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No it’s not and no it’s not. You just don’t understand what it’s for.

I can see the sense TBF. Closing schools while simultaneously isolating the elderly would have by far the biggest impact on the economy as people are left without childcare and either can’t work from home and need leave or can and productivity takes a massive hit (or iPad sales go through the...

True. But that’s the case all year round even without a pandemic. Sadly the clubs aren’t a charity and the players would want paying. I hope the government announces something closer to other countries in terms of support for workers today.

What worries me about this approach is surely you need extensive testing to see early when things are rising again. Relying on hospitalisations seems risky to me. Also whether people get more pissed off with off and on again than the certainty of always off. If people can be adult though I agree...

The other argument is what else you going to spend your money on? You’ve saved all those visits to the pub. My main concern is the clubs survive through the period to be honest.

Three data points for a trend. If you look at other countries even China had days where the deaths barely increased then started shooting up again afterwards. Considering we haven’t even really tried to contain it yet I’d be very surprised to see anything other than a continuation of the trend...

That’s not the right way to measure this. Here’s the author of the graph:

We don’t know. It will depend how effective the measures are. There could be lots of mini peaks where we take measures off after and then put them back as it starts to rise again. So instead of one peak in ten weeks we get a few every few weeks. The 2-3 weeks thing is the lag time between us...

We’re quite old and densely packed though aren’t we compared to a lot of other countries? Easy to self isolate in Bumfuck Louisiana when your closest neighbour is ten miles away. Would be interesting to see some of the denser states like New York plotted as their own country.

Oh it is, but bending the right way at least. As they’re the Western nation furthest ahead it’ll be interesting to see what impact their measures have and hopefully gives us some idea of what we can expect. China basically flattened out around two weeks after full lockdown I think, question is...

US worryingly bending the wrong way. Anyone know how long Italy have been in lockdown? Seems to be flattening out a bit there now.

Stick em on a fucking island and see how they get on without herd immunity.

Good news. Will be several months after that that it’s produced and distributed around the world of course. Looking promising that we might make some breakthrough before too long. I imagine there’s a lot of rich and powerful people wanting this and that usually speeds things up.

All needed IMO but scary when governments have pull throw off the veil of democracy and really flex their power.

Agreed. I was looking for the home working advice this morning. It gives a link saying more info available for employers here, then there’s nothing on that page about home working. The comms have been an absolute shambles.

Funny you say that. As I posted that she got a text saying they’re still looking into it. Don’t blame anyone on the ground. The advice has been confusing as fuck. And they should have everyone in IMO.

Few possible reasons: - China lie. A lot. And may have had a lot more deaths - China went a lot harder on lockdown than we plan to or are able to - China may well have only had their first wave and will get another once lockdown lifts - There’s still a lot of ill people in China who could die...

Do they have to play as their team or can they pick anyone? Man City are clearly going to piss this either way.

Yep every club has nominated someone to play. We’ve got Brandon Mason.

Suspect Boris will regret pushing old cone head out when he did. Agree that he’s looking more like the PM than the PM. And politics never stops, he was happy enough climbing over the body of Javid.