Wife complains that the kids at her school can't seem to listen concerning Covid-19. They might test positive but there they are still showing up to practice either on the football team, the band, cheerleading, or volleyball. Schools are ripe with activities for kids to stay busy with and in any other year it is great, it keeps the kids engaged and a part of their school environment, it really is a beautiful thing. The problem comes with the fact that this is how the virus keeps spreading and why our numbers keep going up. In defense of the kids though, what are they to do? Typically, Covid-19 does not seem to affect strong healthy teenagers anymore than the common cold, so I think some weigh the pros and cons of staying quiet and just say fuck it.
All this to explain my exasperation at how they treated Baby A for doing the right thing. I mean, ultimately, he has to answer for his choices and he did choose to have a party with his friends and then they all got some sort of cold, or virus of some kind. The week after, most of them were complaining of sore throats, and runny noses. I am not sure what it ended up being, we tested for Covid-19 and came back negative, as did some of his friends, so none of them ended up having it, which is good, but in the meantime of doing the right thing, Baby A ended up missing a full week, which seemed perfect because it was a bye week (meaning they did not play a game last week), and he also missed Monday of this week while he waited for results. Well, the results came and he got back to practice only to find his position was filled while he was out.
Mijo did everything he could, even while he was quarantined, he lifted weights, put on his "heavy vest" (it has 20 pounds worth of weights on it) and hopped up and down the stairs as leg strength exercises, and even ran on the treadmill, he tried staying active, but it seems all for naught. He came back after practice the first day saying he was replaced by a senior who misses a lot of practice (I believe he had also failed the first six weeks, which was cut to 4 weeks (?) ). Either way, what can he do, right? It could have been that he would have been replaced either way, even if he had been showing up as normal, so I am not totally upset, but it hurts me because my son is such a competitor and I know he wishes he was out on the field testing himself against the other team.
What if, I like to ask myself sometimes? What if he had kept quiet about the possibility of being positive, he might still have his starting position? What if he did this and infected half the team? What if as a result, some kid's grandparent got sick because of our irresponsible asses and that person passed away? As much as it sucks, this is why we always try and do the right thing. Society may suck balls right now and everything seems in chaos, but good people will always try to be good people. We must be happy that he is still on the varsity squad and he has gotten tons of game time experience as a sophomore on both sides of the ball, and hopefully, he can carry that to next year and beyond to make him a better player. Go Coogs!!!
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