[cardcrimson]

How do you mean “we’ll never be able to certify swimming as a safe sport”?  Why would it be any less safe than, say, track?

BC

From the CDC's website:

There is no evidence that COVID-19 can be spread to humans through the use of pools, hot tubs or spas, or water playgrounds. Proper operation, maintenance, and disinfection (e.g., with chlorine and bromine) of pools, hot tubs or spas, and water playgrounds should inactivate the virus that causes COVID-19.

While there is ongoing community spread of COVID-19, there should be appropriate care taken both in and outside the pool,  to protect yourself and others. Owners and operators of community pools, hot tubs, or spas should follow the interim guidance for businesses and employers to plan and respond to COVID-19.

Several other publications from other countries agree that swimming should be A-OK, as chlorine "should" inactivate the virus. Here's another one: https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coro...UKdhdm3kGU

Unfortunately,  at the speed with which knowledge on this virus is evolving, the above post may be considered sarcasm in the future.  =/

I wouldn't be too alarmed by the water as a method of transmission.   Rather I would be worried about the lack of physical distancing associated with those venues.   A children's water park is usually PACKED in the summer.   Same for a community lap pool.  Most of those community pools utilize showers and locker rooms that even in the best of times are not exactly the cleanest places.

Choice A - Have my children jump into a community pool with 20 other kids and their parents lurking on the edge of the pool.
Choice B - Run some laps on a rarely used track at the nearby middle school

I will take Choice B every day.   It is not about the chlorine efficacy, it would be a function on physical distancing. 
Plus it is harder to wear a mask while swimming.  ;)

More thinking about swim meets and water polo. No contact during swim meets or practices, where social distancing can be maintained to some extent. Water polo has a lot of contact, but most of it underwater; though the kids will breathe on each other I guess.

[cardcrimson]

How do you mean “we’ll never be able to certify swimming as a safe sport”?  Why would it be any less safe than, say, track?

BC

From the CDC's website:

There is no evidence that COVID-19 can be spread to humans through the use of pools, hot tubs or spas, or water playgrounds. Proper operation, maintenance, and disinfection (e.g., with chlorine and bromine) of pools, hot tubs or spas, and water playgrounds should inactivate the virus that causes COVID-19.

While there is ongoing community spread of COVID-19, there should be appropriate care taken both in and outside the pool,  to protect yourself and others. Owners and operators of community pools, hot tubs, or spas should follow the interim guidance for businesses and employers to plan and respond to COVID-19.

Several other publications from other countries agree that swimming should be A-OK, as chlorine "should" inactivate the virus. Here's another one: https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coro...UKdhdm3kGU

Unfortunately,  at the speed with which knowledge on this virus is evolving, the above post may be considered sarcasm in the future.  =/

I wouldn't be too alarmed by the water as a method of transmission.   Rather I would be worried about the lack of physical distancing associated with those venues.   A children's water park is usually PACKED in the summer.   Same for a community lap pool.  Most of those community pools utilize showers and locker rooms that even in the best of times are not exactly the cleanest places.

Choice A - Have my children jump into a community pool with 20 other kids and their parents lurking on the edge of the pool.
Choice B - Run some laps on a rarely used track at the nearby middle school

I will take Choice B every day.   It is not about the chlorine efficacy, it would be a function on physical distancing. 
Plus it is harder to wear a mask while swimming.  ;)

More thinking about swim meets and water polo. No contact during swim meets or practices, where social distancing can be maintained to some extent. Water polo has a lot of contact, but most of it underwater; though the kids will breathe on each other I guess.