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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

The problem is different families have different risk tolerance.  Many are traveling and eating out (excluding employment) and there is a huge risk from those families.  People can spread COVID and be asymptomatic.

There have been several reports of COVID on swim teams.  NCAP and RMSC.[/quote]

Those diagnosed contracted covid elsewhere and it didn’t spread to any other members of the team. The health department followed up with the swimmers from both teams.[/quote]

You are very much minimizing what is going on to justify its all ok.  The point is it can very easily spread especially when there are four kids to a lane and they are standing waiting/passing each other and many of the facilities in MoCo are not well ventilated.  They were lucky it didn't spread to any team members but one team member can spread it to many. [b] Families like you aren't staying home and not following best practice so it puts families like ours who are at high risk.[/b]  But, hey, as long as you have your fun and sports, its all good.  No need to worry about anyone else.[/quote]

I would hope that people take reasonable precautions but for mental and physical health sports/activities are necessary.  To say that we can do nothing for two years is drastic. And if you don't think that this will be an 18 to 24 month event you are naive.  I was watching society fall apart after three months of the only activity was to walk/run your neighborhood. We have to be reasonble.  Be safe.  Yes, those that are bouncing around at restaurants and being socially distant with a billion people are also engaging in risky behavior.  How many people do you know are still seeing everyone but sitting outside?  Those events have risk too and the more people you do them with the more the risk increases.

If your tolerance for risk is low then you have to circle the wagons and do what is right for you.  But unless you are a complete shut in with no outside contact you have a chance to contract it.[/quote]

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