Longhorn Aquatics Long Course Kick Off was scheduled for May 1 - 3, 2009
this email just arrived:
Long Course Kick Off Cancelled
Importance: High
Dear TXLA Swimmers and Parents,
The Long Course Kick Off meet, scheduled for this weekend has been cancelled due to the increasing incidence of the N1H1 Virus and its apparently elevated prevalence, especially in the San Antonio area where many of our swimmers are coming from. We are working on rescheduling sometime in June. We will let you know as plans firm up.
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USMS SCY Nats is coming up here's the comment from
From Dowain Wright, Meet Director and physician. :
At this time, there is no indication that the USMS National Short Course Championships will be adversely affected by the Swine Flu outbreak. We will continue to closely monitor the situation and keep everyone informed. It appears that all transmission of the virus in the US is the result of close and prolonged contact with an infected individual. Community wide spread by casual contact has not occurred. However, we request that any swimmer having a upper respiratory illness stay at home.
Sincerely,
Dowain Wright, MD, PhD
Meet Director, UMSM SC Nationals
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a friend of mine asked
If Dowain is up to date on California's Governator's proclamations?
At some point soon USMS Nationals Officials & USMS need to make an official call.
What should they do?
Are folks over reacting?
Parents
Former Member
We have had very bad scares in the past. We had the scare in 1950's Polio. We never wore goggles and the swim pools had the chlorine so high your eyes burned for weeks. Several swimmers I knew came down with it. George Bevan was one of them. He later became a world champion marathon swimmer. The clorine readings in the pool 3ppm it was like swimming in bleach. The pool dressing rooms were cleaned with almost straight bleach. If your cloths got the least bit damp by touching anything they had bleach streaks on them.
At its peak in the 1940s and 1950s, polio would paralyze or kill over half a million people worldwide every year
We have had very bad scares in the past. We had the scare in 1950's Polio. We never wore goggles and the swim pools had the chlorine so high your eyes burned for weeks. Several swimmers I knew came down with it. George Bevan was one of them. He later became a world champion marathon swimmer. The clorine readings in the pool 3ppm it was like swimming in bleach. The pool dressing rooms were cleaned with almost straight bleach. If your cloths got the least bit damp by touching anything they had bleach streaks on them.
At its peak in the 1940s and 1950s, polio would paralyze or kill over half a million people worldwide every year
