Arlington and coronavirus

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes. Let's put this in terms that you might better understand. You're hanging out at the 7-11 buying your usual hot dog and beer and you know your odds on a big lottery draw that night are a 60% chance of winning if you just buy one ticket. Do you buy the ticket or do you walk away because you don't like the odds?

Lmao! They don't sell beer but that scenario is hilarious.

You must be from Maryland!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An '04 boy tested positive a day after a scrimmage with another Arlington '05 team. The club notified both teams and both teams have been quarantined from all practices, training, scrimmages and games. Neither team is playing in games for 2 weeks. The club has acted very responsibly.

The encouraging news is, no other players on either team have had symptoms or tested positive. This would actually be very good news, as to the low transmission rate through a soccer match.

They pulled out of Labor Day tournaments in other age groups. I wonder if this is why.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An '04 boy tested positive a day after a scrimmage with another Arlington '05 team. The club notified both teams and both teams have been quarantined from all practices, training, scrimmages and games. Neither team is playing in games for 2 weeks. The club has acted very responsibly.

The encouraging news is, no other players on either team have had symptoms or tested positive. This would actually be very good news, as to the low transmission rate through a soccer match.

That sounds very responsible and reasonable. Good for them!

That does sound good. Trying to imagine a scenario, though, in which my kid would play in a scrimmage one day and then get a test the next day. Symptoms first appear the next day and parents hustle the kid right out the door for a test after an hour or two of fever? (Seems unlikely.) Or if the kid was waiting for results (and received them the day after the scrimmage, rather than being tested the day after the scrimmage), the kid should not have been playing while waiting.

Too scared to lose their spot on the team or starting position. I’ve seen all kinds of crazy behavior over the years, particularly on highest teams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The parents and the club have both done the right thing.

Also, it is very encouraging that no other players from either team have experienced symptoms or tested positive. This is good news for transmission rates at an outdoor soccer event.

Personally I would have liked the club to notify other teams that might have shared a practice field at the same time or been in contact with that team entering or exiting the practice fields.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington parent here - i have been very happy with how they have managed practices. A few outliers in terms of coaches and kids and parents - but mostly all very good (the three young DA boys who showed up for a srimmage last weekend and all slapped hands upon arrivel and then spread out 6 feet really did make me want to scratch my head though....) I think a lot is being set by tone - our coach is very good about keepng the boys spreadout when he is talking to them - which sets a good tone and example.

I wish the coach would take temperatures before practice/games and not rely on the players to self police. I really doubt every player is checking their own temperature before practice/scrimmage/games.

Fever is not always a symptom. Taking temperatures is pointless.

80% of people with coronavirus have a fever. So no it is not pointless but your post shows people like you will not comply with the simplest of instructions. I bet the kid or his parents did not test before the scrimmage/games. Now 2 teams are out for 2 weeks. Thanks! You sound like a great person.

And somewhere around 40% of transmission is presymptomatic. Temperature-taking is pandemic theatre and only works to convince unintelligent people that the risks they are taking are "safe."

This is NOT ture. There are now many studies from countries where they have done a lot opf contact trrt tracing that show that presymptomatic and asymptomatic transmission is actually very, very rare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The parents and the club have both done the right thing.

Also, it is very encouraging that no other players from either team have experienced symptoms or tested positive. This is good news for transmission rates at an outdoor soccer event.

Personally I would have liked the club to notify other teams that might have shared a practice field at the same time or been in contact with that team entering or exiting the practice fields.

Your kid isn’t going to catch coronavirus from a kid practicing 50 yards away.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:An '04 boy tested positive a day after a scrimmage with another Arlington '05 team. The club notified both teams and both teams have been quarantined from all practices, training, scrimmages and games. Neither team is playing in games for 2 weeks. The club has acted very responsibly.

The encouraging news is, no other players on either team have had symptoms or tested positive. This would actually be very good news, as to the low transmission rate through a soccer match.

That sounds very responsible and reasonable. Good for them!

Good? Do you realize the implications of this for all the families involved? Of course not because you’ve never been exposed. It’s a nightmare. You have to shut your already puny life down as well as decide siblings parents what interaction they can have both to the exposed kid and to others outside the home. It’s not good!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is what I don’t understand.

The person who was positive—was he tested before the game and went ahead and played before the results came back? Wouldn’t that fail the clubs health check protocol that families are supposed to be following? Or maybe I have the wrong timeline.

The circumstances aren’t known, but there are a lot of ways this can happen without breaking protocols. For instance, the kid could have developed symptoms or learned they’d been exposed after the game or the next morning, and got the results through a rapid test. Or they may have had test results pending, but only got tested for purposes of travel or visiting a high-risk relative and not because of symptoms or known exposure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An '04 boy tested positive a day after a scrimmage with another Arlington '05 team. The club notified both teams and both teams have been quarantined from all practices, training, scrimmages and games. Neither team is playing in games for 2 weeks. The club has acted very responsibly.

The encouraging news is, no other players on either team have had symptoms or tested positive. This would actually be very good news, as to the low transmission rate through a soccer match.

That sounds very responsible and reasonable. Good for them!

Good? Do you realize the implications of this for all the families involved? Of course not because you’ve never been exposed. It’s a nightmare. You have to shut your already puny life down as well as decide siblings parents what interaction they can have both to the exposed kid and to others outside the home. It’s not good!

Yes - but that is the fault of the idiots making the rules. Not the club, the parents, or the kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An '04 boy tested positive a day after a scrimmage with another Arlington '05 team. The club notified both teams and both teams have been quarantined from all practices, training, scrimmages and games. Neither team is playing in games for 2 weeks. The club has acted very responsibly.

The encouraging news is, no other players on either team have had symptoms or tested positive. This would actually be very good news, as to the low transmission rate through a soccer match.

That sounds very responsible and reasonable. Good for them!

Good? Do you realize the implications of this for all the families involved? Of course not because you’ve never been exposed. It’s a nightmare. You have to shut your already puny life down as well as decide siblings parents what interaction they can have both to the exposed kid and to others outside the home. It’s not good!

Yes - but that is the fault of the idiots making the rules. Not the club, the parents, or the kid.

So do not follow the rules. Your kid is exposed or gets sick have him/her go to practice or the games. Remember to tell your kid to pick up the ball, run to the other teams goal and throw the ball in! Stupid rules.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The parents and the club have both done the right thing.

Also, it is very encouraging that no other players from either team have experienced symptoms or tested positive. This is good news for transmission rates at an outdoor soccer event.

Personally I would have liked the club to notify other teams that might have shared a practice field at the same time or been in contact with that team entering or exiting the practice fields.

Your kid isn’t going to catch coronavirus from a kid practicing 50 yards away.

From obviously not a soccer parent, who is blissfully unaware of how kids enter and exit the fields through one entrance point, or share a common restroom, or goof off together prior to the games.

And it's not about catching--it's about giving parents the information to make their own decision and police their kids. "Did you have any interaction with those guys on XX day?" Yes/no--ok, move on. But some still think that we should just sit back and wait until our government calls us before we do anything to mitigate risk.

Head in the sand types who want to keep us in lockdown for months rather than let people have the information to do their part to help keep people safe.

[Anonymous]

Well WTF?? isn’t the Club checking them?!?!!!

Our Club has been checking every player’s temp before every single practice, game and scrimmage...since May!!

They have to line up with masks distanced before taking the field and also have hands squirted with hand sanitizer.

Parents had to drop off and kids lined up apart in marked areas to go thru check before being led out to field. They were led off field same manner.

It’s not rocket science and doesn’t take a lot of equipment.

I’d expect more from them...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well WTF?? isn’t the Club checking them?!?!!!

Our Club has been checking every player’s temp before every single practice, game and scrimmage...since May!!

They have to line up with masks distanced before taking the field and also have hands squirted with hand sanitizer.

Parents had to drop off and kids lined up apart in marked areas to go thru check before being led out to field. They were led off field same manner.

It’s not rocket science and doesn’t take a lot of equipment.

I’d expect more from them...

I will certainly request the Arlington players be checked prior to taking the field against them...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well WTF?? isn’t the Club checking them?!?!!!

Our Club has been checking every player’s temp before every single practice, game and scrimmage...since May!!

They have to line up with masks distanced before taking the field and also have hands squirted with hand sanitizer.

Parents had to drop off and kids lined up apart in marked areas to go thru check before being led out to field. They were led off field same manner.

It’s not rocket science and doesn’t take a lot of equipment.

I’d expect more from them...

Psst! Asymptotic carriers. Delayed symptoms.

[Anonymous]

People need to relax! There is corona all over the fields and no one is being honest about it. So either live with or take your kid off!