David Marsh to Gavin Newsom: “We’d Love to Get These Pools Open”

Or take yourself somewhere that is

As much as I’d like my 3 swimmers back in the pool, that won’t happen until they’re safe. Only 3% in the US have tested. We don’t know based on that. Stay safe.

Ray Smith I toughed it out when I was a kid, but now we have to treat them like entitled babies

Rob Hauptschein good for you. Has nothing to do with being entitled! It has everything to do with a sport they love.

Ray Smith not everything; need to balance in public health safety for the greater good unless it has everything to do with muh freedom

Ray Smith boo hoo.. people are dying. Give it a rest.. they are young and swimming will return.

Darren Ward please by all means live under your rock! Hide for ever! It doesn’t mean everyone else should. People die everyday for just about everything! Get over it

Ray Smith Really?? Are you human? Grow a heart.

Ray Smith dude, swimmers all over the world have worked hard.. get out of your small pond and look at it globally. The world doesn’t revolve around your tiny little corner of North Carolina.

Darren Ward I wasn’t talking about only NC Swimmers I was talking swimming in general. Other places are opening up I was just stating we should as well.

Ray Smith no… you really shouldn’t .

Lol

Kimberly Joy so your new normal is normalizing the almost 100,000 deaths so far (far higher than the flu despite your minimization). Are you in favor or disfavor of pool restrictions like social distancing for the greater public good?

Kimberly – please do some more research on COVID-19 for your safety and people around you. We have three swimmers and hate like hell to miss this season. Please don’t mess with this virus, it will kill you. It’s worse than you believe.

Please,stop down playing the pandemic,unless you or your family was on the frontline you’ll never know the reality.Lives trump getting back in the pool.Sorry but it’s true and no,it’s not again to any flu.

New normal is a joke! Scandinavian countries and some in Asia, like Taiwan didn’t shut down and they’re doing fine!

Rob Hauptschein stay home

Dave Johnson no

Rob Hauptschein go swim some laps then.

Blake Friis not exactly. Sweden has a high death rate. Taiwan took early measures that the USA failed very badly to do at all. S Korea is another big success story due to smart leadership there; in fact, I swam in the year 1988 summer Olympic pool in Seoul, which was quite an interesting experience

Dave Johnson now we agree ?‍♂️

Rob Hauptschein “new normal” is a scare phrase developed by the media to keep you coming back for more drama. Even in the medical dark ages of 1918 things got back to normal.

Doug Schack that’s nice. Do you abide by suggested public health measures like social distancing and masking in these days, Or do you not at all?

Rob Hauptschein it’s not “far higher” than the flu. 1957-58 flu pandemic killed up to 116,000 Americans and we don’t even remember it happened. Nor did we shut down the country. And the current count is 81,400 so stop exaggerating by 25%

Doug Schack it will most certainly be far higher as the projected rate will rise above 116K before even the start of summer, in the first half of this calendar year. Are you now social distancing, masking, Or not at all?

Rob Hauptschein so now you’ve gone from exaggerating by nearly 25% to “well it probably will be by xxx date”. Stop the drama.

Doug Schack No drama from me as I am replying to comments in a rational manner. The numbers are projections. I believe about 2000 Americans died on the virus in the last 24 hours (like almost 9/11). Drama is provided by the “but muh freedom” types without a sense of civic responsibility. On another note, I believe the polio epidemic ended just prior to 1957/8 (I was unborn then) due to a vaccine and I recall water-based transmissions were an issue for that one, but I need to confirm that history. Are you now social distancing & masking when near others, stores, Or not at all?

Rob Hauptschein 1524 people died yesterday of Covid……another 25% exaggeration.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:COVID-19_pandemic_data/United_States_medical_cases

Doug Schack thanks for confirming the 1524 number as about 2000; thankfully less. Suggest be a forest, big picture trend type of guy rather than a technical tree-level nit-picker, if you can. ((Pool chlorine does kill polio (and we are vaccinated in this country except maybe for some crazed wackos, but less clear with Corona and then the airborne mist transmission is an issue)). Are you now social distancing, masking, Or not at all?

Rob Hauptschein it’s not nitpicking. It’s a 25% exaggeration. No one would every say “about a 1000 died today” when in fact the number is 1500. No one would ever say that over 8000 recovered from it yesterday. Because that’s not dramatic.

Rob Hauptschein Actually, there have been more than 300,000 deaths from covid-19 worldwide. But how many of those deaths appear to have been from the virus being spread at swim practices?

Bob McAdams Idk but gyms and pools were mostly closed in March nationwide. You can pull that data from Sweden. Spreading and subsequent deaths can occur and has been documented during close proximity which is rationale for social distancing and masking. Are you social distancing, masking Or not at all?

Pools in my area were all closed in mid-March when the virus was spreading. But, while I’ve heard of a case where the virus was spread at a church choir rehearsal, I haven’t heard of anything comparable happening at a swim team practice, even though swim team practices were occurring a lot more frequently than church choir rehearsals.

It is known that chlorine in pools provides protection against the spread of viruses. So unless there are cases I haven’t heard about, people are ultimately keeping pools closed because somebody somewhere has an unverified THEORY that there’s a remote possibility that the virus might be spread through pool decks or ladders. But it’s known for certain (I’ve seen the studies in refereed medical journals) that regular swimming tends to reduce your likelihood of dying from a number of serious ailments, some of which increase your likelihood of dying from the covid-19 virus, if you get it.

Rob Hauptschein Sorry! I realized I didn’t answer two of your questions:

Yes, I am engaging in social distancing. And yes I wear a face covering when I am going anywhere that I will encounter people, but that’s not significant because it’s required where I live. (It was pretty weird, too! One thing that has been unchanging about the CDC recommendations is that nobody but health care workers treating patients should be wearing N95 masks, because there aren’t enough of them for everybody to wear one, so if people try, it will create shortages for the medical people who really need them. But the CDC went almost overnight from belittling people who wore non-medical masks to recommending that people wear them. And within a week, the state was requiring people to wear them.)

Bob McAdams life extends beyond your area and your personal heresay. Try some safe dryland to cross train and stay chronically healthy.

Maureen Fluehr Carll , my 55 year old husband ( with additional health issues) , and 13 year old son both had it……… It amounted to a high fever. So in my opinion it is not so much people downplaying, it’s the up playing that is the problem.

Side note, yes it is concerning and requires precautions, but this is RIDICULOUS!!!!!

None were affected like us.

Tamara Oberg- Kelm,everybody is different.I’m happy your family survived.But it’s far from ridiculous and you wouldn’t think it was ridiculous had things been worse for your loved ones.Really,all of this over getting into a pool?Really?How does getting back in the water become such a big deal?That’s ridiculous

Darren Ward some of us on this side of the border are also shaking our heads. When did sport and haircuts and stuff become more important than lives. #stayinghome

Sandy Riddell Wagner exactly, but your moron of a “leader” is hell bent on distributing misinformation to win an election… it’s really pathetic … the entire world sees it except for die hard Trumpers. I feel so badly for you.

We feel badly for you too – Canada? SMH!

Melanie Breckel NGDC!!

The curve has already been flattened. Now we need to build up our immune systems vs the other thousands of viruses that exist by getting out in the world.

Sheri Thompson, you sound like a wannabe scientist who doesn’t have a clue. smh

Sheri Thompson You haven’t flattened shit, you think a couple of weeks without cases going higher is flattening it ? You have NGDC!!

Stay in Canada Dude !!!

Right.Absolutely right

Russell Dale I have no issue with that.

Russell Dale

It’s a pandemic.

It’s a plandemic. The sooner people realize this, the sooner pools will open. The people need to rise up.