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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: bond on June 18, 2020, 03:42:04 PM
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https://abcnews.go.com/Business/employers-require-covid-19-antibody-tests-eeoc/story?id=71319374
If its illegal for employers to insist on antibody testing--why is Yonkers the ONLY racetrack in usa-to implement this??
Asking for a friend.
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Bond, I’m sure you know the answer.... They don’t want horse racing..
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Sooner or later they will be gone, Faraldo will see them out. This will just piss of MGM and cost the horseman
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Good riddance. Obnoxious to have racing there anymore...place is dead for racing. As new times come..out with old. Racing till 2021 end of year then no more...let thrm rsce at monticello...
Cut ourses to 4000 a rsce....emough. big m racing wed thru saturday then.
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What industry alot this...lose money jeep it going. Btw. Atl indictment terrible...its good they killed colored kid....he coukd of hurt police
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MGM forcing NYSGC to give them table games
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Bond, I’m sure you know the answer.... They don’t want horse racing..
They would rather have the casino open-but to keep the racetrack shuttered is BS-no simulcasting etc. MGM owns Northfield--and they dont have that antibody rule--so there are other forces at play here IMHO. What they are doing at Yonkers-is woeful and sure looks like its unlawful to boot.
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yonkers is a waste of good money
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MGM forcing NYSGC to give them table games
Ain't they got to pass some law or get a ruling first?
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And how did the virus get in to Yawnkers. Thru the whorsemen by the whorsemen 11.wp 11.wp 11.wp 11.wp 11.wp.
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Antibody testing is a waste of time and is inaccurate 50% of the time!
My father is in a nursing home.
After this coronavirus started the nursing home tested all the residents and he was negative.
Then he was tested two more times over a couple of weeks with the PCR nose swab and was negative.
So the nursing home then gives every resident an antibody test.
My father tests positive along with several other residents on his floor.
They then isolate them all on the 4th floor.
They follow up the antibody test with another PCR test and all they all came back NEGATIVE for the active virus!
Instead of moving the residents back to their own rooms they made them wait 14 days to get another PCR test that all came back negative again before they were moved back into their own rooms.
We were told there was like 10 different viruses other than Covid-19 that could cause the antibody test to come back positive.
Yet this was the test the nursing home relied on to move my father and the other residents into isolation.
So question any antibody result you get.
You could be positive for a different coronavirus.
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They are going to put as many road blocks as possible. They can require tests if they want lust go get tested.
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POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE TESTS? NO MATTER WHICH ONE YOU NEED, A YAWNKERS VET WILL HAVE SOMETHING FOR YOU TO GET IN THE CONDITION YOU NEED
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The issue I have is how did MGM get to NYSGC to push thru that asinine rule. No way NYSGC would have done that without some coercion. Certainly wont see MGM complain to the NYSGC about an in just rule.
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With everyone now needing to show they have antibodies, how can they get enough people that fit this rule? Harness racing is a fairly tight community where the trainers and their help are all know. Even the people that just do paddocks. How can this rule possibly work?
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You are finally getting the point, THEY do NOT want us!!!!! We are a drain on their resources and credibility.
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You are finally getting the point, THEY do NOT want us!!!!! We are a drain on their resources and credibility.
NO ONE WOULD WANT YOU, THE BIGGEST GROUP OF WHINY CRY FUCKING BABIES ON THE PLANET
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https://abcnews.go.com/Business/employers-require-covid-19-antibody-tests-eeoc/story?id=71319374
If its illegal for employers to insist on antibody testing--why is Yonkers the ONLY racetrack in usa-to implement this??
Asking for a friend.
Is this really true? how about showing us a link? or the info of them mandating it in writing?
With everyone now needing to show they have antibodies, how can they get enough people that fit this rule? Harness racing is a fairly tight community where the trainers and their help are all know. Even the people that just do paddocks. How can this rule possibly work?
Also did it say you have to be positive with antibodies or that was just the kind of testing they wanted it see if you currently have covid?
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Update:
SOA of NY provides update on antibody requirement
June 20, 2020, from the SOA of New York
Yonkers, NY — The Standardbred Owners Association of New York is pleased to announce that the MGM Yonkers, Inc. Racing Operations Rider to the MGM Resorts International Seven-Point Safety Plan” (the “Rider”) has been amended to eliminate the requirement that participants shipping into Yonkers present a valid positive COVID-19 antibody test in order to gain access to the Yonkers paddock.
Instead, pursuant to the Amended Rider those participants will be subject to the same onsite screening process applicable to all on-site licensees which include a temperature check and the answering of a series of questions regarding their possible exposure to COVID-19 and any symptoms that they may be experiencing. If the screening process clears the participant, that participant will be allowed to enter the paddock and shall proceed directly to the assigned stall(s) (or other designated segregated area(s)) for racing and will remain at such stall(s) for the duration of their horse’s racing activity that day and until exiting (which exiting shall be as soon thereafter the conclusion of the subject horse(s) race(s) as reasonably practicable).
All those admitted to the paddock will be required to maintain social distancing from other on-site personnel at all times, and the SOANY will be enforcing the social distancing component of the Amended Rider. Masks shall be worn at all times in the paddock, and the previously announced protocols regarding hygiene and other best health practices remain in effect. We thank you in advance for your strict adherence to these important safety protocols as we resume racing at Yonkers Raceway.
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Is this really true? how about showing us a link? or the info of them mandating it in writing?
Also did it say you have to be positive with antibodies or that was just the kind of testing they wanted it see if you currently have covid?
For our family experience with my father's nursing home tests there seems to be a clear answer.
Antibody tests are not the right or accurate test to use when looking for the active Covid-19 virus.
The PCR nose swab is the right and most accurate test for the active Covid-19 virus.
There are accurate antibody tests that will identify Covid-19 antibodies specifically, but those tests take a longer period of time to get results and they are a lot more expensive.
At least thats what the nurses taking care of my father told us.
Companies have flooded the market with inaccurate tests in order to expedite results.