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What though? That isn’t a hypothesis. Anyone retired and/or elderly is going to be staying at home and not working. All those stats show is a roundabout way of saying the elderly and at risk are more likely to go to hospital, which we know already. You’re quoting Fox News, one of the most ridiculously biased pro-republican media outlets going. Even the anchor sounds like a snidey teenager.

There's a whole bunch of players who obviously aren't that bothered if they kill someone, so why they would be bothered if a bunch of fixtures are postponed for a club they're only at for the money, I don't know.

That’s not proof of anything. They may well have stayed at home but then the one time they went out to buy groceries they touched a door handle just after some guy who had a BBQ with 6 of his mates.

What do you mean, "You would rather"? There is no rather, they are going to do both. Just to be clear, I don’t want any unnecessary social contact until we’ve got the rates of infections and deaths significantly lower. Be that footballers, people in parks or otherwise. We are going to be forced to increase the risk in order to keep the country running. We will NEED to allow businesses to open sooner rather than later and that will increase infections. If anything that means we need to be even tighter in other areas and tougher on those breaking the rules.

Isolated between matches. Even with our supposed lockdown, there’s a list as long as my arm of players ignoring it. Grealish crashing his car at a mates house, players hanging out in parks, multiple offences by Arsenal players (despite Arteta having it), Kyle Walker is supposedly a repeat offender - having sex parties and visiting a variety of relatives. This is just the stuff papers know about, there’s probably five times as much we haven’t heard. You can test them as much as you want, it doesn’t mean jack if 10 minutes later they’re all round Vardy’s brother’s mate place, playing XBox and sh*gging hairdressers they’ve met on tinder. If you really want to compare it to B&Q, it is way, way more beneficial to society to open that than to play a few games of football. Not so much for the shoppers but the thousands of people they employ, who are currently being propped up by the tax payer. Football isn’t doing that, it provides light entertainment to a small minority. There is no need for any of their players or staff to be laid off.

New cases of Covid 19 registered yesterday: UK - 4,600 S. Korea - 12 I agree it’s definitely the way forward with football but it’s something to consider next season, in 3 months. Not this season in 3 weeks.

Lukaschenko is equally as nutty as the Brazilian guy and I doubt we will get anything close to an accurate death toll from them. Clearly the government was hoping to get away with a softer approach, a bit like Sweden and only toughened up when it became apparent that it wasn't going to work. Was it indecision or simply not wanting to overreact and damage the economy. Probably a bit of both but I can't be too mad at them wanting/hoping to keep things running. It's also worth pointing out that a large number of idiots in the general public made things worse. If it weren't for a bunch of clowns saying, "hey we're all furloughed and off work, lets get together for a BBQ," we'd probably be in less of a mess. Could they have been harder, with fewer deaths but worse damage to the economy? Yes. Would that have been right? F**k knows.

It's impossible to really make any fair comparisons between countries, there are just too many variables. However on the face of it the USA, Brazil, China and Belarus have all done a much worse job.

And start what? Reading blogs by conspiracy theorists. Millions already have in China.

I think anyone trying to buy us will likely be flying the Jolly Roger, so keep an eye out for a crew of scurvy buccaneers, making their way up the solent.

A few thousand. Without social restrictions Covid 19 might kill more people in Britain (pop. 67m) than malaria kills in the whole of Africa (pop. 1.2bn). Availability of medication in third world countries is a separate issue. If we did nothing we would trash the economy anyway. The numbers off work sick and the fatalities would all do enormous damage, not to mention other people who would engage in their own social distancing. Even without the government lockdown, I'd be avoiding pubs and Saints games for the foreseeable future.

Other countries are meaningless in this context, there are far too many social variables. Reduced social contact will reduce the chance of infection. Fewer infections mean fewer deaths. Those are both universal truths, I can't see any way they can be debated.

That's only in Wuhan, I've seen a number of 21 million posted a lot. There's no way to verify it but the official figure of 4,000 is laughable. There is absolutely no way the worlds largest population, with some of the densest conurbations in the world, a heavy skew towards the elderly, appalling air quality run by a totalitarian government which attempted to silence doctors and journalists for months, could possibly have anything remotely close to 4,000 deaths.

China has most likely seen many times that number already.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-52552888 This headline got my attention. He was even the same age, from the same place and a football coach.

That’s less than 1% of the UK population and has been widely suggested as a possible death toll if the UK took no precautions.

For me it’s the highlight of any election campaign; some massive, fat... sorry, ‘body confident’... w*nker yelling about the disgraceful Tories ruining the NHS. Not a hint of irony in their voice either.

Monkey tennis?

I think 1GB of data would have taken a month to download in 2005. The village I lived in then didn’t even have broadband.

I’ll pass thanks. I’m trying to sell my house and 500,000 dead people will flood the market and lower property prices.

Surely it's time to start reopening 24 hours supermarkets. I get that they stopped before so that staff could restack shelves without being swamped by mass crowds panic buying bog roll but now that's over I'd have thought that anything which spreads out numbers is a good thing.

It's the adverts more than anything. If I see one more advert where people on webcams in their living room are telling me 'things are kind of tough right now' I'm going to scream. Still, it makes a change from funeral plans and people with debt and floppy willies.

Maybe I'm misremembering but I thought the Boxing Day 4-0 over Arsenal secured his job for a month before we went on that amazing run.

Car travel maybe. Air travel is down 90%.

The average Brit doesn't watch PL football at all. The highest ever viewership for a PL game was just over four million for the Manchester derby in 2012.