Will we have a Fall season with Covid?

There are several studies showing irreversible lung damage in the most seriously ill patients regardless of age. Northwestern hospital just did a lung transplant on a woman in her 20's who was otherwise healthy that they felt had lung damage so severe that she would not ever get off the ventilator.
Some studies are also showing lung damage that is milder and may be reversible even in asymptomatic patients. There was a comment stating they don't know if that milder form happens in patients with other respiratory viruses because they have not studied those to this extent.

Yeah-this shouldn’t be a political issue-it’s a health issue. I’m for whatever will help end the spread of the virus with the least amount of lives lost.

So what honey would you offer? Pay them to wear a mask? A mandate is the only thing that will make non-believers heed to advice of medical experts. There are a few non-believers who do it as a kindness to others so they will feel more comfortable. Kudos to those who do that as well because they are letting kindness guide them even if they don't believe the science.

Understood-but please keep your distance-if not for yourself-for someone else.

Not what I said. When all the large protests were going on, how quickly the media forgot about social distancing and masks. It wasn't until after those quieted down did the whole mask coverage come back.

rudy, exactly. Just found out from my uncle over in Alabama that one of his coworkers tested positive for COVID-19 . They asked how many lived in his house . He said 5. The line on the medical form that asked for how many cases of covid was listed as FIVE! Without one test on those other family members. My sister works at a hospital in a major Midwest city in upper administration. They have done similar things.

So, numbers are spiking for three reasons:
1. There are more tests available so of course more cases.
2. And assumptions are being made on the cases.
3. The thousands and thousands and thousands out burning down cities who don't care about social distancing and probably haven't used a bottle of germ-x in months have probably not helped the numbers.

And before anyone calls me hearltless because we can always point to "that one case that hits close to home", I'm obviously saying that to ANYONE who loses a member to CV, of course it may as well be 100% fatal because it has taken a loved one. My heart goes out.

But loved ones get taken daily from flu, pneumonia (my own father 3 years ago), etc.

Only point I'm making is many don't get the flu shot and we all know flu will be back during the season. Do we shut down everyone from playing who doesn't get a flu shot? NO. Why don't we? Serious question. Why allow people to play flu who don't get vaccinated? Not everyone is going to get the CV vaccine when it's available (I'm not). CV will be with us every flu season. So, we shut down every year?
At some point we are going to have to get out, mingle, get it, get over, get immune, of get vaccinated. We can't live in a basement forever.
Millions have already gotten it and recovered and never knew they had it. Who gets the flu and had no idea they got it? Most know they have something.

Read the mental health stories-not just CV. Anxiety, suicidal thoughts, depression, people getting medicated, all on the rise. Poverty is up. People out of work. Crime is way up. Supply chains disrupted and it's because of something that kills 99.8% of people.

It's not popular on this platform but I'm speaking my opinion just like everyone else and my opinion is this: play soccer, if you don't weant your kids playing, get released so that others who want a spot can play, and if you want your kid to play , maybe keep grandma and grandpa away. You have that freedom. No one is forced to play. But let those who want to play play, instead of shutting it down because a few don't want to play. If 80% of parents are good, let's play.

We live in a snowball society (just like when one county shuts down school because of snow, all counties follow; when the NBA stopped playing, sports followed daily shutting the season down). Same with this "spike in numbers". If one state cancels soccer, others will follow in order to be in the group.

The more articles that appear on here everytime someone in some club someplace in American gets CV19, the more people will freak and it ends up being a self fullfilling prophecy.

Lets have 2 weeks of just talking about soccer, leagues vs leagues, clubs vs clubs, etc. and quit talking about a virus that is 99.8% non fatal.

If you want soccer to cancel in the fall, keep talking about it daily with every reported case.
if you want to play, let's stop filling the posts up (like I'm doing now:)

Technically not “honey” but a good start to finding some common ground would be to not call people stupid or make fun of where they came from (which of course always seems to be some Southern state).

We’re lucky that down here we (for the most part) don’t live on top of one another like other larger cities. Thus we are able to distance ourselves as needed in public. That should continue to be the number one priority with masks coming in to play when you cannot maintain that distance.

That said, I do find some inconsistencies between the demands to wear masks all the time in public (everyone above the age of two) yet we’re fine with our kids playing contact sports not only at practice with the same team members each week (moderate risk) but looking forward to not only playing other teams across Atlanta (increased risk) but also from out of state (highest risk) when tournaments begin a little over a month from now. And then not only that where you could make the argument the duration of two kids being together on the field at any given moment is relatively short, but most of us are getting ready to send our kids back to school where again there is no mask requirement. And in this case the durations are longer (roughly an hour at a time), switching classes, and for those in public high schools you’re looking at 2500+ kids where you know it is impossible to socially distance.

How is all of that okay but walking by someone at a distance with my mouth shut (not talking, coughing, sneezing, etc) is considered cruel and thoughtless because I wasn’t wearing a mask? And that I’m somehow making a political statement? (I’m not.)

But on the other hand I also don’t think people should force their way on businesses who have decided to mandate masks. If you don’t like it, don’t shop there. Don’t go in and make a scene talking about your rights.

My overall point here is not to agitate but rather to say that for the most part (can not speak for all), people are not stupid or ignorant because they don’t agree with your viewpoint. Please try to keep that in mind if you would like to have a constructive debate.

Right. It doesn’t matter if you think we will play this fall or not because if this upward trend continues there is no way they will let the kids back no matter what the actual “facts” are.

If it’s important that we as a society get back to somewhat normal for both the economy and our sanity, please do what ever you can to slow the spread. It’s not rocket science

There is a monumental amount of stupid on this thread.

Just because Fox News didn't tell you the protesters were wearing masks (they were), doesn't mean viruses don't spread when people crowd together in bars.

When they cancel the season, honeybadger, it's directly on you and the people like you.

The divide on wearing a mask or not from my perspective looks to be political, on social media and I suspect even in this thread. If we polled everyone here I think the results would be telling.  

Look at the lunatics that go off the deep end when they're asked to wear a mask in a private business/establishment, tell me that's a rational response to what the rest of the world doesn't seem to be losing it over?   This is far from over, we probably shouldn't treat it like it is.  We can go back to sports, our kids can play together, but if we're not careful(I'm talking to the Florida and Texas younger population) we're going to have a serious regression.  

honeybadger why u people ok with #1 and #2 but #3 u go cray cray

As it relates to the Fall season, I think the decision rest on your level of exposure and risk tolerance. From the looks of summer training sessions across the metro, that tolerance is high!

But given current projections in specific states, the real question is for those playing ECNL/GAL/DPL-SE, will that tolerance level remain high, when Florida teams come visiting in late August? Or better yet what does the fall season even look like for those SE leagues.

Ummm are there any available spots left in the SCCL? Asking for a friend.

What age and gender?  I think I know a few SCCL teams looking for players.

Big event at Silverback Stadium 2 weekend's ago for 150 + high school players. This was a full 3 day/night event with training, scrimmages and full games. No issues! Check out the positive twitter comments from the players who attended. Time to play.