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Which PSG player has COVID-19?





I go to the supermarket, I catch the train to the office 3 days a week, I work in an office at just under 50% capacity with a group of colleagues who, mostly, aren't half as vigilant as I am.

How have I managed, so far, to avoid catching the virus? Because, I'm bloody careful, I follow the guidelines and I'm almost anal in my risk aversion.

A professional footballer earning £100K a week should be even more careful than I am, as 2nd nature.

The wife of one of the partners in my firm tested positive. He managed to look after her, make sure she was fed etc, whilst she isolated from him, in the same home, and never tested positive.

It's not that difficult to avoid catching it if you are careful and take, fairly, simple precautions.
firstly, good on you for being careful and diligent.

however, it’s utterly ridiculous to Suggest that because he’s a footballer he should somehow avoid the virus by being ultra careful, and assigning blame to him. He could have caught it from a chef who made his food, off of a door handle to his room. there’s a million scenarios where he can catch the virus, and it’s not his fault.

ignorant post.
 

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Which PSG player has COVID-19?





I go to the supermarket, I catch the train to the office 3 days a week, I work in an office at just under 50% capacity with a group of colleagues who, mostly, aren't half as vigilant as I am.

How have I managed, so far, to avoid catching the virus? Because, I'm bloody careful, I follow the guidelines and I'm almost anal in my risk aversion.

A professional footballer earning £100K a week should be even more careful than I am, as 2nd nature.

The wife of one of the partners in my firm tested positive. He managed to look after her, make sure she was fed etc, whilst she isolated from him, in the same home, and never tested positive.

It's not that difficult to avoid catching it if you are careful and take, fairly, simple precautions.
All that can be true and he still may not have caught it through any fault of his own.

Maybe you've just been lucky. There's no need to be so moralistic about it. It's not a stain on his character.
 

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Ole said no symptoms in his post match - just positive test.
 

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Wish him a speedy recovery. I'm pretty sure he'll be fine, like almost all footballers affected so far. Looking forward to seeing him return after the international break.
 

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Yup, just saying that Telles showing no symptoms doesn't mean he'll be back in a week or won't have the virus for a while.
Depends when he tested positive. Not sure exact rules in PL but it’s either 10 or 14 days post test, with no symptoms for last 5 days. If he was tested last weekend he could be back by end of next week.
 

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Wish him a speedy recovery. It seemingly took Pogba a long while to get into his stride so I hope we have patience with him when he comes back.
 

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Doing the rounds on twitter. Looks like it is true.


Get better soon mate.
Damn, Poor man, and hope he recovers as quickly as possible. Though seeing how it affected Pogba's fitness, recovery may take some time.

wonder when/how he got it and really hope he didn't infect others.
 

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Depends when he tested positive. Not sure exact rules in PL but it’s either 10 or 14 days post test, with no symptoms for last 5 days. If he was tested last weekend he could be back by end of next week.
Last week there were 2 players in the EL allowed to play despite testing positive. I think it depends on the country more than UEFA.
 

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Depends when he tested positive. Not sure exact rules in PL but it’s either 10 or 14 days post test, with no symptoms for last 5 days. If he was tested last weekend he could be back by end of next week.
But if Pogba is anything to go by, it may take time a long while to get back up to match fitness?
 

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Which PSG player has COVID-19?





I go to the supermarket, I catch the train to the office 3 days a week, I work in an office at just under 50% capacity with a group of colleagues who, mostly, aren't half as vigilant as I am.

How have I managed, so far, to avoid catching the virus? Because, I'm bloody careful, I follow the guidelines and I'm almost anal in my risk aversion.

A professional footballer earning £100K a week should be even more careful than I am, as 2nd nature.

The wife of one of the partners in my firm tested positive. He managed to look after her, make sure she was fed etc, whilst she isolated from him, in the same home, and never tested positive.

It's not that difficult to avoid catching it if you are careful and take, fairly, simple precautions.
It's really not that straightforward. Yes all those precautions massivey reduce the chances but don't make it zero. The problem is most people who have had Covid never knew. The real numbers are way, way more than the positive tests. You might indeed have had it without knowing. Most footballers who have tested positive were only picked up in routine testing, with no symptoms. There are people like that all around us, without access to regular testing, so yes, you could indeed still be unlucky to catch it despite all the precautions. There's other factors as well that dictate one's probability of catching it but that would be way too much jargon for his forum.
 

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Aerosol and formite transmission can occur to the most cautious amongst us. No one is fully covid-proof even those who’ve already had it.
 

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Which PSG player has COVID-19?





I go to the supermarket, I catch the train to the office 3 days a week, I work in an office at just under 50% capacity with a group of colleagues who, mostly, aren't half as vigilant as I am.

How have I managed, so far, to avoid catching the virus? Because, I'm bloody careful, I follow the guidelines and I'm almost anal in my risk aversion.

A professional footballer earning £100K a week should be even more careful than I am, as 2nd nature.

The wife of one of the partners in my firm tested positive. He managed to look after her, make sure she was fed etc, whilst she isolated from him, in the same home, and never tested positive.

It's not that difficult to avoid catching it if you are careful and take, fairly, simple precautions.
You should look up asymptomatic pal
 

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To professional athletes, COVID is just like a simple flu. He's out for quarantine purpose.
Most not all. Some have had it bad. Also, we don't know what the long term effects will be on them. People have recovered and are no longer at threat of dying but develop random medical issues after. For asymptomatic and mild symptom people too IIRC
 

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Watching American football, Cam Newton came back after Covid with his mechanics all messed up. He said Covid has nothing to do with the sudden decline in performance but the timing was weird.
 

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Couldn't make this up. Was really looking forward to seeing him get a good run of games.
 

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How have I managed, so far, to avoid catching the virus? Because, I'm bloody careful, I follow the guidelines and I'm almost anal in my risk aversion.
More likely because you've just not been unlucky.

Doesn't matter how anal you are with hand washing or sanitising or keeping distance or wearing masks.. you could just have the bad fortune for a superspreader to rock up next to you in the queue for the checkouts. Or maybe even one just jogs past you in the street.
 

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Hopefully he can make a quick recovery and doesn't spread it to anyone else at the club.
 

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But if Pogba is anything to go by, it may take time a long while to get back up to match fitness?
Hoping he will come back and hit the ground running like Mane did for the scousers,however could easily go like Pogba and not be match fit again until late November
 

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Depends when he tested positive. Not sure exact rules in PL but it’s either 10 or 14 days post test, with no symptoms for last 5 days. If he was tested last weekend he could be back by end of next week.
One of United's women tested positive a few weeks back and Casey Stoney said this afterwards:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...very-coronavirus-taught-valuable-lesson-says/

“It’s very much about keeping her heart rate at a certain level, because it is a virus that’s associated with cardiology,” explained Stoney, who likened Zelem’s staged recovery to following concussion protocols.

“To be honest, I didn’t really have a clue that that was the process, but I’m very much heavily led by the doctors and the medical team and we will always follow their guidance. People think you get a positive test, you quarantine for two weeks and you’re back out. It’s not like that, it probably puts a player out of action for a month really.


Apparently it's based on some research done on athletes in the US. Basically our medical team recommend that players are eased back into normal training, and that they rest during the quarantine period.
 

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Which PSG player has COVID-19?





I go to the supermarket, I catch the train to the office 3 days a week, I work in an office at just under 50% capacity with a group of colleagues who, mostly, aren't half as vigilant as I am.

How have I managed, so far, to avoid catching the virus? Because, I'm bloody careful, I follow the guidelines and I'm almost anal in my risk aversion.

A professional footballer earning £100K a week should be even more careful than I am, as 2nd nature.

The wife of one of the partners in my firm tested positive. He managed to look after her, make sure she was fed etc, whilst she isolated from him, in the same home, and never tested positive.

It's not that difficult to avoid catching it if you are careful and take, fairly, simple precautions.
Well good for you for not catching it! You literally don’t know what precautions he is taking, some knob with it might have walked passed him and breathed on his face.

You dont know what precautions he takes, and you don’t know how he caught it so reel back the criticism bro.