News Conor McKenna tests positive for COVID-19 - Wait, what?

[Pakenhamsaint]

Jokes aside re Essendon being the positive case... this is sh*t. Getting tested and still going to training

Gil explained it was very low but enough to show an irregularity.

 

[Ambrosia]

Jokes aside re Essendon being the positive case... this is sh*t. Getting tested and still going to training

That’s not the way I understood the sequence of events.

Tested Friday morning >Irregularity Friday night > Tested again Friday night > results this morning show positive result

 

[Atomboy]

You pathetic coward.

Hmmm, it works for WA.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

How the fck did he test positive when he isolated for two weeks

Community transmission at a guess.

 

[kranky al]

You seem to be happy that Victoria is having trouble getting on top of Covid?

Ive been saying on here for two months that we are risking the whole season by victorian pigheadedness

It wasnt a difficult thing to predict. Your state hasnt introduced the measures that have made us successful in curbing covid.

im not happy about it going exactly how i predicted - im insanely angry.

because it was so predictable.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Tested negative on Weds. irregularity in Fri test. Tested positive this morning

 

[YippeeYiYeo]

A true tragedy that i wasn’t able to grace this thread earlier with a Hird Immunity joke, that boat has well and truly sailed, just like season 2020

yeah i dropped that one but didnt seem to take off on page 3 :/

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

i thought the whole point was once one player was postive the whole club goes on pause which means the whole afl has to pause also

That's what I thought

 

[Taylor]

I know there is a bit of disinformation running around, but IF thats true and hes gone to training he needs to be punished.If essendon knew, they need to be punished as well. Unacceptable

If their medical officers approved his training then it's going to be a disaster for the shreader

 

[PumpyChowdown]

Essendon players and testing positive. Name a more iconic duo.

 

[mellowyellow]

The first test came back as an 'irregularity'

Gil must have been watching an epsidode of Father Ted prior to the presser

 

[King Elvis]

Yes. Don't poke the bear. Saving face is a big thing in several Asian cultures, particularly with a government that has to look tough to its citizens. And accusing them of mismanaging and worsening the crisis, even if true, is not conducive to that.

Appeasement isn’t traditionally a successful long term strategy.

Did Gil just say there was only a little corona virus in his first test?
Since when was that a thing?

They actually believe ‘viral load’ is a thing - and a factor in why some people get smashed by it, and some people don’t even know they have it.

 

[wagstaff]

The upside of this is that in such a sports-obsessed state, AFL getting disrupted like this will be the wakeup call to authorities and the population of how serious this is which rising case numbers wouldn't have provided.

 

[kranky al]

Why is NSW missing from this graph?

Dunno?

 

[jatz14]

I’ll believe WAs numbers when they up their testing to match the per capita testing in other states.

They just completed free testing of workers in all the risk categories.

Health care
Teachers
Cops
Retail
Tourism
Meat workers and a couple of others.

Zero positives.

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[Login]

Ive been saying on here for two months that we are risking the whole season by victorian pigheadedness

It wasnt a difficult thing to predict. Your state hasnt introduced the measures that have made us successful in curbing covid.

im not happy about it going exactly how i predicted - im insanely angry.

because it was so predictable.

Please explain?
They have had the toughest lock down laws and highest testing in the country

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Did Gil just say there was only a little corona virus in his first test?
Since when was that a thing?

Only a little bit pregnant.

 

[jezza1435]

Why? I don’t understand your comment.

Well, the previous few pages most people calling for season canceled were Eagles


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[Andrew Mc]

As far as I know the NRL did something similar last week.

NRL delayed the game to the next day after a staff member at the school one of the players kids attended tested positive (school closed). A bit more of a removed situation.

 

[BG__]

I’ll believe WAs numbers when they up their testing to match the per capita testing in other states.

They just tested like 18,000 frontline and essential workers. 0 cases.

 

[The Prosecutor]

Essendon players and testing positive. Name a more iconic duo.

Considering this is the first time an Essendon player has actually tested positive to anything...

 

[JUSTWORK]

Surely Essendon weren't dumb enough to let him train with the group after an regular result ? Should have been isolated immediately until such a time he was cleared. If he was trained this morning has possibly infected half the group.

 

[Ambrosia]

I know there is a bit of disinformation running around, but IF thats true and hes gone to training he needs to be punished.If essendon knew, they need to be punished as well. Unacceptable

It doesn’t make any sense. The test has a long turn around. They said he was tested on Friday and it was positive. You’d assume all the tests are done before or after training and the results found out later that night.

 

[Westend]

So if the entire playing group has to self isolate .....2 weeks I am assuming

So next game against carlton ...postponed ??? then collingwood also postponed ??

 

[Blue1980]

Any word on whether they can just have the game in a few days if no more positives?