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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This times a million. There have been enough soccer and other outdoor youth sports games around the country over the past few months to know if this is a big risk via contact tracing. It just isn't showing to be the case. Not zero, but not any real evidence by now. Like the last poster said, the team outbreaks have generally been traced to locker rooms, travel, and socializing. Let's focus our efforts where the real spread problems are based on the evidence and let our kids have just the smallest bit of enjoyment in these crazy times to play freely and allow them to get exercise at full exertion when there's no school or recess. There's probably greater odds of inducing a serious asthma attack or other breathing issue in a kid than there is of spreading COVID playing soccer outdoors and leading to any serious infection or death in the child or spread to someone else higher risk, given our county's current numbers and transmission.

And even keeping the analysis closer than around the country, boatloads of games have gone on in NOVA and other MD counties without masks over the past couple months. I have yet to hear any evidence of this causing a spread. There's really no logical reason for MoCo to go out on a limb against the region and CDC, and in the meantime it is just killing and may do permanent damage to the county's soccer infrastructure (e.g. nobody from outside the county will play at Soccerplex).

This extremely low risk, that nobody else agrees with, is really worth the harm? MoCo has become allergic to risk over COVID fears and shown an utter inability to perform a risk assessment. You can't eliminate all risk in life. We are six months into this pandemic, with some good data points on how it spreads, to make some tough decisions such as masks not being needed all the time for all ages for outdoor youth sports.[/quote]

Well said.

Also, Elrich himself wrote an angry letter to Hogan to argue about safety of outdoor concert (his main hobby) during phrase 2, and open it right away after state enters phrase 3.

Meanwhile, youth sport are not even in phrase 2 (all other counties does not enforce mask in phrase 2).[/quote]

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