I found this article on a google news search. It seems that LP had a town council election this week. There’s not a ton of details in the article, I get the sense that it isn’t the full council turning over, but all the candidates up for election seemed to agree that large events and especially the Ironman cannot/should not happen.
Hopefully there is some context I don’t have, just was surprised to see this negative of an attitude towards the race from people that appear to be the decision makers.
https://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/...ates-discuss-issues/
All four were skeptical about having large-scale events in Lake Placid this summer. Asked if they would be willing to say no to large-scale events if the state of the pandemic doesn’t improve dramatically, both Monroe and Galvin said it would depend on state guidance and what the state requires at that time.
Kelly said the National Women’s Hockey League bubble in Lake Placid — which was canceled after players and staff tested positive for COVID-19 — showed that “if you can’t control the entire environment, you can’t control anything.”
“We can’t do it,” she said. “We can’t do large-scale events. It’s just an impossibility to keep everything under control.”
Asked how they would decide if the state and the county left it up to a local decision on events, Monroe said each event’s organizers would need to submit a plan for how they would contain the spread of the virus before he could make a decision, but he agreed with Kelly, and would likely say no to most events.
“It would be a case-by-case basis, with them providing a plan of how they would contain it and how they would treat it, before making a decision,”Monroe added. “But I would say for large-scale events like Ironman, it’s just not possible.”
Galvin and Hayes agreed.
“We really can’t stress out our limited medical resources here by bringing 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 people here and have an outbreak,” Galvin said. “We just don’t have the resources to deal with that.”
Dimond Bikes Superfan
Hopefully there is some context I don’t have, just was surprised to see this negative of an attitude towards the race from people that appear to be the decision makers.
https://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/...ates-discuss-issues/
All four were skeptical about having large-scale events in Lake Placid this summer. Asked if they would be willing to say no to large-scale events if the state of the pandemic doesn’t improve dramatically, both Monroe and Galvin said it would depend on state guidance and what the state requires at that time.
Kelly said the National Women’s Hockey League bubble in Lake Placid — which was canceled after players and staff tested positive for COVID-19 — showed that “if you can’t control the entire environment, you can’t control anything.”
“We can’t do it,” she said. “We can’t do large-scale events. It’s just an impossibility to keep everything under control.”
Asked how they would decide if the state and the county left it up to a local decision on events, Monroe said each event’s organizers would need to submit a plan for how they would contain the spread of the virus before he could make a decision, but he agreed with Kelly, and would likely say no to most events.
“It would be a case-by-case basis, with them providing a plan of how they would contain it and how they would treat it, before making a decision,”Monroe added. “But I would say for large-scale events like Ironman, it’s just not possible.”
Galvin and Hayes agreed.
“We really can’t stress out our limited medical resources here by bringing 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 people here and have an outbreak,” Galvin said. “We just don’t have the resources to deal with that.”
Dimond Bikes Superfan