The nightclub industry is going to be the last to return pretty much everywhere in the world. I'm not aware of anyone in the "open up" camp who thinks otherwise. I think you're absolutely right that this environment presents unique risks that would be very hard to control, though I'm open to ideas. With strict crowd control, bottle service at tables spaced far apart, etc., maybe it could be done and be a more premium experience while ensuring safety of the staff.
Skating is the opposite of that. One skater on the ice, or two who are in a clear "bubble." We can leave hockey glass up. For years, people have argued that judges should sit at different points of the rink - great, now's our chance to try! We can quarantine skaters in hotels, maybe even skaters from the same country on a specific floor. The risk is manageable. This is so easy compared to other sports. I'm not sure why people are so defeatist about a skating season.
Regarding the first point- I think you’d actually be surprised how many people are not thinking like this and actually want it ALL opened ASAP. Ohio, which was one of the first states to really shut it all down, started reopening and the bar next to my old employer in Columbus was all over national news the other night because the college kids packed in there as soon as it opened, standing in line for hours to get in and once in, the employees did nothing to make sure the capacity/distancing regulations were followed.
There are people in Miami and Fort Lauderdale having huge fits that bars and gyms and beaches are not open here yet, but they have opened almost everywhere else in the state, of course with limitations. I posted in another thread that a few weeks ago, one of the parks was opened here on South Beach for a weekend, granted people could follow simple rules set forward by the city- mask on, etc. 9
thousand citations were given out over the course of that weekend. You give a little, and people take it to level 10 immediately because they just don’t care. And I think that showed the government here that all hell was bound to break loose. There was also talk last month of opening gyms to let 10 people in at a time when the time was right. There are 3 whole gyms on this entire stretch of beach, and everyone here is all about the fitness lifestyle. All it is going to do is piss people off even more and claim they are being treated unfairly.
So, while places may have great ideas in order, I think most people can’t get past certain things being more difficult to control. It’s all or nothing for them. And if they get everything back that they’ve been bitching about, then they will find something else that hasn’t been opened yet and bitch about that as well.
In regards to the season, I don’t think anyone thinks it will be completely shut down. But there are more variables than just going to the rink and skating one or two skaters at a time and judges being far from each other. And MANY of the ISU officials and members who would be traveling internationally are high-risk solely because of their ages. When countries give answers about their plans closer to the time of events (as in the 10 weeks or 12 weeks out as they’ve suggested), then we will see. The NBA and MLB seasons aren’t even going yet and the difference here is that the teams COULD all travel together by bus or their planes and play in empty stadiums without a lot of trouble from going A to B. But they are still struggling to come up with a plan. If you want international skating events, that’s a lot of additional steps and no ISU plane transporting these people together.
I'm overdue for a girls Vegas weekend. 
