The coronavirus is putting pressure on everyone and everything around the world, and we all have to take precautions regarding coronavirus. Most significantly it can be seen on cancellations of club activities. Sports clubs and sports associations are particularly vulnerable here, as all the physical contact makes football pitches and sports halls into giant petri dishes that the disease can spread over.
Best of all, it would probably be complete to cancel all non-essential training and perhaps instead turn the activities into “homework” that the member can do from home. Social distancing is effective at not getting or spreading the virus. However, it may be that you are recalcitrant types in your association that will not let it all come to a halt. Here are tips and precautions to take in regard to coronavirus spreading if you keep your club activities anyway. But: Best it is to cancel and stay at home.
Gatherings of more than 10 banned
Holding any association activities becomes virtually impossible, now that the government announced on March 17 that gatherings in the public domain of more than 10 people are prohibited. For your association, this means that you will not be able to train out on the municipal football field or sports hall. Before, only gatherings of more than 1,000 and since 100, the government warned against.
What precautions should you take?
If you nevertheless believe that you can run activities in these conditions, and neither you nor the members (parents) have a problem with the club continuing during the pandemic, you need to establish some habits that can reduce the risk of infection. This includes:
- Members must stay at least 1-2 metres away from each other.
- Wash your hands frequently and use any hand alcohol.
- Limit all physical contact to the minimum.
You can probably see that it will be difficult to do any physical activities, but there can of course be associations, e.g. fishing associations, where you can sit on each your boat or stand at a good distance from each other. If there are elderly people or people with diabetes or a disease that weakens the immune system in your association, they should stay in their homes, even if the association’s other members seem healthy. Coronavirus has a long incubation period of up to 12 days, so those infected can easily appear “healthy” for a long time before they start to show symptoms of the disease.
What is the right setting for the corona?
Even if you’re feeling healthy, you should behave like you were sick. That’s the message from one of the world’s leading experts on infectious diseases. By starting from the fact that you already have the disease, you take the necessary precautions to reduce the risk of infecting others with coronavirus. As an obvious consequence of that thinking, what has been mentioned before can be mentioned again: consider how important association activities actually are in these times.
If you’ve talked to younger friends about the virus, you’ve probably heard something a la: “I’m young and healthy. Even if I get the virus, I won’t die.” Here it is important to stress that if young people may be doing well, even if they get the disease, they can go and infect someone who actually cannot tolerate the virus.
Categories: Association Life, Tips and GuidesBy Alexander Kokkedal