Though it is impossible to pinpoint the moment of transmission and Italy hasn’t counted how many people who tested positive attended the match, epidemiologists uniformly view these mass gatherings as accelerants to widespread infection.
Weren’t people freaked out about spring breakers in Florida? Nashville SEC tournament weekend? Mardi Gras in New Orleans?
Hell I was watching NBA TV as they were cutting in to cancel a game because a player tested positive. A player who jokingly intentionally tried to spread it to everyone else on the team and, what, one other person got it?
There were plenty of sporting events happening in the US up through mid March.
Point being, every prediction the “experts” have made so far has been wrong. So I don’t really care to hear assumptions that a soccer match is to blame with no actual data. We can just as easily attribute the disease to lunar cycles if we’re picking random events but not actually studying cause.
Not really. I agree, that most assumptions have been wrong. But we are to the point now where we are getting better info. A ton of people at that match ended up with it. We now know that yelling and singing project the droplets similar to coughing and sneezing. We also know that surfaces "aren't a big problem"
So, a ton of people yelling at a soccer match where a huge chunk end up with the virus tells me that it transmits in those settings.
I'm not on "teamandy" or "teamfreakout". But we've seen enough outbreaks in churches and from mass gatherings to know that big gatherings of people are probably a bad idea. We also know that going out to eat, going shopping, spending the day around a nice group of friends isn't a bad thing.
To me, I think we could probably return largely to normal with the exception of mass gatherings. Leaders like Andy think that if they loosen things up that much they are admitting they are wrong... That's what sad. Because the best leaders adjust and don't worry about if they were perfect in their original decision making.
Also, this is the game that many link to helping spread the virus much quicker.
https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/ne...atch-contributed-to-italys-covid-19-outbreak/