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Re: 'Let Them Play' (high school sports in Michigan) - SteveG - 01-31-2021
This year's prom theme is "Bring out your dead".
Re: 'Let Them Play' (high school sports in Michigan) - Lemon Drop - 01-31-2021
AllGold wrote:
Big controversy in Michigan because in consultation with health experts the governor put a hold on winter contact high school sports until Feb. 21. The hold was originally to be until Feb. 1st and when it was pushed back, a lot of people lost their minds.
I don't have teen children but I don't see why it's such a big deal to wait until more people are vaccinated and the numbers go down.
https://www.mlive.com/highschoolsports/2021/01/let-them-play-delivers-clear-message-as-thousands-flock-to-capitol-to-protest-winter-sports-pause.html
One of the kids who spoke:
"“The thought of suicide crossed my mind,” he told the crowd. “I didn’t feel like I had anything to live for once wrestling was taken away from me and I spent every moment of my day locked away without anything to work for or strive to achieve."
I don't think the real problem is not being able to play high school sports. What is he going to do after he graduates?
What I see here is a symptom of what this pandemic is doing to teens. The isolation along with boredom and restriction from even the most mundane activities is ruining their emotional health and overall well-being. Heartbreaking.
Re: 'Let Them Play' (high school sports in Michigan) - AllGold - 01-31-2021
Lemon Drop wrote:
What I see here is a symptom of what this pandemic is doing to teens. The isolation along with boredom and restriction from even the most mundane activities is ruining their emotional health and overall well-being. Heartbreaking.
Sure, but let's address that. I'm not sure the solution is to try to kill grandma and grandpa.
Re: 'Let Them Play' (high school sports in Michigan) - SteveG - 01-31-2021
Lemon Drop wrote:
What I see here is a symptom of what this pandemic is doing to teens. The isolation along with boredom and restriction from even the most mundane activities is ruining their emotional health and overall well-being. Heartbreaking.
Youth rebounded just fine in the Roaring 20's after WW1 and the Spanish flu. All the hundreds of thousands of dead people...not so much.
Re: 'Let Them Play' (high school sports in Michigan) - mrbigstuff - 01-31-2021
AllGold wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
What I see here is a symptom of what this pandemic is doing to teens. The isolation along with boredom and restriction from even the most mundane activities is ruining their emotional health and overall well-being. Heartbreaking.
Sure, but let's address that. I'm not sure the solution is to try to kill grandma and grandpa.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/education/cdc-school-virus-spread/2021/01/26/bf949222-5fe6-11eb-9061-07abcc1f9229_story.html%3foutputType=amp
It can be done, and is being done all over the country. But common sense had to be utmost in people's minds. Wrestling is not okay, but soccer is fine. Hockey and basketball may be ok. Testing must be vigorously enforced. We are evolving on this and learning, and we should be actively protecting the most vulnerable. Playing sports means that you probably don't visit the grandparents, for example.
Re: 'Let Them Play' (high school sports in Michigan) - deckeda - 01-31-2021
It's been this way about classrooms and sports. Nothing is allowed to interfere. No one in leadership informs parents what's best, and parents only support what parents want to do.
After our freshmen became home schooled this year all we heard from her BB team was about practice cancellations and players getting Covid. I keep forgetting it they even play; the two local "newspapers" never post anything online. The high school posted a team picture yesterday and I didn't even recognize anyone.
After tomorrow they will be allowed to have 1/3 capacity in the gym at the time they should be staying closed.
Re: 'Let Them Play' (high school sports in Michigan) - Lemon Drop - 01-31-2021
AllGold wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
What I see here is a symptom of what this pandemic is doing to teens. The isolation along with boredom and restriction from even the most mundane activities is ruining their emotional health and overall well-being. Heartbreaking.
Sure, but let's address that. I'm not sure the solution is to try to kill grandma and grandpa.
I didn't suggest that was the solution, but congrats on stating the obvious.
Re: 'Let Them Play' (high school sports in Michigan) - Lemon Drop - 01-31-2021
Steve G. wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
What I see here is a symptom of what this pandemic is doing to teens. The isolation along with boredom and restriction from even the most mundane activities is ruining their emotional health and overall well-being. Heartbreaking.
Youth rebounded just fine in the Roaring 20's after WW1 and the Spanish flu. All the hundreds of thousands of dead people...not so much.
Depression and suicide were rampant in the 1918 pandemic and WW1 era. It was a very rough time for emotional health. The virus itself caused long term psychiatric disorders, just as COVID appears to. Not something to take lightly.
Re: 'Let Them Play' (high school sports in Michigan) - AllGold - 01-31-2021
Lemon Drop wrote:
[quote=AllGold]
[quote=Lemon Drop]
What I see here is a symptom of what this pandemic is doing to teens. The isolation along with boredom and restriction from even the most mundane activities is ruining their emotional health and overall well-being. Heartbreaking.
Sure, but let's address that. I'm not sure the solution is to try to kill grandma and grandpa.
I didn't suggest that was the solution, but congrats on stating the obvious.
You know that was hyperbole and not directed at you. Or if you didn't know... it was.
[Again, not directed at you...] I'm having a tough time understanding people on this. There are many people who are really upset and really angry with the delay in playing sports. I don't get it.
Going back to fall sports in Michigan, they were shut down before the quarterfinal and semifinal level. When they were finally allowed to resume in January (weird having high school football outdoors in Michigan in January), they instituted rapid testing of all athletes. The MHSAA says there was a 1% positivity rate. The Let Them Play people perverted the stats to say it was only a 0.1% positivity rate because the athletes were tested multiple times. :RollingEyesSmiley5: But even the true 1% of athletes stat doesn't take into account that there were only a small fraction of schools still playing because it was the playoffs and most had already been eliminated. AND, some of the teams forfeited because of Covid problems so they weren't even tested.
Re: 'Let Them Play' (high school sports in Michigan) - mrbigstuff - 01-31-2021
Again, there's a right way and a wrong way. It doesn't mean that everything has to be banned. The trouble is that everyone wants "parity" and that just ain't gonna happen.