Meanwhile in Michigan Greta Gretchen still push the lockdown.
Not only that, but she's blaming high school sports for the spike in cases among high school aged teens and using that as the
excuse reason to require teen athletes to be tested before practices and games starting 02-Apr.
From what I've seen, schools had been taking the COVID requirements and protocols seriously up to this point (albeit some more than others). While there's always the possibility that athletes could pass COVID to each other, it shouldn't happen all that often if schools do the required screening of anyone entering their buildings. If anything, it's the AAU/travel sport circuit that's a concern because those tend to be unregulated by a central governing body and the organizers of those events care more about maximizing their revenues and profits than they do keeping everyone safe from COVID.
The biggest issue is that some students and their families are not taking precautions outside of school and school functions which often ends up being where and how they pick up COVID.
What I suspect is that Whitmer is still butthurt over having to allow winter sports to take place after parents filed a lawsuit over the matter and this is her way to impose and wield some sort of control/power over the situation. Ironically enough, the state's athletic association actually discussed the feasibility of testing student-athletes two months ago in an effort to have sports resume back in January only to have those talks go nowhere. So, I blame Whitmer for not taking the association up on their offer of testing sooner when she had the chance.
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I believe it was
@King Dead that recently talked about their church recently reopening, so to speak. Mine welcomed back most parishioners back for the first time today in roughly a year. Every other pew was cordoned off to help enforce social distancing but it was difficult for more than two families to sit in a pew due to the six-foot restriction between unrelated people. Apart from not having songbooks available and having people drop off their offertory envelopes into a centrally-located basket before and after the service, everything else remained largely the same as any other Sunday.
That said, I'm not sure what the church will do in two weeks to accommodate what would normally be a significantly larger crowd for Easter Sunday. Even if the church adds one more service to the schedule, I don't think it will be enough because pre-COVID Easter services tended to draw standing room only crowds. Perhaps the pastor anticipates a good number of those people opting to stay home and watch via livestream despite the bishop encouraging able-bodied/healthy people under 65 years old to start attending weekly services again.