s a public lap swim scenario or a closed doors club swim team practice. Even with one swimmer per lane, what is to keep the virus within the confines of the infected swimmers lane perimeter?
I do not have a good answer for the backstroke situation. The safe, but reasonable approach (reasonable being COMPLETE speculation on my end, here) would be.....no backstroke. Certainly not what I'd like, as both of my daughters' are very strong backstrokers (one has WInter Jr cuts in back and fly, the other has made sectionals in back and the 1650/1500 the past couple of years). I'd be interested to know more about how long it survives in the area above the pool, how long it takes to come out of droplet suspension, etc. But I also would be pretty dang insulted if resources were devoted to finding out that information given that only about 0.1% of the population would be affected by this, and there are FAR more more impactful data that should be investigated, first.
s a public lap swim scenario or a closed doors club swim team practice. Even with one swimmer per lane, what is to keep the virus within the confines of the infected swimmers lane perimeter?
I do not have a good answer for the backstroke situation. The safe, but reasonable approach (reasonable being COMPLETE speculation on my end, here) would be.....no backstroke. Certainly not what I'd like, as both of my daughters' are very strong backstrokers (one has WInter Jr cuts in back and fly, the other has made sectionals in back and the 1650/1500 the past couple of years). I'd be interested to know more about how long it survives in the area above the pool, how long it takes to come out of droplet suspension, etc. But I also would be pretty dang insulted if resources were devoted to finding out that information given that only about 0.1% of the population would be affected by this, and there are FAR more more impactful data that should be investigated, first.
