[oldalum]

I feel like everyone's talking past each other on this thread. There are two topics that are being conflated. One is, at the individual level, the ease of maintaining social distancing while doing many sports (but not all; e.g., I think wrestling won't work). Of course it is possible and even easy as pie to maintain social distancing while doing many sports. For some, like throwing a frisbee, it's a necessary part of the activity. People who want to maintain social distance while doing these activities, can do so easily. Why not let them? The second topic is, at a public policy level, whether those activities should be prohibited during a lockdown/SIP because if you permit them, violations of social distancing will inevitably occur (both inadvertent and intentional) and detract from the community effort to contain the virus.

Some posters are focusing on the first, individual level, and decry the prohibition on those activities; but other posters--including me--place more value on the public policy level during a period of strict lockdown. As restrictions are being lifted, it is inevitable that social distancing is going to be weakened to some degree, and to the degree feasible it seems desirable to have that weakening be progressive and not a lot at once. It seems like restrictions on some activities (e.g., golf, singles but maybe not doubles tennis) should be progressively loosened sooner than on others.

OK, have at me, I'm (starting to) get used to it.

[oldalum]

I feel like everyone's talking past each other on this thread. There are two topics that are being conflated. One is, at the individual level, the ease of maintaining social distancing while doing many sports (but not all; e.g., I think wrestling won't work). Of course it is possible and even easy as pie to maintain social distancing while doing many sports. For some, like throwing a frisbee, it's a necessary part of the activity. People who want to maintain social distance while doing these activities, can do so easily. Why not let them? The second topic is, at a public policy level, whether those activities should be prohibited during a lockdown/SIP because if you permit them, violations of social distancing will inevitably occur (both inadvertent and intentional) and detract from the community effort to contain the virus.

Some posters are focusing on the first, individual level, and decry the prohibition on those activities; but other posters--including me--place more value on the public policy level during a period of strict lockdown. As restrictions are being lifted, it is inevitable that social distancing is going to be weakened to some degree, and to the degree feasible it seems desirable to have that weakening be progressive and not a lot at once. It seems like restrictions on some activities (e.g., golf, singles but maybe not doubles tennis) should be progressively loosened sooner than on others.

OK, have at me, I'm (starting to) get used to it.