the dinner rush for nearly 10 months now for HC workers. Our frontline workers are exhausted. Not sure why this is so hard to understand – limit exposure so they can finally get some relief.
The CDC estimates 53m so you are off by a factor of 2x which is sloppy science. So the total number of cases could range anywhere from 15m to 53m. End of the day, 300k dead Americans is a lot no matter which way you want to manipulate the data.
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But did those rules apply to e-Lo? I’m convinced he broke the protocol … he must have if the ring of steel was that good??
Elo (likely) private message to his boss: “As CEO, I should have known better than to go to Hawaii, given the crazy rate of covid infections in California & Hawaii. But after the shit-full year I’ve had, I felt I deserved the right to go to Pipe, hang out with the crew & keep an eye on things. Please don’t fire me!”
I’m not seeing it! Where’s the beef?
Thats a big assumption to say that the estimated cased did not result in deaths. So end of the day, those numbers are specious at best.
“wind” being the operative word…
In my travel to many different Countries, I’m constantly at risk of illness. But, I’m not a walking vagina that hides under the covers every time some new boogey man is introduced to the sheeple. Wait until they restrict you normies travel. According to my documents at this time, I’m already fully vaxxed. Sta__ __pt. doesn’t play around.
You and others like you are why we are where we are. Too selfish!! Buddy, sorry to break it to you but the world does not revolve around you! It’s not if you get it you dont care. It’s if you.get it and give it to five others and one of them dies and the other four give it to 12 more and so on. You ok with inadvertently killing someone because you don’t care? That would be the definition of selfishness and again is why we are here now! Get off your high horse and think about others for once in your foolish brain
Yes, to the question!
Good call, you dont have to get tested to have it.
Like, Surfers are hella dumb, Idk, well most of em, well everyone is pretty dumb really, ya.
That’s why ya wear a mask, pretty simple…
Now you are saying that you grew up on the north shore?
Haha, You are constructing an impressive back story.
Right, and prove even (1) of them have no preexisting condition. You can’t, because the records indicate only (2) people on the planet have died from Wuflu alone.
relieved to see that you didn’t miss an opportunity to blather about how you live in hawaii and know a few pros. whew–your bona fides remain intact.
i guess even a one-noted horn player is in key sometimes.
Beach grit has been the only news source in the whole wide surf surf media news outlet. And its not good PR for Worst Surf League
Show your work please. The mortality rate is much higher. Why do you lie?
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu…
Don’t confuse case fatality rate with infection fatality rate. Here’s a WHO paper estimating the IFR: “Across 51 locations, the median COVID-19 infection fatality rate was 0.27% (corrected 0.23%)”
https://www.who.int/bulleti…
What are those ’51 locations’? Could it include places that actually did not have their head up their ass like the US?
This guy will sort it all out
https://youtu.be/_-eD2n2dD2Y
“garbelled” — sounds like a reliable source 🙂
Mahalo you fucken surfers..you god damn nerds. Yeah we’ve got some Covid issues but who doesn’t you know, it’s 2020 🤷🏽♂️
I’d just like to say I’m here to cowabunga, an when I cowabunga I play for fucken reals y’all. Da hui don’t scare me, I know Oprah an she got gold toilets. Show me Eddie Rothmans fucken god toilets. Yeah that’s right he don’t got none.
Some may ask who am I am.
An I’ll goddam tell y’all
Im Eric fucken ‘elo’ Logan.
Kenny, even though you are not a teenage schoolgirl, you get a pass for using an emoji,
BECAUSE YOU’RE GODDAMN KENNY FUCKIN POWERS.
Wonder if his boyfriend also tested positive for the Wuhan virus?
When Dirk Ziff hands Erik Logan his walking papers will it come with a golden parachute or a golden shower?
Run it on whoisjob YouTube and get more views than the wsl could ever dream or pay for