ManDee

Thanks Sandra

I understand, but why is public transport ok? Why are schools OK? If it is as bad as some say then close the schools and public transport and public places. If any player tests positive then I fully agree shut it down.

Yes I got my first figure wrong, thanks. I am interested in your opinion and why you would call off AFL matches now, as I can see no correlation between AFL matches going ahead and increased risk to society. I may be wrong, happy to be corrected.

Confirmed locally transmitted cases less than 250 yesterday. The others are considered overseas acquired . Panic now try 1 in 100,000, that is one contagious person grand final day!!! Sadly five have died to date no doubt that will increase but statistically there are many more dangerous things in society .

Ernie I agree with choosing life over entertainment but I fail to see the link at this time.

I am at work today. All the businesses in town are open. Precautions are being taken but life goes on. I note that most schools are still open and apparently public transport is running. Why should the AFL not go ahead at closed stadiums? We are doing our jobs and football is their job. I do not see any increased risk to society by football being played. If you think that healthy footballers not playing football will just sit at home in isolation I think you are wrong. Probably the safest place they can be is training & playing.

I can help, I have a coin here somewhere. Wait, damn dropped it, heads we play tails we play,,,,,,,,,yeah it's heads. Go Deees!

World Cup of cricket, may not happen at this rate.

That may cause some constitutional problems. Section 92

Children with Covid19 have a 4% chance of being asymptomatic 51% mild illness 39% moderate illness 6% severe or critical illness. So the kitchen staff and cleaners and nurses and doctors have kids at school that can carry Covid19 and pass it on to their parents - I think I see a problem here. Am I the only one here that can see that having children at school is a potential major risk? But no let's cancel the footy. We should get our priorities right and do what is needed not window dressing.

So if that is the case then the pandemic will run its course. Playing football or not will have little or no effect.

But surely we should prioritize the risks. Eliminate the highest risks first and work down. If the players are happy to play and the stadiums are closed I see no reason to stop them (until one is diagnosed positive). My feeling is that the players are at greater risk from their families not to their families.

I put it to you that the delay in closing schools and workplaces and public transport is fiscally driven not public health driven. My belief is that we should let the footy run while we can, as a distraction that we all love. It is very low risk. I would think that refuelling your car at the fuel pump has a greater risk to the community.

So Webber what is a greater risk, the footy starting until a player is diagnosed as having Covid19 or shopping, public transport and going to school. Until we ban public transport and going to school and going shopping we have no justification in stopping the football. The risk is miniscule compared public transport and going to school and going shopping.

If the solution is total isolation then by all means stop the footy. But selected isolation is not isolation.

Let's replace players with people/person. People can have the virus but not show any visible signs of having the virus. And the virus is highly contagious as we all know. Shopping, public transport, schools have a lot of contact with potentially infected people It's not a stretch to state that an undetected person can pass the disease on to another unsuspecting person who can then pass the virus on to family members (which can include grandparents and the like) High risk in my opinion. The sensible move would be to delay shopping, public transport, schools until it's safe (or safer) to proceed. --Does anyone here truly believe that footy at a closed stadium is as much of a risk as shopping, public transport or going to school?

Nice read, thanks. Nowhere does it state there is a link between elite athletes playing football in a closed stadium and at risk groups getting Covid19. It does recommend that gatherings be in open spaces. So there is no link.

Nev you have shown no link between elite athletes playing football in a closed stadium and at risk groups getting Covid19. I suggest that is because none exists. Let the season begin and continue until a player is diagnosed with Covid19 then stop the season. (For fairness not public safety)

I repeat, how do elite athletes playing football at a closed stadium put at risk people at greater risk?

Class. How do you propose removing these healthy athletes from society so as not to put at risk groups at risk? I repeat, how do elite athletes playing football at a closed stadium put at risk people at greater risk? Football clubs would be close to the safest place to be during a viral outbreak. The greatest risk to the elite athletes probably comes from their children coming home from school, and yet there is no ban yet on schools. I note that several private schools have closed. I see no connection between elite football at closed stadiums and an increased risk to your family and friends. PS: Washing your shopping is more important than cancelling footy.

So Nev you are a proponent of isolation. No trains, no schools, no shops, no gatherings, no public transport, no shared workplaces. STOP the world to protect the vulnerable. Noble but in my view unrealistic. How is playing football by elite athletes any more likely to spread a virus than kids going to school or catching a train?

1 No, what an absurd question. If you had read and understood my earlier post I asked a few questions. I am unaware of any elite athletes that have died from Covid19. That and other information leads me to think that healthy 20-30 year olds are not dying from Covid19, if that is the case and if the players want to play why not let the season commence with no crowds? If a player contracts Covid19 suspend the season for fairness reasons.

No. But whose life are you talking about. You realise that people can die playing sport. Do you subscribe to banning all activiies in which someone may die?

How many elite athletes worldwide have died from Covid19? Who exactly is at risk? If it is the players, they have voted to play. Chicken Little's are everywhere. NB. It seems ok to send our children to school but not for elite athletes to play footy!

Really! Could you please go away tiggy, you are lowering standards here, and that is saying something.