Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[JLW]

No mate, I cant.

The only thing I can think that has created the spike is the kids going back to School.

It’s quite possible it could be that mate, but from what we’re getting fed it’s mass gatherings of any sort that causes it.
None of it makes any sense to me hence why I think the way I do.

look at the football for instance teams getting changed in the Park end car park to socially distance, yet 10 mins later they’re spitting screaming, shouting and mauling each during the game! WTF

 

[COYBL25]

Military v North Face Ninjas.

I like it.

 

[Goat]

It’s quite possible it could be that mate, but from what we’re getting fed it’s mass gatherings of any sort that causes it.
None of it makes any sense to me hence why I think the way I do.

look at the football for instance teams getting changed in the Park end car park to socially distance, yet 10 mins later they’re spitting screaming, shouting and mauling each during the game! WTF

I think its pretty clear these Tory rats haven't got a clue what they are doing.

 

[JLW]

I think its pretty clear these Tory rats haven't got a clue what they are doing.

That we can agree on

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Got a feeling its going to kick off in a few western societies over the coming months between protesters and governments.

You can sort of understand the point of view of the younger folk at risk of losing jobs/businesses when they have little chance of being seriously ill with the virus.

I know people will say thats selfish from their perspective but ultimately people largely care for themselves and their families first, with society and everyone else second.

 

[davek]

It's not not being able to go to the match (or the pub, or the gym etc) which gets me, it's how any of the clubs/businesses etc affected get back up and running, in a time where it's so uncertain.

We can't live in fear for the rest of our lives, it's daft. So there has to be a plan to get out of it. That's on the governments and their advisors.

It takes a political will to use fiscal and monetary levers of the state to underwrite our way of life. This lot did that to a degree in the first wave, but we need to shift over to big government as a matter of course to guarantee our institutions come through this in tact.

 

[summerisle]

Got a feeling its going to kick off in a few western societies over the coming months between protesters and governments.

You can sort of understand the point of view of the younger folk at risk of losing jobs/businesses when they have little chance of being seriously ill with the virus.

I know people will say thats selfish from their perspective but ultimately people largely care for themselves and their families first, with society and everyone else second.

Do not families include older people anymore ?

 

[davek]

I think fans in grounds is probably pie in the sky ah the moment so I can see where you’re coming from but I can also empathise with those whose clubs might go under .

I appreciate thousands of deaths are clearly more important that football but it’s also easy to dismiss if when it’s not our club. We seem fine but if Everton were in danger of folding the idea that I wouldn’t care , be emotional or clammer around for a solution is fanciful . This club has been part of my life since the day I was born , my fondest family memories are laced with Everton , it connects all disparate strands of my family , the vast majority of my friendship group are blues I could go on . I’m not dismissing covid nor saying it doesn’t matter and to hell with the health risks but I am thinking how I’d feel if Everton didn’t come out the other side . You know like I think about how people cope with losing their jobs , businesses or struggling with their mental health . Reading your posts I sometimes think not to troubled by huge swathes of others when making decisions or pronouncements must hugely liberating.

You let yourself down with your final sentence, which was an unnecessary attack.

To your (substantive) point: let's not start crying crocodile tears for lower league clubs now, because by and large we never have up to this point - we in the PL have been blinkered on our own competition. And Everton will never be under threat of going down under this or any other crisis of this nature. So that's not any real or present danger.

Should government steop in to preserve our way of life by financially underwriting our lower league clubs? Yes, they should. And that can easily be done. It takes a will to view football clubs as our cultural beating heart as a nation, that will is not there with these murderers thiugh. Their view of society is that it doesn't exist.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Boris "We've reached a perilous turning point" so I'm going to bring in these new rules that will make absolutely no difference.

 

[Jebus_lives]

I thought he said police could draw on Military assistance to free up police resources.

In practice I imagine it's mostly non front line policing.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Do not families include older people anymore ?

The thing is mate my little lad comes first - he and the rest of the children are our future and for me we have an obligation by hook or by crook to ensure they get their education and have opportunities of a good future and not some ecomomic apocalypse.

My nan is nearly 80, has a heart condition and thankfully has had a good life.

I'll be devastated if she was to catch this - but at the same time im not short sighted enough to not accept that a bad dose of the flu or her ticker getting worse, cancer, dementia etc. wont also potentially be fatal to her.

Sadly in this pandemic we are thinking about everyone but the kids and what future they are gonna have if we destroy the economy/their education.

 

[Blues Harp]

Got a feeling its going to kick off in a few western societies over the coming months between protesters and governments.

You can sort of understand the point of view of the younger folk at risk of losing jobs/businesses when they have little chance of being seriously ill with the virus.

I know people will say thats selfish from their perspective but ultimately people largely care for themselves and their families first, with society and everyone else second.

Logan's Run lad....what's your cut off age for termination?

 

[orchard]

I thought he said police could draw on Military assistance to free up police resources.

In practice I imagine it's mostly non front line policing.

Answering telephone calls from snitches?

 

[orchard]

Logan's Run lad....what's your cut off age for termination?

No hope for you lid x

 

[Jebus_lives]

Answering telephone calls from snitches?

Could well be. They had tornado pilots doing logistics in April.