Well the other bigger issue is the 48 hour prior to game rule. If your school tests weekly on Monday your kid would require another covid test Thursday (assuming it even comes back in time) for a game Saturday (or Wednesday for Friday). It means depending on your schools testing schedule a vaccinated multi sport kid may need as many as 3 covid tests per week which is absolute sheer lunacy.
LA County Revising Sports Guidelines on Tuesday 8/24 - per LA Times
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Desert Hound
DA
Actually the bigger issue is this.
You know testing people at this age is pointless. Instead of fighting that. You (and others) are conceding and saying lets adjust the testing schedule. Or saying the testing schedule will present problems.
The fight should be against mandating tests for a population that has no actual risk. It is pointless safety theater.
I think most tests have a 72 hour turnaround window.
I know people that paid almost $200 per test this summer to get instant results (so they could travel to Hawaii)
Rapid antigen test is ~ 2 hour your around at the LAX airport for $80 but that's not good enough for travel to places like Hawaii where you need the more expensive PCR test.
Yeah it's time to get help from "let them play ca", other support groups, and your local politicians to get these new requirements changed.
Enforcement yeah everybody that can ignore this will. The organizations, leagues, govt bodies that won't will site legalities, insurance, etc and say their hands are tied.
Since it's local heath dept stuff the bigger national players like USclub may not make a stand on this and just defer or not put out a statement or new instructions. Others like AYSO, Cal South, schools may not have a choice in the matter.
SoCal GK mom
SILVER
"You guys should get on the recall bandwagon."
Since this is a proposal from LA County Public Health, it has nothing to do Newsom or the recall.
Since this is a proposal from LA County Public Health, it has nothing to do Newsom or the recall.
If this does indeed extend to recreational sports (Club, AYSO, Little League, etc) how many families will likely just pull their kid from the program rather than forking out hundreds of more dollars for stupid tests?
It does when you have a Governor who supports this kind of overreach.
Not to get into politics, but this isn't really true. IIUC, the reason why the counties can still issue these restrictions is because California's state of emergency declaration is still in effect. Newsom was urged to lift it when he lifted the state tier system back early summer, but declined to do so, to give the counties the flexibility to do stuff like this (mask mandates too)
Desert Hound
DA
The point is you go after whatever officials are in charge of these areas. They want to keep their jobs. If enough have had enough, then that puts pressure on them to stop idiotic policies.
IDK if this has been posted. Seems to clearly apply to all youth sports. Pretty tough for a lot of youth organizations to comply with testing. I guess it will give kids more time to binge Tik Tok at home with no practice or games.
Back to the So Cal Undercover Scrimmage League. Grab a black t-shirt, a white t-shirt and some full sized bownets. Have your coach pretend he is just out walking his dog while the game is being played.
That and out of county, area, state practices, scrimmages, games, and tournaments. Business as usual for those that can afford it, galaxy again at great park, etc.
SoccerSanDiego
SILVER
It absolutely does apply to youth sports, in fact, the wording specifies all youth sports and then includes school sports. The wording:
"Below is a summary of requirements and best practices for youth sports leagues (including school sports teams) to enhance safety for participants, coaches, and communities, and lower the risk of
COVID-19 transmission within their teams."
It's a County, not a city, directive so any independent cities in La County would be covered. The sole exception would be if a city had an autonomous health department that actively overruled the County....I'm not aware of any cities with such autonomy (maybe Beverly Hills???). Plus, it's just going to be easier for leagues to redline entire counties rather than have teams from outside the counties have to comply with rules they may or may not know how to follow when going into the impacted county.
We're seeing the direct impact in high school sports BTW. A week ago Newbury Park HS had to cancel its game because 1 player came back positive. Eagle Rock was supposed to play San Pedro tonight but San Pedro was unable to get a sufficient amount of cleared players. ViewPark v. Hollywood also cancelled due to not getting enough cleared players.
Sorry the reason for my question is because Long Beach and Pasadena have their own health departments.
Yeah, Calabasas does too....it didn't spare us from the school shut downs or other La County decrees. The only exception is if it's an autonomous health department and they actively decide to ignore the county.
soccer dude
SILVER ELITE
I'm sorry, didn't Newsom already shut down soccer for like a year and a half? So, why wouldn't he just do it again? Seems to be his canned response to anything covid. I won't even touch the food industry. I really hope soccer continues since with a little precaution on the parents side, it is safe to play outdoors in the wind and sun.
Wasn't the LA County DPH youth sports guidance delayed until Sept 1? So, those would have to because of either other health orders or from the local school district or school policies.