New Guidelines For The Team ~ What will your team do? What to expect.

Pigskinguru34 said:

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.

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pattar said:

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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BT3100 said:

I come home from a long day at work and laugh at how everyone seems to be an expert about a virus that epidemiologists don't even understand. "How can we keep people safe?"
Safe from what? You dont even understand how this virus works... want to know why? Because no one understands how it works. Fauci told us in February that this wouldn't be an issue for Americans and that it was perfectly safe to go on a cruise ship and masks were not needed by anyone other than health care workers.
13 days later he said 2.2 million Americans would die if we didnt lock everyone up.
That's the expert... and he has no clue.
Now we're on this board concerned about spreading a virus during a softball game?
Who do we think we are?
Anyone stay at a holiday inn last night?
Fact is no one should tell people what they cant or shouldn't do as you have zero fact pattern to call on as evidence.

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RADcatcher said:

Come on now, common sense has never shut down speculation!
Everyone had to discuss something....


WOOHOO !!!
People are starting practice again..
Time to start a new post !

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RADcatcher said:

Good to read you have come to a comfortable enough thought process to allow your dd to play.
Where will the tournament be next weekend?
Please bring feedback on how it goes!
Good Luck! Enjoy!

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TXJames44 said:

The very moment someone mentions the increase in new cases without mentioning the increase in testing, I must assume they have an agenda or are being intellectually dishonest. The real number is the % of new cases relative to the number of tests......which is declining.

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wheresmycar said:

We are going from a situation where only the sickest patients already showing symptoms were able to get tested... to a situation where more tests are available, and non-symptomatic patients are starting to be tested as well... of course the percentage of new cases to number of testis is declining with more testing...

Before you accuse me of having an agenda, we are practicing this week as well...

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