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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]VDH posted its Phase 3 aquatic guidelines. It looks pretty much same as the Phase 3 guidelines, which is good news. However this time, it looks like the tweak they made was to prohibit "slides", which seems like a pretty big deal to the parks. Another pretty silly requirement that seems designed to needle certain folks because there's no way virus remnants are going to attach themselves to those surfaces.

https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/environmental-health/phase-1-considerations-for-aquatic-facilities/[/quote]

Phase 3 allows for free swim and for family members to be within 10 feet of each other. I never understood why family members couldn’t be within 10 feet in Phase 
I hope baby pools can open to single family use.[/quote]

Is the problem with baby pools that little kids can't practice proper hygiene and those swimming diapers don't really prevent things getting into the water. Kids are also more likely to put water in their mouths.[/quote]

The problem with baby pools (according to the VDH) in Phase 2 Is that pools aren’t supposed to be used for recreational swimming. I imagine they couldn’t justify baby pools being open in that case. Also people are supposed to be at least 10’ apart in Phase 2.

In 3 baby pools can open as long as you maintain at least 10’ from people not in your household.  [/quote]
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Nobody, including babies, are probably exerting themselves to the point where that 10 feet makes any sense. Not that that matters...[/quote]

of course not.  Its an utterly ridiculous construct.  I am a frequent year round swimmer, and parent of year round swimmers.  The only time I really see anyone breathing hard like that is right after a race when they pull themselves out of the water.   
There are so many things about this approach that make no sense- which as a PP noted, matters not at all.  But  I must say them anyway.  1) the weird fixation with treating indoor and outdoor pools the same, when their risk profiles are dramatically different.  2) the willingness to take a superspreader event at an indoor zumba class in South Korea, and assume therefore that all people must exert whether indoor or outdoors, to a distance of 10 feet- so if you are doing anything physical you must be 10 feet apart, but yet the willingness to open indoor restaurants and bars to their full capacity despite those also being well known superspreader events.  3) the focus on minor picky things, that are extremely expensive- like making pools wash all the deck furniture outside between patrons- but there is no similar requirement for indoor restaurants.  4) the strange fixation with banning things like slides- b/c they might cause people to congregate?? yet the lack of understanding that you are closing off areas of the pool, and keeping all areas open facilitates physical distancing.[/quote]

I totally agree. I have spent years around indoor and outdoor pools. I think a lot of this comes from people thinking that indoor pools and pool locker rooms are gross, dirty places, and they just decided to treat indoor and outdoor pools the same. I get that people think they are gross because everything is wet. But I'm not sure they are really any more germy than a bar or restaurant, yet no one talks about how gross those places are. [/quote]

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