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I was being a bit tongue in cheek to be fair. Piers Morgan is very hard to avoid on Twitter, whether you follow him or not, and he is becoming completely unhinged on the issue.

Are people really going to politicise a stock scientific term like 'herd immunity' and start likening it to social engineering? On mutations, I read something the other day that said one new variant had emerged 'L type' I think, from the ancestral 'S type', but it also suggested the virus...

Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance vs Jeremy Hunt and Piers Morgan. It's not much of a choice tbf.

It'll be cash-flow more than anything. 8-12 weeks with no income, and clubs also rely on season ticket revenue for the following season around now. There are clearly ways around this though and the authorities should make it as easy as possible for clubs to borrow money during this period.

This could be the end for a number of lower league clubs (from a cash-flow perspective as much as anything), unless the PL step-in and assist, but little chance of that I think.

This big question is 'when'. From what we are advised, this would likely be the end of April - and even that's no guarantee. This would push the season into the summer (assuming the Euros are cancelled). This would then seriously delay the start of next season, which would also be a problem...

I'd like to think the EFL have something in the small print that covers this kind of scenario, but if they have I think we'd know about it by now. Could get very messy this.

Exactly the point people are missing. If the EFL go against government advice now, I cannot see how the season can be completed. It then becomes a straight choice between write-off the whole season or finish it now based on leagues postion/ppg. Either way, let the legal action begin.

Taking this back to football for a minute. My take from yesterday was that the peak is many weeks away. Therefore, if we cancel fixtures tomorrow - it's not as though we can suddenly starting playing again in two weeks. Same with closing schools etc. If we go this way now, we'd have to...

Well it's clearly a mixture of both. The Chief Medical Officer has probably forgotten more over breakfast this morning than the sum total of our combined knowledge on the matter.

Well, it has nothing to do with Bulldog Spirit to acknowledge that some of the world's leading virologists are based here. Anyway, the key difference it seems is that our scientists are also referencing the behavioural science, saying that as we are up to 14 weeks away from the peak - imposing...

But they are not. What they are saying is that large gatherings, closing schools etc. will have a negligible effect on the rate of spread (I defer to their knowledge which will be based on modelling that I cannot possibly have an informed view on). The best weapon we have is early...

As I saw somebody say yesterday, people only appear to like experts if they confirm what they think they already know. The reasoning for the government's position was laid out quite clearly. It is not a do nothing policy at all. It's about timing and flattening the peak.

Exactly, but in a calm and measured way, with a clear staged approach. Just listening Chris Whitty, are people really doubting his credentials?

The state of some of these replies. Why do people try to politicise everything. He's just sat through a Cobra meeting. He is acting on advice. The Scottish First Minister is in total agreement. We have few cases per 1 million population than almost any other major developed nation...

Is there a less authoritarian country than the UK though? We don't like being told what to do much. Even in a country like Spain where I lived for a number of years, the respect for authority is on a different level. You wouldn't dare verbally abuse a police officer for example, because...

People are so far removed from the entire process. Their nice clean chicken breast is all nicely packaged on the supermarket shelf and they don't begin to think how it got there. Chickens for £3.00, how the fuck? You incubate an egg, hatch it, rear that chicken, power the barns, pay the...

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Funny you should say that, I've attached a photo I took on my last visit there, plus another of a meat stall. This was in Hangzhou. Shanghai btw, what a place that is. If you ever go back, try the Spot Bar.

Which is perfectly legitimate. There are 5 million people in the UK who are self-employed. A lot will be living on the edge already - it's the nature of being self-employed, so it is perfectly reasonable for their financial well-being to be taken into account when deciding policy.