Did they possibly wrestle/warm up on the same mat though? (I don't know, but it does seem peculiar.)
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This is horrendous to hear... A young man doing everything right, competing at the highest level and doing what he loves to do, when suddenly life is turned upside down and the focus is totally changed. I pray that the positive support from so many in the wrestling community can truly have a positive impact for him in the ongoing struggles.
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Were they not mopping the mats at all? I assumed they were mopping and then using the UV lights in addition. If they were only using UV, that's insane.
Maybe they were mopping but I didn't see it. As you probably know, UV works but only if you expose the surface for several minutes so they would have had to walk very, very, very slowly with those things IMO. Not sure why they went away from chemical disinfectants (if they did) but I suspect a good salesman was involved. Hope they rethink that one.
That’s not good. Given the severity and how rare this nasty bacteria is I’m sure it will get all sorts of attention from the CDC.
When they used them , they were walking very fast, I was thinking this will not work unless it’s some new technology I don’t know about. Probably using the machines wrong to turn the mats over fast
They changed for the same reason everything else changed the last 3 years. Apparently UV is effective against covid (or so they'll have us believe) but probably not as effective against bacterial organisms.
Between this and the mat situation at the BTT there are some major issues that need to be figured out.
UV is effective against covid but so are the chemicals. Like most viruses covid is pretty fragile. Bacteria are much tougher. Be surprised if anyone was really concerned that the mats were a major risk for transmitting covid anyway. These guys are in pretty close contact so the mats are the least of their worries.
Excellent point. If anyone was getting COVID, it wasn’t coming from the mats. I hope that wasn’t the reasoning. Would be analogous to getting rid of handshakes after wrestlers traded sweat for 7 minutes.
It's not a bacteria it is a sequela caused by a myriad of different bacteria including the group A strep family, Klebsiella, Clostridium Diff (aka C-diff), Staph and MANY other bacteria. I've pulled enough shifts in the burn unit to see this. (yes folks are treated in burn units for this even though they don't have burns)
I did not see any mopping. They were probably mopped between sessions, but I never saw it, and was in the building over an hour early every session.
Not only walking fast, but almost always missing a strip somewhere, sometimes 18 inches wide the whole way across the mat. My son and I commented on it several times (the effectiveness of the UV as used and missing areas).
The only cleaning was done with UV and was done frequently between matches on a mat the whole tournament, but as stated above, done very poorly.
Awful stuff. His mom is on Twitter and she said she refused to look at his would care treatment as it was too traumatizing. Hope he can recover and get back on the mats.
Good luck to him. I'm rooting for him.
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