Indoor swimming during COVID

[Anonymous]

Our Covid rate is pretty low. We aren’t Georgia or Florida. The teams are limiting space and taking precautions. If you think it’s too high a risk, stay home and don’t let your kid do it. In the scheme of risky activities, it’s not that high. My kid swims and plays tennis so he’s excited to keep swimming this winter if our Covid numbers stay low. Cutting our kids off from most sports until there’s a vaccine isn’t reasonable to me, but there are plenty who disagree and I hope they will continue to remain indoors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter swam indoors and no problems. She did not use the locker room..arrived and left in her bathing suit and they used the back doors to get direct access to the pools
No outbreaks over 8 weeks.
She also did Dryland elsewhere w the team
They had strict protocols of testing, distancing, masks etc

Same. And they swam double lanes with staggered positions.

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Anonymous wrote:Nope, indoor swimming is too risky. Especially since you cant wear masks when you swim.

When I lived in London I swam outdoors year round. They heated the pools. It worked fine.

No but you mostly breathe out through the water. The droplets will be well mixed with the hypochlorite in the water. And the spacing even at 4/lane is quite good.

With club swim, you are exposed to the same people every. If your team has a good culture and you trust the other families to not come in if there is any positive among extended contacts, then the risk is lowered further.

Like anything else it comes with some risk. This is going to be going on for a while so you need to decide the acceptable risk level, which applies to everything your family does, not just swim. But the risk is pretty low compared to a lot of things people seem to think are ok.

You breathe out underwater and huge air bubbles pop to the surface intact untouched by chlorine and merge into the air above the water which the next swimmer can breathe in.

[Anonymous]

There are obvious risks but we are sending our child anyway. The mental and physical health benefits outweigh the risks for us. He needs to see his swim friends and he needs the fitness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are obvious risks but we are sending our child anyway. The mental and physical health benefits outweigh the risks for us. He needs to see his swim friends and he needs the fitness.

Us too

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have younger kids back in swim lessons yet?

[Anonymous]

I have a teen that was diagnosed with a health issue which would make swimming this winter a very good idea as an exercise program. Not interested in a team or anything like that, although maybe a few one in one stroke technique lessons would be good. Any pool recommendations in Arl, Mclean, Vienna, Falls Church that would be good for lap swimming, not crowded and ideally have warmer water?

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Anonymous wrote:The time when I would be concerned is whne you are on the wall. Proximity plus time is exposure. So swimming past someone minimal risk even if they have covid because there is not enough time for most people to be infected. So ideally you would not want more than two to a lane to be safe. You could do more if siblings. But every time a swimming is on the wall next to another swimmer you have proximity and time. That is the issue.

They start from opposite sides of the pool. So there are never more than two swimmers at the wall at a time. And most teams will space them by not having them both rest at the wall. On will remain six feet away until the other pushes off. It can be done.

Two swimmers at the wall is an issue. I don't want your kid breathing on mine when your risk tolerance and lifestyle choices are very different than mine. Some of us are staying home for the most part.

Ours has one on each wall, one at the flags and the other in the middle.

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Anonymous wrote:The time when I would be concerned is whne you are on the wall. Proximity plus time is exposure. So swimming past someone minimal risk even if they have covid because there is not enough time for most people to be infected. So ideally you would not want more than two to a lane to be safe. You could do more if siblings. But every time a swimming is on the wall next to another swimmer you have proximity and time. That is the issue.

They start from opposite sides of the pool. So there are never more than two swimmers at the wall at a time. And most teams will space them by not having them both rest at the wall. On will remain six feet away until the other pushes off. It can be done.

Two swimmers at the wall is an issue. I don't want your kid breathing on mine when your risk tolerance and lifestyle choices are very different than mine. Some of us are staying home for the most part.

Ours has one on each wall, one at the flags and the other in the middle.

Yeah it is possible for the swimmers to not all congregate at the wall. Ours did one on each end and one in middle for summer swim.