Lighthouse

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.

Clubs don’t care about the fans, I’m not sure why you’d think this. So long as they continue to hand over their money, that’s as far as their interest goes. The idea of ‘not needed revenue’ is - TBH - ridiculous. The clubs owners will take any penny they can get. As long as matches continue to just about sell out, the prices will stay the same.

Summer holidays are no different to winter holidays. Plenty of people go away over Christmas, NY and January. Football isn’t a winter sport, it’s just a sport which happens to be played in winter for some reason. It’s an outdoor sport, played on grass pitches. Why we need to call it a day just when when the weather starts getting nice, I don’t get.

Meh, just have more evening kick offs in June and July. If we can play major tournaments in European summers, we can do it for domestic games too. Beer gardens in the sun, head to the ground for a 4pm kick off... lovely, I'll have some of that.

Why do we need to? I'd take Feb - Oct seasons over the current format given choice.

Surely this statement makes for some form of deterrent, even if they are doing literally nothing in practicality to stop racial abuse. Having said that, I've no idea how they managed to bring gender identity into this.

It's been two meals a day for a week or more now. I'd rather get Covid-19 than bowel cancer if I'm honest.

Just been to Tesco since posting that and I was actually pleasantly surprised this time. There was bog roll (not that I need any) and a reasonable amount of meat available. When I went two days ago it was basically a choice between beef and pizza.

I could tolerate the panic buying if only the people doing it actually started using the stuff they've f**king bought. It should have leveled out by now, those people shouldn't have to shop for a month with their freezers full of meat but apparently that's not the case. I can only presume those of you with enough toilet roll to last until Christmas are still going out and buying another 3 dozen because... reasons.

Just looking back at a few of our games from back then... We had a 5-1 win away to Bristol Rovers. We started with Puncheon, Lallana, Lambert and Antonio, then brought Connolly, Barnard and Waigo off the bench. What a squad that was, not bad considering we started the season with Patterson and Saganowski up front.

I've no idea what you're trying to argue here Johnny. It's a completely different world to 1948.