SPORTS HALLS ARE NOT CLOSED BECAUSE OF CORONA

The start of indoor sports has very little to do with the coronavirus, it is for 99% a economical problem, it is too expensive to open de hal if there has to be 1½ meter distance. In a sports hall where you will normally have 4 badminton players on a court and several outside the court waiting there turn you will have  50 players in a hall. It is not possible to play doubles and keep distance so it is only possible to play singles so 25 people in the hall. It will cost too much in electricity,  cleaning and other running costs, most halls are publicly owned and it is an easy way to save money at this moment.

It doesn't make sense to have football with 24 players outside coming in close contact with each other all the time, and badminton where we never get in close contact with each other. Football is OK and badminton not the only difference is football costs very little to play outside and badminton costs a lot more because it is inside. Even if you have your own hall you can not open for indoor sport, not even if you let only two people inside and even when these two people are family. If the authorities give permission for that they no longer have an argument to keep all the other sports halls closed, so under the name of solidarity everybody has to stay out of the sportshal. Not doing sports is not going to make you more healthy and yet the big argument is that you should not do your sport to stay healthy. People who are overweight and are older are the ones that have problems with Coronavirus, now we let young people stop doing sport so they can also get overweight and get in the risk group. 

Here in Asia all the sports halls are open and badminton is the biggest sport there is, some halls have been closed for a week or 2 but by far it was possible to keep on playing. Here there is no economical issue to keep Sports Halls closed, so the only argument that was left is: How big is the chance you get sick with the coronavirus when you are in a badminton hall? Well the change is so small that you can not give a number on how many people per 100.000 because it is 5 zeros behind the point, most sport people are not in the big risk group, young sport people are even lower on the risk group. If the closing of sports hall is done from the perspective of the big picture to save money in this economical hard times then I understand it but don’t lie about it to say it is the best for our health because that is not true.