"The WSL is committed to prioritizing the safety of the athletes, staff and surrounding community above all else, and is working closely and transparently with the Hawaii State Department of Health to determine the path forward."
The World Surf League just kicked off its 2020/21 season amidst much applause but a fatal shark incident and now “positive Covid-19 test result within the WSL staff, including CEO Erik Logan” has allegedly canceled the Pipe Masters.
Per the press release:
The WSL has decided to suspend the Billabong Pipe Masters presented by Hydro Flask competition as a result of positive COVID-19 tests within the WSL staff, including WSL CEO Erik Logan.
The WSL is committed to prioritizing the safety of the athletes, staff and surrounding community above all else, and is working closely and transparently with the Hawaii State Department of Health to determine the path forward.
As part of the league’s COVID Safety Plan, anyone who has returned a confirmed positive test is self-isolating until they are cleared, and contact tracing protocols have been fully implemented. The WSL does not believe that any athletes have been exposed and will continue to execute the safety protocols.
But what does this mean? Suspended for a few days? Weeks? Canceled? Very confusing and the wording in the press release does not help.
Does CEO Erik Logan have Covid?
Much worry and concern. The World Surf League press office has been contacted. More as the story develops.
What’s the word for any project taken on by a group of surfers?
Thrusterfuck?
Yeah, that’s it.
He is the very definition of the word
I’m gonna quote direct from reddit (dumbassthenes):
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The way I understand it from what I’ve learned in the last 12 hours:
The WSL usually runs Pipe on an event permit, which does not allow beach closures. This year they used a filming permit, which is why they could close the beach directly in front of Pipe.
But filming permits require a shut down if any of the staff tests positive.
Given the 10 day quarantine recommended by the CDC I don’t see how they
can run the event. The holding period ends on the 20th.
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This explains a few things, especially the weird language in the press release about “suspending production”.
There’s also a lot of chatter about whether Yago Dora got on the flight with covid or not. Maybe some of our surf journalists can do some actual journalism and find out?
medical guru no , I just listen to the scientists , not the politicians …..miilions to die in Africa, fuck you invent shit or just follow your dark lord !
When vagina virtue signaling, comes up and bites you. The test are administered, but not actually tested. Cheers sheep, you all just got duped. Paid up, and now ya gotta leave.
so how did Victoria stop the pandemic?
define kook…..??
fuck compared to your lunatic ramblings from the rabid right , I am normal……how does lots of the worlds best surfers become kooks??
for someone like you it’s all about the $’s, we are all poorer because of the pandemic , the one you says doesn’t exist….LOL, sad sad….
you are a fucken moron and a dangerous spinner of satanic bullshit……that seems to want to be an expert on a virus, dismiss the scientists , yeah there’s no pandemic, no climate change, and our economic/health system are jusr the 8th wonders of the world….so don’t be paranoid , give up the weed , try and keep your red wine to one glass and not a bucket an hour……should help be fearless and add to your narcissism!
wsl also essentially smuggled a positive yago dora in to the country on a commercial flight. whatever your thoughts are on the legitimacy / danger of the virus, you would have to be pretty dissapointed if you found out the daft cunt next to you on the plane had covid and was getting special treatment because he was trying to get to a SURF FUCKING CONTEST. fuck that noise.
No one gives a shit about poor people here Nikolai. Just bootstraps or whatever.
This is great fucking news! Hopefully the Hawiians will have their own contest circuit for Hawiian’s and those they invite and tell everyone else to fuck off. Sell that shit to TV or online and we’ll eat it up. Disperse the revenue to the locals that will be missing out on the tourism and let Hawaii bloom without the stink of capitalist pigs trying to sell a piece of paradise.
Did anyone else put covid on their surfvival fantasy team?
I assume Chas has already sent a cake of condolence, a copy of his new book and a friendship bracelet. that should make it all better.
Jesus not a good first week back in the islands for the wozzle. No Maholo for Elo
For a long time I wanted the WSL to disappear. My hope was that its demise would lead to less surfers in the water therefore more waves for me. The crowds since Covid started has proven without a shadow of a doubt that surfers and/or VALs don’t give a fuck about the WSL and in fact most are not paying any attention at all to it. So fuck it, run the contests. At least they give us ample ammo for shit talk here on BG, which often inspires a smile or laugh. In this year of endless shit sandwiches that’s pretty nice.
Worst run professional sport in the history of the world.
WSL = worst surf league
surfers should be pissed!
Nik is definitely just a virus.
But the capacity for large-scale dissemination in the population ends up generating a gigantic rate of infected people, and of widespread deaths, not only by COVID 19, but by several other diseases through the collapse of hospital care.
COVID 19 has another characteristic, it potentiates existing chronic diseases, and takes the physical state (such as obesity) in many people, which would normally be easy to treat / deal, leading to deaths … it generates in many people, including healthy and with a history of athletes, it generates respiratory sequelae (decreased lung capacity) and vascular sequelae (thrombosis) that remain until the end of life … scars.
I have a great friend, architect and artist, who on his last day of hospitalization for COVID, had a thrombosis, and it resulted in his leg being taken in.
Another friend, a former partner in my former company, mother-in-law admitted to the ICU, a wife who had just left hospital but with pneumonia, and he (who has chronic bronchitis) at home without being admitted with COVID and pneumonia, and only now medicated with anti-coagulants and corticoids, but with high risk of thrombosis.
The wife of another great surfing friend, a doctor at the two largest hospital chains in the city (of a high standard) and at the forefront of the fight against COVID, fired along with thousands of doctors, so that 3000 new doctors come into their places through a contest rigged by the federal government / Bolsonaro, in a personal effort by this genocide against vaccination and against fighting COVID … her husband, and my great friend? Voter of this ignorant and genocidal criminal.
COVID 19 is just a virus … with gigantic and destructive potential.
Mainly in countries and cities manipulated by criminals and genocidal rulers, religious leaders without character who really are bandits of faith and exploitation of believers, and a large scale of believing and ignorant population.
USA and Brazil have a lot in common in their trajectories and tragedies
oh come on …. quick risk assessment 101 for the WSL when resuming contests in Hawaii: what scenarios would have a big negative impact on running the contests successfully? 1. Shark attack at contest area, 2. covid outbreak in athletes or staff are top 10 risks easy…. etc. Nope, the WSL doesn’t even get a pass on those two, could have had contingency plans and business continuity plans in place if they were professional about running their show.
that’s a bit on the higher side of the probability distribution but, hey, the points you’re making are valid, have not been falsified and yet are still not accepted or even discussed as much as other BS theories about hot to “stop covid”, as if it would then go away for ever. It’s just about managing a pandemic, JC, that’s all, but it shows up egoistic , narcistic and antisocial behaviour on a larger scale than ever before. there, my 2 cents.