BizNews: Banning contact sports at schools joins a long list of policy absurdities

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BizNews: Banning contact sports at schools joins a long list of policy absurdities

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27 May 2021

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< 1 mins read

The banning of contact sport at schools joins a long list of policy absurdities that have arisen during the COVID-19 outbreak. It appears that the South African Minister of Education has not based this decision on any science, so we’ll do the analysis for her.

Earlier in May, the education department announced that all contact sports in schools to be suspended with immediate effect. Only non-contact sports which could be performed with social distancing and other safety measures in place are permitted. Nick Hudson of PANDA (Pandemics – data and analysis) has been critical of policy-makers’ reactions to Covid-19, lockdowns, and other approaches to containing the virus. In this latest article, he describes why banning contact sports in schools “joins a long list of policy absurdities”. – Claire Badenhorst

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By Nick Hudson and Peter Castleden

The banning of contact sport at schools joins a long list of policy absurdities that have arisen during the COVID-19 outbreak. The Minister of Education, Angie Motshega, ‘explains’ that “following the school sports activities-related Covid-19 outbreaks in Gauteng and [the] general rise of cases in communities across the country, the Outbreak Response Team said that the risk was high when engaged in close-contact sports”.

It appears that the Minister has not based this decision on any science, so we’ll do the analysis for her.

Read the full article at Biz News: Banning contact sports at schools joins a long list of policy absurdities – PANDA

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