FWIW, put me in the camp that believes that the tests are FAR too sensitive. They are capable of finding dead tissue from a long gone virus and yet calling the patient ‘positive’. Even the inventor of said test has said this.
Such a test is inherently flawed and will inevitably yield false positives if run often enough. Defies common sense to continue using such a test and then using the foregone results to deny a young, healthy, and asymptomatic player in his twenties the ability to play this game. We’re overlooking the obvious here in my estimation.
And about the Omicron variant? There will be endless variants in the coming months and years. Just like the common flu, these things naturally mutate as they reproduce. So, waiting for a cessation of new variants is a fools errand. Ain’t gonna happen.