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COVID-19 sweeps through Newmarket men's hockey league
15 sick, Oro-Medonte resident dead and questions remain over how virus spread so far and wide
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
They were spirited and eager as they gathered at the Newmarket hockey rink,
a league of older men, all double-vaccinated and
keen to finally get back to a sport they’d put on ice since the start of the pandemic.
Now they are recovering from COVID-19, one of their teammates dead,
wondering if this tragedy could have been averted.
“It’s just strange,” mused Brian Dunn, of Thornhill.
“15 guys who played separate nights, different change rooms, days apart, one tragic death. We vacillate between absolutely pissed off and sad … I lost my best friend.”
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They all had a lot of fun, got together and played hockey. Laughed and had a great time.
Truly stopping a fear pattern, is release of the worrying looping thoughts of fear and death fright, and the subconscious/psyche mind receives that happy emotional signal as an "all clear" I am out of danger signal.
The Psyche reads it as the conflict is over.
Once in resolution, the healing begins.
Healing and removal of excess cells happens by coughing, lots of mucus, lots of fever, basically all the symptoms that are considered "flu like".
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The league had just resumed play Sept. 27 after the pandemic shut things down in March 2020.
Dunn did not play that first day, but he was on the ice Thursday as was his buddy, Garry Weston, of Oro-Medonte, who sat beside him in the dressing room.
It was a chance to get back to "normal" — and it felt that way
until Sunday, when
the sore throat and headaches began.
On Tuesday, Dunn said, Weston tested positive for COVID-19 and on Wednesday, his own results came back positive.
Turns out, some of the other players had also been feeling ill, and several who’d played on the Monday night were sick, too.[...]
an outbreak was declared Oct. 8 with 15 cases to date — 13 residents in York Region and two from Simcoe.
“At least 10 of the guys were basically bedridden for most of the time,” Adlam said. “It wasn't just like sniffles or anything like that.”
In some cases, players tested negative and later, positive.
Some spouses also caught the virus; in other cases, entire families became ill, he said.
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Relief and happiness for a loved one, life getting back on track, "back to normal" is a deep resolution of fear.
Those spouses and kids, all went into healing symptoms as well.
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Because many of the men play with multiple groups, three more Newmarket-Aurora leagues that play elsewhere in York Region shut down as the virus spread: the 5-on-5 leagues for over 35, over 50, and over 60s, Adlam said.
“People are getting a false impression, ‘I’m double-vaxxed … nothing can happen to me’ and as we can see, in our league 30 per cent got infected ... And, unfortunately, Garry took the brunt of it.”
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In the statement above, he states how he was thinking, yet comes to the faulty conclusion.
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“Most of the guys got through their symptoms without any lingering effects, which is what you hope for with the vaccine,” said Dunn.
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But with Garry, it was unbelievable. It went sideways for him very quickly.”
On Oct. 20, his daughter, Krista Weston, posted on Facebook:
“Garry had a severe stroke while fighting the pneumonia caused by COVID. As a family and in respect of his wishes, he will be removed from life support.”
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See what I wrote about pneumonia in my inserted quote.
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“A lot of us are confused,” Rick Grisdale said. “We’re filled with all kinds of emotions, including anger.”
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More conflict shocks building for them, due to what happened.
These fears and conflicts are going to build more loops of survival programs.
These will be the plague type events that are going to be used this Dark Winter, I think.
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It’s a mystery, the men say, how players contracted the virus despite being in separate dressing rooms.
Wendall Harrison, of Sutton, runs the league with Adlam and played Sept. 27.
The two men who sat next to him in the change room caught COVID-19, as did the goalie who sat across the room, but none of the other five players in the room got sick. One of the players in the opposing team’s change room also contracted COVID-19, he said.
Did the virus come from the younger players, the not-yet-vaccinated under-12s, who used the rink before, he wonders.
When leagues first resumed play in the summer, there were stricter rules, “but that changed when younger age group training started,” he said. “It became busier,
all kinds of people coming and going and kids running around.”
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The above is a disturbing insert, trying to blame the kids for being infection spreaders.
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Anyone who’s been in a hockey dressing room knows ventilation is questionable, Dunn said.
According to Public Health, the virus is transmitted through large respiratory droplets and smaller aerosols.
Players who are on the ice at the same time, with frequent face-to-face interactions, are at higher risk than those who enter the facility an hour later, Casey said.
However, he added, “we are noticing a concerning trend where individuals are not going for testing right away when they develop symptoms.”
Vaccination is very effective, he said, but there is still a chance you could both contract and spread COVID-19.
“It’s important to remember COVID-19 still remains active within our communities.”
That was a hard lesson for all the players, Grisdale agreed.
“Everyone wanted to play again, but it’s still a gamble out there. This story is tragic and it’s not as safe as everyone’s saying out there, even if you’re double-vaxxed.”
This past week, most of the players returned to the ice and the game they love — but not all.
A handful of men say they just won’t come back, Harrison said.
“People are just trying to get back to normal, but we need to be aware. This pandemic is not over.”
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A COVID-19 outbreak has left York and Simcoe Region residents shocked and confused
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