OMG! Just write to WaPo or call a bunch of people in charge of facilities at FCPS or something and make a stink like everyone else in this area does.

I don't have a child playing basketball. All my kids' sports are outdoors and my kids' teams wore masks during practice and play. If you have an issue with how the rec league is handling practice and games during covid either 1. Don't participate or 2. Complain to those in power who can change it. Posting here does nothing.

Anonymous wrote:First graders also play basketball and they are little kids. Not sure what your point is? If you aren’t comfortable with it....don’t sign your kids up to play? Like every other activity since May/June.

The point is not just little kids play basketball. So do 10+, you know the age people say spread and get covid like adults.

First graders also play basketball and they are little kids. Not sure what your point is? If you aren’t comfortable with it....don’t sign your kids up to play? Like every other activity since May/June.

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Anonymous wrote:Are adults required to wear masks at gyms when they work out? Just curious. I haven't been to one since March.

Not sure PP. Working out at a gym is not basketball though. Close contact, heavy breathing, face in someone else's face. You have to be on top of someone to defend them. This is not the same as someone on a bike socially distanced from others or using free weights socially distanced. 

I would say working out in a gym is worse. A little kids basketball game will be ten kids without masks. An adult gym could have a hundred people working out.

You can be socially distanced in a gym. You cannot socially distance during basketball. And "little kids" basketball game? Some of these games are of 5-8th grade. These are 5'8"+ kids. No little kids!

This is why my DH isn’t coaching and my kids aren’t playing Rec basketball. I would have loved them to have the activity, and if rates were like they were in Aug or Sept we might have chanced it, but no way now.

We are signing our kids up for rec basketball. Yes, it’s more risky than sitting at home. (So are many adult activities that have been allowed since June). People can make their own choices. If my kids were in school, I would probably sit the season out. For our rec soccer league this fall the volunteers and coaches worked their butts off to follow all the covid rules and I am so grateful to them for my kids mental health was so improved by the season.

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Anonymous wrote:Are adults required to wear masks at gyms when they work out? Just curious. I haven't been to one since March.

Not sure PP. Working out at a gym is not basketball though. Close contact, heavy breathing, face in someone else's face. You have to be on top of someone to defend them. This is not the same as someone on a bike socially distanced from others or using free weights socially distanced. 

I would say working out in a gym is worse. A little kids basketball game will be ten kids without masks. An adult gym could have a hundred people working out.

Anonymous wrote:Are adults required to wear masks at gyms when they work out? Just curious. I haven't been to one since March.

Not sure PP. Working out at a gym is not basketball though. Close contact, heavy breathing, face in someone else's face. You have to be on top of someone to defend them. This is not the same as someone on a bike socially distanced from others or using free weights socially distanced. 

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Anonymous wrote:Healthy kids playing basketball without masks on surrounded by adults with masks on sounds safer than adults sitting around eating and drinking indoors without masks surrounded by masked waiters (but the second activity has been allowed in VA for months).

Not OP and I don't have an issue but you're assuming the kids are healthy. They can be asymptomatic.

It's possible. So what? People can choose to assume that risk, or not.

Anonymous wrote:Healthy kids playing basketball without masks on surrounded by adults with masks on sounds safer than adults sitting around eating and drinking indoors without masks surrounded by masked waiters (but the second activity has been allowed in VA for months).

Not OP and I don't have an issue but you're assuming the kids are healthy. They can be asymptomatic.

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Anonymous wrote:OP may be “concerned about what other people are doing” because they are contributing to the transmission, spread and mutation of a virus during a pandemic.

Your actions affect all of us.

Then OP should be picketing outside her local adult gym and restaurants, b/c that's certainly much more a cause for concern. Our kids aren't in school with no school anywhere in sight, so the very low risk of sports participation is worth it for my kids mental health. She can make different choices. Northam is allowing an exception for masks for exercise and the rec league plans are all within his guidelines.

Oh, ok, if it’s “worth it for your kid” then never mind. 🙄

Yes, it is! Same calculation everyone else has been making about choices in their lives since June.

+1. Its no more selfish than all the other crap people are doing.

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Anonymous wrote:OP may be “concerned about what other people are doing” because they are contributing to the transmission, spread and mutation of a virus during a pandemic.

Your actions affect all of us.

Then OP should be picketing outside her local adult gym and restaurants, b/c that's certainly much more a cause for concern. Our kids aren't in school with no school anywhere in sight, so the very low risk of sports participation is worth it for my kids mental health. She can make different choices. Northam is allowing an exception for masks for exercise and the rec league plans are all within his guidelines.

Oh, ok, if it’s “worth it for your kid” then never mind. 🙄

Yes, it is! Same calculation everyone else has been making about choices in their lives since June.

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Anonymous wrote:OP may be “concerned about what other people are doing” because they are contributing to the transmission, spread and mutation of a virus during a pandemic.

Your actions affect all of us.

Then OP should be picketing outside her local adult gym and restaurants, b/c that's certainly much more a cause for concern. Our kids aren't in school with no school anywhere in sight, so the very low risk of sports participation is worth it for my kids mental health. She can make different choices. Northam is allowing an exception for masks for exercise and the rec league plans are all within his guidelines.

Oh, ok, if it’s “worth it for your kid” then never mind. 🙄

Healthy kids playing basketball without masks on surrounded by adults with masks on sounds safer than adults sitting around eating and drinking indoors without masks surrounded by masked waiters (but the second activity has been allowed in VA for months).

If people were catching Covid from the air days after someone spewed their virus into it, we would all have had it by now.