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For two months? Nope. I disagree entirely.

You’re not going to develop heart disease just because you don’t exercise for two months.

Given two months without exercise a normally fit person will likely put on a small amount of weight and lose some muscle mass/fitness. That's about it. You wont even get close to the thousands of morbidly obese people I see waddling around the streets of Britain. I know a guy who shattered his pelvis skiing a few years ago and couldn't even walk around his house for six months. If two months without exercise could kill you, two thirds of the population would have died years ago.

For a couple of months?

PFA statement. https://www.thepfa.com/news/2020/4/4/pfa-statement-on-behalf-of-premier-league-players

I don't think it would be that hard for the players to simply say, "take the staff wages out of our wages," on the proviso that the club don't then ask the taxpayer for money.

There would have been hundreds of thousands of people stranded abroad who needed to get home. The services running at the moment are extremely limited and nearly empty.

Not even that, they just need to TAKE a slightly less obscene wedge of cash, whilst they're sat at home playing X-Box.

I don't think any of them are covering themselves in glory. It wouldn't take a half decent accountant ten minutes to work out what pay cut is needed for each player to cover the non-playing staff for £2500pm. Why this wasn't done and then put the the player I have no idea.

There're loads of gems in there. "Essentially, if the players take a wage cut, the beneficiaries are the clubs. Their main concern is what is happening to this money. They are happy to put money into a pot, rather than it just vanishing. They want to have an influence as to where this money is going" Nowhere Danny! The money isn't GOING anywhere there is just less to give you, that's the point. The clubs aren't benefiting, they've taken a massive hit in income and they're trying to cut costs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52163997 Danny Rose feels as if Premier League players have 'their backs to the wall' because other people are telling them what to do with their money. Must be incredibly difficult for you Danny, I'm sure all the laid off, minimum wage bar staff, Top Shop assistants and Easyjet cabin crew have every sympathy for you.

I think the best approach is another month of lockdown, towards the end of which we will have to assess the trends in cases and fatalities and - more importantly - how close to capacity the NHS is operating. As crude and morbid as it sounds, if they’re are coping reasonably well and can handle a modest increase in patients, we can look at reopening certain businesses in strictly controlled and limited amounts. If it were up to me I’d say, in order of priority: - Shops and shopping centres, possibly with a requirement to wear PPE when inside. - Self employed businesses. Sparkies, plumbers, hairdressers, etc. - Banks, council buildings etc. - Gymnasiums and sports centres. - Bars, restaurants... basically anywhere food is prepared - Sporting events, music gigs, religious ceremonies, weddings. Basically anything involving large gatherings of people. - Air travel. As painful as it, it has to be the last thing to reopen. Nothing spreads a disease as far and wide as international air travel. The whole immune passport thing is the worst thing we can do IMO. Far too many people will deliberately seek infection.

A lot of people would then deliberately try and infect themselves in order to gain freedom. Imagine holiday companies offering dirty cheap holidays to try and stimulate a bit of business but you need a stamp before you’re allowed to go...

I get the impression he’s actually fairly tolerable in real life. He just likes winding up strangers on t’internet.

Way ahead of you on that, got some new patio furnature hopefully being delivered in time for a pleasant Sunday afternoon.

If certain conditions require a follow up test, so be it. Staff can still operate until one comes back positive.

You self isolate because if you have symptoms but haven't been tested then we have to assume that you do have the C19. Without testing 100% of healthcare workers who display symptoms are off work - assumed to be possitive - useless to the NHS. Even if we can only test 10% of those people and only 10% of those come back negative and they only save 10% of the people they treat, that's still 125 people saved, or 2.5 July 7th bombings which never happened. That's why we need to be testing. If you don't get that, I can't explain it any clearer.

Literally anyone could have the disease and not be showing symptoms for a few days. If we send home anyone who might have it, we’d send home literally everyone. It’s about risk management. Anyone could catch it at any moment, regardless of whether they’ve just had a test. To put it simply, if they haven’t tested positive, we want them in work.

We should try it with Boufal, Hoedt, Carrillo and Forster. It would be a terrible shame if they left on a free transfer.

Depends what your roles is and what you’re actually sick from, if at all. If it’s hayfever or you’ve spent the weekend up to your tits in sawdust, putting new floorboards in, you’re no risk to anyone,

I’m not sure why this is difficult to understand. If you have symptoms and there is no test, you have to self isolate. If you have symptoms and test positive, you have to self isolate. If you have symptoms and test negative, you can go back to work in 10 minutes. Not a week. That’s the advantage. You get a week of productivity from a worker who would otherwise have been sat at home.

No doubt but even if we can put 10% of them back into hospitals it'll save a few lives. Your argument is like saying it's pointless having field medics at the Battle of the Somme because it's impossible to save all the half a million British casualties. No... You would still have to follow the same social distancing and hygiene rules as every other NHS worker. The point is you could work and wouldn't have to self isolate for 14 days because you were coughing a bit.

That's a fairly simple logistical issue. If they can test Boris, Charlie and a few others they can test a nurses and doctors.

Because they could be showing symptoms, without actually having the virus. You could have symptoms, test negative and go back to work without self isolating. That's the point.

If the deal is that the government will pay 80% of wages up to £2500pm, this should indeed extent to footballers and the club should be able to pay them nothing. Whether it's right that millionaire footballers are taking advantage of a taxpayer funded scheme, designed to stop ordinary people losing their homes is a different matter. Obviously I have every sympathy for someone who might have to put up with an outdated 2016 Aston Martin for another 6 months but the fact that more footballers haven't taken a pay cut is disappointing to say the least.