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Neil Lennon and 13 Celtic players are now self isolating after one player tested positive after their warm weather training in Dubai, what was already looking not the brightest decision to go is now looking positively stupid and will likely cost them whatever slim chance they had of retaining the league https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55525905

I was there at St Andrews that day, remembering the reception that little lad got still makes my hairs stand up, hopefully he can now go on from strength to strength

I know this is the sun and should possibly be taken with a pinch of salt although it’s also what I’ve been saying for months, but it’s now saying the first Covid victim in this country died at Christmas, this changes the established timeline considerably and therefore April to June could easily have been this second wave we keep hearing about https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12618638/british-dad-coronavirus-christmas-china/

Am i missing something here, they couldn’t afford to build at UWE when the land was free but can afford buy the land and build which would be three times as much?

According to the sun they didn’t vote as they claimed they had internet issues

Yeah and as an essential worker have worked throughout the whole thing, have actually been more bemused by the minority thinking they’re on holiday than having to work myself

Despite what it may seem I’m not one for conspiracy theories, i don’t really care if it started in a lab or someone ate undercooked bat and then coughed in someone’s face, but as someone who had all those symptoms at Christmas and ended up in hospital a month later and have since tested negative for coronavirus albeit a couple of months after, lots of what the government are saying doesn’t make sense and it seems like they stubbornly believe one narrative and one narrative only

The only way to know for sure is testing either testing the entire population and properly quarantining those who test positive and then life can continue as normal or the antibody testing we keep hearing about to see just how many people have already had it It does seem like the government are listening to just one team of scientists who are stubbornly insisting coronavirus started in March and lockdown is the only solution (even though the architect of this policy then broke it to invite some woman he was casually seeing to his house) rather than taking into account increasing evidence that it started much earlier and we could already have seen the dreaded second wave

We keep hearing about second spike don’t we?

Oxford University are now estimating that there’s 140,000 people in the uk infected with coronavirus which is 0.24% of the population, it could be that lockdown has brought that number down dramatically although that isn’t really reflected in the governments own data or it’s like how i said at the start that it started in November/December and that millions have already had it It would be tragic if it’s the latter people would’ve needlessly lost their livelihoods while cases of mental health issues and domestic violence have rocketed Obviously finding those 140,000 is like looking for a needle in a haystack but it does beg the question whether a vaccine is necessary

Is just a basic calculation of the published total death rate which around 35000ish divided by the population which is around 66,500,000 so is nothing particularly scientific

The government did a very effective job in scaring people in order to keep them at home, unfortunately it’s been so effective that people have been led to believe that they won’t be safe until there’s a vaccine, but it’s worth noting the mortality rate from coronavirus is 0.04% of the population, that’s not much consolation to their families i admit but it’s unrealistic to stop all of life’s activities until a vaccine has been found To answer the original question of when football should return, there’s no real right or wrong answer to that but this season is probably a write off as it’s just too complex with too little time to get it up and running again anytime soon

Apologies can’t send a link as the athletic is behind a paywall, the gist is that league one and two will be abandoned next week and they’re looking at deciding the table on a points per game basis with a weighting to reflect points won away over at home as games played home and away is not equal. It does mean no playoffs however

For some reason that made me wonder if there was a premier inn in Burton, they could allocate hotels depending on league position so Norwich world get the Travelodge etc etc

Contracts would be the main thing, currently they’re asking people who may be out of contact to play on, except they wouldn’t be covered by insurance and if they got injured suddenly they’ve got a big problem Also starting from afresh would mean no rules change midseason, they make a big song and dance about sporting integrity but whichever way they it’s done someone will get shafted, promoting Leeds and West Brom like some suggest is no fairer than having no relegation this season

The whole thing is becoming a farce, end the season give Liverpool the title as anything else would be ridiculous, everyone else remains the same and start again next season whenever that is

International players do that every two years for major tournaments

I thought that but apparently grounds near residential areas are being ruled out, so likelihood is it would be places like Reading or Bolton which are out near the motorway and not particularly appealing for people to congregate outside, although the sun today is saying there’s a proposal to finish the season in Perth (the Australian one) and apparently the Australians are quite keen so probably means it won’t happen

In fairness having now heard it whoever it was speaks very well and gives a good assessment of the situation and showing why they’re Rovers pfa rep

You don’t have to do much to get banned over there by the looks of it

Time will tell, I’m a key worker living in London so social distancing is almost impossible so it’ll be interesting to see anything comes from that or not I’m neither a scientist or conspiracy theorist and for the time being am saved from the boredom and frustration others are experiencing, but have read various reports about the virus mutating and causing other strains of the virus so that might be your answer right there. It seems for every person who thinks this’ll blow over quickly there’s someone who thinks this won’t so guess we’ll just have to see how it plays out

I’m not a scientist but there’s two possibilities there, either it was treated as seasonal flu as nobody had even heard of covid-19 until February in this country and so early victims were assumed as having died of seasonal flu, or shortly after reaching Europe the virus mutated into a more serious strain, if i caught it I’d have caught the original strain which could be less serious. It’s interesting that they’re currently looking at the champions league game between Atlanta and Valencia as a possible reason for the two hotspots in Italy and Spain, this game was apparently played in Milan which has a connection with Wuhan I was hospitalised with inflamed lymph nodes shortly after the persistent cough finished, the consultant told me it was as a result of my body working overtime to fight an infection but they had no idea what the infection was, i spent three day’s being pumped with antiviral drugs and antibiotics and started feeling better about a week later

Not necessarily wishful thinking as this article will explain, the information comes from a legit media source rather than a fake news website https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.ccn.com/coronavirus-patient-zero-may-have-started-pandemic-in-november-or-earlier/ I’m not really one for conspiracy theories but my company had a significant percentage of Chinese customers up until this broke around Christmastime, around that time quite a few staff got sick myself included and i ended up being hospitalised a few days after attending the QPR away game, for me it’s too much of a coincidence

So when people are found to be immune how are they meant to highlight that status so they can resume their normal life? Wear a badge perhaps?

Not exactly if waking up at 3am counts as a holiday, whilst passenger numbers are falling off a cliff lots of staff are being forced into self isolation which is one reason for the situation in London where people (some who aren’t meant to be there) are faced with busier trains