Pogue Mahone
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Why not just read the studies you link? Even the abstract would help you understand what I’m on about?I was awaiting the inevitable response claiming it’s all one big coincidence. Rather than claiming the science is “sloppy as hell”, would you care to explain why it is so?
Lockdowns to blame 3.5 years ago is it then? Football continued as usual, as you well know. As did most other sports. Just behind closed doors. And there’s far more studies than the two I linked, but I’m not sure spamming studies is beneficial. You’ll just come back and say “no it can’t be covid, it’s just a cold”. As you’ve done multiple times in the past when this subject has popped up.
You also know full well professional athletes do not test for covid anymore. It is not a requirement, and is in fact discouraged. Plenty of players have missed games recently citing “illness”, they just never specify what it is. Some may be covid, it may not be. But they certainly aren’t avoiding infection since they’re mixing as usual, just as we all are. Or are you going to claim covid isn’t infecting anyone anymore? It is literally impossible to avoid Covid now unless you isolate yourself away completely from human life/mask etc. Footballers certainly aren’t doing that.
But seeing as I actually bothered to link some scientific research which did highlight a heightened risk of injury after infection, would you care to provide some evidence/science to the contrary? More than happy to see those and discuss. I’m also happy to link even more studies showing the musculoskeletal impacts of covid.
And you cite the World Cup. The women’s game didn’t have the winter World Cup yet their injuries are as bad. Nor did the NFL, MLB, or tennis. But you conveniently skipped past those injury crises.
So just to clarify, you genuinely believe it’s just one big massive coincidence?
What will the excuse be when the situation is even worse next season? And is for the other sports too? And then seven worse the season after that? Or will it all just resolve itself and cease to be a problem?
The study on a link between athletes getting muscle strains after covid infection was done in 2020. When athletes tested regularly and had to self isolate after a positive test. Hence the authors speculate that “ short-term detraining effects due to quarantine,.” might be the reason for the injuries.
I have no idea why you spend a lengthy paragraph ranting on about covid being still round today and not tested for as much as it was the past. Erm…. no shit? And… so what?
And no, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that we’re seeing more injuries in most sports. As I said, there’s been a bloating of schedules in all professional sports to make up for lost time and revenue after covid. Again, this is in the articles you post. The article about NFL injuries specifically mentions that the uptick in injuries came after additional games were added to the season.
And to be clear, the main reason I’m extremely sceptical about what you’re claiming is that it seems incredibly unlikely that a new member of a class of viruses that has been round since forever has a unique muscle corroding quality. That’s an extraordinary claim so will need extraordinary evidence to support it. None of which you’ve provided.
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