If you read the ACSA, i.e. the Board, email blasts to the Residents, you have been getting COVID-19 updates from the “COVID-19 Task Force”, which you may think had been federally appointed the way it is touted by the Board. Other than mixed updates, and cut and pasted information from the media, it has been harmless and somewhat informative. We did receive a notice that a Resident was being tested for the Virus, and who was eventually cleared. A sign had been posted recently that golf cart service would not be available because of COVID-19, with no further explanation, which was not good. Now we are told that a golf maintenance worker tested positive for COVID-19, which certainly is not good, and we wish this individual a speedy recovery. More so, wouldn’t you think there be a follow up that a quarantine would be put in place for the entire Maintenance Crew, while they are waiting their test results? No mention was made about a quarantine while test results were underway for determined infection or not. After all, the crew is daily circling through the whole community tending the golf course. They’re around my home every day. Yikes!
Here’s what we were told:
“The purpose of this newsletter is to inform you that an AGI employee and member of our golf course maintenance crew has unfortunately tested positive for COVID19. Upon experiencing symptoms this employee followed our protocols, did not come to work and notified the manager immediately. This employee then sought medical attention and was tested.
Once an employee has tested positive, the next step in our protocol is to test the entire work group. This process is currently being followed with the golf maintenance team. Any employee with COVID19 is required to test negative before returning to work. These same protocols will be followed for any AGI employee and their work groups, if necessary.”
There could be explanations why we did not hear about any quarantine follow up after the COVID-19 disclosure, but I won’t even go there. It appears that when the golf course may have concerns and issues, a self-serving disclosure is warranted and no more. Certainly, further information and clarification to the community should be expected, when a member of a somewhat closed group that circulates our community has been infected in a climate of health uncertainty. A quarantine of the entire Maintenance Crew should be put in place while testing is being completed and results determined. The dates of the sequence of the COVID-19 occurrence should have been disclosed with a quarantine established for the crew until all were tested and results known. The email did not make clear that this even happened. We have the Maintenance Crew working through the Community waiting for test results? Yikes again!
Where’s the “COVID-19 Task Force” stand on quarantines to protect the Residents? Hmm.
