Ridiculous Contact Tracing Strikes Again!

[sportsguy22]

Stewarts Creek gets hit with these horrible protocols at the worst possible time...and may miss the playoffs! Unbelievable insanity continues!!! The emotional toll this craziness will take on our students will be felt for years to come.  Extremely sad.

[RocketHouse]

Ridiculous. Any team with title aspirations should have all players in virtual school. Cheerleaders, band, and managers should all be kept away. It's not too crazy to only practice and play with players likely to play. Anyone not likely to contribute should be removed from team activities. Totally ridiculous. 

[MidTennFootball]

Just now, Salem said:

Ridiculous. Any team with title aspirations should have all players in virtual school. Cheerleaders, band, and managers should all be kept away. It's not too crazy to only practice and play with players likely to play. Anyone not likely to contribute should be removed from team activities. Totally ridiculous. 

Sure, let's just completely deprive kids of the chance to be on the field with their teammates. Sounds completely logical

[sportsguy22]

3 minutes ago, MidTennFootball said:

Sure, let's just completely deprive kids of the chance to be on the field with their teammates. Sounds completely logical

In this strange and absolutely nonsensical year with nutty protocols, they may have to opt for this unfortunately. Kids are already getting crushed emotionally with these decisions by genius leaders. In this crazy situation, all options must be on the table. Sad but true.

[MidTennFootball]

Just now, sportsguy22 said:

In this strange and absolutely nonsensical year with nutty protocols, they may have to opt for this unfortunately. Kids are already getting crushed emotionally with these decisions by genius leaders. In this crazy situation, all options must be on the table. Sad but true.

You do everything as a team. Win, lose and otherwise. Not a decent HC out there that is gonna go for that

[RocketHouse]

16 minutes ago, MidTennFootball said:

Sure, let's just completely deprive kids of the chance to be on the field with their teammates. Sounds completely logical

That may have sounded good while you were typing but what exactly is completely logical about contact tracing. Completely healthy kids are being told you can't participate with your teammates because of where a school official thinks they were sitting in the cafeteria and if it happens from this point forward your team's season is over.

Our starting running back has been quarantined twice this year 14 days x 2 for contact tracing. He's perfectly healthy and has missed half of the season.  His best friend was the player with the serious neck injury from our school  and he was going to wear his jersey during Micah Strong  night at our first home game since the injury last Friday. Guess what, he was told Thursday after practice that he was contact traced and couldn't step foot on campus. He also couldn't participate in the Spaghetti supper benefit his class was in charge of Saturday. The kid has been devastated twice this year. How logical does that sound?

How logical does this sound? Right now a 9th grade 4th string  cornerback can go to every haunted house in Nashville this weekend and get Covid next week and his team is done? 

[MidTennFootball]

8 minutes ago, Salem said:

That may have sounded good while you were typing but what exactly is completely logical about contact tracing. Completely healthy kids are being told you can't participate with your teammates because of where a school official thinks they were sitting in the cafeteria and if it happens from this point forward your team's season is over.

Our starting running back has been quarantined twice this year 14 days x 2 for contact tracing. He's perfectly healthy and has missed half of the season.  His best friend was the player with the serious neck injury from our school  and he was going to wear his jersey during Micah Strong  night at our first home game since the injury last Friday. Guess what, he was told Thursday after practice that he was contact traced and couldn't step foot on campus. He also couldn't participate in the Spaghetti supper benefit his class was in charge of Saturday. The kid has been devastated twice this year. How logical does that sound?

How logical does this sound? Right now a 9th grade 4th string  cornerback can go to every haunted house in Nashville this weekend and get Covid next week and his team is done? 

You guys wanted football, this is the price you pay to get it. You do everything as a team. It's not always fair, but life never is.

If I was a coach, id rather not play at all than to ask a senior who has busted his tail for 4 years to opt out. Not even to mention the legal ramifications when a player or parent brings a lawsuit forward because they think they were targeted because of the color of their skin

[sportsguy22]

Yep, logic is completely out the window at this point! You have health department officials watching video of cafeterias and school buses to make random decisions on who might’ve been exposed. Completely healthy kids who never show symptoms and this a virus that doesn’t negatively affect kids really at all. It’s all a subjective, nonsensical approach just because they are smarter than everyone, know what’s best, and want to prove they are “making things safer”. It’s insanity in every way! Just think about the flu going forward...much, much tougher on kids! We have quarantines and shutdowns and contact tracing to look forward to forever...or maybe not once the election is over??!! Pure political and absolute nonsense!

[RocketHouse]

11 minutes ago, MidTennFootball said:

You guys wanted football, this is the price you pay to get it.

Why don't you poll the thousands of kids getting to play in TN and see how they feel about it. While you're at it ask the senior basketball players who didn't get to play their tournament last spring how they feel. Senior baseball and softball players missing the entire season may have an opinion too.  

 

11 minutes ago, MidTennFootball said:

You do everything as a team. It's not always fair, but life never is.

This sounds like something out of a fortune cookie. 

 

11 minutes ago, MidTennFootball said:

If I was a coach, id rather not play at all than to ask a senior who has busted his tail for 4 years to opt out.

What does that even mean?

 

11 minutes ago, MidTennFootball said:

Not even to mention the legal ramifications when a player or parent brings a lawsuit forward because they think they were targeted because of the color of their skin

The pro-Covid crowd is always the first to throw out the victim and race card. 

[osunut2]

In the last 6 months, I've learned that three things are certain - 1) death, 2) taxes, and 3) Salem and Sportsguy taking every opportunity to opine and enlighten those of us on the T with their COVID musings

[sportsguy22]

1 hour ago, osunut2 said:

In the last 6 months, I've learned that three things are certain - 1) death, 2) taxes, and 3) Salem and Sportsguy taking every opportunity to opine and enlighten those of us on the T with their COVID musings

Fact.

[ecu]

If kids are healthy they should play! Contact tracing is just a means to control people. Sick of all this stupidity.