NBIN Status?

Its going to happen, just check out the website: http://nationalscholastic.org/nbin/article/2484

Thanks, I've seen that post. If you read the text, though, it contains this excerpt:

- We will continue our contact and monitoring of the New York Department of Public Health.

- In the event we are ordered to cancel the event by the state or federal government, we will immediately notify all of our participants via email, social media and via other track and field websites.

So, yes, I see that they want to hold the event, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will happen. The more I read, the more convinced I am that the entire world should be on quarantine, not so much to stop the spread of the virus, but to slow it down so we don't overload our healthcare systems. Read this terrifying account from one of the Italian hospitals:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/suddenly-the-er-is-collapsing-a-doctors-stark-warning-from-italys-coronavirus-epicentre

NYC has a lot of international activity. Not postponing it is a bad idea. Many colleges are going to online only like Princeton. Just imagine with all the coughing and everything else in the armory..... no thank you. They need to postpone or cancel.

It’s going to happen and should happen.

I think worst case is they limit the armory entrance to athletes within 1.5 hours of there event and there safe sport registered coaches.

Practical runner, when you say "it's going to happen and it should happen" do you mean the meet, or the cancellation of the meet? Are you someone who works closely with meet management? I'm really trying to get an idea of what they're going to do. I see even Princeton has shut down, now, and I'm wondering if these high schoolers traveling realize they'll potentially be quarantined for 14 days when they return.

practical runner is likely a ny or NJ runner who barely sneaked in and now thinks they can place higher.

They continue to say the meet is on, but obviously this is a fluid situation over the next few days.

The meet is on....we, the NSAF, will not cancel it. The NYC Dept of Health, the governor, and/or the mayor could. We will not.

Have they canceled all Knick games at MSG? Have they shut down the subways that carry 4,000,000 plus folks/sardines a day? That will happen first, I would think.

I doubt every athlete has a safe sport coach registered with them unless that’s a requirement for entry I didn’t know about. Safe sport hasn’t crossed over to being a requirement for HS sports yet.

Respectfully, Asbel Kiprop, are you part of leadership at the NASF? I'm curious as to how the thought process has gone there. Have you seen the way this virus is tracking nearly identically in the U.S. as it did in Italy just a mere 10 days earlier? By all accounts, we have a week or less until this country is severely enveloped in an outbreak, and it's being spread in large get-togethers, especially when people commute back and forth from large distances. NYRR canceled a 25,000 person road race this weekend, a race that I'd argue has invested far more financial capital in organizing the event and in competitors coming to stay. How do you justify keeping NBIN on, when it looks like it will contribute to the spread of a deadly virus?

It will spread regardless. Let's do it more quickly. RIP the bandaid or keep tugging at it.

Seems odd that they have not released the photo of the famous meet backpack. Seems to me like that means it is possible that the meet will not happen.

The meet should go on. It is ridiculous to postpone it at this point.

Let the kids run.

Everyone needs to grow up.

Holding an event like NBIN during the acceleration phase of a pandemic is a terrible idea and violates all recommendations regarding social distancing. SD is the principle way to blunt the incidence curve and save lives. The athletes are at little or no risk of an adverse health outcome, but their elderly, frail or chronically ill contacts certainly are at risk. COVID-19 is no joke for our vulnerable populations and elective large gatherings like NBIN should be cancelled until the pandemic is on the wane.

Wise Old Man wrote:

Holding an event like NBIN during the acceleration phase of a pandemic is a terrible idea and violates all recommendations regarding social distancing. SD is the principle way to blunt the incidence curve and save lives. The athletes are at little or no risk of an adverse health outcome, but their elderly, frail or chronically ill contacts certainly are at risk. COVID-19 is no joke for our vulnerable populations and elective large gatherings like NBIN should be cancelled until the pandemic is on the wane.

These athletes worked hard and should get to compete against their peers. Take your red hat and your Alex Jones conspiracies elsewhere, Trumpwad.

So our team of girls.. 5 total has made the decision to not go to nationals.. sucks but hard to go to NYC when other things are cancelled, NESCAC, IVY league, NCAA tourneys and NBA w no fans etc... wondering how many others are making similar decision?

bump. if anything goes down I want to hear the rumor here first (before making the drive)

on the good news front... hotel allowed us to cancel 3 nights with less than 24 hours notice.

Runnerspace was supposed to release bags today and didn't. I have a feeling that NBNI is going to be canceled this year.