Officiating Post COVID-19 ???

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Raymond

I plan on visiting my father's for Father's Day, so I'll be getting tested and self-quarantining the week before I go b/c I can't afford to be asymptomatic and give my diabetic and cancer surviving father the virus.

You're a good son, and your Dad should be proud to have raised a son like you.

[BillyMac]

[BillyMac]

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

You're a good son, and your Dad should be proud to have raised a son like you.

Thanks... He's also showing some signs of dementia so he probably won't even remember it a month afterwards (no joke).

Back to the subject at hand, I know this upcoming high School season things are going have to be done differently as far as pre-game expectations for venues that don't have proper locker rooms for us. There are way too many unsanitary, cramped, and poorly ventilated changing rooms we are expected to utilize. I know I'll be advocating for 30 minutes prior showtime for varsity games, already dressed except for sneakers, and not going back to a cramp space breathing on each other at halftime.

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[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Raymond

There are way too many unsanitary, cramped, and poorly ventilated changing rooms we are expected to utilize. I know I'll be advocating for 30 minutes prior showtime for varsity games, already dressed except for sneakers, and not going back to a cramp space breathing on each other at halftime.

Sounds reasonable.

I'm a big advocate of showing a "professional look" for interscholastic games, especially for games at the high school level, but under these corona virus circumstances, I'm 100% all in for get in, get out, and get paid.

Also, no pregame coaches captains meetings.

Originally Posted by BillyMac

... several years ago, during a really nasty flu season, I had a partner who, after coaches and captains hand-shaking, took a small bottle of hand sanitizer out of his warm-up jacket pocket and cleaned his hands. I guess he was years ahead of his time.

It sure would be nice if we had a vaccine by then.

[SC Official]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Also, no pregame coaches captains meetings.

Might be the best thing to come out of this.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by SC Official

Might be the best thing to come out of this.

What? How can we play the game without shaking hands with both head coaches and all eight quad-captains, telling coaches to be sure that their players know how to tuck their jerseys in, and without asking who the speaking captains are, what their numbers are, and if they're starting? And I almost forgot, how will they know that it's the black line all the way around? Dr. Naismith will be rolling over in his grave.

[johnny d]

Wearing a mask is pretty much useless. The coronavirus has a diameter somewhere between 60-140 nanometers. The pores in the material of the masks people are using are much bigger, meaning the virus can pass right through. In fact, the pore size on the N95 medical mask can filter 99% of particles between 0.1 - 0.3 microns. Sounds impressive, except that converts to 100 - 300 nanometers, again meaning much of the virus can get through the filter.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by johnny d

Wearing a mask is pretty much useless. The coronavirus has a diameter somewhere between 60-140 nanometers. .

Surgical masks are not stopping the tiny corona virus particles, they're stopping the larger diameter respiratory droplets (that contain tremendous numbers of the much smaller diameter corona virus) from being exhaled or spit out by those that have COVID-19, especially from those that are asymptomatic for COVID-19 and who don't know that they're sick (and may not be socially distancing, or can't socially distance, like at work).

A mask, be it a surgical mask, or an N-95 mask, doesn't have to be 100% effective to be better than no mask at all.

I'm sure that many of us have seen slow motion video of respiratory droplets been coughed or sneezed out of one's nose or mouth and how far they can travel.

How are surgical masks useless?