For me, it's now going on four weeks since my last swim. We were in Turks and Caicos March 7-14 for spring break where I was doing daily open-water swims along the beach. My last swim was a 3-miler on March 13. When we got back to the U.S., we had to go into mandated 14-day quarantine so I wasn't able to get out to go to the pool before they all closed. Who knows when I'll swim again...either open-water warming up (I live in RI), or pools opening again. I am maintaining fitness with bike rides, and a run here and there. And I know I there is other 'dry land' training I could be doing. But my concern when returning to the water is injuring myself because of doing TMTS. I'm just that kind of athlete. Raise you're hand if you think you're a candidate for a TMTS injury too.
Dan
The problem as I see it is that the CDC is talking about the virus being spread via the water. People are taking that to mean that if you are in the water you won't contract the virus from nearby persons who are shedding virus. These are two very different things, in my mind. If you knew that you were going to be sharing a lane with a person who was shedding virus, would you still get in the pool? Would you send your kid into that situation? I'm not trying to be inflammatory, just trying to divulge how confident people truly are in extrapolating from the CDC's proclamation that the chlorine present in the water will protect them from inhalation of virus.
Right, that is why I was anxious to read what was quoted, which is notably more firm than what I linked. That said, the internal discussions we have had were that kids will exhale underwater, except backstroke, and that we might not swim any backstroke or kick sets where kids would be at risk to be exhaling as they cross.
Our team is based in a county where case load is exceedingly small. 37 cases in a county of 75,000. So a 0.005% chance of that person having the virus. And in a very inhospitable environment. Now you mix that with the fact taht they will never be stopping on the same side, or even capable of breathing close to each other. If I knew they had teh virus? No. But I know how likely they are to have it, and in that case, I am comfortable. Noting my kids have asthma, so they are at elevated risk.
The problem as I see it is that the CDC is talking about the virus being spread via the water. People are taking that to mean that if you are in the water you won't contract the virus from nearby persons who are shedding virus. These are two very different things, in my mind. If you knew that you were going to be sharing a lane with a person who was shedding virus, would you still get in the pool? Would you send your kid into that situation? I'm not trying to be inflammatory, just trying to divulge how confident people truly are in extrapolating from the CDC's proclamation that the chlorine present in the water will protect them from inhalation of virus.
Right, that is why I was anxious to read what was quoted, which is notably more firm than what I linked. That said, the internal discussions we have had were that kids will exhale underwater, except backstroke, and that we might not swim any backstroke or kick sets where kids would be at risk to be exhaling as they cross.
Our team is based in a county where case load is exceedingly small. 37 cases in a county of 75,000. So a 0.005% chance of that person having the virus. And in a very inhospitable environment. Now you mix that with the fact taht they will never be stopping on the same side, or even capable of breathing close to each other. If I knew they had teh virus? No. But I know how likely they are to have it, and in that case, I am comfortable. Noting my kids have asthma, so they are at elevated risk.
