CIAC & Committees are not the brightest bunch

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That is now. In March teams had outbreaks. Now the NBA is in a complete bubble that cannot be replicated. Football teams have had outbreaks, same in baseball.

More importantly it isn't about the health outcomes of the athletes themselves but the genuine risk that they bring Covid home to their families or into the classroom.

It can’t be brought home from grocery shopping, or a job, or a restaurant, or a million other things and places. You can’t shutdown every possible way it can be contracted. The athletes are the most disciplined of the student body. They know what it means to sacrifice for the greater good. They are the least of the school community’s Problems.

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The reality is that there are 2 possible routes here:

Route 1: Acknowledge that all contact sports are dangerous unless and until there is a vaccine in place and taken by all participants and fans, and until then there will be no contact sports played.

Route 2: Pretend that all contact sports are not dangerous prior to a vaccine being in place, and wait until some specified number of kids, parents, grandparents, coaches catch Covid thereby requiring schools to be shut down and for many people to suffer long term illness and a good many die.

Those are your two choices. The stupidity of the school districts in Georgia ought to be a sufficient example of what will happen when you pretend this is not a terrible disease. You cannot "pretend" this will go away. You cannot "pretend" this is something like the flu. It is not going away, and it is a deadly disease that causes long-term health problems in a good percentage of people even if they do not display symptoms (heart defects in particular but also lung lesions are common).

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Think before you post. Districts have enough on their plates trying to make EDUCATION happen. Some haven't even finalized their reopening plans yet. Those decisions need to be local because every district has its own set of school building constraints, staffing issues, bus issues etc. Figuring out how to make athletics happen is not a priority and is better handled by some group working across all districts. Unfortunately in our case that group is CIAC.

You make it seem as though their is one person busy doing all that. That is what an ad is for no? He or she should have been thinking about it since May. The education planning should have happened too. To many educators taking off during the pandemic and the summer as usual. Now they are starting to scribble some garbage on a napkin. Easier to look around and just say us too and copy what some other idiots who didn’t think it through did.

Original purpose of shutting down was to bend the curve. To not overwhelm our infrastructure. We had limited beds, ppe and testing. It has been proven that resources were not fully utilized during the height of the pandemic. It was better safe then sorry, so no qualms here. However, time to put safeguards in place and move forward. Liberals can’t make this about no one testing positive.

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The reality is that there are 2 possible routes here:

Route 1: Acknowledge that all contact sports are dangerous unless and until there is a vaccine in place and taken by all participants and fans, and until then there will be no contact sports played.

Route 2: Pretend that all contact sports are not dangerous prior to a vaccine being in place, and wait until some specified number of kids, parents, grandparents, coaches catch Covid thereby requiring schools to be shut down and for many people to suffer long term illness and a good many die.

Those are your two choices. The stupidity of the school districts in Georgia ought to be a sufficient example of what will happen when you pretend this is not a terrible disease. You cannot "pretend" this will go away. You cannot "pretend" this is something like the flu. It is not going away, and it is a deadly disease that causes long-term health problems in a good percentage of people even if they do not display symptoms (heart defects in particular but also lung lesions are common).

Or acknowledge what people have since the beginning of contact sports. They are more dangerous than none contact sports. Millions have accepted those risks before COVID.

You say a good percentage. What exactly is a good percentage? What percentage of school age kids have died or been hospitalized for corona. Over the last five months, I can guarantee you it has not been close to the leading cause of death in school age children. Yet we haven’t focused or put anything in place to address the leading causes, only the one the news media has devoted their 75 percent of their reporting and speculation to.

Wait 10 years to find out the impact bad policy toward COVID has on school age children. The long term impact will be way worse then a 14 day quarantine, a low grade fever and some fatigue for a couple days.

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It can’t be brought home from grocery shopping, or a job, or a restaurant, or a million other things and places. You can’t shutdown every possible way it can be contracted. The athletes are the most disciplined of the student body. They know what it means to sacrifice for the greater good. They are the least of the school community’s Problems.

lol lol lol lol lol Do you even know any children?

Even pro teams have had athletes breaking the rules. Do you really think HS students will be "disciplined"? How about these college kids? I bet there's plenty of athletes in that crowd. https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/uni...-classes-begin

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You make it seem as though their is one person busy doing all that. That is what an ad is for no? He or she should have been thinking about it since May. The education planning should have happened too. To many educators taking off during the pandemic and the summer as usual. Now they are starting to scribble some garbage on a napkin. Easier to look around and just say us too and copy what some other idiots who didn’t think it through did.

Original purpose of shutting down was to bend the curve. To not overwhelm our infrastructure. We had limited beds, ppe and testing. It has been proven that resources were not fully utilized during the height of the pandemic. It was better safe then sorry, so no qualms here. However, time to put safeguards in place and move forward. Liberals can’t make this about no one testing positive.

An AD can plan all they want, but it keeps changing seemingly every other day. They also can only do so much and advocate so hard. Ultimately their administration, school boards and the state make the decisions. Our board only just laid out the final return to school plan, and CIAC our schools new "region" and now the AD has to figure out what that means for sports schedules - if it even happens at all.

Almost no one is saying we have to have zero cases. It's an impossible goal. But there are thresholds schools and the states are working with in terms of # of cases as well as positivity rates. There are plenty of precautions that can be taken to help make sure kids can stay in school, but part of that means the state and communities have to keeps numbers low. Look at the mess in GA - they fully reopened with cases still very high, masks not required (in the state or in schools), and now schools are already having to close or quarantine 100s.

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Or acknowledge what people have since the beginning of contact sports. They are more dangerous than none contact sports. Millions have accepted those risks before COVID.

You say a good percentage. What exactly is a good percentage? What percentage of school age kids have died or been hospitalized for corona. Over the last five months, I can guarantee you it has not been close to the leading cause of death in school age children. Yet we haven’t focused or put anything in place to address the leading causes, only the one the news media has devoted their 75 percent of their reporting and speculation to.

Wait 10 years to find out the impact bad policy toward COVID has on school age children. The long term impact will be way worse then a 14 day quarantine, a low grade fever and some fatigue for a couple days.

I have kids that play.
I am more concerned about concussions and knees. Virus is not a concern.
Additionally kids will be more impacted by drug & alcohol abuse then the virus they are being “protected” from.

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An AD can plan all they want, but it keeps changing seemingly every other day. They also can only do so much and advocate so hard. Ultimately their administration, school boards and the state make the decisions. Our board only just laid out the final return to school plan, and CIAC our schools new "region" and now the AD has to figure out what that means for sports schedules - if it even happens at all.

Almost no one is saying we have to have zero cases. It's an impossible goal. But there are thresholds schools and the states are working with in terms of # of cases as well as positivity rates. There are plenty of precautions that can be taken to help make sure kids can stay in school, but part of that means the state and communities have to keeps numbers low. Look at the mess in GA - they fully reopened with cases still very high, masks not required (in the state or in schools), and now schools are already having to close or quarantine 100s.

The only thing that keeps changing is the number of deaths and hospitalizations. All for the better in ct fortunately.

What is the infection rate right now for kids under the age of 18? What does it have to be to satisfy you? The issue is clowns in charge of ct don’t know and haven’t made that clear. Come up with a threshold for opening and for shutting down so people understand.

A spit test developed by yale just got fda approval today. Right in our own backyard. Costs a couple bucks. Maybe ten bucks for end customers. Is Lamont up to speed on this? Probably not. Too busy fingering his arse.

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The only thing that keeps changing is the number of deaths and hospitalizations. All for the better in ct fortunately.

What is the infection rate right now for kids under the age of 18? What does it have to be to satisfy you? The issue is clowns in charge of ct don’t know and haven’t made that clear. Come up with a threshold for opening and for shutting down so people understand.

A spit test developed by yale just got fda approval today. Right in our own backyard. Costs a couple bucks. Maybe ten bucks for end customers. Is Lamont up to speed on this? Probably not. Too busy fingering his arse.

Oh...and for the guy who’s son waited 10 days for results, Saliva direct takes a few as three hours, 24 hours max to turn around. Nba and mlb players were part of the test group.

For that price and that turn around, every school in ct should be administering it.

Open sourced. Local labs can run

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Oh...and for the guy who’s son waited 10 days for results, Saliva direct takes a few as three hours, 24 hours max to turn around. Nba and mlb players were part of the test group.

For that price and that turn around, every school in ct should be administering it.

Open sourced. Local labs can run

The saliva test was only FDA approved on Friday. It still needs some examination on reliability but if it holds up it will definitely help. They still have to be lab run. The hope is soon there will be at home tests that cost almost nothing and don't require a lab, like a pregnancy test but with saliva. Even if it isn't totally accurate it would help stop a good number of infected people who may not know they have it from going to work or school.

Flattening the curve has given scientists time to improve things like testing and doctors to improve how they treat patients. It's all very different than it was a few months ago.

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The only thing that keeps changing is the number of deaths and hospitalizations. All for the better in ct fortunately.

What is the infection rate right now for kids under the age of 18? What does it have to be to satisfy you? The issue is clowns in charge of ct don’t know and haven’t made that clear. Come up with a threshold for opening and for shutting down so people understand.

A spit test developed by yale just got fda approval today. Right in our own backyard. Costs a couple bucks. Maybe ten bucks for end customers. Is Lamont up to speed on this? Probably not. Too busy fingering his arse.

Please show us a state by your definition that is "doing it right". No one is because there's no standard definition for it. And what works well in one state or even school district may not work for another. I'm no Lamont fan but maybe give him 5 minutes to see if the just approved saliva rest can be run here and is accurate. Right now I'd much rather be in blue CT than FL, GA and many other states. At least Lamont isn't threatening school funding if a district isn't going to open (FL) or telling students if they're not in the classroom their work won't count (IA)

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The saliva test was only FDA approved on Friday. It still needs some examination on reliability but if it holds up it will definitely help. They still have to be lab run. The hope is soon there will be at home tests that cost almost nothing and don't require a lab, like a pregnancy test but with saliva. Even if it isn't totally accurate it would help stop a good number of infected people who may not know they have it from going to work or school.

Flattening the curve has given scientists time to improve things like testing and doctors to improve how they treat patients. It's all very different than it was a few months ago.

What are you talking about? It is lab ready. Rutgers lab has been running it. They compared nasal swab results of nba and mlb.....results were similar.

Any lab can get this program up and running in a week tops.

Just because you googled one article, you aren’t dr Fauci. Stay woke people. My point is Lamont probably doesn’t know about it and literally it was developed in his backyard.

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Please show us a state by your definition that is "doing it right". No one is because there's no standard definition for it. And what works well in one state or even school district may not work for another. I'm no Lamont fan but maybe give him 5 minutes to see if the just approved saliva rest can be run here and is accurate. Right now I'd much rather be in blue CT than FL, GA and many other states. At least Lamont isn't threatening school funding if a district isn't going to open (FL) or telling students if they're not in the classroom their work won't count (IA)

I gave him a chance....he has proven ineffective.

Were you saying that in March? States are impacted in cycles. We are at a low but we’re ground zero at one point.

Lamont isn’t saying anything. Leaders lead. They don’t sit back and wait to see what their man crush Cuomo is doing. Sometimes your decision will be wrong, but the key is not to be afraid to admit when it is going wrong and adapt and change course

Signed
A leader

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How do you even prove where someone got covid.....liberal puzzies!

Just checked the time..14 day trend.....China virus cases down 16%, deaths down 13%

Teachers need to man up and get in the class room. Glove up, mask up, shield up.....whatever you want, but quit trying to extend your vacation to 1 year long.

Oops!
Teen hockey player tests positive for COVID after playing in tournament in CT
https://www.wfsb.com/news/teen-hocke...5b785a0e0.html

College students raise alarm by packing bars, avoiding masks
Some universities are already battling covid-19 outbreaks, including the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill - where four different viral clusters have emerged one week after in-person classes started - and Oklahoma State University, where a single sorority house now has 23 confirmed cases.
"Why?" tweeted Walt Maddox, mayor of Tuscaloosa, Ala., above a photo of hundreds of mostly mask-free University of Alabama students outside downtown restaurants.
https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/a...s-15488745.php

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Oops!
Teen hockey player tests positive for COVID after playing in tournament in CT
https://www.wfsb.com/news/teen-hocke...5b785a0e0.html

College students raise alarm by packing bars, avoiding masks
Some universities are already battling covid-19 outbreaks, including the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill - where four different viral clusters have emerged one week after in-person classes started - and Oklahoma State University, where a single sorority house now has 23 confirmed cases.
"Why?" tweeted Walt Maddox, mayor of Tuscaloosa, Ala., above a photo of hundreds of mostly mask-free University of Alabama students outside downtown restaurants.
https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/a...s-15488745.php

Oh No, whatever will we do? How many were hospitalized?