Want to play sports? Get COVID numbers down
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Although I would love my son to be able to play sports this fall, I am grateful that the school and league made the hard and safe decision not to have sports this season. Delaware County still has the third-highest number of COVID cases in Pennsylvania. We have 1,855 cases per 100,000. Our per capita rate of cases would rank us as the twelfth-highest in the
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world. Australia has 1,015 cases per million.
And Pennsylvania itself has the twelfth-highest number of cases in the country, the tenth-highest new cases today, Sept. 2.
While young people are not dying from COVID at the rate that older people are, they are the ones spreading the virus and they are the ones who will have the longest time to deal with the long term
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I hope that the school and league will continue to hold firm and be persuaded by the science rather than kids and their parents who just want to play sports. The most recent email from strathhavenmenssoccer@gmail.com includes
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610.622.8887 an effort to persuade us that this is an “an ethics and socioeconomic issue” because wealthier kids are privately training and playing while disadvantaged children cannot afford to do this. This email also argues that some kids rely on their sports season to get into college. All of this is true, but it’s also true that the most disadvantaged families have also been the hardest hit by COVID.
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Increasing these families’ risk by having their children play close contact sports will only increase the inequity of our society. If a child brings home the virus and his parent falls ill or dies, that child is much worse off.
Many students and parents support the pause on sports. My son just read an Instagram post from a student telling the others that if they want to play sports again, they have to stay safe and get the COVID numbers down. She is a smart kid. Clearly, she paid attention in science class.
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