Whitey Grandad

Yes, there are some small groups but it’s a common trick to use a telephoto lens and show a foreshortened image, one of the things that really annoys me.the photo you show is similar. There is actually a wide spacing between the subjects. Whatever, these places and situations are not where the virus is being spread. That honour belongs to hospitals and care homes and indoor places with poor ventilation where people spend long times together.

They are widely spaced in the open air. Probably the safest place in the country.

If you tell people that in a couple of days time there will be a lockdown they’re going to make the most of their last couple of days of freedom. Some will go to a pub where they might not otherwise have bothered.

This article is easy to read and seems plausible. It concerns the mechanisms by which you catch the disease. https://erinbromage.wixsite.com/covid19/post/the-risks-know-them-avoid-them?fbclid=IwAR3Z_mKJoV9JxQK4SzUWNTB-IIEvtxu9bcOmmsm4g0ClaBEOFw92yGGCej4

If you use that argument then you’d wrap yourself in cotton wool and never do anything.

If you use that argument the. You’d wrap yourself in cotton wool and never do anything.

Have you ever seen both of them in the same room at the same time?

Then you need to broaden your understanding.

I’m saying that it can’t be proved because we cannot try the alternative approach. As things stand we are higher than other countries.

This is the kind of thinking that led to this flawed model. The results were widely different when other institutions tried to replicate the outcomes of the model. They were even different with different sized data arrays and between single and multi threads. This indicates buggy software and should at least have raised some warning flags both figuratively and literally.

Or maybe they would have been lower without the lockdown which is concentrating the virus into hotspots such as hospitals and care homes?

The code for his model has been released. There’s a scathing review of it here: https://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/ “Due to bugs, the code can produce very different results given identical inputs. They routinely act as if this is unimportant.“ Instead, the Government is dominated by academics who apparently felt unable to question anything done by a fellow professor. Meanwhile, average citizens like myself are told we should never question “expertise”.

Actually it's the converse. Cancer sufferers are not being treated and the same applies to the victimes of heart attacks and trokes. The reservoirs of infection at the moment are hospitals and care homes.

What is 'the economy' if it is not the lives of humans?

Magic formula? How about a double season? Join this one and the next together so that each team plays another four times, twice at home and twice away. I really haven’t thought this ought so please be prepared to shoot me down

Oi! People with debt and floppy willies need help too

The roads are almost empty and there is no rush hour. Around here I would say that car travel is under 30% of normal.

That's all very understandable. Personally, I have a different motive. I have two season tickets and I go with my eldest grandson who will be 18 in September. After next season (2020-2021 if that goes ahead) he will probably be away at university so these next few games will be my lasy chance to spend some time with him regularly.

Force majeure

I suspect he was excluded even is a paid pundit. But I agree that he should be up there with the best.

Ouch! My sympathies go out to him. My heart attack was a very minor one but it was bad enough.

I agree. There has not been just a pandemic of Covid-19 virus but another one of mass hysteria, one that causes people to lose a sense of proportion.

That has been my view all along. It’s possible that as you get older and older you value what time you have left more and more.

For me, the idea of professional football being played behind closed doors is ridiculous and I won’t be paying to watch it. Any debate about whether or not it is safe is therefore in my view a pointless argument.

Oh bugger! And without a crowd they could take as long as they wanted over each decision