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

Or take yourself somewhere that is

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

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

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 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.

Ray Smith no… you really shouldn’t .

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?

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.

Rob Hauptschein stay home

Rob Hauptschein go swim some laps then.

Dave Johnson now we agree ?‍♂️

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?

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?

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?

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 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?

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.)

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!!!!!

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

It’s a pandemic.