SiLo wrote: ↑21 Oct 2020, 12:45
Is there more context here? He went to Germany, showed symptoms, got tested, was positive, isolated and didn't race. Am I missing something?
That's not an accurate summary of what the journalist describes happened.
He went to Germany got tested (every N days?, daily?) -> was negative -> felt sick -> got replaced -> remained isolated (allegedly, likely) -> the race -> went home -> got tested again -> positive -> quarantine (does not affect next race) -> negative -> can race (lucky).
The problem is that if they avoided him taking any tests over the race weekend, or failed to volunteer for extra testing once he was isolating on Friday?/Saturday, then that is a bit disingenuous and seems like the behavior of a team that was avoiding the consequences of a (what is now almost certainly would have been) positive test.
I'm not commenting on the necessity of testing or the general covid strategy more broadly, but more on the (alleged, by the journalist I quoted) gaming of the system.