You're a great sheep! I say its not true because I'm not listening/reading articles by 'experts' ....the same group that says "only forwards should wear a facemask on a faceoff" yet the defenceman line up next to a forward in most offensive and defensive zone face-offs. The same group that can try and tell you that hockey is more dangerous when your covered head to toe in gear, yet soccer and lacrosse are out there in shorts and a tshirt bumping into one another constantly. You're absolutely right. Congrats on being a great sheep and believing what the government wants you to believe.
I dont believe the articles because I am living it. I coach two travel teams and have had ZERO positive cases, Zero, out of 28 players and 8 coaches. We've traveled to states, we've played against "hot zone" States, yet no one has contracted the almighty COVID. Ive been tested 10 times since July, yet not once a positive (all free of charge BTW lol). I also work in a prison with 500 other prison guards from Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Elmira, Auburn, Elmira, and Watertown yet we've had no major exposure. How is it possible if its so bad? 99% of the people who have died (and yes it sucks) would have more than likely died from the common flu. I do know several people who have contracted it, and only 1 (an aunt in Louisiana) died from it. Yet she had a heart attack, but they (the hospital) deemed it COVID to get more $$$.
There was also an article about a player/team here in NY that went to a tournament and came back. One of the kids tested positive shortly after, only 1 of 16. Yet they deemed "hockey" the source because well he couldn't have contracted it at the gas station or Walmart, it had to be the rink *rolleyes* amazingly enough the 15 other players and 4 coaches didn't, but it was hockeys fault....
First, I haven't seen any legitimate health/virus experts arguing for only forwards should wear a mask on faceoffs. I'm not saying those statements haven't been made by people but, not by legitimate experts. I agree with you that that idea is ridiculous.
Second, you do realize this virus is aerosolized, right? In case you're not sure, that means that in indoor situations -- you know, like inside an arena -- the virus will literally hang in the air for 2-3 hours without proper air circulation. And, the far greatest means of transmission is from inhaling the virus, not through contact which is the basis for your argument regarding soccer and lacrosse. Meaning, the reason why soccer and lacrosse don't have nearly the same level of infections is because they are played outside where the virus is quickly dispersed as even a slight breeze prevents it from "hanging" in the air. Also, there isn't a ceiling to keep the virus trapped in a specific area.
And, if you had taken the time to read even the first link from the Washington Post, you would have seen that they had quoted numerous experts that state that, due to it's unique construction (boards/glass surrounding the entire surface) the rink literally traps the expelled virus very effectively, and that it actually sits about 4-5 feet above the ice. Add on the fact that because the air inside a rink is both cold and dry, it is the perfect atmosphere for the virus to maintain it's "aerosolization" for a longer period of time. And obviously, the nature of the sport means players have constantly elevated levels of breathing which, maximizes virus exhalation, especially when sitting shoulder to shoulder on the bench at the end of a shift. Again, this is all basic science and logic.
Next, I noticed you didn't respond to my point that 40% of all those infected are asymptomatic. Meaning, unless your players are being tested at least twice a week, there isn't any way to definitively say you've had ZERO infections. Have all of your players been tested at least 2 times per week since you started playing again?
Oh...you do realize that this virus significantly affects the cardiovascular system, right? Meaning, heart attacks or arrhythmias are common in people with Covid. Also, you might want to start getting your "news/information" about Covid from someplace other than Facebook and Parlor. Hospitals are not designating deaths that aren't legitimate Covid deaths as Covid in order to "get more $$$". That's simply not accurate. You do realize that you can simply Google most of these "right wing" conspiracy theories and find out if they're true or not? Read this article from Fact Check.Org and become better informed...
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-covid-19-death-count/
From the article... "A Minnesota state senator’s recent interview on Fox News about Medicare payments for COVID-19 hospitalizations has generated a frenzy of headlines on social media suggesting that hospitals may have a financial motivation when it comes to classifying cases or deaths as related to COVID-19.
One
website ran a story headlined, “US Hospitals Getting Paid More to Label Cause of Death as ‘Coronavirus.'” It called the information “disturbing” and the interview “bone-chilling.”
Numerous readers have asked us about such claims, some of which imply that hospitals are making money by simply listing patients as having the disease — when in fact the payments referenced are for
treating patients. And while some of the posts imply that fraud may be afoot, multiple experts told us that such theories of hospitals deliberately miscoding patients as COVID-19 are not supported by any evidence. The initial comment was made by Minnesota State Sen. Scott Jensen, a family physician, who
spoke with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on April 8 about the idea that the number of COVID-19 deaths may be inflated. Jensen was responding to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, who — while answering a reporter’s question about that theory —
said “you will always have conspiracy theories when you have very challenging public health crises. They are nothing but distractions.”
In an interview with FactCheck.org, however, Jensen said he did not think that hospitals were intentionally misclassifying cases for financial reasons.
“There’s an implication here that hospitals are over-reporting their COVID patients because they have an economic advantage of doing so, [which] is really an outrageous claim,”
Gerald Kominski, senior fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, told us. And, he said, any suggestion that patients may be put on ventilators out of financial gain, not medical need, “is basically saying physicians are violating their Hippocratic Oath … it would be like providing heart surgery on someone who doesn’t need it.” So....yeah, that little theory has ZERO basis in fact. If anyone is being a "sheep" it's yourself and all of the rest of the Covid deniers.
....We all know health concerns and politics have been mixed up in this from day one...sucks...stay healthy and drop the puck