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Push back Tryouts due to Covid-19
Guest:
This is a pretty doomsday scenario you have laid out. Its only April 17th and the situation is very fluid but is improving. Just in the last 12 hours we have seen a comprehensive framework to re-open the economy and a drug that has a lot of promise (Gilead). Give this another 2-3 weeks. The models have been embarrassingly wrong and it has not been easy to separate fact from media fear. Keep your powder dry........
Guest:
People have to stop with the media fear and sensationalism you have to be a moron to not know everything is for ratings. Go to the cdc yourself, look up death rates from flu, sars strain, swine flu and bird flu they are all way worse than what was experienced by covid. More people in the US died from the flu last year than however many will wind up dying from covid this past flu season. If you're bying what the news is selling your a alarmist and need to pull your head out of the sand.
Guest:
TRUTH! They just reported that antibodies in testing have showed up way more than they thought. DUH Way more people have it or did have it then they know. They will never know the true numbers. People dont show symptoms. Obviously nobody wants anybody to perish due to something like this but they are falsifying deaths to this and they dont even know the numerator. Which proves the fatality rate is waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy lower than they think. The issue was just not overwhelming the healthcare systems. The media reports such bias. Not saying things couldnt be handled differently but at some point people need to stop reading into the media reporting their agenda.
And if we lose a whole hockey season because of this then we might as well just dig some more graves because taking away hockey might be the worst in all of this.
Guest:
Antibodies tests right now are unfortunately horribly flawed and there is no solid info on how long or even whether immunity is conferred.
The fact is that any opening is going to done slowly, with social distancing restrictions in place. Right now, colleges and schools are uncertain whether or when they will be able to bring students back to in-school learning, so they are making contingency plans for different eventualities. This is smart, leaves less to chance or last minute, and gives kids time to wrap their head around the changes coming.
There is almost no situation right now over the summer where rinks open and it's business as usual. Like it or not, conspiracy theories or not, the best thing is for leagues to work with rinks now to come up with plans to keep kids safe and get them back on the ice in some capacity -- skills drills, skating skills, eventually some in-rink scrimmages -- with the least chance the entire rinks or teams will be placed in quarantine and possibly put some rinks out of business for good.
Jumping up and down over what should be is not going to be helpful. The goal needs to be simplified for best success: get kids on ice skating, eventually doing drills, eventually, possibly playing in-house games that reduce spread to every rink in the region and getting shut down again completely.
Guest:
Hearing possibly no tryouts this year at all. How would THAT work????
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