Is your pool allowing kids who can’t swim laps?

[Anonymous]

Our Fairfax County neighborhood pool is allowing deck sitting/sunbathing and lap swimming sign ups separately. Lap swimming is for the die hard swimmers only and is pretty much filled.

No crossover as in "I'm hot from sitting on the deck, so I'll jump in the pool." Bathrooms are closed except for "emergency use."

[Anonymous]

I belong to a small private club (nothing fancy), and it’s open like normal except we must wipe down our seating after we leave.

One day I went and there were 5 other families. Yesterday I went and we were the only family.

Again, this is a small club with 100 family members. Not in DMV.

[Anonymous]

Open for everyone and everything with a reservation system. Masks required out of the pool. Opens Monday. MoCo.

Can’t wait!!

[Anonymous]

Free swim in the main pool, but by reservation only and no baby pool. They are opening next week.

[Anonymous]

Swim "instruction" is allowed in addition to "exercise"

We have designated sections of the Dive Well and shallow end as "lanes", which can be reserved by families with smaller kids.

As long as you are moving around it's "exercise", as long as your kid is trying to swim it is "instruction"

We had a county health inspector come out and he had no issues with what we are doing.

Everything has been going well since opening last Friday.

I have half of the shallow end reserved today at 4, as long as the weather holds I will be up there with my two kids "exercising" and "instructing".

[Anonymous]

our pool is still closed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In VIrginia, the governor's plan mandated lap swimming only for Phase 1, so yes right now only lap swimming or water walking is allowed at our pool. When it moves to phase two there will be more activity and family stuff allowed.

Phase 2 started 6/12, didn’t it?

Our pool opened 2 “lanes” in the shallow end for families to work with learning swimmers for phase 2.

100% not allowed. The law says 10’ distance between every swimmer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Phase 2: We are allowing 2 people per lane for lap swim. Shallow end can be reserved for parent-led instruction. Diving well can be reserved for diving. The board put lots of language in the procedures about remaining distanced while lap swimming, and be sure you are teaching your kids. The reality is people float up and down the lanes chatting, kids get to play on the diving boards, and parents engage with their children in the shallow end. Every person has to do a health screening for covid symptoms to enter. Its making the best of a bad situation. I have zero COVID concerns with the way my pool is implementing Phase 2. We are much more distanced at the pool then if we went to the park or on a hiking trail.

The reality is that if you are in VA, this is all not allowed and I hope the health department shuts you down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Phase 2: We are allowing 2 people per lane for lap swim. Shallow end can be reserved for parent-led instruction. Diving well can be reserved for diving. The board put lots of language in the procedures about remaining distanced while lap swimming, and be sure you are teaching your kids. The reality is people float up and down the lanes chatting, kids get to play on the diving boards, and parents engage with their children in the shallow end. Every person has to do a health screening for covid symptoms to enter. Its making the best of a bad situation. I have zero COVID concerns with the way my pool is implementing Phase 2. We are much more distanced at the pool then if we went to the park or on a hiking trail.

The reality is that if you are in VA, this is all not allowed and I hope the health department shuts you down.

Had a blast at the pool today!

My wife and two kids had 1/2 of the shallow end reserved. We jumped off the side a bunch of times, threw the ball around and floated on the noodle we bought from home for a while. We also were showed my three year old how to float without floaties and practice his doggie paddle and my five year old was working on his side stroke.

It was great exercise for us all and very instructional for our kids.

[Anonymous]

Ours is opening for “focused exercise” such as water walking, kicking with a kick board or teaching a kid to swim - no standing around or playing. Only 3 family members in the water at a time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Phase 2: We are allowing 2 people per lane for lap swim. Shallow end can be reserved for parent-led instruction. Diving well can be reserved for diving. The board put lots of language in the procedures about remaining distanced while lap swimming, and be sure you are teaching your kids. The reality is people float up and down the lanes chatting, kids get to play on the diving boards, and parents engage with their children in the shallow end. Every person has to do a health screening for covid symptoms to enter. Its making the best of a bad situation. I have zero COVID concerns with the way my pool is implementing Phase 2. We are much more distanced at the pool then if we went to the park or on a hiking trail.

The reality is that if you are in VA, this is all not allowed and I hope the health department shuts you down.

Had a blast at the pool today!

My wife and two kids had 1/2 of the shallow end reserved. We jumped off the side a bunch of times, threw the ball around and floated on the noodle we bought from home for a while. We also were showed my three year old how to float without floaties and practice his doggie paddle and my five year old was working on his side stroke.

It was great exercise for us all and very instructional for our kids.

That’s great. It was against an order from the governor. The fact that you all had a blast changes nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Phase 2: We are allowing 2 people per lane for lap swim. Shallow end can be reserved for parent-led instruction. Diving well can be reserved for diving. The board put lots of language in the procedures about remaining distanced while lap swimming, and be sure you are teaching your kids. The reality is people float up and down the lanes chatting, kids get to play on the diving boards, and parents engage with their children in the shallow end. Every person has to do a health screening for covid symptoms to enter. Its making the best of a bad situation. I have zero COVID concerns with the way my pool is implementing Phase 2. We are much more distanced at the pool then if we went to the park or on a hiking trail.

The reality is that if you are in VA, this is all not allowed and I hope the health department shuts you down.

Had a blast at the pool today!

My wife and two kids had 1/2 of the shallow end reserved. We jumped off the side a bunch of times, threw the ball around and floated on the noodle we bought from home for a while. We also were showed my three year old how to float without floaties and practice his doggie paddle and my five year old was working on his side stroke.

It was great exercise for us all and very instructional for our kids.

That’s great. It was against an order from the governor. The fact that you all had a blast changes nothing.

And yet when the county health inspector came by on Tuesday they had no problem with our set up at all.

Some people will do everything they can to shut things down, others will find ways to make it work.

I am glad my fellow pool board members are the latter.

[Anonymous]

^^Name of pool or no one believes the health department approved this. Perhaps you all complied when it was being inspected? Guess you are okay loving life like rules don’t apply to you. And looks like the attitude will be passed down. Splish, splash

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Phase 2: We are allowing 2 people per lane for lap swim. Shallow end can be reserved for parent-led instruction. Diving well can be reserved for diving. The board put lots of language in the procedures about remaining distanced while lap swimming, and be sure you are teaching your kids. The reality is people float up and down the lanes chatting, kids get to play on the diving boards, and parents engage with their children in the shallow end. Every person has to do a health screening for covid symptoms to enter. Its making the best of a bad situation. I have zero COVID concerns with the way my pool is implementing Phase 2. We are much more distanced at the pool then if we went to the park or on a hiking trail.

The reality is that if you are in VA, this is all not allowed and I hope the health department shuts you down.

Had a blast at the pool today!

My wife and two kids had 1/2 of the shallow end reserved. We jumped off the side a bunch of times, threw the ball around and floated on the noodle we bought from home for a while. We also were showed my three year old how to float without floaties and practice his doggie paddle and my five year old was working on his side stroke.

It was great exercise for us all and very instructional for our kids.

That’s great. It was against an order from the governor. The fact that you all had a blast changes nothing.

How is what PP described against orders?

Family had a reserved area that I assume was 10’ away from others. Everyone was either exercising or instructing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^Name of pool or no one believes the health department approved this. Perhaps you all complied when it was being inspected? Guess you are okay loving life like rules don’t apply to you. And looks like the attitude will be passed down. Splish, splash

No one aside from you gives a fig.