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Back to practice sounds great. What is the end game? Friendlies to keep the girls active yet safe or playing in tournaments? I know so many want to get back to tournaments but can’t imagine those go well with hundreds to thousands of people in the same place, using the same facilities, staying in hotels.
I guess the question I have for you would be: What criteria will you be using to determine when playing tournaments is "safe"? In order to answer that, you have to define what "safe" means to you.
There is also the question of it possibly being "safe" for an individual but not when it is viewed in a broader context (immediate family,societal,etc). For TB age girls, it is likely that those two will not be (nor will ever be) the same for this particular virus.
Note: I am not putting safe in quotes to be a wiseguy but instead because safe really is just one's willingness to take on a certain level of risk so it will have different meanings for different people. Also I am not asking the question I posed in the first paragraph to start trouble but instead because this really is something that each parent needs to be thinking about right now once a choice has to be made (e.g. the option to play is actually there).
Personally, because of what I have seen regarding statistics for TB age girls (e.g. the risk involved on a personal level is no more than what we take on when she plays during flu season), along with the lack of societal contact my family has (wife and kids continue to "stay at home" when DD isn't with her team and I am in an office by myself all day with virtually no contact with anybody else) I have decided that is ok for DD to play with her team right now. They started practice this past Monday and will be playing their 1st tournament next weekend.
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