COVID - 19

[Stu255]

Errr...

This is a real thing, the stock market is fully crashing and that means crazy policy stuff is going to happen. Central Banks can't stop a virus, so governments are going to start experimenting with crazy laws.

For example...

Switzerland (a proper country that does boring sensible stuff) just banned any event that has more than 1,000 people attending... If that kind of policy becomes common, European football might not finish the season.

[forestfan]

And Liverpool’s title drought goes on

More likely I suspect is use of a closed-doors policy for big games, and if the situation worsens then Euro 2020 and next season may not start at all (giving everyone a nice long break in the run-up to the Qatar farce).

[Stu255]

I suspect having 100,000’s people move up and down the country every Saturday afternoon to sit together in tight groups of 20,000 is quite high on the list of things the government will ban should the virus take hold here.

Can the season finish before the inevitable ban?

[forestfan]

Well, as I said, they could play matches behind closed doors, at least then they can still be televised and the season potentially completed.

[Stu255]

And Liverpool’s title drought goes on

More likely I suspect is use of a closed-doors policy for big games, and if the situation worsens then Euro 2020 and next season may not start at all (giving everyone a nice long break in the run-up to the Qatar farce).

How many clubs would actually survive that?

Financially ruinous.

[blahblah]

And Liverpool’s title drought goes on

More likely I suspect is use of a closed-doors policy for big games, and if the situation worsens then Euro 2020 and next season may not start at all (giving everyone a nice long break in the run-up to the Qatar farce).

#drinkSolinstead

[raoul]

Errr...

This is a real thing, the stock market is fully crashing and that means crazy policy stuff is going to happen. Central Banks can't stop a virus, so governments are going to start experimenting with crazy laws.

For example...

Switzerland (a proper country that does boring sensible stuff) just banned any event that has more than 1,000 people attending... If that kind of policy becomes common, European football might not finish the season.

Might have to re think the FISO 20th birthday celebrations, given the size of crowd likely to accumulate.

[raoul]

on a more serious note, the Stock Market falls imply we might get closed borders for a while. Maybe even 2 weeks shutdown of everything, and we all self-isolate, a 24 hr curfew, the Army patrol the streets to enforce it.

Sounds over the top. And yet...

[Dot]

And Liverpool’s title drought goes on

More likely I suspect is use of a closed-doors policy for big games, and if the situation worsens then Euro 2020 and next season may not start at all (giving everyone a nice long break in the run-up to the Qatar farce).

already happening

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/51631954

[raoul]

Japanese authorities have announced that all schools in the country will be closed until 8 April in an effort to stem the spread of the virus.

[Stormrider]

Swiss Football league just announced thst the games of the highest two leagues are cancelled this weekend. That went fast now

[murf]

And Liverpool’s title drought goes on

More likely I suspect is use of a closed-doors policy for big games, and if the situation worsens then Euro 2020 and next season may not start at all (giving everyone a nice long break in the run-up to the Qatar farce).

How many clubs would actually survive that?

Financially ruinous.

TV money is better than no money (no games)... and all our foreign players going home to potentially spread/catch the virus (also Brit players going back to family in ither regions / on holiday etc).

Tighten borders and restrict travel sensibly.

People moan about Chinese dictators controlling the people but they are containing it well (now) and reducing the numbers contracting the virus.

Turning a blind eye or covering up (China early days, Iran) doesn't work. Open information and strict controls are the way forward.

Just hope they don't stop parkruns....

[raoul]

Switzerland borders hotspot Northern Italy. Clearly the situation in SE Asia is more problematic than here at present (I heard a dog has caught it from its owner...).

But. If Italy can get a problem then so can anywhere else.

As someone who works in a University with a very large proportion of overseas students, and who has the joy of travelling on the London transport system on a line that serves City Airport, I am finding myself touching nothing and trying to avoid the rush hour. Probably too cautious, but ...

[forestfan]

And Liverpool’s title drought goes on

More likely I suspect is use of a closed-doors policy for big games, and if the situation worsens then Euro 2020 and next season may not start at all (giving everyone a nice long break in the run-up to the Qatar farce).

How many clubs would actually survive that?

Financially ruinous.

They’d be bailed out, if necessary, either by Boris and Dom or the FA/sponsors.

[murf]

Switzerland borders hotspot Northern Italy. Clearly the situation in SE Asia is more problematic than here at present (I heard a dog has caught it from its owner...).

But. If Italy can get a problem then so can anywhere else.

As someone who works in a University with a very large proportion of overseas students, and who has the joy of travelling on the London transport system on a line that serves City Airport, I am finding myself touching nothing and trying to avoid the rush hour. Probably too cautious, but ...

Get out of London!

(But don't come here unless you've been through 24 days of quarantine and testing )

3 more UK cases today - all had been to Italy or Iran.
2 cases on Cycling's UAE tour yesterday. Both Italians.

Identifying hotspots and bringing in serious travel restrictions is the answer.

[Dot]

https://www.lse.co.uk/news/london-marke ... 4yji6.html

that was just 2 months ago.


Current price is down 1000 PTS to 6600

gonna affect everyone

[MoSe]

I hope my posting won't get quarantined
although I'm already self-restricting since long

[Stu255]

On the football front, Serie A will give us an indication.
They had 4 games postponed last weekend (due to virus) and 5 games in empty stadia this weekend.

Torino postponed just 3 hours before KO.


I expect Ben Crellin will be bald by June and the FPL season turns into a lottery.


But serious countries like Switzerland and Japan are making very big policy decisions such as blanket banning public events and closing schools for months on end.

[Aldershot Rejects]

Suspect CL & EL will suffer postponements before PL and given the tight timescales I'm not sure what happens. We also have an international break coming up - let's cancel that and put domestic games in there

[Dot]

North Korea 'shoots dead coronavirus patient' after he's 'seen at public baths'


North Korean leader Kim Jong-un quickly placed those returning from China in a quarantine. But according to reports an official was spotted breaching the order

A North Korean official has reportedly been executed after breaching the country's strict rules surrounding coronavirus.
Maniac leader Kim Jong-un had set the rules surrounding those who had returned from China, according to reports.

He then ordered them into a quarantine.
But according to Korean news outlet Wikitree and other outlets in the region, an official was executed after he was spotted at public baths.
The method of execution was by shooting, the report adds.
And the quarantine applied to individuals who had visited China in the past 30 days after the outbreak started there.

[TheRumourMill]

Feels like strange times we are living in at the moment, on one hand everything I am doing is perfectly normal; going to work, played football last night, going out for a meal tomorrow, etc. And yet I'm doing all this with the awareness that life could become very weird/restricted/just plain different at any point soon, and I'm watching the slow creep of a (hopefully temporary) different way of life sweeping its way across the world on a day by day basis.

Anyway, regarding FPL, I can see games being played behind closed doors as they are doing in Italy. I guess we can view whats going on in Serie A this weekend as a test bed for the PL. If it works out ok I don't see why they wouldn't bring that in here. The second more draconian step would be to postpone or cancel fixtures, I can only really see this happening if a match is scheduled in a city in lockdown/quarantine due to particulary prevalent amounts of the virus found within that city. Either that or a club itself finds itself with a positive test for Coronavirus within its playing staff.

[Dot]

Suspect CL & EL will suffer postponements before PL and given the tight timescales I'm not sure what happens. We also have an international break coming up - let's cancel that and put domestic games in there

It would seem MADNESS not to cancel the upcoming international break they are only poxy friendlies anyway.

[Dot]

for once I ain't booked a holiday abroad this year and certainly have no intention to do so now. Good luck to any unfortunate soul who has a suspected case and goes into a hospital abroad.

Good luck on seeing your insurance cover this... Jet2 and Tui haven't even fulfilled their contractual obligations to the recent sand storms victims in the Canarys for thousands of holidaymakers stranded at various airports.

[raoul]

Suspect CL & EL will suffer postponements before PL and given the tight timescales I'm not sure what happens. We also have an international break coming up - let's cancel that and put domestic games in there

It would seem MADNESS not to cancel the upcoming international break they are only poxy friendlies anyway.

completely agree. An obvious thing to do, but whoever loses out financially will no doubt delay/block the decision.

[forestfan]

Feels like strange times we are living in at the moment, on one hand everything I am doing is perfectly normal; going to work, played football last night, going out for a meal tomorrow, etc. And yet I'm doing all this with the awareness that life could become very weird/restricted/just plain different at any point soon, and I'm watching the slow creep of a (hopefully temporary) different way of life sweeping its way across the world on a day by day basis.

Anyway, regarding FPL, I can see games being played behind closed doors as they are doing in Italy. I guess we can view whats going on in Serie A this weekend as a test bed for the PL. If it works out ok I don't see why they wouldn't bring that in here. The second more draconian step would be to postpone or cancel fixtures, I can only really see this happening if a match is scheduled in a city in lockdown/quarantine due to particulary prevalent amounts of the virus found within that city. Either that or a club itself finds itself with a positive test for Coronavirus within its playing staff.

If/when it becomes widespread there’s a question of whether there are more general cancellations or if it’s just a case of let it burn itself out and try to carry on more or less as normal. Something like cancelling top level sporting events sends out a message that normal life is on hold, and will have an effect on public morale. The knock-on risk of those sort of measures is that that would lead to more economic damage, and perhaps more lives lost to things like food and medicine shortages than to the illness itself.

Trying to remember what happened with swine flu in 2009 - clearly that was a less deadly virus (perhaps to an extent because old people weren’t very susceptible to it) and seemed to take hold pretty quickly once it was known about, beyond the stage of trying to contain it.

[Dot]

Don't forget it was all prophesised nearly 40 years ago

Written by Dean Koontz, “The Eyes of Darkness” is a story about a mother who discovers her son Danny is being kept in a military facility after being infected with a man-made microorganism called “Wuhan-400”.



https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/12 ... weapon-spt

[RomynPG]

Don't forget it was all prophesised nearly 40 years ago

Written by Dean Koontz, “The Eyes of Darkness” is a story about a mother who discovers her son Danny is being kept in a military facility after being infected with a man-made microorganism called “Wuhan-400”.



https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/12 ... weapon-spt

Here’s what the books that “predicted” the Covid-19 coronavirus actually say

[blahblah]

Don't forget it was all prophesised nearly 40 years ago

Written by Dean Koontz, “The Eyes of Darkness” is a story about a mother who discovers her son Danny is being kept in a military facility after being infected with a man-made microorganism called “Wuhan-400”.



https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/12 ... weapon-spt

Here’s what the books that “predicted” the Covid-19 coronavirus actually say

Can I be the psychic one?

[Ironfist]

https://worldisraelnews.com/coronavirus ... YN1wND2tk2

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/scienc ... 020/02/27/

However if you are a BDS supporter, there always this; https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/ ... i5_Zna43Xs

[Dot]

Don't forget it was all prophesised nearly 40 years ago

Written by Dean Koontz, “The Eyes of Darkness” is a story about a mother who discovers her son Danny is being kept in a military facility after being infected with a man-made microorganism called “Wuhan-400”.



https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/12 ... weapon-spt

Here’s what the books that “predicted” the Covid-19 coronavirus actually say

But of course, but there is no denying that something that was written about back in 1981 has a hell of alot of similarities as to what is happening now, and to actually get the City of Wuhan correct is spooky.

Btw it wasnt just reported by the Daily Star, the net is awash with it. I got it on a watsapp a few weeks back.

Christ some people dont even believe that planes went into the twin towers.


Another extract from the book that I have on my original watsapp.

In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments.

Fortunately the treatments today are treating this with a good degree of success, but for some people it ain't.


Theres no denying at all that this book got a helluva lot right.