Dear Editor: Covid-19 regulations unfairly and disproportionately affecting youth athletes
“[…] In primary schools, it is 2,475 from 4,960 students or 49.8% [who are inactive due to Covid-19 regulations], while it is 2,838 from 4,750 students in secondary schools or 60%. That means a combined total of 5,313 from 9,710 students in Tobago, or 58%.
“If Trinidad and Tobago had a coronavirus infection rate of those proportions for any subset of the population, the entire country would be in panic mode. But we have created our own pandemic and not realised it, or cared about it or are too scared to address it…”
Photo: RBYL Under-11 South Zone action between Princes Town SA and Tiny Mikes FC on 7 April 2019.