Last week Tottenham Hotspur was hit with a COVID-19 outbreak resulting in their UEFA Conference League match being canceled and not rescheduled along with their Premier League fixture against Brighton & Hove Albion postponed.
However, ahead of their Thursday matchup against Leicester City, Tottenham continues to have positive tests. The Telegraph reports that Spurs are again being hit with new cases; one first-team player and member of their Under-23 squad have reportedly tested positive.
Furthermore, the English media outlet adds that manager Antonio Conte might now have as few as 13 players that he can count on at the moment. No further word as of now whether the Premier League will be able to play this week’s fixture.
The outbreak to their youth squad also limits the players Tottenham can call up to fill the spots left behind anyone who has tested positive. Nonetheless, over the weekend, Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers stated that he would be preparing as if they were going to play the match against Spurs.
“I’ve not heard anything that the Spurs game is not on, and obviously with the European decision as well, with Tottenham not being able to play, I suspect the game would go ahead. We haven’t been told anything otherwise,” Rodgers said.
Sadly they ain’t interested in that. Just fear and control. The testing is a farce. As Kari Mullis, the inventor of the test said, and I quote verbatim: “you can find anything in anyone…it doesn’t tell you if you’re sick”.
He conveniently died just before all this nonsense began.
This is a much better idea. 3 tricky away trips swerved at a time where criticism for Levy was at its height…..just don’t play the matches that’s one sure way to avoid failure.
I like the way the exact same thing is happening in U.S in the NFL with these ‘outbreaks’ in top sports teams…..very prompt and organized this moronic variant innit?
a moment of clarity in a sea of stupidity
This is rather like saying that a player has mud on their shorts so they are about to suffer a hamstring strain.
Testing means nothing if all the ‘positive tests’ are in healthy people. What it does is incite hysterical fear in those not able to understand the realities of virus-based infections, illnesses and treatments. That includes 99.9% of our politicians, officials and media mouthpieces (who only read scripts on autocues so cannot be assumed to be thinking human beings).
The only relevant statistic is who is ill, how quickly do they get treated using effective drugs and how many people are dying of non-Covid diseases due to the NHS having been closed for business for all non-Covid illness since March 20230?
The Chinese have now identified genetic markers in the small subset of people who get very ill from Covid19 – both are associated with the interferon-based pathway of immune response, which makes sense.
I’m not saying that the ‘at risk population’ has been nailed, as studies in Chinese genetic stock may not translate to UK genetic stock.
I’m saying that there is no a clear path to identify the most at-risk populations using modern genetics and it would cost under £100m to do that completely in the UK, unlike the tens of billions spent on vaccines which really don’t seem to be that effective, do they?
You will undoubtedly identify > 90% of the most-at-risk people using genetics and then you can come up with sensible policies to manage their heightened risk to serious illness (as opposed to infection, which means absolutely nothing for the vast majority).