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  • Location: Darlington
  • Weather Preferences: Warm dry summers
  • Location: Darlington

PL still aiming to complete the season

“Despite the challenges, it is the Premier League’s aim to reschedule the displaced fixtures, including those played by Academy sides, when it is safe to do so.”

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  • Location: Guildford, Surrey
  • Weather Preferences: Hot, dry & sunny
  • Location: Guildford, Surrey
1 minute ago, feb1991blizzard said:

This is the biggest cause -  if this wasn't airborne it least to some extent, it would not be as prevalent, there is no way there would be this many cases just with poor hygiene and surface to hand to mouth transition alone.

You don't get a cold or flu just by being in the same room as someone with it. Respiratory viruses are spread by droplets physically landing on you or surfaces, and then others touching the surfaces. If someone was spreading droplets by breathing/talking then you'd have to be right next to their face to catch it.

So yes, it's probable that covid-19 is caused by poor hygiene. But we really don't know enough about its transmission yet to make definite statements.

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  • Location: on a canal , probably near Northampton...
  • Weather Preferences: extremes n snow
  • Location: on a canal , probably near Northampton...
Just now, Summer Sun said:

PL still aiming to complete the season

“Despite the challenges, it is the Premier League’s aim to reschedule the displaced fixtures, including those played by Academy sides, when it is safe to do so.”

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I think Tottenhams players have been carrying this for months with their performances and the way they roll around in agony when going near to the opposition players.

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  • Location: Liphook
  • Location: Liphook
1 minute ago, Summer Sun said:

PL still aiming to complete the season

“Despite the challenges, it is the Premier League’s aim to reschedule the displaced fixtures, including those played by Academy sides, when it is safe to do so.”

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Clearly will be extended way beyond April, especially as we will be heading up the bell curve by that point.

My best estimate given 10 weeks and 10 weeks back down from the peak is realistically late July is the first likely chance to get football going again. I think there must be every effort made to complete this season, even if it means going through quite a rigid period of 2-3 games every week like the Xmas period. 

Even then, I think there is pretty much 0 chance the new season starts when it is meant to start in mid August, a fair chance this current season may not be done by that point still.

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  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy disruptive snowfall.
  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
3 minutes ago, Stabilo19 said:

You don't get a cold or flu just by being in the same room as someone with it. Respiratory viruses are spread by droplets physically landing on you or surfaces, and then others touching the surfaces. If someone was spreading droplets by breathing/talking then you'd have to be right next to their face to catch it.

So yes, it's probable that covid-19 is caused by poor hygiene. But we really don't know enough about its transmission yet to make definite statements.

No - a study came out in China that someone on a bus was a minimum of 4.7 feet away from someone and caught it, also someone entered the same bus 7 hours later and caught it - it is airborne, and in any case people are always close to other people in city centres.

IT isn't flu - its more transmissible.

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  • Location: Guildford, Surrey
  • Weather Preferences: Hot, dry & sunny
  • Location: Guildford, Surrey

President of the European Commission is giving a statement on covid-19 now.

Points out that school/uni/event closures are important measures to slow down virus spread

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  • Location: Guildford, Surrey
  • Weather Preferences: Hot, dry & sunny
  • Location: Guildford, Surrey
1 minute ago, feb1991blizzard said:

No - a study came out in China that someone on a bus was a minimum of 4.7 feet away from someone and caught it, also someone entered the same bus 7 hours later and caught it - it is airborne, and in any case people are always close to other people in city centres.

Do you have a link?

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  • Location: Longlevens, 16m ASL (H)/Bradley Stoke, 75m ASL (W)
  • Weather Preferences: Hot sunny summers, cold snowy winters
  • Location: Longlevens, 16m ASL (H)/Bradley Stoke, 75m ASL (W)
8 minutes ago, Yarmy said:

I would think that the mass vaccination of 146 million Russians would not have gone unnoticed. 

 

Do they not have regular vacination programs like everyone else then???

 

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  • Location: Stoke-on-Trent, Norton. 549ft (167m) ASL
  • Location: Stoke-on-Trent, Norton. 549ft (167m) ASL
1 hour ago, Sky Full said:

Can anyone explain why Russia has so few reported cases?  34 cases out of a population of 144 million seems very low?  Don't they socialise or travel as much as the rest of the world?

Could be because It's only just beginning to warm up over there, daily temps don't start getting above 5C until the mid/end of march for most of it.  Everyone will be buddle up, aka scarves/gloves, which means a much lower chance of transmission.  Though we'll prob start to see a rise soon as the 'heat' begins to spread eastwards.

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  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy disruptive snowfall.
  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
Just now, Stabilo19 said:

Do you have a link?

No but i think it was on one of John campbell's video's earlier in the week.

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  • Location: Darlington
  • Weather Preferences: Warm dry summers
  • Location: Darlington

The Foreign Office has advised against all but essential travel to: Madrid, La Rioja and the municipalities of La Bastida, Vitoria and Miranda de Ebro.

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  • Location: Liphook
  • Location: Liphook
3 minutes ago, Summer Sun said:

 

Definately needed, Spain is taking off now and is likely not going to be that far from Italy probably sooner rather than later.

Also, it really makes that Champions League match in Liverpool look SO stupid now.

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  • Location: Stoke-on-Trent, Norton. 549ft (167m) ASL
  • Location: Stoke-on-Trent, Norton. 549ft (167m) ASL
54 minutes ago, Stabilo19 said:

The only country not following the rest is the UK!! Everyone else seems to be *roughly* implementing the same measures. We have the different agenda.

Just an idea, but if this thing does end up being seasonal like the other members of the same viral family, and we do the whole, lets get it done and out of the way thing now, we'll at least have a majority immunity for the 'next season' whilst all the countries that are locking down to try and prevent it's spread, could end up going through the same thing next year whilst we would be fine.

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  • Location: Penn (by Seven Cornfields) Wolverhampton
  • Weather Preferences: Cold snowy and frosty
  • Location: Penn (by Seven Cornfields) Wolverhampton
53 minutes ago, snow raven said:

I work for the NHS, I'd say he has put patients at risk of infection simply by travelling on the train wearing his uniform.  Hopefully he will change into a clean uniform when he gets to work.

Absolutely.  As an ex NHS and private health worker, that was my exact thought! Hope he puts a clean uniform on.  I can remember when laundry for nurses uniforms was done within hospitals and they changed in and out of uniforms when they came into and before they left the hospital.   

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  • Location: Mid Essex
  • Location: Mid Essex
18 minutes ago, Yarmy said:

I would think that the mass vaccination of 146 million Russians would not have gone unnoticed. 

 

Probably put it in the water along with fluoride as a mass medication.

Sorry working on the plot line for my next book.

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  • Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
  • Location: Bratislava, Slovakia

Cases in Slovakia more than doubled yesterday (an increase of 11 to 21). Apparently all border crossings have been closed today. I live very close to the Austrian border where there's a cycle bridge. I'll have to check it out later (I was there yesterday and it was business as usual).

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  • Location: Sedgley 175metres above sea level
  • Weather Preferences: Any kind of extremes. But the more snow the better.
  • Location: Sedgley 175metres above sea level

This is Truelly Historic! Of all my years in the gambling on football.... And that's 28 years.... I've never seen such a decimation of matches! I've just had the good fortune to speak to a gentleman in his mid 80s,and basically he said he hasn't witnessed anything quite like this since the Winter of 63.

Literally every sporting fixture was gone back then, and some racing fixtures were off for weeks! Bless him, he loves a bet on the footy, and he seemed more stressed over not being able to have a bet this weekend! I'm also aware how many of these older peoples only means of escape is by visiting the betting shop each day for a flutter. Now we have many of these who are getting to anxious to visit them, so then the attention turns to increased loneliness! I can think of a fair few who's only means of socialising is by visiting them..... So the Governments response to this does carry a little weight. 

To summarise, what is unfolding is Historic... If we fail to see a 2nd wave or an even worse mutated strain, for this Generation, it will never be forgotten! A situation like world war 2 in the worse affected places, a grave situation. And just like back then I really hope the Nation pulls together to get through this horrid fight against humanity, and comes out the other side.... Saying... Hell Yeh.... We encountered it, and we bloody well beat it!! This goes for the rest of Europe to. So stay safe, look out for your elderly, and also yourselves.... This is a marathon, not a sprint, but as long as this race lasts, there will be at the end of the day.... A finishing line!! 

I actually feel like Winston Churchill with that speech now.. Godspeed. 

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  • Location: Liphook
  • Location: Liphook
1 minute ago, Mattwolves said:

To summarise, what is unfolding is Historic... If we fail to see a 2nd wave or an even worse mutated strain, for this Generation, it will never be forgotten! A situation like world war 2 in the worse affected places, a grave situation. And just like back then I really hope the Nation pulls together to get through this horrid fight against humanity, and comes out the other side.... Saying... Hell Yeh.... We encountered it, and we bloody well beat it!! This goes for the rest of Europe to. So stay safe, look out for your elderly, and also yourselves.... This is a marathon, not a sprint, but as long as this race lasts, there will be at the end of the day.... A finishing line!! 

 

I think this indeed will be one of those generation defining events for sure. As I said before, I can't think of anything other than the world wars that had such a profound impact on how we are living our lives on a global level. Every aspect of society is being impacted with this in a way we have seen maybe 2-3 times in the last 100 years.

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  • Location: Guildford, Surrey
  • Weather Preferences: Hot, dry & sunny
  • Location: Guildford, Surrey

60,000 people at Cheltenham today.

Elderly attendee interviewed for BBC news:

"We're all thinking about it.. but at the end of the day we're all here to have fun and enjoy ourselves."

Good grief. 

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1 minute ago, Stabilo19 said:

60,000 people at Cheltenham today.

Elderly attendee interviewed for BBC news:

"We're all thinking about it.. but at the end of the day we're all here to have fun and enjoy ourselves."

Good grief. 

That is why I'm not 100% the government strategy will end up working. You will get a certain percentage of the population who think "stuff it". Without hard measures forcing them into place, they will just go about doing whatever they want. I've seen the type in schools before and its really hard work often to get them to change their behaviour. It can be done, but its not normally an overnight job.

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  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
  • Weather Preferences: Heavy disruptive snowfall.
  • Location: Manchester Deansgate.
Just now, Stabilo19 said:

60,000 people at Cheltenham today.

Elderly attendee interviewed for BBC news:

"We're all thinking about it.. but at the end of the day we're all here to have fun and enjoy ourselves."

Good grief. 

If he carries on with that attitude he will be having fun in a morgue.

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