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MLB: Dodgers player ignored security, insisted on celebrating with teammates after testing positive for COVID

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I can’t believe they’re going to punish him. This moron’s insistence on partying *after learning he had COVID* is so quintessentially American that it should be formally commemorated somehow. He’s practically a mascot for the country’s approach to the pandemic. Trump should make him a special guest at his final campaign rally. After some scary outbreaks early in the truncated season, MLB players and staff did an amazing job of preventing infections the rest of the way. They made it all the way to the seventh inning of Game Six of the World Series before running into a problem. But it was a big one, in the sport’s brightest spotlight: 2020 butts its head into the middle of the World Series celebration pic.twitter.com/1421D1sQq2 Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) October 28,2020 You’re asking yourself, “Why did they let this guy on the field in the first place knowing that he had COVID?” They didn’t know. He had an inconclusive test the day before, which the Dodgers assumed meant that he was okay to take the field. Then, whoopsie: In the second inning tonight, the lab doing COVID tests informed MLB that Justin Turner’s test from yesterday came back inconclusive. The samples from today had just arrived and were run. It showed up positive. The league immediately called the Dodgers and said to pull Turner. — Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) October 28,2020 That was a major disappointment to Turner, forced to isolate himself literally minutes away from the team’s first championship in 32 years. He’s one of the Dodgers’ star players, someone who suffered through their World Series disappointments in 2017 and 2018. Now, at the moment of triumph, he was being sent away. But you know what? Compared to not being able to say goodbye to a dying loved one in an isolated hospital ward, or not being able to hold a proper wedding due to social-distancing rules, it’s not much to ask.

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