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There's an interesting piece in the Figaro today which tries to explain why some central european countries have been far less affected than others. Consensus seems to be that the quicker you hermetically closed your borders the better you've come out of it..for the moment. Most of them have governments whch lean far to the right.

I see that at least one German region has had to backpedal a bit on their deconfinement. A lot of new cases in a meat packing factory apparently.

Didn't we already pass that milestone a week or so back ? Perhaps it was just in London and not the whole of the UK. I know that the Americans surpassed their Vietnam death total about 10 days back.

Who knows, your average Brit is desperate for it and the government may well cave in. We'll see when they start testing players and finding cases as in Germany. Best thing would probably be to move it abroad somewhere and eliminate any possiibiity of fans hanging around grounds. Now Poland, that would be a good sort of place for it.

And it certainly went tits up quickly enough for him at Everton. A good season and then sacked soon enough in the next one. Spent a fair old bit of money on players who weren't suited to the PL.

And maybe one of the treatments you read about every day might even work on a large scale. Today's it's llama serum and some drug that they give to nutters for schizophrenia.

There was a film though, good guys won, Al Swearengen died etc.

It would wouldn't it. Plus the fact that it's such an evil, multi-formed, resistant virus adds to the believability. Every day you read about some new damage caused to the human system by the virus. Perhaps it's just a plot by the bats to wipe us out eh..

The French count virtually all deaths so the current figure of 28000 or so is probably about right. Couldn't say about any of the others. I see that some National Statistics Office in the UK is putting your Covid 19 death counts at somewhere north of 32000, giving the UK the highest death count in Europe. Still when you read the press about BBQs in Lordshill and see the photos of throngs of people in the green spaces every weekend you don't really doubt them. A 30£ fine for defying the lockdown regulations is just plain stupid. Plus you've only issued about 9000 of them. Here in France we're up to 9 million controls and about 200000 135 euros fines (and some of them are higher multiple offences fines).

Which is the basic problem of football (other sports as well perhaps). The main body of the salary mass is the player's pay. It's on fixed term contracts and you can't just offload them when the going is rough. Look at the airlines, Rolls Royce etc, they're actually laying people off, not furloughing, just simply reducing staff numbers. EFL clubs will never make up the loss, their last games will never be played and apart from hand-outs from the FA, the EFL and the odd dob of TV money they'll have very little revenue until they can start selling tickets again. Now the French Football League have realised this and taken out a loan to help the clubs along until they start playing again.

Well if it were to be decided on overall vote totals there would be no need for a national campaign. New York and California would decide the election every time. A Republican hasn't won in New York since 1984 and in California since 1988. Just the imbalance in those two states accounts for a Democrat majority of about at least 5 million votes.

Oh I don't think anyone believes them but the timing of what they have said in this case is what counts, the World Military Games were for two weeks from mid October onwards and some of their officials link the earliest cases to that event. So they knew they had a problem in and around Wuhan from about the second week of November.

I've seen this article. Seems to be referring to EFL clubs more than anything else. Also seems to say that it's what he believes without any sort of justification as why that would be so. Also says that the problem isn't being adressed at all. Anyway here's the article. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/may/05/player-wages-and-contracts-will-bankrupt-efl-clubs-its-time-for-the-pfa-to-act

On what basis would that be then ? A fixed term contract is fixed term unless there's some sort of stipulation for lack of competitve football in it.

Ah that's as maybe, but the first actual cases were in mid-November 2019. Just wasn't identified as such at that time. They knew they had it going around though which is why some Chinese government outlets say an American military lady brought it to Wuhan at the World Military Games, fell off her bike and had hospital treatment.

Well I don't think Trump had too many marbles in the first place, still got elected somehow.

Weren't the first known cases in Wuhan mid November ?

And now some participants in the World Military Games at Wuhan in October are saying they had flu like symptoms when they returned home. Could have just had flu though, don't think they've been tested for anything else.

Don't think he's very bright. Certainly seems easily led.

Wouldn't be much different for the players than a World Cup campaign really, a month living and playing elsewhere. But as no foreigners (or at least non-resident foreigners) are permitted to enter Oz at the moment it's probably a non-starter. They've almost wiped out Covid 19 there and certainly won't be keen on it starting up again.

Oh I think there'll still be relegation alright, I mean the PL will want Leeds and even West Brom back in the top flight rather than say Norwich or Bournemouth. Unless there's a 22 team PL next season and say no League Cup or something.

Probably a far less industrialised nation. A sixth of the UK's population in about half of the UK's surface area. Think their lockdown was pretty strict as well.

Might help him if he stuck to lying and cheating instead of spouting bolloaks all of the time. He'd be better off saying nothing at all really.

Right, somehow they managed to have very few cases, didn't make 100 until about mid-march. Perhaps the strain that they had/have is less contagious. Is it hot and humid in Taiwan ?

Didn't Taiwan shut themselves off completely very early on? Plus they'd learnt something from the SARS outbreak in 2002/3. Britain and the rest of the world might have fared better if the borders had been closed completely early on, it's just a hypothesis though.