Andy Moss and Jerry Zheng react to Murphy’s suspension of indoor sports on ‘Fox & Friends.’
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Effective this Saturday at
effective this Saturday at
600, a dot m December five, all in
door, youth and adult sports,
including both practices and
competitions and inclusive of
all risk levels set. Fourth by
Department of Health, are being
placed on a full and complete
pause for January two, two thousand and twenty one.
The only exceptions are for
collegiate level and
professional teams
Steve. You got New Jersey,
Governor Phil Murphy, cracking
down on indoor sports in his
state, including swimming with
new restrictions, going into
effect this Saturday, as you just
heard
this, as a new survey, finds
absolutely not one covid
infection at forty four different New
Jersey, indoor pool facilities
since July two
Andy MOSS and Jerry Sing compete
with
the Summerset Hills, YMCA Swim
team. They join us now guys good
morning to you
hi good morning. Thank you so
much for having us
Steve its good to have you so
Andy lets start with you.
I dont quite understand what
the governor is doing.
Hes closing down your pool, even
though theres been absolutely
not one case traced back to the
pool
yeah, we were definitely
disappointed in the news.
However, we know that the
pandemic is super serious
and especially given the rise in
cases its more important now
than ever to take the
precautions and the
guideline seriously. However,
we know that back over the
summer, when we opened up
our petition, we were back from
the science from the CDC that
said that chlorine kills Corona
and based off that we were able
to open up the pools and follow
the guidelines and all season. Up
to this pint point, our Y
coaches, fellow swimmers,
have done a terrific job, keeping
us healthy and safe, and with the
given study showing there
were no reported cases across
the forty four pools in New Jersey,
we feel like weve earned the
right.
We have evidence, weve proven
ourselves that we can train in a
safe manner,
Steve and the two of you guys
were on this program in May.
Talking about how safe it really
was.
You started a petition. You had
eighteen thousand signatures and youve
gotten even more since then,
Jerry tell us a little bit about
how the coaches make sure that
youre safe when youre
competing and when youre even
practicing
yeah. So our coaches and our
organization has been working
very hard to ensure that every
swimmer and every athlete is
safe during our practices and
meets so every day. Before
practice we have to fill out a
questionnaire on an app called
team snap and then, when we get
to the pool, we have our mask
s on and we get our
temperatures taken before we
enter the pool.
Then during practices we are
socially distanced. We put our
bags and our equipment in a
designated area, thats six feet
apart from other people and
during meets, we all wear masks
until we race. So we have our
masks on until we get to the
blocks and then we put it in a
little plastic bag and put it in
a bin behind the blocks, and then
we dive in and swim our event
and after we get out of the pool
we put our mask back
on and we do our normal warmdown
procedures,
Steve yeah. Well, it certainly
sounds like youre doing
everything safely so Andy
before you go theres a
possibility. The governor could
actually be watching this
whats your message to him about,
given the precautions youre
taking and the fact there have
been zero infections traced back
to indoor swimming in New Jersey
at these pools. Whats your
message to Governor Murphy.
As you know, and as we all
know, the top priority obviously
is safety
Steve. Of course,
everyone knows how important
it is to follow the science and
we have the science.
The CDC knows that chlorine
kills. The virus
USA Swimming put out very
strict guidelines that our pool
at the Y and all of the other
pools in New Jersey and im sure
across the country are following
extremely strictly and given
this study and given how routine
and disciplined weve been at
our y, we know that if we follow
the science and if we continue
to follow the science, we can
and should get back to training
in a safe way,
Steve Jerry. Is there anything
youd like to add to the
governor
yeah. We obviously already
said safety is number one
priority and we have showed
swimmers are disciplined and
very focused athletes who will
train and follow safety
procedures to make sure that our
sport is continuing in the
future, and this is very
important. This is a big part of
our lives and many of us are
swimming looking forward to
swimming in college and we are
trying to get times that will be
very crucial for the recruiting
process. So this is a very big
part of our lives and were
ensuring that we can do anything
to keep the sport going
Steve. Indeed,
I get it,
but just the fact there have
been zero infections and you do
think safely. Its got to be
frustrating Andy, MOSS and Jerry
Zheng. We thank you both
for joining us from out in new.
Transcript generated on 2020-12-01.