Some players/staff testing positive in initial tests for the Bundesliga clubs is going to be interesting. The positive tests with players and staff is inevitable with a virus that spreads as easily as COVID-19, and I'm interested to see how they react to it. In reality most of these guys are probably among the lowest risk population (rich, healthy, active). At the end of the day it has to be expected that they will, or have, come into contact with the virus and some will get sick (like with other viruses, diseases).
The question is do you accept that this is going to be part of the process of returning to football or do you shut it down and hope to try later? By a lot of accounts there's an expected 'second wave' to hit in the fall that could be as bad or worse than the first. A vaccine is not coming in the short term, and who knows how effective/realistic it will be ultimately.
If you don't accept the risk of some people getting sick in this situation and shut it all down you're most likely looking at not starting up until at least next summer, if that. If that's the case how many clubs will be able to survive that long of a layoff? Though, realistically, we're looking at bigger problems if society is unable to successfully work its way back into some level of normalcy in the coming months...it still begs the question what will football look like in a year or maybe more if it is all shut down and there is a big second wave?
