COVID and Traning Safe in 2024
COVID-19 has been part of our lives for four years. As indicated by the current wave of infections that we are experiencing, the virus continues to be a major concern, especially for our most vulnerable. Politicians come and go but it is clear that COVID-19 is here to stay so it is important that each of us accepts the responsibility for keeping each other safe.
Silent River Kung Fu has consistently maintained safety protocols that has helped us maintain a spotless record with no one ever contracting COVID-19 at our school. Yes, most of our students and most of our instructors have contracted the virus at some point in the pandemic, but no one has ever contracted it at our school. We all were infected somewhere else. It is our intent to continue to maintain protocols that ensure the safest environment for all our members while setting an example of leadership for our community.
As we enter 2024, Silent River Kung Fu is encouraging all members to work together to ensure everyone, including our most vulnerable, can reasonably expect a safe training environment. While we will continue to disinfect our training hall every evening and screen all our students’ temporal temperatures before they step on the mats, we ask all our students to take a leadership role within our community by applying common sense and empathy to help keep everyone as safe as possible.
Please train from home via Zoom if you are sick. Everyone’s immune system is different. Everyone’s vulnerability is different. Everyone has different underlying conditions. Any unnecessary infection can cause significant harm. Just because your symptoms are minor does not mean the person you pass your infection off to will have the same experience.
Common colds are becoming more common again. Please ensure your common cold is not COVID by taking a COVID test. Do not rely upon a single test as it may take a few days for you to test positive despite being symptomatic. If you are 100% certain that your minor symptoms are not COVID, please ensure you wear a mask when you come to class to help prevent the transmission of your virus to another person in class. There is still a major portion of our population that does not understand how masks work. A person wearing a mask is not afraid of COVID, they are concerned that they may give an infection to someone else. My mask protects you, not me.
Ideally, we would all isolate every time we are ill but that is not a reasonable expectation when our children have no choice but to attend school in person and many of us have no choice in order to earn our living. There is no ideal solution that fits for everyone because everyone’s personal situation is unique. Let’s not judge each other for decisions that we have little understanding about and all just work together to minimize the risk. There are no perfect solutions and every approach has flaws. The key is minimizing risk.
