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Earlier this week doesn't mean today.
Were they positive at regionals, or were they positive on Monday? That's two entirely different things.
Given that individuals are typically contagious for 5-10 days after being symptomatic, is it really that different when they tested positive monday/teusday and played a game Friday?
Testing positive and being symptomatic are again, two different things.
Whether or not we should be playing sports at the moment is not a debate I feel qualified to have. I do think, however, that Covid isn't going away anytime soon. So at some point, we kind of have to accept its continued presence in our lives, and live them.
I think if people test negative, they test negative, and should act like it, and you haven't provided me with any evidence at all that that's not exactly what happened.
Accepting covid's continued presence in our life would be, at bare minimum, everyone wearing high quality masks. What roller derby is currently doing is not acceptance, it is denial.
Nevermind that the antigen tests most people have access to are not sufficient to say someone is not contagious. They're not sensitive enough for that.
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We aren't in a measles pandemic and probably won't be, though I 100% agree the larger outbreaks occurring are pretty concerning and yet another reason why infection control matters.
That's another reason why I push universal masks and clean air though-then risk of giving anyone any airborne pathogen is much lower, whether covid or measles or bird flu or some mystery virus we don't even know about yet.