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Old 04-21-2020, 05:06 AM
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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby View Post
A few things:


The pools - all of them. Under very strict conditions: chairs 6-8 feet apart, anyone caught trying to move them closer is asked to leave. If you want to just stand there and soak and yap with each other in the water, that's fine - 6 feet apart. If you try getting closer, you will be asked to leave. Jacuzzis - closed until further notice. If you congregate within the pool area closer than 6 feet apart, you will be asked to leave.


No one gets a second chance, no exceptions.
My concern about the pools is that what you suggest would require full time monitoring, i.e., an employee stationed at every pool all the time it is open. My experience in this type of situation is that less than that would mean a roving monitor who would stop by, warn people they were too close, perhaps move the seating back to proper distances, then leave. Whereupon, everything would revert back to the way it was. People told to leave for violating the restrictions would simply go out, wait for the monitor to leave, then return. If they are confronted by other pool users, then we have a potential for real conflict.

I hope I'm wrong about the ability of the residents to handle a step by step reopening, but reading comments about golf, pickleball, and other activities on TOTV doesn't fill me with confidence.
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