Arteta tested positive for Corona Virus

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Ffs it’s only football! Listen to what others are doing! Cancel the season, give Liverpool the title.
 

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Is the team not isolating though? If he's been in contact with them in the past week they will have to.
 

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I’m sure Arteta will be fine, given his profile. Should recover within a couple of weeks hopefully, and will be the martyr who sacrificed himself so that the Scouse could be stopped!
 

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If the powers that be aren't going to halt the season, as almost every other countrys pro sports leagues are doing, then clubs should just refuse to play. Why risk exacerbating this by cramming 50,000 people into stadiums? It's not important in the grand scheme of things.
 

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I wish a prominent manager or two would go rogue, say they're not turning up and that they've told their players to stay home.

It's fecking mental that it's still going ahead. Someone does that and others might join in.
 

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If anything isolation and cancelling just proves that's the better choice, forget the so called "science" nonsense. If Arsenal had played City, City would have been all in isolation too. Then it would be definitely off. Idiots.
 

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Not necessarily. The science is really ambiguous about whether stadium events significantly increase infection rates. Doesn't mean they shouldn't do it, but not having done it yet isn't some kind of moral failing. The experts should call the shots and in this country they haven't called for that yet.
Ambiguous though it may be, in my opinion, it's not worth the risk. European countries, who are, granted a different stage in their Coronavirus infection, have abandoned all public gatherings over 100 people.

Yet here we are with increasing infection rates prepared to put tens of thousands of people together, travelling all over the country. Nah sorry, not worth it.

if things go ahead this week, you can bet they won't next week at this rate...why not just call things off now?
 

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It really is though.
Aye for fit and healhy people. Humans have no immunity to it yet and people with weaker immune systems won't be able to fight it off or recover for it. literally 1,000 people have died from it in Italy in two weeks. So it's clearly not just a F*cking flu.
 

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I think a broader message here is that there seems to be a reasonable amount of footballers now being tested and there’s a fair amount of positive results. Obviously, they have access to testing, much better than Nigel and morag on the estate who have all the symptoms. The number of people who currently have this virus but have not been tested/wont be must be alarmingly high.
 

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Well that's it. The end of the football season is at hand. Just a matter of (probably a short) time now. Wishing him well...
 

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I think a broader message here is that their seems to be a reasonable amount of footballers now being tested and there’s a fair amount of positive results. Obviously, they have access to teasting, much better than Nigel and morag on the estate who have all the symptoms. The number of people who currently have this virus but have not been tested/wont be must be alarmingly high.
100%

It'll at least be in the 10,000's in the UK. The next few months are going to be awful for the NHS as the symptoms manifest in these people.
 

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Clubs playing for something will all want reassurances before agreeing to the season being... whatever it is they're going to do. Lot of work for the lawyers tonight.
 

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Just suspend the damn league. It will reckless if they dont do it right away. Dont care who finishes where.
 

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I reckon they'll play this weekend's games behind closed doors, and then that will be it.
 

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Ambiguous though it may be, in my opinion, it's not worth the risk. European countries, who are, granted a different stage in their Coronavirus infection, have abandoned all public gatherings over 100 people.

Yet here we are with increasing infection rates prepared to put tens of thousands of people together, travelling all over the country. Nah sorry, not worth it.

if things go ahead this week, you can bet they won't next week at this rate...why not just call things off now?
It's absolutely no different to people having to take public transport to work. I'm not opposed to social distancing policies but if you just cancel big events and people are still going to work, using transport, going to restaurants, going shopping, etc, it's a performative policy more than anything.

When you go to a large event you don't have close contact with thousands of people. A far more effective policy would be to shut down tubes/metros/buses/trains.
 

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People are out of date. The containment phase is over. It is expected that members of football clubs will develop corona just like people everywhere will. It is not a surprise. If they do, they isolate, but it no longer means all their contacts have to isolate, the contacts only need to do so if they themselves develop symptoms.
 

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fecking idiots if they don't call off the season now. Pure greed and incompetence if things go ahead this weekend.
Is everyone going to work as normal engaged in greed and incompetence? Footballers are mere mortals. There will be a lot out ill and missing games from now until end of season. Pretending it is untenable that footballers also get ill is a bit silly.
 

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The most reasonable thing to do is to postpone as opposed to straight up cancelling. Maybe the storm will pass and we can finish in the summer (though this would maybe also mean postponing the euros a year)
 

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He'll be fine. Normal fit and healthy people will be no worse off than a flu. It's the people with weaker immune systems who are at risk.

That is the league off though. No way they will continue without Arsenal.
Please stop propagating misinformation.

The fatality rate for 18-35 age range is about 0.2%. The common flu fatality rate is around 0.014%. So COVID-19 even for healthy young/prime adult with no pre-existing condition is still about 15 times deadlier.

Of course it could’ve been worse, of course we shouldn’t panic, but it’s a very serious public health risk and before it ends there will be thousands of the same age as Arteta who will die of the virus.
 

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Can't believe the PL still want to continue. Every single other European league has called it but money prevails with these clowns.
 

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Ambiguous though it may be, in my opinion, it's not worth the risk. European countries, who are, granted a different stage in their Coronavirus infection, have abandoned all public gatherings over 100 people.

Yet here we are with increasing infection rates prepared to put tens of thousands of people together, travelling all over the country. Nah sorry, not worth it.

if things go ahead this week, you can bet they won't next week at this rate...why not just call things off now?
My brother's girlfriend works in epidemiology, and claims that there are some studies suggesting that if you cancel sports events that have already been scheduled, the fans still travel, still often gather outside the stadium, and spend the evening crushed together in pubs, moving around the city, using public transport, and potentially having a worse effect on infection rates than they would have if they came, watched the match in the (open air) stadium, then left.

I'm not an expert, and I only had a brief chat with her about it, but it does seem to make a certain amount of common sense. And there is presumably a reason why the government have actively chosen not to postpone sporting events and the like yet despite a strongly worded statement today.
 

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Boris Johnson looks a right knob now doesn’t he..
He is always been a knob for most of his life. When people are dying he is still risking lives by taking it easy.

Just because of his stupid decisions and allowing people to gether in mass numbers, even a single person dies that family will never forgive him.

Sometimes losing a person will have a massive impoact on family and the whole family can be handicapped. Football is not more valuble than a life.