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I'm sure that at some stage matches will be either played behind closed doors or postponed. However, I wonder where you are at greatest risk of catching Coronavirus (or indeed any other disease passed by human-to-human contact)? In a football stadium in the open air, where you have your own seat, or on a crowded bus or train, where you probably can't avoid coming into physical contact with strangers? Maybe when we get to the stage of telling people not to go to public events we should be advising them not to use public transport and cut their social interactions to an absolute minimum.
TRB.That is coming. Very quickly.Currently,the number of cases in the UK is doubling every two days. If that continues unchecked, we'd be fast approaching a million cases by the end of the month, and at 10million cases by mid-April.I've no idea if it WILL keep on doubling at that rate without steps to check it, but if I were in charge and it did keep on increasing like that into the middle of next week, I'd be introducing some pretty draconian steps.It wouldn't surprise me at all if this is the last weekend with a full set of football matches played in front of live crowds.
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on March 07, 2020, 09:54:04 amTRB.That is coming. Very quickly.Currently,the number of cases in the UK is doubling every two days. If that continues unchecked, we'd be fast approaching a million cases by the end of the month, and at 10million cases by mid-April.I've no idea if it WILL keep on doubling at that rate without steps to check it, but if I were in charge and it did keep on increasing like that into the middle of next week, I'd be introducing some pretty draconian steps.It wouldn't surprise me at all if this is the last weekend with a full set of football matches played in front of live crowds.There’s 42000 people currently infected, there’s been 103000 infected since it began. Almost 60000 people have recovered from it It’s not doubling every two days
The paranoia about this is wonderfully absurd. There is a 2 % chance of dying if you catch it. Probably 1 in a thousand chance of catching it. But even if it was 1 in ten chance of catching it that would mean a 0.2% chance of it causing one's early demise. Its more dangerous crossing the road. It won't stop me watching Rovers.
Quote from: Avsuptem on March 07, 2020, 04:14:13 pm The paranoia about this is wonderfully absurd. There is a 2 % chance of dying if you catch it. Probably 1 in a thousand chance of catching it. But even if it was 1 in ten chance of catching it that would mean a 0.2% chance of it causing one's early demise. Its more dangerous crossing the road. It won't stop me watching Rovers.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51718917Yes 1 in 1000.....
Quote from: DonnyOsmond on March 07, 2020, 04:30:16 pmQuote from: Avsuptem on March 07, 2020, 04:14:13 pm The paranoia about this is wonderfully absurd. There is a 2 % chance of dying if you catch it. Probably 1 in a thousand chance of catching it. But even if it was 1 in ten chance of catching it that would mean a 0.2% chance of it causing one's early demise. Its more dangerous crossing the road. It won't stop me watching Rovers.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51718917Yes 1 in 1000.....Lots of coulds and maybes in that official gov line, which is always going to be worse poss case scenario in the case of acute epidemics - the opposite when it comes to chronic epidemics.
I've seen a few reports in scientific journals suggesting the death rate is MUCH lower than the more commonly reported one. A few places suggesting more like 0.1%. Part of the reason for that is the number of infected people not included from having mild or no symptoms.If this is true, we're around the level of norma flu.There's also doubts about how transmissable it has been reported as being. Also from scientific journals.We'll see soon enough.
Billy.The health secretary was on tv only this morning stating there will be many people carrying this virus that do not know about it
Quote from: dickos1 on March 07, 2020, 06:12:14 pmBilly.The health secretary was on tv only this morning stating there will be many people carrying this virus that do not know about it Yeah and that's terrifying. They'll be giving others it and not even know.
Quote from: dickos1 on March 07, 2020, 02:52:50 pmQuote from: BillyStubbsTears on March 07, 2020, 09:54:04 amTRB.That is coming. Very quickly.Currently,the number of cases in the UK is doubling every two days. If that continues unchecked, we'd be fast approaching a million cases by the end of the month, and at 10million cases by mid-April.I've no idea if it WILL keep on doubling at that rate without steps to check it, but if I were in charge and it did keep on increasing like that into the middle of next week, I'd be introducing some pretty draconian steps.It wouldn't surprise me at all if this is the last weekend with a full set of football matches played in front of live crowds.There’s 42000 people currently infected, there’s been 103000 infected since it began. Almost 60000 people have recovered from it It’s not doubling every two days He said in the UK which it pretty much is.29/02 - 2102/03 - 3904/03 - 8506/03 - 163We're up to 206 today.
Quote from: DonnyOsmond on March 07, 2020, 03:57:00 pmQuote from: dickos1 on March 07, 2020, 02:52:50 pmQuote from: BillyStubbsTears on March 07, 2020, 09:54:04 amTRB.That is coming. Very quickly.Currently,the number of cases in the UK is doubling every two days. If that continues unchecked, we'd be fast approaching a million cases by the end of the month, and at 10million cases by mid-April.I've no idea if it WILL keep on doubling at that rate without steps to check it, but if I were in charge and it did keep on increasing like that into the middle of next week, I'd be introducing some pretty draconian steps.It wouldn't surprise me at all if this is the last weekend with a full set of football matches played in front of live crowds.There’s 42000 people currently infected, there’s been 103000 infected since it began. Almost 60000 people have recovered from it It’s not doubling every two days He said in the UK which it pretty much is.29/02 - 2102/03 - 3904/03 - 8506/03 - 163We're up to 206 today.08/03 - 273