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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What makes the MoCo health commissioner so much smarter than the Maryland Sports Commission that was put together by the governor? The detailed report of that commission states that soccer is a medium risk sport. In so far as soccer is concerned (not getting into that whole lacrosse argument) why is the county yet again redefining something that the state had classified as medium risk?  Where is the science and data that shows Covid transmission in soccer specifically? If someone can show the data and science behind making soccer a high risk sport, I am all ears![/quote]
You're right about one thing:  there is no data and there is no science.  We don't have it, and no one does.  Not the Maryland Sports Commission; not the NCAA; and, sadly, not even the CDC, which, under different leadership, might have been expected to have assembled the data by now.  And that's because this is unprecedented.  We haven't been playing sports in the midst of a pandemic in modern times.  So we simply don't know.  And all we have is guesswork.  (For example, "six feet apart," which is not some empirically perfected, magic number -- it's just a reasonable, practical rule-of-thumb we can get most people to stick to.)

Faced with low information, you have two choices:  plunge in headlong, assuming it's safe until proven wrong (i.e., with more infections and deaths).  Or make reasonable, conservative assumptions and the corresponding sacrifices -- painful though they might be -- to minimize the the risk, even if it turns out to be overkill.  Isn't that obvious?

Given what we've seen so far (e.g., the fact that re-opening in June led to sustained and growing rates of infection), reasonable, careful leaders [i]should[/i] err on the side of caution.  Sometimes that's what leadership requires, even though it might be unpopular.  It's one thing to take chances with your own health.  Or even your own kid's health.  It's a wholly different thing to roll the dice with an entire county's populace.[/quote]

Very well articulated post. [/quote]

Agree to disagree.[/quote]

You’re very welcomed to disagree.

But please be careful and take care of your and your family’s health. As fellow MoCo residents, we can wholeheartedly disagree with each their but we should still be kind to each other. Too many damn hatred going on already, let’s not add to it because of soccer. Your DC loves & plays soccer the same as mine.

So all of us in this forum have similarities and can agree with this point. [/quote]

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