The Spanish medical fraternity has told La Liga that the only way to finish the season safely is to move players away from their homes and into isolation with their teammates at team hotels.
The stars of Barcelona, Real Madrid and their ilk return to training this week but the practicality of actually playing games has provoked significant dicussion.
And players will have to accept serious incursions into their private family lives to get the season tied up once and for all.
The director of Public Health and Preventative Medicine at the University of Madrid, Fernando Rodriguez told website El Pais : "To really protect Messi he must be isolated.