All athletes have been notified that a positive test was reported from the race.
Now go back and watch the race and see how many athletes were hugging it out and standing around unmasked.
I hope this doesn’t get ugly.
All athletes have been notified that a positive test was reported from the race.
Now go back and watch the race and see how many athletes were hugging it out and standing around unmasked.
I hope this doesn’t get ugly.
Yeah, imagine a handful of athletes coming down with the sniffles during their off week. The horrors.
CarbonFiberJoe wrote:
Yeah, imagine a handful of athletes coming down with the sniffles during their off week. The horrors.
Imagine several top athletes being permanently damaged to the point where they don’t have a career anymore.
Odds are the person DNF'd and would not be part of the celebration.
forgot the indigenous wrote:
All athletes have been notified that a positive test was reported from the race.
Now go back and watch the race and see how many athletes were hugging it out and standing around unmasked.
I hope this doesn’t get ugly.
I can say with 100% certainty that as of now, not 'all athletes' have been notified of a positive test. So I imagine the OP just completely made this up.
c7runner7 wrote:
forgot the indigenous wrote:
All athletes have been notified that a positive test was reported from the race.
Now go back and watch the race and see how many athletes were hugging it out and standing around unmasked.
I hope this doesn’t get ugly.
I can say with 100% certainty that as of now, not 'all athletes' have been notified of a positive test. So I imagine the OP just completely made this up.
Check with Ben Rosario. Email went out this morning.
And the Dnfs were staying in the same hotel and riding the same shuttles as everyone else.
The risk of a positive in a trained athlete may be nothing more than the sniffles but DO NOT SPEND CHRISTMAS WITH GRANDMA.
I doubt a significant amount will have that happen to them. I’d guess(now I’m not a scientist, just hypothesizing here) that less than 1% of the people would have career altering issues.
Can anyone that raced confirm that this is legit?
Any update?
more science wrote:
I doubt a significant amount will have that happen to them. I’d guess(now I’m not a scientist, just hypothesizing here) that less than 1% of the people would have career altering issues.
I'm 15 days from my first symptoms. For my N=1, I appear to have zero long term impacts. I went for a pretty hard run tonight, felt completely normal. So yeah, definitely not everybody has long term negative impacts. Isn't there data on this, and it is like 1 or 2%? Roughly 10x the number who die end up with lasting impacts? Me and my household all ended up fine, but I know people who have died from this. Its pretty frustrating that people are still denying it a year into this mess.
joe mf biden wrote:
CarbonFiberJoe wrote:
Yeah, imagine a handful of athletes coming down with the sniffles during their off week. The horrors.
Imagine several top athletes being permanently damaged to the point where they don’t have a career anymore.
SEVERAL?
"C'mon man!"Get off the PanicDemic Train and into reality.
joe mf biden wrote:
CarbonFiberJoe wrote:
Yeah, imagine a handful of athletes coming down with the sniffles during their off week. The horrors.
Imagine several top athletes being permanently damaged to the point where they don’t have a career anymore.
Delusional.
joe mf biden wrote:
CarbonFiberJoe wrote:
Yeah, imagine a handful of athletes coming down with the sniffles during their off week. The horrors.
Imagine several top athletes being permanently damaged to the point where they don’t have a career anymore.
You'll have to use your imagination for sure because this hasn't happened ONCE in reality.
c7runner7 wrote:
forgot the indigenous wrote:
All athletes have been notified that a positive test was reported from the race.
Now go back and watch the race and see how many athletes were hugging it out and standing around unmasked.
I hope this doesn’t get ugly.
I can say with 100% certainty that as of now, not 'all athletes' have been notified of a positive test. So I imagine the OP just completely made this up.
From Ben Rosario
VERY IMPORTANT: We found out late last night that we have had one athlete test positive for COVID-19 post race. We feel confident with the protocols before and during race weekend that this will be a completely isolated result, but nonetheless we certainly encourage everyone to get a test now that you're back home--something many of you were likely to do anyway after traveling.
Low risk, but not no risk. They were outside, they're young, they're in good shape. Probably they'll be fine.
But running a hard marathon beats your body up pretty good, even if you're young and fit. There are no guarantees.
Not only I was wrong, but I may also be blind. I searched for this email multiple times earlier and didn’t see it.. but it’s clearly there now. Lol, sorry OP!
LRC note: We'd like to apologize as well. For some reason a moderator deleted this thread at one point but we reached out to race organizers and they have given us a statement confirming that a positive post-race test result did occur.
So if no other runners got it, does that prove the risk of spread outdoors is incredibly low, and mean other races can come back too? That’d be cool.
joeyg1116 wrote:
So if no other runners got it, does that prove the risk of spread outdoors is incredibly low, and mean other races can come back too? That’d be cool.
Not necessarily, it’s very possible that several of the athletes get it but are asymptomatic and if they get a rapid test they may also get a false negative. If anything the fact that all of these athletes were exposed proves that running any kind of race right now is way too risky.
Imagine several top athletes from the race being killed in shark attacks. See? I can throw out random hysteria too except my example is literally more likely. And both are extremely unlikely to happen.
Chill out
If the athletes want to be more certain they should get a PCR/molecular test and not a antigen/rapid. Rapids aren’t super accurate if you don’t have sx...not sure why they are even accepted for asymptotic travel
They all should still quarantine for at least 10 days regardless of results