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Monday, July 27, 2020

Major Leage Baseball's COVID plan failed after 4 days, how can schools hope to succeed?


 MLB started playing last week, over a hundred days after what was supposed to be opening day. After 3 days, it looks like they will be shutting down. The measures they put in place were far and above what they are doing for schools, so I ask, how can schools hope to be successful where they failed so spectacularly. 

After 4 days double-digit members of the Florida Marlins have been diagnoses with COVID-19.

From Slate,

The Miami Marlins’ home opener on Monday night against Baltimore has been postponed as the team deal with a coronavirus outbreak that stranded them in Philadelphia.
The Marlins postponed their flight home on Sunday night after their series finale against the Phillies. ESPN reports that the Phillies have canceled their game against the New York Yankees too. ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported that 11 of the 33 Marlins players who traveled to Philadelphia tested positive for Covid-19. Sources told Passan that two Marlins coaches have also tested positive.

I have read on twitter it is 14 members of the Marlins and this after a smattering of members on other teams. 
This is the thing MLB has put crazy precautions in place.
From Baseball America, 
All players, coaches and team personnel are required to complete a symptom and exposure questionnaire before arriving at summer camp. If their responses indicate they may have contracted or been exposed to COVID-19, they have to undergo further evaluation and testing before they are allowed to report to the team facility. 
Upon arrival at summer camp, all players, coaches and team personnel will undergo a temperature check, a saliva or oral/nasal swab for COVID-19 diagnostic testing and a blood test for antibody testing. Individuals must self-quarantine until they learn the results of their diagnostic test (usually 24-48 hours). Only when the test comes back negative are they allowed to enter team facilities. 
All players, coaches and team employees must complete a COVID-19 education course prior to summer camp. Teams must submit a certification to MLB that all players and employees completed COVID-19 education. 
Throughout summer camp and the 2020 season, players and coaches will have their temperatures checked twice per day, a saliva sample or oral/nasal swab taken every other day for diagnostic testing and a blood sample taken approximately once per month for antibody testing. 
Players are required to take their temperatures twice, in succession, each morning before leaving their homes. If their temperature is 100.4 degrees or higher, they are required to report it to their club’s medical staff. 
Players who report or exhibit any symptoms of COVID-19 or have a temperature above 100.4 degrees are not allowed to enter a team facility. 
Players are required to wear face coverings at all times in the clubhouse and related areas. They are not required to wear face coverings on the field or in the bullpen or dugout during games or practices, or when engaged in physical activities such as batting practice or workouts. 
Non-playing personnel are required to wear face coverings at all times in the dugout and bullpen. 
Each club’s medical staff is responsible for ensuring compliance for all MLB-mandated health and safety protocols. MLB may conduct random audits to ensure proper procedures are being followed. 
Testing and procedures will be overseen by a Joint Committee consisting of one non-medical representative from MLB, one non-medical representative from the MLB Players' Association and two physicians (one appointed by each of the parties). Any disputes not solved by a majority vote of the committee will be resolved by an independent expert agreed upon by the MLB-appointed physician and the MLBPA-appointed physician. 
Players, on-field personnel and team officials may not take public transportation between their homes and the ballpark. 
On the road, players and other members of a team’s traveling party are not allowed to leave the team hotel to eat or use any restaurants open to the public. They can only eat at a private dining area for the team provided by the hotel or order food via room service or a delivery service such as Grubhub or Postmates. 
Umpires must complete COVID-19 education prior to the season and throughout the course of the regular season. 
MLB is providing free testing to household members of the covered individuals and to medical workers and other first responders in each club’s home city.
I guarantee you your school or district isn't doing ten percent of what MLB did and they lasted four days. I also guarantee you your school or district doesn't have nearly the resources MLB did and they lasted four days and I guarantee you when schools open they will fail even more spectacularly. 
Friends everyone wants to be back. Everyone thinks it is best but the reality is when schools open it won't be long before they close which means we will have risked lives for what?   

1 comment:

  1. You know they won't be testing kids for covid thus the myth kids don't catch it and/or spread it.

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