LET THEM PLAY!!

    WV Student athletes have been together and practicing for their respective fall seasons since mid June. These athletes have been given a lot of rules to follow if they wanted a chance to play. They have done everything and more to be able to have their seasons. Now that it’s playoff time for soccer, with football and volleyball coming up very soon, some counties are changing. The state has put out an arbitrary color map that incentivizes communities wasting resources and finances in order to keep their percentages down and allow schools to stay open. In Berkeley County, it seems only those with symptoms, or that were in close contact with a Covid positive person, are being tested. Since there are so few test being done the few cases per day have pushed our county into a color that has closed schools and shut down sports for the student athletes. As of today, 10/19, our county has 420 active cases (some of these are county more than once. Once as probable and then once or more as positive). We had 180 new cases last week. That’s is out of a population of 119,100+ people. That means we have shut down school and school sports for 0.35% active cases and 0.15% new in the last 7 days. That doesn’t seem to be fair since other activities are allowed to proceed.

    Just to be clear only parents have been allowed at games recently along with the athletes that have been around each other since June. So the chances of increased infection from sports is minimal.

    I’m hoping everyone will join in signing and we can get it to our elected officials to hopefully realize the standards are skewed and the numbers that are causing the shut down doesn’t justify the shut down.

    Thank you for your support of these students and athletes.
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