So in Illinois, a bunch of high school sports have been pushed back to the spring. Unsurprisingly, there’s been a bunch of bellyaching from some usual suspects.

But all this shows how the sports cult in schools is hypocritical and self-serving. How do defenders of the cult talk?

They cite the benefits of sports in non-sporting ways: learning teamwork; the importance of working for a collective goal; learning how to deal with adversity and things that are beyond your control.

Learning to do things you don’t find easy or want to have to do to get better.

All of these things say: sports teaches you lessons about how to be a good citizen in a wider society.

So when society needs you to put others first and to be a good citizen to stop spread a lethal disease, why do those lessons suddenly not apply?