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Discussion in 'Plymouth' started by Plymborn, Jun 19, 2016.

  1. notDistantGreen

    notDistantGreen Well-Known Member

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    The Australian F1 GtP has been postponed not much more than 12 hours before it was to start.

    UEFA are to discuss postponing the 2020 Euro Championship until 2021.

    La Liga has been suspended. Three Leicester City players have self isolated and the Man City v Arsenal game in mid week was called off after some Arsenal players came into contact with the owner of Nottingham Forest & Olympiakos.

    Tensions are reported between the Premier League and the EFL with the former apparently agitating for games to be played behind closed doors and presumably shown live on TV whereas the EFL fears clubs will go broke if they are forced to shut the turnstiles.

    Meanwhile, PSG fans reacted to being locked out of their game against Borussia Dortmund by merely gathering outside the stadium and letting off fireworks.

    I'm not confident we'll get to see Argyle promoted....
     
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  2. sensiblegreeny

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    I really can't see the point in cancelling all of these gatherings of people. People get on trains, buses, go to supermarkets, cinemas and a whole lot of other places in numbers. You would have to stop people going to work in places that have more than a certain number of employees for example. Does anyone seriously believe that people won't gather somewhere as with the German crowd. This epidemic will spread as far and as fast as it wants to with or without the help of man. The prevention methods are just Governments trying to show the masses they have a grip on something when they haven't and are doing all they can so it's not their fault. I mean what is the best and pretty much only advice so far................wash your hands whilst singing happy birthday twice. Really?
     
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  3. Plymborn

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    Premier games this weekend have been okeyed to go ahead......then we hear that Mikel Arteta Arsenal's manager has gone down with it and the whole Arsenal squad have been all put into isolation....so what happens there then.....you can be sure Brighton won't want any players from Arsenal turning up to play them.....not any good them playing behind closed doors.....the spectators can turn up .....but keep the players away.
     
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    If anyone asked him or you or me who we had been in contact with or in close proximity for the last week how many would we be able to name. What shops have you been in, who was in there when you did. Who did they contact when they had contact with you. It just goes on and on and there is simply no way anyone can stop this spreading. It will spread and it will burn itself out in the end. Won't be any help from mankind to stop the spread or kill it in it's tracks. Those that will die from it will die from it just to chuck in a morbid bit. If you worked in a Care Home would you lock yourself in for a month with the inmates if you had a family at home who could be reliant on you for care. If all the kids stayed off school would they cease to mix on the outside. It's plain bonkers to expect any of that. The Government is covering it's own arse with all this stuff and that's about as effective as they will get.
     
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  5. notDistantGreen

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    I hate to say it but I think the Government is taking a sensible approach, balancing the long term management of the outbreak with the needs of the economy and crucially avoiding political stunts to impress the gutter press.

    This is of course because they are listening to the experts. Shame the didn't and won't do the same in relation to Brexit.
     
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  6. Plymborn

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    I expect closing grounds to spectators will soon be upon us.....we've been told in the past that Premiership clubs live on Sky etc money more than gate receipts.....Div 1 & 2 depend in some cases solely on gate receipts to cut down their loses.

    The question that I think of is that season ticket sales have probably already been used by lower league clubs to live day by day.....will season ticket refunds for closed ground matches be returned to fans who will be locked out of those games.....or will deductions for next seasons ST's costs be easier to do and more helpful to the club......and will the really green fans just write off their missed games to help the clubs financial state.....I'm sure sensible will help out there...<yikes>.

    ST holders could get free TV coverage from the clubs website....better than nothing of course....the big benefit there is they won't have to buy a Ginsters at half time or something resembling a tea/coffee/soup/bovril etc.
     
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  7. notDistantGreen

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    I doubt clubs can pay money back: that income will have been used in setting the playing budget.

    Will the season ever start again? Government predictions seem to be that the virus won't peak for 2 months.
     
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  8. notDistantGreen

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    I'd like to know why this has been done. It's contrary to Government advice. Has the EFL caved in to the EPL?

    I understand closing the hospitality facilities: it's been said indoor gatherings do risk spreading huge disease but that outdoor events pose a low risk.
     
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  9. sensiblegreeny

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    I'm in the category of high risk having had a heart problem a few years back and my age. I think this is just wrong. I have given my opinion previously so no need to state it again. Whilst this is going on then nobody has to explain anything else they do in the World. Where have all the protest gone I wonder................
     
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  10. Plymborn

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    Some bright so-called expert commented that Coronavirus could be an annual occurrence....Oh thank you very much for your wisdom pal.

    I have visions of people driving to the M25 and abandoning their cars and running onto the motorway to play with the traffic....only to find there ain't any cars to play with.

    New game being played down the supermarket this weekend....how many nine packs of toilet paper can you carry to the car without dropping any....if you drop any ....those packs become fair game for other shoppers following them to pick up and run off with.

    Every Saturday I go to Sainsbury at 7am and do a small weekend shop.....today I arrived and got the feeling that I'm the last person in Orpington to have arrived....all the hoovering up merchants have beaten me there....haven't bought any toilet rolls for over a fortnight....this could be a problem soon....I wonder if people are stealing them out of the public loos....visions of an attendant standing outside giving each person one piece of toilet tissue on entry.

    If you go to a different supermarket and don't know where the toilet rolls and hand wipes are...no need to worry....just following the the arm and leg flaying crowd who are fighting over the last pack or two left.

    If it wasn't so sad it would be funny.....we're all doomed Mr Mainwaring....comes to mined.

    With thousands of people working from home it is said that scammers will have a field day breaking into company websites through less protected home computers and fraud will be sky high.
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    Looking up the stats (that's what I do)

    My area...London Borough of Bromley....population of 331,096....has FOUR cases of Coronavirus.

    Plymouth....population of 263,100.....has ONE case of Caronavirus.

    Figures quoted at March 13th.
     
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    Does that figure include plympton, plymstock and surrounding areas?
     
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  13. notDistantGreen

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    I despair really. I watched the recent press conference with Johnson and the two experts, who gave a clear and convincing explanation of what they were doing and why.

    In essence, they were reserving the most draconian measures until the outbreak really started to ramp up in perhaps a month's time. This was on the basis that they would be quite disruptive to ordinary life and so could not be sustained for a long period. Better then to hold them back until they had maximum effect. In particular. school closures were ruled out because children were least likely to be badly affected, taking them out of school wouldn't stop them mixing, not least because parents would have to make other arrangements while they were at work. In the worst case, grandparents would be asked to babysit: exactly the ones at highest risk.

    In the Q&A session, Laura Kuenssberg had a reasonable question answered but this was then followed by some hack from a tabloid looking for a shock horror headline. All her readers wanted to know she said was how many would die.

    It was explained that with so few data points available so early in the outbreak it was impossible to give an accurate estimate and giving out random numbers would create unnecessary concern. It was known who needed most protection: older people, those with existing respiratory or heart problems and those with impaired immune systems. They would be the first priority and measures were being planned to slow and reduce the spread of infection in the most effective way.

    The journalist wouldn't have it. That was all too complicated and her readers demanded one simple number.

    How they didn't punch her, I don't know.

    The amount of crap circulating on social media is literally incredible, starting with the proposition that this isn't a simple virus, it's germ warfare initiated deliberately by the Chinese. I've seen a post this morning (from an Argye fan) saying that Chinese should be exterminated and urging Trump to launch a nuclear strike in retaliation. He's stupid enough to do it too.

    I despair.
     
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    Are those areas part of the 263,100 quoted as being part of Plymouth.?
     
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    Yes they are plym.

    I have found today absolute agony. I have wandered around this afternoon genuinely looking for something to get interested in and found nothing at all. I then decided that watching paint dry might be an option and was going to paint a fence. It started drizzling as soon as I went outside. I am never going to survive a couple of months of this. Normally if no football is on say for the closed season there is something else to take it's place. I put the Sky sport news channel on. They were talking endlessly about.............................Coronavirus. AAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!
     
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    Amazon announce that world-wide they will be employing an extra 100,000 staff because of the demands of Coronavirus.....another nail in the high street collapse.

    I expect supermarkets will be employing more home delivery staff soon as well....a sterile way of not mixing with the world out there....but will your delivery be sterile when it comes in your front door....who knows.....and will you just have to accept what they give you as stocks get stretched.
     
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    Eldest grandson (17yrs and nearly 3 months) was supposed to be taking his driving test tomorrow (Thurs)....received a text at 9.45 pm last night telling him that it is cancelled....Test Centre closing down until Coronavirus situation improves.....he was gutted.....driving would have been the safest way for him to get around at present....his 6th form has already been closed down.
     
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  18. notDistantGreen

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    Well it's all very well the retail giants telling us what a great job they are doing: but a good proportion of Amazon's stuff is unavailable and I've just spent all morning trying to do the weekend shop at 3 different supermarkets.

    Panic buyers should be shot but the likes of Tesco should be able to do more than they are to keep shelves stocked. When they have no fresh vegetables, no dry or chilled pasta, no rice, no toilet rolls, no fresh meat, no painkillers, no tinned vegetables, no cooking oil, no fresh fish, no cheese, limited varieties of fresh fruit, no eggs, no flour and limited availability of bread, I take exception to be told I can't buy 4 bottles of wine, two white for tonight and two red for Sunday. Somebody's had it away with more than 3 of things to reduce them to that situation.

    Anyway, on the bright side, three of Argyle games are available to watch in full and for free. You do need to register, but not to pay:

    https://www.pafc.co.uk/news/2020/march/full-match-replay-argyle-2-stevenage-1/

    https://www.pafc.co.uk/news/2020/march/full-match-replay-salford-city-2-argyle-3/

    https://www.pafc.co.uk/news/2020/march/full-match-replay-crewe-a/

    If you are clever you can probably put them up on your TV,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
     
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    I've enjoyed being part of your prediction competition this season
    Just want to say to all on here to keep safe and look forward to resuming when we get through this
     
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    Oh and to top it all, my lovely, hard working, organised student of a daughter has now been thrown out of school suddenly without a proper goodbye to her friends and will now have her A levels judged at the whim of her teachers.

    At least she doesn't have to face the exams, it's true, but nevertheless, I feel sorry for her, her cohort have had the lot: the first year to take all their GCSE's in the new format and now this.
     
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