Cuomo announced new restrictions today. Anyone traveling into NY for whatever reason or for whatever length of time must take a covid test before starting travel then quarantine for 72 hours and take another test that comes up negative. This may mean that teams traveling into NY could not practice for three days before the game because of the quarantine requirement. That wouldn't necessarily affect our game with Buffalo (they would need to at least take tests upon returning to NY) but Fiami, Kent and Akron are scheduled to play there, with Fiami coming up next week. Looks like the cancellation bug might hit early.

Ohio's isn't much better. People traveling to or from one of the taboo states are expected to self-quarantine. If you can't get them to wear masks or even physically distance, you're not going to get them to self-quarantine.

As for Buffalo's situation, I wonder if their three home games will eventually become road games. NYers coming back into the state only have to test, not quarantine, so coming back from out-of-state road games shouldn't cause disruptions to their practice schedule. Syracuse and Army are in the same boat. But Syracuse has only one home game that might be affected, Nov 28 vs NC State. The new restrictions don't apply to their game against BC this weekend. Army has three scheduled home games left that could be affected by the restrictions.

How do you define failure here? Look at New York's infection data:

https://www.google.com/search?q=new+york+covid+rates&oq=n...

After being the hardest hit state, the rate's stayed consistently low (though like most places, it's starting to tick up slightly). Obviously it's hard to unpack what role travel restrictions played in that, if any. But also hard to look at the infection rate data and determine this was a failure.

Unless I'm reading the new rules wrong, it doesn't seem like Cuomo got rid of the 14 day quarantine period. Instead, it looks like the mandatory testing gives people the ability to test out of the quarantine period. Have you seen something different?

And yes, all of this is difficult to enforce, especially since people in personal vehicles are on the honor system.

Ultimately, I think providing guidelines for what safe, responsible travel looks like is important, and don't see a ton of harm in implementing this. You enforce where you can (commercial travel) and hope citizens take their responsibility as a citizen seriously otherwise.

From an enforcement standpoint, that doesn't strike me as wildly different than how we enforce a ton of other laws & regulations. There's not really anybody out there enforcing laws against littering, but they still exist, and many people choose to adhere to them despite the very low likelihood that they face any legal consequences from littering.

It's not just people in personal vehicles but you are also asking businesses that are starved for business to enforce it. My wife and I just traveled to Newport, RI and the hotel we stayed in asked us if we had been tested but didn't ask to see the proof. Restaurants posted lists of people from certain states that needed to show proof of tests but again no one asked for proof. Interestingly, Maryland was on the list for our hotel but not the two restaurants that we went to. In the end it's all essentially lip service.

They're not toothless - the authorities are spineless. The more laws on the books that aren't enforced the more laws that get broken every year. It's kind of like swallowing your whistle at the end of the game - a foul is a foul.