Something from the government released that is pretty vague, standard procedure.

Don't know, but assume kids can play basketball at recess and lunchtime, just not after school, that's what I can't fathom. Adults are told to stay home but kids can congregate freely? And kids are known for being spotless germ freaks that wash hands frequently. Just doesn't make any sense, just takes one infected kid and all the good works that's been done is out the window.
Still have to laugh when it first started and Morrison started crapping on he was going to footy and encouraged others to do same thing while the medical advisor is in the background going WTF. Backed down pretty quick a day or so later.

Do you think kids will carry the virus back into the family home?

I doubt it. I reckon they'll bin the virus before they get home like they do when you make them a substandard sandwich for lunch.

Hoops where the dumb come to hang out. God it's getting pathetic

Get real. Think about it for a second.

Schools and child care centers are open not because they're safe. They're open so parents, especially those in essential services, can work. The government is undertaking risk management with the pandemic, and at this stage they are willing wear the risk of infection and spread in schools and child care centers to keep vital parts of the economy and services going.

Government has had to chose between two bad options - 1) mass unemployment and essential services shutting down due to staffing shortages, or 2) infection spread from schools and day care. Right now they want to keep people working as much as possible. So, they'll run that risk.

But they're not going to expand that risk so kids can play community sport, which has no impact on whether or not parents can keep working.

Schools are open because research into both SARS and its cousin COVID 19 show that children are low risk to both contract it and spread it. It's the opposite of flu, which kids are highly susceptible to and high spreaders of.

The decision about kids' sport resuming won't be made around safety to kids, but the consideration of parents congregating to watch. One of the key recommendations will be social distancing of spectators.

Hate to burst your bubble OP, but NBL1 is not starting again this year.

That's not why schools and child care centres are open at all. Instead, that is part of what is factored in when managing the risk in keeping them open. They're open so parents can keep working.

Every other part of a child's life - visiting grandparents, play groups, sport, dance classes, playgrounds - are shut down. Why? Because they don't impact parents being able to work. If they did, they'd still be happening but with new risk management practises in place such as those that are now in place at schools and child care centres.

Let's be clear. Ar best only 2% of children are attending school. Play equipment Out of Bounds. Yes they can do kick to kick or 2 can throw a ball around and shoot.Hardly the same as 10 on a court with mum and dad on the side lines at 1.5 Mt's apart from other parents. Really get a grip.

#937 although a probability it's not a deadset guarantee there will be no NBL1. If restrictions ease there is a train of thought about a knockout competition or similar. So never say never.

The SA Health Spokesperson mentioned Last Monday they are wanting kids sport to start again soon so kids lives can get some normality back.
I would think in a month or two the kids will be lacing up the boots again.
Don't expect any Interstate Tournaments this year. Perhaps BSA can organize at least 1 round of Junior Winter season and maybe finish it off with a State Champs

"Let's be clear. Ar best only 2% of children are attending school"

Term 2 starts in WA next week and I bet the actual number is closer to 80% than 2%

^ Okay Boomer

941, no, there will be no NBL1. You can wish it all you like, but it won't be happening. At best you might see some sort of modified and highly diluted State league.

Let's just get through the bulk of winter, where people’s immune systems are at there lowest; reassess after this,in the scheme of things it is short term pain long term gain, a hell a lot of players out there have dealt with not playing with long term injuries so for everyone we now have an idea about what missing the game is like, on a positive anyone rehabbing isn’t really missing much in the way of game time,the interesting thing to come out of this will be how much junior kids have improved there ball handling, been some great things shown on social media, but I think I will spew if I see another bloody tik tok video

Trump got it sorted, we are drinking bleach or shoving light bulbs up our arse. Lmao. :::)))))

For those gullible don't try these remedies.

Victoria 2% you are correct. Nbl1 already cancelled all the wishful thinking in the world will not get a reversal on that.. Vjbl and Big V doubtful unless the clubs can come up with ideas. BV very quiet. Waiting waiting eating like the rest of us in Vic.

Love to see the geniuses come out now, probably the same that said, oh the flu is worse, then, we're Australia, we'll be fine, then, it's a bit of an overreaction, to, fuck I need toilet paper.
Now they've gone back to sticking heads up arses and saying, let's go back to normal, not many cases about, they're testing everyone, it's all over, we survived. Bullshit. It takes one infected person to pass it onto 2, then they pass it onto another 2. Not sure if anyone has done the 1 cent and the chessboard riddle? Would you take 5 million dollars or put 1 cent(if we had them) in the first chessboard square and each day double it in every square. By the end the total is 18,446,744,073,709,551,615.
A lot of health professionals are saying the worst is to come. Mainly because idiots will go out and socialise again thinking it's all over.
We've been lucky generally, there's so much we don't know about this virus why risk it so you can get your smashed AV on toast at Cibos. Piss off to Sweden, their bright idea to keep everything open worked.

That graph is total cases, not current cases.

That is what we know of you Muppet. Our borders are hardly the Great Wall of China as well. Why not wait until there is more information on it. Strongly strongly doubt china is being truthful with what they know and the true casualties. And the known cases of transfer to animals, don't think Whiskers has been swabbed. Then there's the stories of reinfection. Hell, the great Richard Wilkins was still showing he has it yet no symptoms, because he's a celebrity (very minor) he got tested early, how many others are out there. Is it a time bomb, we just don't know.
I bet New York wish they were in our situation. Greatest health risk in generations and some want to go back to near normal. It may seem longer but it's only been weeks, no-one knows, or rather, no-one is saying what the potential risk is in the future.

#005

The federal government are pushing to go back to normal, they want school open and will start lifting restriction, both football codes looking to restart with in 4 weeks. It's not all doom and gloom, by all means though lock yourself up.

"In 2017 their was over 1,200 deaths from the flu. 2019 we had a lot of cases but lower deaths at 500. You never read about any of that in the media"

In 2017-18, the USA had around 40 million confirmed flu cases and ~41,000 deaths. So far they have less than a million confirmed COVID-19 cases and over 50,000 deaths. If you want to know what would have happened without the measures the Australian governments have taken, look at the USA and UK experiences.

If our equipment and hospital capacity are not sufficiently prepared before restrictions are substantially lifted, the second wave will have the same impact. Go look at the recent media articles on the second wave impacts of Spanish Flu in the USA, and how they varied according the the length and rigour of restrictions each city implemented.

"WA no cases in three or four days now"
actually there were 2 new cases yesterday in WA

#006, the schools were never shut, and the football codes will probably be played in an isolated hub. Reason for schools being exempt is they want existing kids physically on the premises to allow essential staff to work.
Where has the government said they are pushing to go back to normal? They are looking at lifting some of the more stricter restrictions, one I saw that you can swim in sea but not congregate on beach, doesn't sound like ScoMo is saying it's over, away we go. With our quick action we are able to allow small things like that whilst other countries announce further weeks on lockdown.
I'm sure you watched Trump yesterday with relief when he reported you can inject antiseptic and doctors blast ultra violet light into the lungs because they have been effective in killing virus on surfaces. Leading manufacturers have had to come out today and warn consumers not to do that, Trump's come out and said he was being sarcastic. But by all means, listen to idiots like that floating solutions how to beat the spread.

Schools were never shut but parents kept their children at home, Morrison is now saying get your children back to school. You see the difference, probably not if you start quoting Trump. Morrison is now continually talking about slowing getting back to normal as are most countries, China already has, again most countries are staying alert for a second wave. By all means it's a personal choice what you do as an individual but I won’t be hiding under the bed.

"If you want to know what would have happened without the measures the Australian governments have taken, look at the USA and UK experiences."

This is a broad statement. Certainly the early moves the govt took to shut the borders, isolate returnees and trace and test contacts of confirmed patients were key, they limited community transmission and avoided the UK, US, Italy situations, which were caused by the virus spreading before any measures could be taken.

The degree to which latter measures taken in Australia have impacted is one that will be assessed and debated. Certainly the curve turned on the stage 1 and stage 2 restrictions, while the stage 3 measures may have led to a shorter tail on the spread, but the data suggests they weren't the key factors in Australia's success.

Above, you sucked me in

Crowds in Vic were good.
Other States let's wait. Your cooment may be correct.

Grapevine says some junior teams have started training already

"I went out in the rain with an umbrella, but I didn't even get wet so why did everyone say I needed to take an umbrella?"

There was a spider on the wall. I blew its brains out with a shotgun. Sure there's a hole in my wall, but at least the spider didn't kill me. ;-)

Wow, quoting China as getting back to normal, would rather trust Trump and his injecting antiseptic plan! Are you that stupid that you don't think they haven't been honest one bit? Of course they have track record of reporting everything that happens and they have no media bans or anything. To say they have only had thousands of deaths is bullshit, it would be in the hundreds of thousands if they were ground zero and the population departed Wuhan immediately when it first started, either planned or unplanned. How come they're locking down other cities? And we still don't know where it originated.
Experts are saying we don't know if the antibodies will prevent another case of the virus, maybe you won't be immune. But they need time before sending patients home.
England was specifically warned by Italy about the consequences, but the moronic prime Minister Boris went around bragging how he was shaking hand with Covid19 patients.
Your argument that hospitals are empty so it's been a lot of hype is idiotic. Ask New York what is been like, or London. Again, the British government were a week late in shutting it down then it spread everywhere. We were lucky we isolated early enough. If we are not on top of it then those hospitals will soon fill.
All the do gooders will crap on about another day of no cases, that because of the restrictions, lift them back to normal and we start from square one. Obviously we won't be this strict forever, but we are still just weeks into this. Why not wait for a while longer, get some solid facts on the matter, China sure as hell won't be doing that.

I love this grapevine everyone has access to.

172 whom are these Junior team's already training that you speak of.

Teachers in nsw have been told another 3 weeks at least before school children are allowed back in as per normal. Morrison got no idea, the states have lead this and will continue to. After the schools open for a few weeks as per normal and if the virus stays under control things will start to move towards normality, at least minimum 6 weeks all going to plan.

Thanks Alpha for keeping some common sense around here.

WA and Queensland are starting to ease restrictions first.

"Teachers in nsw have been told another 3 weeks at least before school children are allowed back in as per normal. Morrison got no idea."

The fed govt is asking for a return to school by the end of May, which is 5 weeks away.

Morrison on tv yesterday said there is no reason not to send them now, the states are bucking the system.

The fed govt has been pretty clear, they want a staged return. Lots of people like to suggest splits in the national cabinet but the reality on the ground is they've all sung from very similar hymn sheets.

How would using every second court help? Even having players sit on every second seat is stupid if they're about to physically touch someone on court. And will high 5s be banned? If they proceed I can only see spectators from different households sitting apart and leaving immediately after game.

Agreed, less people in stadium, but why not make it only 1 court per stadium then, the whole 4 metres square per person. Empty court won't solve anything, courts being used will be same concentration depending on layout. If seating is back to back then usual social distancing applies. But will everything be wiped down and cleaned between games?
Rethinking I agree, but depends on layout to be honest.

Junior teams have not started training.

Anyone saying otherwise is talking absolute crap.

Also fwiw, Scomo clarified his community sports comments yesterday by adding that he is talking about outdoor sports initially, as indoor sports create more issues. Make of that what you will.

Saw that YMCA have started programs for troubled youth at a few of their venues, St Clair, JMC etc. Max of 30 kids, deemed that they are low risk. Was on during school holidays apparently but have seen opening times for JMC for Friday and weekends now.

not sure about others but are kids doing PE classes at school yet? at end of last time seemed PE classes were all theory, and in our cases they took the balls away for lunch and recess...seems like this is big first step particularly outdoor wise, seems like footy, netball, soccer, tennis etc all might be way ahead of basketball in terms of restarting

Just wait for the second wave when restrictions lessen!!!

Revealing latest testing results on Monday, the state's top public health doctor said authorities were investigating what restrictions would be lifted in tranches but warned of creating a possible second wave of cases.

SA’s chief public health officer Professor Nicola Spurrier said she was studying how to ease restrictions on specific activities and "messaging" such as rules on gathering numbers
"It is certainly something we have been looking at very, very carefully,” Prof Spurrier said. “We just have to very mindful that we do it in a very sensible, graduated way.”

“There are range of things, for example, we have been very clear for people to not be travelling from their immediate area. It will be timely to look at the safety of travelling to regional areas.

“There are other things, in terms of sport. We would like to see ... school sport starting up again. We have got restriction laws about the size of funerals and the size of weddings.

“So all of these things need to be looked at in terms of safety and the risk to public health.

261, no. PE lessons are still not happening in schools.

Isaac, that sounds like a trip to Coles a couple of weeks ago as opposed to a PE lesson!

There's been a couple of passing the virus on at schools when the outbreak first started, one I think from teacher who had returned from overseas. Obviously we're a lot wiser in hindsight in terms of isolating those that had returned. But what would the consensus be if there had been a tragedy where a child had died as a result. Or even if it had been then transferred to a person in the household. Lots of its and buts there, but if there had been a single fatality due to a school being open I don't think there would be a debate. Purely comes down to economic and medical needs. No way the economy survives with a large chunk of the population staying home to look and educate their children. I personally know of some families having 12 year olds stay at home to look after younger siblings because parents, especially single parent households can't afford to take time off yet theyre scared to send children to schools.
I'm predominantly worried that people will become lax now with a week of no new cases that unsafe habits will begin, especially if border restrictions go etc. Channel surfing tonight and was on the Project that NSW is allowing 2 people to visit individuals, intention to visit isolated individuals but feelings were it's a case of popping around with a few bottles of wine to celebrate surviving the apocalypse.
Also waiting for the fallout of the whole thing, China and absolutely everything they did, governments being way to slow to deal with shutting borders despite warnings, heads should roll. Never thought it would be possible but a politician has topped Trump for dumbest pollie, good old Boris. His inaction and denial caused thousands of deaths, nearly his own. And he beats a guy recommending injecting antiseptic!!!

Issac - 12 year old said they played soccer on Tuesday in PE - and were told they couldn't touch ball with hands, theory today as they couldn’t do an outside activity due to rain

School basketball to start in week 3 for Open A and Bs.

Yep, a school team was told last night. Don't know about other sports.

361, I can guarantee you that is fake news. Can absolutely confirm that.

408, Came from the teachers/coaches mouth in a weekly groupchat that it was definitely happening, so will see who's right then.

408, Came from the teachers/coaches mouth in a weekly groupchat that it was definitely happening, so will see who's right then. I was surprised as well, not sure where he got it from.

411/412, we will see.
I can guarantee it's not happening.

Not doubting that you were told that, but the person who told you is wrong. Plain and simple.

I'd like it to get up and running as much as everyone else, but right now we can't. Don't expect any basketball until at least the second half of this term at the earliest.

this is was in the press this arvo, guidelines will be interesting to see

Community sport is also expected to restart in groups of less than 10 people in non-contact activities.

New guidelines on sport, agreed by the national cabinet today, say the resumption of sport should also include outdoor activities such as outdoor boot camps, golf, fishing, bushwalking and swimming.

It will be up to individual states and territories to determine when this can happen, based on local issues with the coronavirus.

Professional sporting codes will be required to seek permission from relevant state and territory health authorities to start training and matches.

The guidelines say that whole teams could need to be quarantined if a positive COVID-19 case is identified at a club once training has resumed.

"Significantly enhanced risk mitigation" such as social distancing will be needed for all indoor activities involving sport, including in change rooms, training facilities and gyms.

More specific principles for individual sports will be released this afternoon after being developed with the Australian Institute of Sport.