SwimSwam Pulse is a recurring feature tracking and analyzing the results of our periodic A3 Performance Polls. You can cast your vote in our newest poll on the SwimSwam homepage, about halfway down the page on the right side, or you can find the poll embedded at the bottom of this post.
Our most recent poll asked SwimSwam readers whether they felt their local area could reopen pools:
RESULTS
Question: Do you feel it’s safe for pools to begin reopening in your local area?
- Yes – 69.2%
- No – 20.0%
- Don’t know – 10.8%
The majority of SwimSwam voters felt their local area could safely reopen pools. Of course, SwimSwam readers probably aren’t the most unbiased observers in this case – most of us are chomping at the bit to return to the water for our own fitness, to see our friends or kids have their sport and social group back, or just to have high-level swimming return to fill the live sports void we currently find ourselves in.
Almost 70% of voters said they felt pools in their area could start reopening, compared to just 20% saying they didn’t believe pools could reopen. Just under 11% said they weren’t sure.
Most states have started reopening local pools in some capacity after the coronavirus pandemic forced facilities to close for an extended period of time. Many are limiting the number of people in the facility at a time, along with lots of other restrictions, including closing locker rooms and creating separate enter and exit doors. You can follow each state’s reopening process in our state-by-state index.
Below, vote in our new A3 Performance Poll, which piggybacks on our ongoing returning conference points series to ask for the preseason favorite in the women’s SEC:
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Seriously this is a question like anyone has a medical degree? I go to work everyday to risk my life to save yahoos that think this is nothing! Chlorine does not kill COVID but it kills flu…so
http://chng.it/pfYVMjvs
While it is advertised Texas pools are opening up..our club water sports are locked out! Please consider our petition. The future of usa swimming depends on this. If large clubs fail they do not have the money to rent out the school pools whenever they decide to let us back in..if no one rents the schools can not operate these pools and high school water sports are cut! We have seen this happen at the college level already. Please help us get them open. We need 1 million names!
Please help us get these pools open
http://chng.it/pfYVMjvs
I think I’ll listen to the opinion of epidemiologists and public health specialists, rather than rely on the results of a SwimSwam poll.
Weird that you chose to view this as “advice for what you should do” rather than “reflective of the mood of the industry.”
I guess it’s true what they say on the internet: if you go into it looking for a fight, you’ll always find one.
Right🤷♀️
which epidemiologists ? there are many kinds out there …….
No argument here. Where I live we have to reserve a lane at the local Y for 45 minutes up to 3 times a week so I’m hoping more are like you and choose to wait. 🙂
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The tide is turning and people are comfortable resuming their normal activities.
except in California where Newsom is nowhere near making a decision about reopening the pools.
Same in Belgium …….ridiculous lockdown measures for pools still ongoing until July
The tide…COVID isn’t a tide…come to work with me…CDC acknowledged today this isn’t respiratory it’s vascular! Why people lost legs, hands etc.