Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Not sure if it should be in here or in random irritations but Gareth Southgate has really set me off tonight having just read his comments on the BBC sport website. Apparently footballers are being made to play all over Europe and they should be jumping the queue to be vaccinated. In fact the game could save the NHS money by buying the vaccines and administering them. Sorry, no. Young fit and healthy, back if the line with everyone else in that group. Don't want to play then don't. Apologies but in my current mood that really hit a nerve.
 
Ethan said:
No longer required, but no harm in doing it. If they get changing supplies, easier to have one policy to organise staff.
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When my wife went they said if she was driving 15 mins which she wasn't so they sent her away straight after
 
Was posted elsewhere, thankfully so far we aren't seeing a surge in new cases in UK since the schools opened more - still early days but encouraging.
Only have to look across to mainland Europe to remind us where we've been, and the potential risk. Last couple of days:
France, Poland, Italy, Germany recording between 38K and 15K new cases a day.
Hoping ours remains low as we come out of partial lockdown ?
 
GB72 said:
Not sure if it should be in here or in random irritations but Gareth Southgate has really set me off tonight having just read his comments on the BBC sport website. Apparently footballers are being made to play all over Europe and they should be jumping the queue to be vaccinated. In fact the game could save the NHS money by buying the vaccines and administering them. Sorry, no. Young fit and healthy, back if the line with everyone else in that group. Don't want to play then don't. Apologies but in my current mood that really hit a nerve.
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Not a very smart comment by Gareth, yes whilst I agree with his reasoning that in theory it makes sense , football has been lucky to be allowed to carry on. Imo all international and European games should have been banned with travel just for local domestic games .. I get that if footballers were done sooner they would pose less risk but if you cancel international football same effect

I guess one costs more than the other!
 
pauljames87 said:
Not a very smart comment by Gareth, yes whilst I agree with his reasoning that in theory it makes sense , football has been lucky to be allowed to carry on. Imo all international and European games should have been banned with travel just for local domestic games .. I get that if footballers were done sooner they would pose less risk but if you cancel international football same effect

I guess one costs more than the other!
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In no particular order I would be looking at teachers, emergency services, supermarket staff, retail staff, hospitality workers, delivery drivers to name just a few who are arguably at greater risk and have a far stronger case to be bumped up the list. Many of these have proved essential whereas, aside from the entertainment value, where is the national benefit to football keeping going. Then they bring the money card up, we can pay for it to save the NHS money. Most ill judged statement that I have seen for some time and one I am very disappointed by.
 
GB72 said:
In no particular order I would be looking at teachers, emergency services, supermarket staff, retail staff, hospitality workers, delivery drivers to name just a few who are arguably at greater risk and have a far stronger case to be bumped up the list. Many of these have proved essential whereas, aside from the entertainment value, where is the national benefit to football keeping going. Then they bring the money card up, we can pay for it to save the NHS money. Most ill judged statement that I have seen for some time and one I am very disappointed by.
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At this stage, despite the short term supply shortages, the rollout is going so fast that it could slow things down to segment into al these groups. The issue with the younger people is a mixture of risk and transmissibility, those who spread it around are probably the biggest priority, whereas with the older groups, it was more focussed on individual risk and effect on the NHS.
 
Ethan said:
At this stage, despite the short term supply shortages, the rollout is going so fast that it could slow things down to segment into al these groups. The issue with the younger people is a mixture of risk and transmissibility, those who spread it around are probably the biggest priority, whereas with the older groups, it was more focussed on individual risk and effect on the NHS.
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Totally agree, not advocating any group getting priority but was rather just putting forward a few groups who I see as more essential and at risk than footballers who seem to thing that they have a justification to be vaccinated ahead of everyone else.
 
Some interesting podcasts on Covid for those who don't get enough here:

How to Vaccinate the World (BBC) - done by the guy who also does the More Or Less podcast on numbers in the news: HTVTW
The Jab (The Economist) - slightly earnest at times, but quite informative: The Jab
Covid Confidential (BBC) - 2 episodes, this is more of a lot back at the way things evolved, a bit more of that which cannot be mentioned here: CC
 
I watched a really crap b movie last night called Sars 29. The plot was that a virus spread roind the world in 2020. We thought we'd beaten it but in 2024 it suddenly reappeared and very quickly killed everybody who had caugjt it and survived the first time round. A happy film to say the least!?
 
SaintHacker said:
I watched a really crap b movie last night called Sars 29. The plot was that a virus spread roind the world in 2020. We thought we'd beaten it but in 2024 it suddenly reappeared and very quickly killed everybody who had caugjt it and survived the first time round. A happy film to say the least!?
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Last year I watched a 2010 film called Contagion, scary it was very similar to this pandemic :eek:
 
SaintHacker said:
I watched a really crap b movie last night called Sars 29. The plot was that a virus spread roind the world in 2020. We thought we'd beaten it but in 2024 it suddenly reappeared and very quickly killed everybody who had caugjt it and survived the first time round. A happy film to say the least!?
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Sounds highly unlikely, although as we have heard, policy is informed by movies. I think the bit in Outbreak where they are ready to have the Air Force firebomb a small town which has cases of the virus in it should have been considered here too.
 
The spread of the virus at the end of the first of the recent Planet of the Ape trilogy had me thinking that our simian overlords would be in power by now (before any one starts, it is far too easy to make a political comment on that:))
 
If we go on fiction,
SPOILER WARNING
in Dan Brown’s book Inferno they were chasing a countdown to stop a virus. The twist in the book was that the countdown wasn’t to the release time but for full global penetration, and it wasn’t that long of a countdown.
In the movie they changed it all and Tom Hanks saved the world.
 
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