Friday, 5 November 2010

irrational decision making

The powers that be at the SLSC (the Committee) have decided to close the sauna for two weeks because people were using it to warm up after swimming in cold water! They felt people were over-extending themselves, and because ambulances have been called for four incidents, they thought that they'd close it for two weeks while we get used to cold water swimming without a sauna. This begs several questions -

1. Given that only one of the faintings, as I understand it, came after someone had been in the sauna - why aren't the showers banned?
2. Given that on a daily basis at least 60 people go swimming, why is it that 0.55% of the visits can restrict the opportunities of the remaining 99.45% of visits? (4 faintings from 720 visits over two weeks)
3. If the sauna is not for warming up, what is it for?
4. In relation to Q2 - why not suspend the membership of the irresponsible four, rather than inconvenience the vast majority?

And whilst I acknowledge that the committee is elected at the AGM, in this day of social media and emails, a consultation with the rest of us before the decision would have been more democratic and imho more fitting to the collegiate atmosphere at the club.

I guess we'll just see people shivering more.

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