COVID-19...afraid or not afraid

The closing of schools and sports and restaurants has been fraudulent.   Now that Sleepy is in office, they are wanting to open things.  It is BS.  

There is basically zero chance of a kid getting it and dying.  No more than getting a horrible flu, or stomach sickness and dying.

So in the HS wrestling world, It is a fraud.

           Covid talk is never subtle,

           some opinions that are spoken

           will be banned as "strict verboten".

           In the cauldron bubbling hot 

           add sad tales of woe and Lot.

           Chicken Little, Mother Goose,

           St. Fauci cooked the golden goose.

Exactly.  

Doubtful that some will even bother to read the above because it has CDC attached to it (although for the life of me I can't fathom how an agency that was recently regarded as "best in class" is now deemed less reliable than Facebook by 40% of our population), but it's a scary reminder of what we are dealing with.  That's the immediate repercussion of a 10 team, 130 total personnel tournament in which a few asymptomatic wrestlers participated.

IMO school officials are doing a pretty good job with everything considering the situation. I'm sure many on here would think differently if in a position where they have to consider the needs of an entire school community, rather than just their immediate family.  There is really no "correct" decision for them and their jobs, and people in that communities lives, may depend on that decision.

So far, so good, we're wrestling.  Let's keep our fingers crossed that it continues - this is really going to depend on our coaches and wrestlers taking this seriously.

Because NOBODY healthy dies of The Vid

Follow the F’n Science!

I love the comorbidity argument - and the old age argument, comes up all the time!

I know, I know.  Sick people, fat people, old people - who needs them!!!!  Probably going to kick at some time anyway.

And then the mortality rate argument.  Because Covid is only a marginal threat to the community. You're right - I would guess that hospitalizations, medical care expenses, productivity decline all were minimal, right.  The fact that the report was focused on community spread, well so what, let's trot the strawmen out.

BTW - you need to brush up on your math - mortality is .22% from tracing so far in that report.  

If that is what you took from the report, you're just politicking.  Why did I put the link up and in what context?  If you read my post, it was to highlight the difficult position that administrators are in now.  A relatively small tournament, with limited personnel in attendance can create exposure for a multitude in the immediate.  In the coming months - 2 months, 3 months down the line - would you care to extrapolate how many exposures it caused?  

If you want to argue about the seriousness of contracting Covid - that's a different argument and really isn't relevant to the fact that it can be spread by someone of any age.  And the fact that teenagers are less likely to exhibit serious symptoms - well that kind of makes them more viable "spreaders" don't you think?

School administrators are in a difficult position of weighing the risks on both sides of the equation.  If it were that easy, we wouldn't be in the relative chaos concerning the Covid situation that we have currently. The "scary reminder" is that this is a virus that is much more serious than the flu to a substantial portion of our population - aged and at-risk.  Substantial portion, no matter what your attitude is towards them.  And the rate of transmission is high.  You see the positive rates coming out of that study, in addition to the percentage of positives that were asymptomatic - well, I'm not sure how someone can look at that data and not reasonably deduce that this event accelerated the rate of exposure for that community significantly.  That's a serious concern for a school administrator or any public official, and one that really can't be dismissed if they are doing their job.  

There are really no easy decisions in this regard - despite the fact that people on both sides of this issue seem to think there are.

On the surface that's a pretty reasonable take.  But an impossible one for an official who has been elected to make decisions that benefit the community they represent.  And all of the school administrators answer to those people.  They should be weighing the benefits and the risks and then making what they feel is the best decision.

It also makes the assumption that you will not act recklessly and needlessly endanger others.  Which is likely true in your case, but I'd caution against making that assumption for an entire community.  It's kind of why we have laws and law enforcement.

I'm all for the personal liberties that we enjoy in this country.  It's just not an argument that applies to all situations.  At least not in this country at any time in its existence.

Your lack of empathy for adolescents and the mental health side of this issue is DEAFENING!

Anxiety, Depression, drug and Alcohol addiction, ODs, Suicidal Ideations and death from suicide in our younger population... have all skyrocketed during this time of shutting schools, preventing sports and the unpresidential policy of quarantining the young and healthy! There clearly is more of a risk of these issues than COVID-19 health issues in this Demographic!!!!  

I can not attempt to judge your soul or read your heart but I question your one sided view of this complex issue!