Some great thoughts folks. 6AA...Your idea about boosting low paid, LTC home worker pay is basically what myself and others are advocating our government do, just in a more targeted way. But still, a very good idea. That would be important since many of these workers have second jobs (where they can obviously also pick up the virus).
Ironranger...there’s no doubt irresponsible patents are part of the problem. Obviously, for transmission to occur between kids at the rink, one kid had to be the original vector who brought it to the rink. However, there are numerous cases where kid, coaches, and even officials and rink staff tested positive within a few days after a single player who had played in a tournament or game, and numerous teammates had also subsequently tested positive. Meaning, although not a guarantee as that’s literally almost impossible to provide, it becomes fairly likely the one infected player was initial spreader. Here’s an article about a tournament in Anchorage back in October that shows just how much spread they believe occurred resulting from that one tournament.
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2020/10 ... ournament/
WestMetro.... not to nitpick but — hey it’s me
you said let’s not have the kids lose another year of development. If you’re talking specifically hockey development, high school had finished before March’s shutdown and only 8 youth teams at the respective state tournament levels hadn’t finished. Meaning, if we shut down for a few weeks, those will be the first days/weeks of actual in-season hockey that all players in youth and high school will have experienced. So, at the youth and high school levels at least, it’s a bit inaccurate to suggest we can’t “lose another year of development” if those players haven’t had to miss any actual time yet.
Now, if you’re also including school time, that’s a different topic.