Let’s please keep this forum an oasis from government and politics.
I hope others follow your suggestion. I will do my best to keep politics off the board, but I can only react after the fact. It's much nicer if I never have occasion to have to deal with it.
In that vein, I did hesitate before even posting the article about the surge traced to HS tournaments. But it seemed applicable to the sport we love, and did not contain any politics in the article, so I elected to post it.
I will add that I recently reffed my first wrestling event since March of 2020, and I thought long and hard about whether to return to reffing this season. I enjoyed the experience, but was disappointed that hardly anyone at the event was wearing a mask. I believe 1 wrestler wore a mask (it was a youth tournament), and perhaps a handful of adults did as well, but that was it. I'm still mulling over whether I should continue to ref wrestling this season; it's not an easy decision.