CB Fry

Italy - nearly 368 deaths in 24 hours. 1,800 deaths over all. They're "coping" according to you. What you have written in that post is absolutely abhorrent and you should be utterly ashamed of yourself.

Precisely. Some people on this forum only see things through their own, selfish party political prism.

I think you need to stop projecting your own selfishness on other people. If the schools shut I'm absolutely fine - I work for a big company who have already got us all working from home so I'll be able to manage, and actually cover it while the missus can go to work. My views about school closures have absolutely nothing to do with my own situation and everything to do with what I've read around the topic and the decisions the government are making. Your little digs about me and my children just show how pathetic you are, but you've done this to me before so no surprise. I suggest I've thought about it a little more than you whose entire analysis of the situation is Boris is evil so let's do the opposite of what he says because boo-hiss the Tories the Tories.

Maybe the Chief Medical Officer has considered this information and assessed the risks alongside all the other factors? Or do you think a few dins on a football forum are the only people to realise that children can carry disease?

I think schools are providing a more useful service, nationally, and it fits with the plan to gradually introduce controls. The press conference was good, I didn't hear all of it, but I think the theme of tomorrow's one needs to be about the over arching strategy. People need to understand the objective is not to stop everyone getting the virus. Loads of people will catch it. The "shut everything everywhere now now now" nutcases need this explaining to them.

The chief medical officer says to not shut the schools yet. What does he know, eh?

You are a walking case study of why schools should never be shut.

No one is saying shut the food shops sweetheart.

Interesting - I think the UK are desperate to avoid a "second wave" of closing everything down again just as everyone comes out of a period of lockdown. So that's their thinking, and it feels sensible. This week will already see hugely change in national behaviour so sensible to hold back on others for a bit longer. Being that people are already going apesh it about packets of rice there is a perfectly sensible argument for that approach. But the communication needs to be better and more honest from the government.

I think some of ranting we have seen from you this topic already shows who the angry person is here. You decided from the get-go that everything "the Tories" or Boris does is going to be wrong and you haven't veered from that. I haven't stock piled anything but nice attempt at a dig based on fu ck all. If my kids catch it then fair enough,if they give it to me then fair enough. I'd rather have it now than in June. Theres too many people who think the objective is completely stop the disease and that this can be achieved by no one leaving the house for a fortnight. Its absolutely bizarre. Shutting the schools tomorrow will make negligible difference and is almost certainly counter productive.

Not really, but great projection from a man happy to do whatever he wants but judges everyone else - same old SOG. Personally I think the reasons given to keep the schools open make sense, and the blind panic of "close everything shut everything now" is misguided because it is creating a belief that if we all hide under the table for fortnight then it will all go away and we can all go back to the cinema in April. There's already a huge swath of the population working from home now, commuting has been cut, people have been taken out of circulation if you like. That's a huge national behavioural change that may well be effective. But you keep going to rammed supermarkets and then complaining that other people aren't doing what you want. In two weeks time when the schools do shut I look forward for you demanding martial law to keep everyone else behind closed doors just as long as you can still get to Tesco.

But it's fine for you to wander around a "rammed" Tesco. That's for backing up my earlier point. There's lots of sensible reasons to not shut all the schools down at this stage.

My children don't have any symptoms, have not been advised to self isolate and they need an education. So pretty good they are at school today, yes?

And you've been in a "rammed" Tesco today so your point is you want to complain about the government but you're going to carry on doing whatever the fu ck you want.

Isn't Tesco a large gathering of people?

Not shutting the schools is one of the better decisions made by the government. If they've got any sense keep them open until the Easter holiday.

SOG inside information seems to match exactly what anyone watching or reading the news could pick up. Except the garlic thing, although that's probably in the Daily Express.

Were you seriously expecting the head of the BMA to come out and say "yes, we've got plenty of beds, plenty of staff and plenty of ventilators for this international pandemic because we started planning on New Year's Day"?

It's free - you have to accept cookies etc but it's free. The Washington Post and the New York Times are making all their Virus content free apparently.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/corona-simulator/ I quite liked this article.

Confucius wept.

Well the Conservatives are currently streets ahead in the polls and the latest survey on response to the crisis shows people supporting the government's approach.

So, Manolo Gabbiadini has got the virus. Happy NOW????

Do we need to drain the swamp again?

But all current Premier League stadiums are like that these days. We've finished 8th three times, seventh and sixth in this stadium so I don't think its that much of a problem. Having been to the London Stadium for the first time a couple of weeks ago, we should count our blessings.