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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It amazes me that so many people don't seem interested in erring on the side of caution. [/quote]

This is kind of where I fall, though not precisely:

On one hand, it seems like most of our research is turning up the same thing, namely, that this particular individual activity -- open play, outdoors, unmasked -- is not very high on the risk table. Not zero, and not high. Low-moderate? Low, because outdoors and contact is not sustained over time, but moderate, because there is contact and heavy breathing. Ok then.

But there are a couple missing pieces of the equation.

One is, what are infection rates in our area. For me, the most useful metrics are both how many people are infected, and whether increasingly more people are becoming infected right now, or whether things are trending in the other direction. (This website is a good guide https://rt.live/ . If r>1, then infection rates are increasing.) In Maryland and VA, infection rates are currently climbing a bit, so that suggests to me that from a public health perspective -- if not an indvidual choice perspective -- we should be doing everything we reasonably can to drive rates down and keep r<1. Maybe mask-wearing on the field doesn't prevent a *lot* of infections, but risk management is kind of like saving money: Sure, saving 5 bucks doesn't matter right much for one person right now, but if you save 5 bucks a week, that matters. Risk kind of sort of aggregates like that. So we should save every little bit we can, so we can "spend" elsewhere.

To that point: The other missing piece of the equation is, how high a priority is this, relative to other priorities? For me, having some soccer is a high priority! It's my kid's best opportunity for exercise and socializing these days. On the other hand, for us in MoCo, [u]opening schools has to be the #1 priority,[/u] for so many reasons -- the community really needs this.

So for these reasons, if there's a chance that we can prevent even marginal additional infections, mask-wearing on the field is totally worth it. There should absolutely be exeptions where medically warranted. But every little bit counts.

Hope everyone's having a good weekend![/quote]

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