Lord Duckhunter

Yes. The Nelson is pretty unique as it’s become a heavy rock bar and is busy all year round. The rest are incredibly seasonal, struggling to get by until April-Sept. This has come at the worst possible time for the town. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I’ve just got back from a dog walk down Poole quay. Popped my head into a few boozers (about 2/3rds were open), they all said “we’re ****ed”. One landlord who I’m very friendly with told me that the brewery CEO called today to check in. My mate told him unless we get help from the brewery (they’re tenants) the virus will finish them. The CEO’s reply “it’ll finish the brewery”. This from a company that’s been brewing over 150 years. Multiply that by thousands of business and I dread to think what towns will look like in 6 months time. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Catching up with Soggy’s pony has really cheered me up tonight. He could be used to entertain us whilst we’re self isolating. Rally the spirits,a coronavirus Vera Lynne. Soggy, your country needs you...keep on posting. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Is there any Garlic left? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Watch the latest Curb. Then a few beers watching The Last Waltz, that’ll do me. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

You think the banks want to repossess hundreds of thousands of houses, and see the property market crash? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

It is incredibly serious, the preparations her hospital is making are frightening. But, thank god, children don’t seem to be affected as badly. The situation can not be compared with other illness’ that start at school and are taken home to the rest of the family. Schools will undoubtably close, but the advice the Government is getting is that now is not the time and will be counter productive. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Provided it didn’t threaten their liquidity I’m sure they would. They don’t want to be repossessing thousands of houses. A solution maybe a 6 month mortgage holiday, with the 6 months being added to the end of the original term. The Government would probably have to arrange some sort of guarantee, but it’s not really a problem. The issue will be people who lose their jobs because of this, who than can’t meet the payments once the mortgage holiday is over. Private renters is a far more difficult & complex problem, and the Government will really need to get involved with that. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

But you wouldn’t ask a teacher. Soggy was complaining the Government wasn’t listening to teachers. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

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You’ve obviously had one last lunchtime session before your 4 month isolation. Take a break and sober up. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Dear god, are you for real? You wouldn’t ask the Government’s Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Advisor to teach class 3A. Imagine the response from you lot if Boris said “I’m going against my Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Advisor’s advise because Mrs Harrison the head teacher of Halfwit Academy thinks we should close schools. To clarify, he’s taking advice from the people whose job it is to offer advice in these circumstances. If you had a problem with your boiler, would you take advice from a decorator or a plumber? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

They’ll either finish or void it. There’s no other options. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

He’s following the advice he’s received, what do you want him to do? Ignore it, and ask Piers Morgan & Nigel Pearson. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

As is Boris. It would be bizarre if he wasn’t, and people like you would be criticising him. I Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I bet you wouldn’t be saying that if we were 25 points above 5th and pretty much guaranteed our first ever Champions league place. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

The snap dragon showed me this, don’t know where she got it from, but it’s probably the best explanation I’ve seen of the Government’s policy and the difference between that & what others are doing. “ The govt strategy on Coronavirus is more refined than those used in other countries and potentially very effective. But it is also riskier and based on a number of assumptions. They need to be correct, and the measures they introduce need to work when they are supposed to.UK starting assumption is that a high number of the population will inevitably get infected whatever is done – up to 80%. As you can’t stop it, so it is best to manage it. There are limited health resources so the aim is to manage the flow of the seriously ill to these. The Italian model the aims to stop infection. The UKs wants infection BUT of particular categories of people. The aim of the UK is to have as many lower risk people infected as possible. Immune people cannot infect others; the more there are the lower the risk of infection? Based on this idea, at the moment the govt wants people to get infected, up until hospitals begin to reach capacity. At that they want to reduce, but not stop infection rate. Ideally they balance it so the numbers entering hospital = the number leaving.The risk is being able to accurately manage infection flow relative to health case resources. Data on infection rates needs to be accurate, the measures they introduce need to work and at the time they want them to and to the degree they want, or the system is overwhelmed. Kids generally won’t get very ill, so the govt can use them as a tool to infect others when you want to increase infection. When you need to slow infection, that tap can be turned off – at that point they close the schools. Politically risky for them to say this. The same for large scale events - stop them when you want to slow infection rates; turn another tap off. This means schools etc are closed for a shorter period and disruption generally is therefore for a shorter period, AND with a growing immune population. This is sustainable After a while most of the population is immune, the seriously ill have all received treatment and the country is resistant. The more vulnerable are then less at risk. This is the end state the govt is aiming for and could achieve. The Italian (and others) strategy is to stop as much infection as possible - or all infection. This is appealing, but then what? The restrictions are not sustainable for months. So the will need to be relaxed. But that will lead to reemergence of infections.Then rates will then start to climb again. So they will have to reintroduce the restrictions each time infection rates rise. That is not a sustainable model and takes much longer to achieve the goal of a largely immune population with low risk of infection of the vulnerable As the government tries to achieve equilibrium between hospitalisations and infections, more interventions will appear. It's perhaps why there are at the moment few public information films on staying at home. They are treading a tight path, but possibly a sensible one.This is probably the best strategy, but they should explain it more clearly. It relies on a lot of assumptions, so it would be good to know what they are - especially behavioural. Most encouraging, it's way too clever for Johnson to have had any role in developing it.” Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Boris could personally find a cure & produce a vaccine and the usually suspects on here would moan “what’s taken him so long, a dozen people have died whilst he was fannying around”. Imagine if he had a Government Chief Scientific Adviser & a Chief Medical Officer and then proceeded to ignore their advice, Soggy and his gang of soft arrested lefties would be going nuts. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t. The 2 guys CV’s make pretty impressive reading, admittedly they’d probably get Watford relegated & Professor Chris Whitty’s Life Stories would be a pretty ****ty TV programme , but they’re highly expert in their field, and more importantly, are aware of the whole picture and all the facts. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Give it a ****ing rest. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Probably about as fair as Saints would have been had our championship season under Adkins was declared void in March. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This is what our Government is banking on. They appear to believe it’s unavoidable,and once it spreads through the country, eventually it’ll result in less deaths long term. However, this approach will result in people dying early. The approach of other countries is that a lock down will stop the virus. Whilst that’ll result in less deaths in the short and medium term, may well result in more deaths long term. If the virus returns in Oct /Nov clearly we’ll be better prepared as we’ll have some immunity. The other approach only works if the virus ****s off permanently, or a vaccine is found. If it does return & there’s no vaccine , I’d certainly rather be in our shoes than others (that’s provided I don’t peg it during this stage ). Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I suggest the couple of chumps on here claiming “fit healthy young men” should be ok and continue to play behind closed doors should read this. From a Doc who worked in football. Professional players have been shown to be regularly immunosuppressed,' former Chelsea doctor Dr Eva Carneiro tells Sportsmail. 'This has been demonstrated by both blood tests and the rate and incidence of upper respiratory tract and other infections, which is how a virus like this starts. That's due to the amount of sport they play. The physical activity, playing at a professional level, with games sometimes every 72 hours, as well as training creates a strain on the body.' The risk is compounded by overseas travel. 'It means they have to enter an airport even though they might be travelling by private jet,' adds Dr Carneiro who was at Chelsea for six years and is now Sports and Exercise Medicine Doctor at The Sports Medical Group in London's Harley Street. 'Travel can also mean a change in sleep patterns, arriving back in the early hours of the morning, creating a fatigue which again can make players susceptible.' “Players also share dressing rooms, meeting rooms, coaches, stay at same hotels and — more significantly — dining rooms, regularly eating at the same time. 'They also are part of families who are exposed to the greater community,' says Dr Carneiro. 'Fixtures also mean exposure to other teams, staff, nationalities, the latter having regular travel exposures of their own, with differing immunity profiles.' Persuading members of the highly tactile playing community that they might change their hygiene habits has always been notoriously difficult. The immune system deficiencies also make players susceptible to gastrointestinal viruses, which can be extremely infectious.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

As if things weren’t bad enough, they’ve replaced MoTD with Mrs Brown’s boys Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Exactly There are 9 academy staff at Bournemouth self isolating & a parent of one of the kids has the virus. They’re thinking the kid could have been the conduit that passed the disease on without experiencing much in terms of symptoms (he’s got mild flu like symptoms). That is the thing people just don’t want to get into their heads. The 25 fit men running around behind closed doors have mothers & fathers, grandparents, elderly aunts, neighbours. The quickest way to return to normal is to let it rip through the population & let healthy people get over it. However, more of our elderly and unhealthy people will die as a result of that. We’re trying to slow the spread down and push the peak to the hotter months, how is football continuing helping that? It’s not. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk