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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids a lifeguard. She does not need to be vaccinated. That’s hilarious. You all realize these kids hung out together all summer last year OUTSIDE the pool gates? I think they are good to lifeguard the same this year. It was ridiculous that any of us had to wear masks outside while at the pool. [/quote]

That is a pretty bad brag about your child and your parenting skills.  And, this is why covid is as bad as it is and why swimming is limited.  Thanks![/quote]

I’m the only parent allowing my kid to play with neighbor kids last summer? Even without masks? [/quote]

We didn’t use the pool last summer recreationally because your lifeguard kid (and other lifeguard kids) failed to enforce the rules. Those are the same rules we, as a family, instituted outside the pool gates. [/quote]
Our pool made it clear to the families that the teenage lifeguards were not responsible for enforcing social distancing. They made it clear that as adults we were responsible for ours and our children’s behavior, and honestly with all the ridiculous incidents of people physically assaulting those trying to enforce mask/distancing requirements, I thought this made sense. The guards jobs were to keep an eye on the people in the water, not to make sure people out of the pool were masked, distanced, etc. People abided by the mask requirements on the pool deck and the kids abided by the mask requirement out of the water.  There were no Covid issues at our pool over the summer.   [/quote]

+1 for our pool. This makes sense. Lifeguards are there to prevent drowning. Parents should be policing their own children. If they pool makes you uncomfortable don't go![/quote]

Eh- they are there for a lot more reasons than that: test water, empty trash and recycling, collect forgotten items, check people in, collect fees for guests, sell items, first aid, stock bathrooms, provide menus to delivery places, offer phones to call parents, etc. They do a lot of things - and while watching the eater is a main duty, it is by no means the only main duty. Enforcing rules (paying for guests, not running, no pushing, etc) is definitely in their job description and it should include telling groups of kids to break it up during a pandemic when the whole pool could be down. [/quote]
Yes those are jobs that lifeguards have but none of them involve making these teenage guards the social distancing/mask police when there have been numerous instances of people being threatened and physically assaulted for attempting to enforce those things. Do I think people would have threatened/assaulted the guards at my pool, no I don’t, but would there have been some grumbling about trying to keep the kids apart in the water or from playing together masked mduring the 15 minute breaks, absolutely, and a 16 year old lifeguard shouldn’t be responsible for that. I completely understand why the guard companies did not want pools making the guards responsible for masking and social distancing. Our pool had some morning hours reserved for people who just wanted to lap swim/not deal with the kids issue. It seemed most people that used our pool in the afternoons/evenings last summer had a comfort level with kids being around each other outside masked and/or in chlorinated water. [/quote]

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