A turning point in the way the United States viewed COVID-19 occurred on the night of March 11 when Rudy Gobert tested positive and the NBA responded by immediately suspending the season. Tom Hanks also tested positive for COVID-19 while in Australia that same night.
Shortly before his positive test, Gobert was caught on camera touching a table full of reporter microphones.
“The media portrayed him as if I had closed the NBA,” Gobert said in an interview with Ben Golliver of the Washington Post. “Instead of saying it is a pandemic, Rudy Gobert tested positive. For many people who do not think beyond what is put in their faces, they really thought that I brought the coronavirus to the United States. “
Gobert acknowledged Friday that the video made him look like “someone who doesn’t care about other people’s safety or life.”
Gobert tried to reconstruct how he contracted the virus, and concluded that it probably happened in New York, Boston, or Detroit.
.
