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8th of June is 5 weeks away, It will be fine. If restrictions are not starting to ease by then the economy will be toast anyway so I can see it happening.

"Chinese virus" Seriously - Are you Donald Trump or something? Never miss a chance to be just a little bit racist.

Playing behind closed doors should be achievable IMO. The numbers of people that appear to need to be involved seems a bit high but most of these will not have to be in physical contact with anyone. As long as there is capacity to test the players, coaches and officials. The media, camera men, security staff etc can just go to work just like millions are every day up and down the country.

I found them pretty straight forward to use to be honest, and whilst it is on you cannot touch your mouth or pick you nose etc so they must cut down transmissions there as well. I expect the only reason we are not being advised to wear them is because there are not enough of them to go around.

Wouldn’t need to delay anything, the players can start their fitness work without Ralph being there.

Who were holding football matches, rock concerts and packing out pubs across the country when we should have been socially distancing.

Why would self isolating for two weeks be a problem?

That's an obvious concern but surely the positives will outweigh the negatives, it shouldn't be hard for the government to get the message across that you still need to stay at home if you have symptoms. There was a bit about Iceland on TV last night and they have tested 10% of their population and HALF the people with the virus had no symptoms. They will be the people spreading it, not the one or two idiots who don't self isolate properly when they are ill. If they are sat opposite you on a train surely it's better if they and you have a mask rather than neither of you?

Yep, well done!

I played for Saints and have also played for Spurs, Sparta Prague and AEK Athens among others, have represented my country at both junior and senior level and am currently playing top flight football. Who am I?

1976 charity shield?

This is why IMO it's a no brainer. People can be infected and not know it and given that no one at any time knows in advance wether they will cough, sneeze or breath droplets into the face of someone then it makes sense to minimise the risk, regardless of what your old dragon says. Just because the WHO says you don't NEED to wear them doesn't mean there isn't some benefit. As long as it is done in addition the other existing social distancing and hand washing etc, and people are educated about how to use them and why it has to help.

This, it's a no-brainer really, they should be compulsory when outdoors. Obviously supply is going to be a problem now though. I expect the clowns in charge over here are waiting for Boris to get back before they start going on eBay to try and find some.

No. From what I’ve read herd immunity will work in the long term but as a policy to start with it, when the government talked about it, would have been suicidal, purely because the NHS doesn’t have capacity.

No but the effect on a healthy 20 year old is likely to be the same. As long as they are not in any contact with any vulnerable people and the rest of the team are tested and clear then there is no need to cancel everything IMO. Coronavirus is not flu but it is also not Ebola. Sooner or later we will have to resume life and just except that some, and eventually most people will get it. The important thing is to shield people who are more likely to be seriously ill - that can be done whilst some young men occasionally kick a ball around a pitch.

Don't think you have to be so severe abut it. If a player tests positive they isolate for 14 days and the rest get tested again and carry on as usual. In a normal season if a player gets flu you don't postpone games.

**** me, it’s GCSE geography time kids.

Wow, just seen the press conference. Disinfectant, light, sun - it's like watching a 5 year old come up with ideas on what to do. Is he actually that dumb or is it just a ploy to get the average thick right-winger on his side?

Think this is more apt

Is that a real fact checking site though or just the Conservative HQ?

WHO Developing guidance on wet markets. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52369878 Wet markets can be "timebombs" for epidemics, says Prof Andrew Cunningham, deputy director of science at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). "This sort of way that we treat... animals as if they're just our commodities for us to plunder - it comes back to bite us and it's no surprise."

China should be held to account over this but surely the US government calling it a democratic hoax is just as much deliberate deception?

We're all going to get it eventually, at this stage it's just about delaying as many cases as possible and keeping the curve down.

From the Mail: "There were just 14 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Liverpool on Friday, March 20, but that number had jumped to 309 less than two weeks later." Would a spike be that noticeable anyway? As the government hadn't bothered to ban mass gathering anywhere people would have been spreading it at Cheltenham, music gigs, night clubs and packed bars up and down the country. Plus Liverpool and Madrid fans probably travel from all over the place.

If they are testing more then the percentage of deaths is bound to be lower. We are testing people once they are in hospital meaning that they are already seriously ill so a high percentage will die. The only important figure is the deaths, if we blanket tested the whole population tomorrow the amount of confirmed cases will be massive but the deaths tomorrow won’t change.