Coronavirus: Please use this thread for all COVID19 talk!

https://www.joe.co.uk/sport/premier...two-week-break-amid-rising-covid-cases-259950

Here we go, 2 week football break

 

Not happening yet. Just discussing it.

 

It'll happen, unfortunately. Just hope it wont last as long as last years pause did, which also started as 2 weeks.

 

Think it's pretty much a given. 53 thousand cases and rising is a bit bigger than football unfortunately.

 

It's probably necessary.

There are also potentially long-term ramifications of playing through it, frankly. A top college basketball player collapsed on the court a few weeks ago and had to be resuscitated. He spent several days in a medically-induced coma, and his basketball career is probably over. He was later diagnosed with inflammation of the heart...he had previously gotten COVID while attending team activities (college sports did appallingly, which is perhaps not a shock given that it's a massively profitable system built on the backs of unpaid teenagers), and myocarditis is a known side effect.

He'd have a great deal of difficulty proving cause-and-effect. But if you get a player who contracts COVID in a team environment at a time when the rest of the country is locked down, and -- god forbid -- has a similar sort of medical event? That's going to get very, very costly for the PL.

 

Beware of the latest scam.......bloody ****ers

 

Boris Johnson is set to delay secondary schools reopening in January by a week.

Such a pointless exercise

 

I don't think this tier system is working very well

 

It would work reasonably well if you did what Australia did, and simply block all movement between regions with different levels of viral spread. Just declaring things to be tiered really didn't accomplish anything.

 

They've given Tier 4 a week in mist areas. A whole week, that's not enough time to see if theres an impact or not.

Not that I want to defend those incompetent twats mind.

 

Hardly encouraging them by putting a factual comment on here. And yes, they need shooting.

 

You can do that in a continent the size of Australia. Impossible in a small island with a population like ours; unless you impose martial law, which would be wholly unacceptable to most people (including me).

 

We did it in Canada, sealing the border between (some) individual provinces. It absolutely helps that there are fewer major transit arteries, but it took neither martial law nor anything other than political will. The places that did so did well, and if every place had done likewise, we wouldn't need to worry about such restrictions anymore.

 

Significant change with easier to use Oxford over Pfizer: millions to get their first jab to extend protection before all receive the second - gap between the two visits will be up to 12 weeks.

 

The storage conditions make it easier to move this one around.
The Pfizer one is currently sent to specific hubs and anyone receiving the jab MUST go to that hub to receive it, as poor storage/temperature controls moving it on to other sites could nullify it’s effect.
This is a major reason why care homes aren’t getting the blanket support, in this area.
The Oxford vaccine should change this as even if sent to a central hub, it can then be forwarded to individual GP surgeries to roll out, similar, but on a much larger scale, to the flu jab.
It will also be possible for doctors/nurses to then visit care homes and administer the vaccine to residents and staff alike.
Fingers crossed that deliveries are spot on.

 

I am wishing for a speedy and safe rollout, life perhaps in the summer can get back to some kind of normal.

 

But the government didn't just put areas in tiers, they also appealed to people's common sense, so what could possibly go wrong? The captain of the Titanic was probably using his common sense when he carried on into the iceberg.

 

London was the first place to go into Tier 4.
8 million people live in London. There are 6 motorways and 8 terminus stations linking the capital with the rest of the country. How you gonna keep that lot down on the farm, ma?