I've covered most of this in the post above. Whether factory workers (or office workers or wherever else) can keep their distance is up for debate and even more questions remain regarding whether they will - we all know of examples where workers aren't following social distancing now. I accept that there will be far more contact in football and the risks of infections spreading is greater though. The difference is football is far more likely to prevent an infected person returning to work than somebody in another industry. As above, the plan is for players to be tested 24 hours before training/playing and isolating before being cleared to return. So far this process has been working in Germany but we'll know more over the next two weeks.
Players will have their own decisions to make, just like everybody else and nobody should be forced to return if they're not happy to. PL footballers are much more fortunate than most others facing this decision though - most will have the financial security to choose not to return if they feel unsafe, where as most members of the general public won't.
