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Anonymous wrote:Our pool is not open at all. Count yourself lucky.

+100.

Here too. I hate Corona. and my HOA.

Unlucky in Centreville.

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Anonymous wrote:In VIrginia, the governor's plan mandated lap swimming only for Phase 1, so yes right now only lap swimming or water walking is allowed at our pool. When it moves to phase two there will be more activity and family stuff allowed.

Phase 2 started 6/12, didn’t it?

Our pool opened 2 “lanes” in the shallow end for families to work with learning swimmers for phase 2.

Do you have to make a reservation? How are they limiting crowds?

Yes, you reserve it. Up to 3 members of a single family per lane in the shallow end, plus I forgo how many regular lap swimmers.

I just don't understand why it has to be 3. Why not 4 - most families have more than one child.

VDH rules limit people in lanes to 3. VDH rules for pools assume that we are all a bunch of scofflaws who are going to pretend to be in the same family in order to get close to one another. So they inanely require everyone to be 10 feet apart in the pool, familial relationship notwithstanding.

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Anonymous wrote:In VIrginia, the governor's plan mandated lap swimming only for Phase 1, so yes right now only lap swimming or water walking is allowed at our pool. When it moves to phase two there will be more activity and family stuff allowed.

Phase 2 started 6/12, didn’t it?

Our pool opened 2 “lanes” in the shallow end for families to work with learning swimmers for phase 2.

Do you have to make a reservation? How are they limiting crowds?

Yes, you reserve it. Up to 3 members of a single family per lane in the shallow end, plus I forgo how many regular lap swimmers.

I just don't understand why it has to be 3. Why not 4 - most families have more than one child.

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Anonymous wrote:In VIrginia, the governor's plan mandated lap swimming only for Phase 1, so yes right now only lap swimming or water walking is allowed at our pool. When it moves to phase two there will be more activity and family stuff allowed.

Phase 2 started 6/12, didn’t it?

Our pool opened 2 “lanes” in the shallow end for families to work with learning swimmers for phase 2.

Do you have to make a reservation? How are they limiting crowds?

Yes, you reserve it. Up to 3 members of a single family per lane in the shallow end, plus I forgo how many regular lap swimmers.

Anonymous wrote:Phase 2: We are allowing 2 people per lane for lap swim. Shallow end can be reserved for parent-led instruction. Diving well can be reserved for diving. The board put lots of language in the procedures about remaining distanced while lap swimming, and be sure you are teaching your kids. The reality is people float up and down the lanes chatting, kids get to play on the diving boards, and parents engage with their children in the shallow end. Every person has to do a health screening for covid symptoms to enter. Its making the best of a bad situation. I have zero COVID concerns with the way my pool is implementing Phase 2. We are much more distanced at the pool then if we went to the park or on a hiking trail.

This is what I hope our pool does. My kids just want to jump in off the side while I catch them 100 times in a row, and then we'll go home.

I seriously don't understand why a family can't "play" together in an allotted section for a certain amount of time. It seems all the restrictions crack down on little kids the hardest. They need time and space to play. Yes stay distanced from others, but let them play!

Our pool is deciding this week how to handle it. I hope they have a liberal interpretation.

Just lap swim. Only 10 people at a time and no more than an hour. Must be at least 14. Basically a killer for my son.

Anonymous wrote:We are in phase 2 which I believe is exercising in the pool. Ours seems to say you have to be moving but it can be swimming laps, pool walking / running, kick boards, noodles etc. We can have up to 3 people per lane so I can be a lane with my daughter who can’t swim all that well and we can do stuff together.

Do they assign lanes? What if they place a 3rd person in your lane?

Phase 2: We are allowing 2 people per lane for lap swim. Shallow end can be reserved for parent-led instruction. Diving well can be reserved for diving. The board put lots of language in the procedures about remaining distanced while lap swimming, and be sure you are teaching your kids. The reality is people float up and down the lanes chatting, kids get to play on the diving boards, and parents engage with their children in the shallow end. Every person has to do a health screening for covid symptoms to enter. Its making the best of a bad situation. I have zero COVID concerns with the way my pool is implementing Phase 2. We are much more distanced at the pool then if we went to the park or on a hiking trail.

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Anonymous wrote:Our pool is not open at all. Count yourself lucky.

+100.

Here too. I hate Corona. and my HOA.

Our pool is allowing 35 people every 45 minutes. Three people per lane, ages 8 and up. All kids have ot be able to pass the swim test to be able to use the pool. The shallow end and kid pool are closed. People depart, the lifegaurds sterilize things, next group comes in.

Swim Team starts this week although they have not said how they are going to handle practices. No pee wees, you have to by 8 and able to swim the entire length of the pool and back with only a 30 second rest at one end of the pool. I think they know that those restrictions will greatly limit the number of younger kids who can pass the test.

Out-of-state. We’re allowed 1 person per lane, no kids under 12, lap swim only. I have a kid who is 5 and was just improving in March when everything here shut down. No word on when lessons will start or if we’ll ever make it to the phase that will allow free swim. I’m a former swim instructor and wish I could at least have her in a lane with me or something- she’s at an age where learning to swim could be so easy and I don’t want her to spend next summer in lessons again when her heart was set on swim team with siblings.

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Anonymous wrote:No, if they can't swim laps they can't be in the water. It's lap swim. You have to swim, and you have to keep the distance between the other swimmers since 3 are allowed in each lane. They are not making exceptions even if it's a family in the lane--everyone swims laps or get out. Free swim/play is not allowed per VA guidelines.

This is not true IMO. Lap swim isn’t the only form of exercise and exercise is allowed in VA phase 2.

Whether or not it's true may be pool specific. At my pool in Fairfax County, only lap swim is allowed and they're only allowing two swimmers/lane even though the guidelines would permit three. Those two swimmers can be family members if you reserve both spots, but you must be lap swimming and maintain the required 10' distance while doing so. So a parent cannot be teaching/helping a non-swimming child under the current guidelines our Board has issued. Sitting on deck is allowed (you have to bring your own chairs) and you don't have to have a lap lane reservation for that, just a reservation to enter the club for the two hour session, and on deck families may sit together and only need to social distance from other groups.

It seems the MoCo language maybe only allows for lap swimming?

Ours is doing just lap swim, including swim team, plus dive team practices. They are allowing swim lessons for kids who can are proficient swimmers. Soon they are starting “swim camp,” which is basically swim school, but kids either have to be able to stand in the shallow pool on their own and/or have a parent in the water with them. No instructors in the water, and everyone 10+ feet apart.

They are controlling numbers with a signup system. They add additional options most weeks, so it’s not a matter of doing one thing during phase 2 and then suddenly everything changes in phase 3. They have started each phase conservatively and add more options each week if things are going well.