Summer Swim Canceled

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:10 weeks from May 15 is July 24...

This. Plus it “could be 10-12 weeks or more.” It’s def through the majority or all of the summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:10 weeks from May 15 is July 24...

This. Plus it “could be 10-12 weeks or more.” It’s def through the majority or all of the summer.

if you read the slide and listen to the briefing- its definitely 10-12 weeks from today- not 10-12 weeks from May 15th.

[Anonymous]

Let me know when the real leagues make a decision

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:10 weeks from May 15 is July 24...

This. Plus it “could be 10-12 weeks or more.” It’s def through the majority or all of the summer.

if you read the slide and listen to the briefing- its definitely 10-12 weeks from today- not 10-12 weeks from May 15th.

[Anonymous]

I agree it’s 10-12 weeks from today. That’s still 2.5-3 months from now.

[Anonymous]

My friend’s summer league posted this link to a PDF from USA Swimming. I’m sure there’s an original link but I can’t find it. Scroll down to the suggested social distancing practice layouts. Forget about the difficulty of running such tiny practices. No way could my club’s swimmers consistently execute any of this spacing during their sets or rest.

https://www.teamunify.com/reclssslwa/UserFiles/Image/QuickUpload/facility-reopening-plan-guidelines_072307.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My friend’s summer league posted this link to a PDF from USA Swimming. I’m sure there’s an original link but I can’t find it. Scroll down to the suggested social distancing practice layouts. Forget about the difficulty of running such tiny practices. No way could my club’s swimmers consistently execute any of this spacing during their sets or rest.

https://www.teamunify.com/reclssslwa/UserFiles/Image/QuickUpload/facility-reopening-plan-guidelines_072307.pdf

The written guidelines say to stay 6 feet apart even into the water. In a 25 meter pool, you have three kids swimming per lane, forget the diagrams (which aren’t all 6’ apart.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My friend’s summer league posted this link to a PDF from USA Swimming. I’m sure there’s an original link but I can’t find it. Scroll down to the suggested social distancing practice layouts. Forget about the difficulty of running such tiny practices. No way could my club’s swimmers consistently execute any of this spacing during their sets or rest.

https://www.teamunify.com/reclssslwa/UserFiles/Image/QuickUpload/facility-reopening-plan-guidelines_072307.pdf

Older kids can for sure.

[Anonymous]

Disagree about older kids being able to manage in-pool spacing. They’re all going to clump at the wall, and anyway, they’d need to run pretty continuous sets to keep the spacing just right. It would take a ton of work to get rid of ingrained habits from thousands of hours in the pool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Disagree about older kids being able to manage in-pool spacing. They’re all going to clump at the wall, and anyway, they’d need to run pretty continuous sets to keep the spacing just right. It would take a ton of work to get rid of ingrained habits from thousands of hours in the pool.

6 ft of distance won’t necessarily be a component of pools reopening.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Disagree about older kids being able to manage in-pool spacing. They’re all going to clump at the wall, and anyway, they’d need to run pretty continuous sets to keep the spacing just right. It would take a ton of work to get rid of ingrained habits from thousands of hours in the pool.

6 ft of distance won’t necessarily be a component of pools reopening.

True, but that’s the recommendation. What? You think it’s suggested it be 6’ on 6/9 and it’s safe closer than that on 6/11...despite raising numbers, insufficient testing, no proof there is immunity once you have it, poor tracing, still highly contagious, with no vaccine, etc...?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Disagree about older kids being able to manage in-pool spacing. They’re all going to clump at the wall, and anyway, they’d need to run pretty continuous sets to keep the spacing just right. It would take a ton of work to get rid of ingrained habits from thousands of hours in the pool.

Club swimmers could do this. It would be very hard for everyone else.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Disagree about older kids being able to manage in-pool spacing. They’re all going to clump at the wall, and anyway, they’d need to run pretty continuous sets to keep the spacing just right. It would take a ton of work to get rid of ingrained habits from thousands of hours in the pool.

6 ft of distance won’t necessarily be a component of pools reopening.

True, but that’s the recommendation. What? You think it’s suggested it be 6’ on 6/9 and it’s safe closer than that on 6/11...despite raising numbers, insufficient testing, no proof there is immunity once you have it, poor tracing, still highly contagious, with no vaccine, etc...?

I don’t accept your premise that 6 ft will be a required social distance at outdoor pools at the point that they reopen. Maybe it will, or maybe by that point we will know more about seasonality and the power of sunlight to kill the virus, and it won’t be considered necessary.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Disagree about older kids being able to manage in-pool spacing. They’re all going to clump at the wall, and anyway, they’d need to run pretty continuous sets to keep the spacing just right. It would take a ton of work to get rid of ingrained habits from thousands of hours in the pool.

6 ft of distance won’t necessarily be a component of pools reopening.

True, but that’s the recommendation. What? You think it’s suggested it be 6’ on 6/9 and it’s safe closer than that on 6/11...despite raising numbers, insufficient testing, no proof there is immunity once you have it, poor tracing, still highly contagious, with no vaccine, etc...?

I don’t accept your premise that 6 ft will be a required social distance at outdoor pools at the point that they reopen. Maybe it will, or maybe by that point we will know more about seasonality and the power of sunlight to kill the virus, and it won’t be considered necessary.

Regardless of whether there actually is seasonality or the power of sunlight to kill the virus, unfortunately I think we won’t know for sure until it’s too late for the summer’s swim team. Maybe it will be known by next summer...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Disagree about older kids being able to manage in-pool spacing. They’re all going to clump at the wall, and anyway, they’d need to run pretty continuous sets to keep the spacing just right. It would take a ton of work to get rid of ingrained habits from thousands of hours in the pool.

6 ft of distance won’t necessarily be a component of pools reopening.

True, but that’s the recommendation. What? You think it’s suggested it be 6’ on 6/9 and it’s safe closer than that on 6/11...despite raising numbers, insufficient testing, no proof there is immunity once you have it, poor tracing, still highly contagious, with no vaccine, etc...?

I don’t accept your premise that 6 ft will be a required social distance at outdoor pools at the point that they reopen. Maybe it will, or maybe by that point we will know more about seasonality and the power of sunlight to kill the virus, and it won’t be considered necessary.

Regardless of whether there actually is seasonality or the power of sunlight to kill the virus, unfortunately I think we won’t know for sure until it’s too late for the summer’s swim team. Maybe it will be known by next summer...

I have seen two separate news items today from major outlets that the virus doesn’t survive long enough in strong sunlight to present a big problem. Some experts are already saying that there will probably be recommendations that people get outside as much as possible this summer because it’s indoors that transmission will continue to be a problem.

So- I am cautiously optimistic.