Our kid's HS canceled classes and all events for the next 3 weeks. Goodbye Fish Frye. We got a notice on our daughter's sports team app that they were canceling the awards banquet and one of the parents responded with a post suggesting we should just hold it offsite at a local pizza place. Stupid. Just stupid.
Whatever your personal view of the seriousness of the risk, it's dumb to undermine efforts to solve the issue. Just be smart and play along for a few weeks. Not to mention that the school would probably be pissed. And rightfully so.
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do turn out to have been overplayed, but not always.
If it turns out not to be not overblown, to not do these things is nutso. So far I trust Fauci, and social distancing is the mantra.
I'm cautious right now but not in the doom & gloom crowd.
Seems like a risk worth avoiding.
“It’s not simply about the numbers of people who can be infected. It’s the overload that can be placed on our system of hospitals already running at close to full capacity at any one time. The effects can be catastrophic, as they are now in some hospitals in Italy where sobbing nurses are being forced to decide which patients are most likely to survive because not everyone can be treated.
It’s not even that necessarily fewer people will be infected, simply that the curve of the virus’ infection rate won’t be so pronounced at one juncture. If the numbers of patients can be spread out over a longer period, all of the critically ill will have a better chance of survival. Fewer nurses and doctors will be overworked, their metabolisms won’t be so compromised. And so, fewer will fall ill to the virus themselves and won’t have to be sent home and exacerbate a manpower shortage.”
Hard to explain to a softball pitching Freshman who is finding her groove after having everything changed. We need to be cautious right now and if that means boring days with no sports, so be it.
results.
She wasn't pitching as much as she wanted and what got her there was being changed, drastically. She stayed the course, bought in and now sees results. I have a different level of respect for college athletes now. Can't imaging being a football player at a place like ND, being the best to get there and then never seeing the field. I get they are there for an education but the competitive spirit drives these kids.
My oldest boy played D3 soccer for a mediocre program until he blew out his knee for good.
Many of the guys he played with became his best friends and fraternity brothers though. Best thing he ever did in college.
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