FHSAA Medic saying Delay Football / Vollyball till further notice

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25 minutes ago, OldSchoolLion said:

It is our utter lack of preparedness as a country to deal with a pandemic that has led us down this path. We did not have the infrastructure to mount a targeted approach, putting resources where they were most needed...the elderly and health care workers. It was easier to sell a broad-brush approach to the public with vague, one-size-fits-all preventative instructions.

Here's an example, and I speak from first hand knowledge, not something I read on the internet.   A US company currently manufacturing facemasks, went to China after the outbreak to buy machines that could produce facemasks so they could provide their own employees and sell them to companies like McDonalds.  As things heated up, there was concern that China would pull the plug on these machines, so the company went to a small manufacturer in Georgia and asked them to dust off 25 year-old blueprints from facemask machines they produced in the 90's.  After numerous technical problems getting the machines to run properly, which exist to this day, this US-based company is having to rely upon their Chinese operations, which use Chinese machines, to provide their US-based employees with facemasks.  

This same company implemented protocols to do temperature checks at all of their US sites, yet struggled to find thermometers to do the task because nearly all of the non-contact thermometers in the US come from overseas, and there has been a tremendous shortage.

We struggled to provide protective equipment to our first responders, our testing protocols this past spring were abysmal, etc etc...The fact that we are having debates over whether teenagers should be playing football is a symptom of a much bigger problem.  

 

It's what we get for allowing outsourcing of our manufacturing base coupled with an educational system that for some reason frowns on vocational and technical trades.