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Originally Posted by blender
I agree, but if you quarantine all the players and staff for sufficient time prior to the commencement of the games, it should be contained, no?
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Theoretically, but I'm extremely sceptical of that working in practice. Let's remember it's not just the players, but all the staff too. That's a ton of people who have families. Are they planning to house every masseuse and equipment guy with their teams? Probably? Those people are then going to need a lot of people running errands for them and servicing them. How do you make sure nothing comes in with them?
The more people you have isolated somewhere, the more people you need to go in and out of that bubble for maintenance reasons, and then when you have a lot of people stuck in with each other, once one person gets it it starts spreading very fast. It's why group isolation is not generally a thing; it rarely works very well.
As we've seen with many elderly homes, "let's keep all of them isolated" is in no way trivial, especially for any length of time. Now let's replace bedridded old people with hundreds of young men stuck in hotel rooms for week and weeks. I can't see that isolation holding very well. People will break the rules because that's how people are, and the rules will not be perfect to begin with.
Around Europe at least we're already seeing that people are by now just tired of being afraid, and tired of being careful. People stop social distancing and stop worrying about hygiene all the time, because it's too tiresome to live that way, and in some countries like Czech this has already led to new outbreaks.
Of course teams have good resources to throw at this, and the games and practices will keep the boys busy to some extent, so maybe it will work... but I'm very sceptical.