Florida high school postpones football game because of ‘COVID-19 outbreak’
Christopher Tremoglie
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A Florida school district postponed an early-season high school football game due to a “COVID-19 outbreak.” It appears to be the first event in recent months that had to be canceled because of COVID. This comes amid claims of a resurgence of the virus and rumors of a potential return to at least some of the pandemic’s preventative measures.
The School District of Palm Beach County announced the postponement on Thursday afternoon, reported WPBF, an ABC affiliate of West Palm Beach. The game was to be played between Palm Beach Gardens and Vero Beach on Friday but was rescheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 6.
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“Out of an abundance of caution, the football game between Palm Beach Gardens High School and Vero Beach High School scheduled for Friday, September 1, has been postponed due to an outbreak of COVID-19,” a letter sent to parents and guardians of Palm Beach High School read. “The game has been rescheduled for Wednesday, September 6 at Vero Beach High School at 5 p.m.”
However, the details behind the reason for the postponement were confusing and eerily similar to the contradictory and misguided chaos that frequently happened during the pandemic. First, the school district said an outbreak of COVID-19 was why the game was postponed, WPBF reported. Later, the school district “clarified” that only a few players on Palm Beach Gardens’ football team had COVID, and they did not “want them traveling together for a game.”
Additional clarification found that the “outbreak” was limited to just a few football team members. According to reports, officials at Palm Beach Gardens High School and Vero Beach High School didn’t think COVID spread to anyone besides those football team members.
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Palm Beach School District’s postponement should raise some red flags. It seems to be part of a disturbing trend in which liberals, Democrats, and various school officials around the country are pushing for a return to the drastic measures taken during the pandemic. Last month, my colleague Zachary Faria wrote about variations of mask mandates going into effect at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Rutgers University in New Jersey, and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
But was the postponement necessary? If just a few kids tested positive for COVID, then, if anything, shouldn’t it just be those players that needed to be isolated? With all the details currently available and the suspicious nature of the reports changing from “COVID outbreak in school” to “just a few players,” it seems like an overreaction and a clamoring to return to the hyperbolic hysteria that was prevalent during the pandemic.