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Lets go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over.

League 2 support ! They’re the bestest supporters in the world . I’ll tell you something. If they played in the streets they’d watch them from the pavements and no mistake, it’s what they do. I know this because I’ve got gas mates and they told me . They’re not liars you know

Me thinks you are in for a shock.

It is somewhat more dangerous than flu no doubt but the media are something else. They need stories to survive themselves and a worldwide pandemic is high on the list of scary and shock stories for people to read and grip them. If you've watched any of Charlie Brookers old material you'll know fear is one of their greatest tools.

It probably will, but it won’t be forgotten by the families of the poor souls who died after contracting this virus - your comment was a bit heartless and cold if I may say so ...

This will all go away and be forgotten very soon.

Hard to type with that extra digit though.

Garcia v Vargas on Sky in the early hours should be good.

Somebody on Gaschat is not a happy bunny; “Never been a happy clapper,nor one of the boo boys but today was the first time in my 25 -30 years of supporting the gas that I left a game early (in the 70th min mark after the goal)...and Im 38 years old. I was stood there in the blackthrone in a truely sh** stadium,going to the toilet while standing in overflowing piss from the toilets watching awlful,noooooo ******* shocking football. We are heading back to the national league.The progress DC gave our club after 2014 for 2/3 years has been lost and we are a complete mess again.No wonder GC walked!!!! We are safe this year,but we will 100% finish rock bottom of L1 in May 2021. Before anyone calls me un loyal etc..get a grip.My uncle played for us in the 1960s,Ive been a fan for nearly 30 years.Spent £1,000's on watching us both home and away through the years, another £40 today... but now this club is taking the piss!! It will be a long time before Im back supporting blindly with just pure hope until we make proper changes.“

Another clean sheet for Max would go down well today.

Agreed. Although we have had recent scares about SARS, Swine flu, MERS & Ebola, the worry is that this virus has the perfect combination of being novel, so no one has immunity or has been vaccinated, highly infectious and with what seems a long incubation period with minimal symptoms, so many people will catch it, and lethal enough to kill a significant percentage, but not so many that people die before spreading it. Out of 7 billion people on the planet, if even only 1 billion are infected, a 1% mortality rate equals 10 million deaths worldwide. The reality is that many more people will catch this virus in the next year, because of the virus characteristics and the fact that the world is so interconnected these days. And although many deaths will be among the older and less well, there have been plenty of reports of younger people dying, especially health workers or anyone who has had potential multiple exposures. The NHS is taking this very seriously indeed, and the risk of hospitals being swamped with cases is not a scare tactic. It is a genuine concern. Realistically the season is unlikely to be cancelled, but there is likely to be an impact on anything where large numbers of people meet, particularly sporting fixtures, which will either be postponed (such as 6 Nations games), played behind closed doors, or even in some cases, like the Chinese Grand Prix, cancelled. On that basis, both Euro 2020 and the Tokyo Olympics are at serious risk of just not taking place, because if the virus still spreads as readily in warmer temperatures, as per the other coronaviruses that infect humans, then the summer could be the start of the peak infective period running into next winter and beyond..

At least she'd make the maths add up, no money = new stadium

has A manager ever joined a club and done so badly? Weren’t they top 4 when he came in and then won 1 since ? couldn’t make it up!

Happy Birthday Scott Golbourne, 32 today, hopefully celebrating a win at the final whistle after enduring 90 minutes of "sheeetead, sheeetead" chants.

Was that the moment old Red Trousers stumbled and fell face-first into the mud?

No worries, that definitely wasnt my intention as hopefully you realise.... but if that is how it seems then it's taken out of context and my point is lost.

“Organiser estimates”? Yeah right, two school kids! ?

200 years ago we had the Black Plague (oops shouldn’t have said that) the Flu, Cancer, Heart attacks, also kills millions across the world every year and we still ain’t got needles for them have we. Ok this new virus is highly contagious but lets see what happens over the next few months. I hope it doesn’t drag out like Brexit did.

It's considerably more dangerous than flu, and more contagious.

Great web site and very informative. There is a positive over 39,000 have recovered.

Too many people are mate (nothing personal!) This impact of this disease if this laisse-faire attitude continues will be devastating. Just reading this thread shows self-quarantine will never work in some sections of the community. Refresh this frequently to keep up to date: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

To put this in perspective The last pandemics were SARS (thanfully stopped) AIDS Spanish Flu (up to 100 million dead) Black Death (50% of Europe died) Smallpox The difference with this bad boy is a long 'incubation period' up to 27 days with no symptoms in extreme cases.And it is quickly mutating. You are able to re-contract it High mortality rate (currently tracking at 3% on reported cases to death ratio, Iran is very bad) - seasonal flu kills 0.4 - 0.5% of people. Ratio of infection is about 1:4 (one person gives it to 4 others) The whole world will eventually get it - there is no way to vaccinate in time. It affects anyone, but yes pre-existing conditions such as smoking, diabetes, being fat, high alcohol, poor diet, cancer etc etc mean you are at much higher risk. BUT completely healthy 30-40 yr olds are dying as well. This could kill 3-5% of the worlds population, as while places like the US, Australia,Canada have incredibly advanced health systems - Pakistan,India Iran South America Africa etc etc do not, and they will be hit very hard. Iran being the prime example at the moment - 34 deaths out of 388 cases (as of 10.30am 29/02/2020) - that's 9% Death rate. This isn't a sniffle - this pandemic - because that's what it is - even if it kills 2% world wide means upward of 140,000,000 deaths. So yes, in Western Europe, you will mostly be fine - but 1% - 2% of you will die The lesser developed nations will suffer very badly indeed.

Pitch was a swamp mind

Nice to see that a teenage girl from Sweden had pulled in more people today than the Gash ever have!

You're welcome: Claim: ‘It is no more dangerous than winter flu’ Many individuals who get coronavirus will experience nothing worse than seasonal flu symptoms, but the overall profile of the disease, including its mortality rate, looks more serious. At the start of an outbreak the apparent mortality rate can be an overestimate if a lot of mild cases are being missed. But this week, a WHO expert suggested that this has not been the case with Covid-19. Bruce Aylward, who led an international mission to China to learn about the virus and the country’s response, said the evidence did not suggest that we were only seeing the tip of the iceberg. If borne out by further testing, this could mean that current estimates of a roughly 1% fatality rate are accurate. This would make Covid-19 about 10 times more deadly than seasonal flu, which is estimated to kill between 290,000 and 650,000 people a year globally. Claim: ‘It only kills the elderly, so younger people can relax’ Most people who are not elderly and do not have underlying health conditions will not become critically ill from Covid-19. But the illness still has a higher chance of leading to serious respiratory symptoms than seasonal flu and there are other at-risk groups – health workers, for instance, are more vulnerable because they are likely to have higher exposure to the virus. The actions that young, healthy people take, including reporting symptoms and following quarantine instructions, will have an important role in protecting the most vulnerable in society and in shaping the overall trajectory of the outbreak. Claim: ‘Face masks don’t work’ Wearing a face mask is not an iron clad guarantee that you won’t get sick – viruses can also transmit through the eyes and tiny viral particles, known as aerosols, can still penetrate masks. However, masks are effective at capturing droplets, which is the main transmission route of coronavirus, and some studies have estimated a roughly five-fold protection versus no barrier. If you are likely to be in close contact with someone infected, a mask cuts the chance of the disease being passed on. If you’re just walking around town and not in close contact with others, wearing a mask is unlikely to make any difference. Claim: ‘You need to be with an infected person for 10 minutes’ For flu, some hospital guidelines define exposure as being within six feet of an infected person who sneezes or coughs for 10 minutes or longer. However, it is possible to be infected with shorter interactions or even by picking the virus up from contaminated surfaces, although this is thought to be a less common route of transmission. Claim: ‘A vaccine could be ready within a few months’ Scientists were quick out of the gates in beginning development of a vaccine for the new coronavirus, helped by the early release of the genetic sequence by Chinese researchers. The development of a viable vaccine continues apace, with several teams now testing candidates in animal experiments. However, the incremental trials required before a commercial vaccine could be rolled out are still a lengthy undertaking – and an essential one to ensure that even rare side-effects are spotted. A commercially available vaccine within a year would be quick. Claim: ‘If a pandemic is declared, there is nothing more we can do to stop the spread’ A pandemic is defined as worldwide spread of a new disease – but the exact threshold for declaring one is quite vague. In practice, the actions being taken would not change whether or not a pandemic is declared. Containment measures are not simply about eliminating the disease altogether. Delaying the onset of an outbreak or decreasing the peak is crucial in allowing health systems to cope with a sudden influx of patients.

Am I right in saying that it's only deadly if you have an underlying problem. Otherwise it is just man flu?

Alright Thanos calm down

Not sure I agree it’s a ‘ridiculous suggestion’ - South Korea’s cases increased eight-fold in the last four days, Iran has gone from zero cases three days ago to 28 cases and five deaths, Italy is now the European hotspot reporting 50 cases and two deaths in just two days with no evidence of victims having links to China ... etc, etc. I agree there is no need to panic, influenza infects millions worldwide each year and kills thousands, including in the UK, and no one ever seems too concerned about that, but this new virus is certainly not just a problem for China anymore, so to say “China is getting to grips with it from what you’ve heard” isn’t really relevant. And do you believe everything that comes out of China?! Funny how that hard-hitting journo who was exposing the truth about this virus and its progress over there suddenly disappeared off the face of the earth ... and the doctor who discovered it and announced it over there last September was suddenly arrested and made to sign a statement saying he’d made it all up ... he then mysteriously died of the disease...I love a good conspiracy theory me!

I've got a feeling that they'll cancel the season and make all results during it null and void when we are 3-0 up in the 64th minute of the Championship Play Off Final at Wembley.