Re:SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in healthy blood donors during ...
by paganel on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:09PM
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> He should at least know that players being taken down by cold or flu is not unusual in football.
One could think so, of course, but then how does one explain the fact that when testing really started in Italy (end of February - actually early March for footballers, after the Juve - Inter match played on March 9th) not one football player from Inter tested positive, even though they were in what was even by then the center of the pandemic in Italy, Milano?
By contrast two Juve players (Dybala and Matuidi) tested positive immediately after March 9th, plus some other players from Firenze and Genoa. One of the only reasonable explanations would be that most (if not all) Internazionale players had already gotten the virus by then and had managed to get rid of it.
And I've heard of that "tainted" argument and for the life of me I couldn't understand it, being sick (or having been sick) doesn't taint anyone. It somehow reminds me of the infamous #milanononsiferma hashtag used by Milano's mayor (among others) at the end of February, people who were thinking that ignoring actual real stuff for fear of not "tainting" the city (in the mayor's case) would somehow make things better.
One could think so, of course, but then how does one explain the fact that when testing really started in Italy (end of February - actually early March for footballers, after the Juve - Inter match played on March 9th) not one football player from Inter tested positive, even though they were in what was even by then the center of the pandemic in Italy, Milano?
By contrast two Juve players (Dybala and Matuidi) tested positive immediately after March 9th, plus some other players from Firenze and Genoa. One of the only reasonable explanations would be that most (if not all) Internazionale players had already gotten the virus by then and had managed to get rid of it.
And I've heard of that "tainted" argument and for the life of me I couldn't understand it, being sick (or having been sick) doesn't taint anyone. It somehow reminds me of the infamous #milanononsiferma hashtag used by Milano's mayor (among others) at the end of February, people who were thinking that ignoring actual real stuff for fear of not "tainting" the city (in the mayor's case) would somehow make things better.