When do you think you will next play golf?

Ye Olde Boomer

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There is speculation that Massachusetts courses may soon open under specified conditions.
The seniors with whom I play, however, have been in touch by phone and email.
Few show any confidence about playing yet. The northeast is still being hammered with fatalities, and seniors have the highest risk.
 

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Great thread. We have a Dyson and the wife thinks we should have bought a shark. Not sure if anyone agrees with her.
As for playing golf the message has been stay home protect the NHS. From what I have seen out of my window most people have ignored this.
Then there is delivery after delivery by Royal Mail, supermarkets, Hermes, DPD, Yodel and then there are the fellas in normal vans and cars sticking parcels in porches whoever they are. Then people ask me how I am coping with isolation, it’s like Carnos circus up and down our street, where is the isolation?
I have spoken more to my neighbours in the last 5 weeks than previous 5 months albeit behind wheelie bins and fences.
So back to the question I will play golf when the government tells me I can. When they do I will play on my own and make up my own rules. So if you see a chap after lockdown tossing balls out of bunkers and gimmes at 6 foot from the hole. That will be me, enjoying the exercise, fresh air, nature and real self isolation...bliss.
 

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There is speculation that Massachusetts courses may soon open under specified conditions.
The seniors with whom I play, however, have been in touch by phone and email.
Few show any confidence about playing yet. The northeast is still being hammered with fatalities, and seniors have the highest risk.
Stay safe boomer.
 

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BoJo has said we are past the peak, the R number is below 1, what kind of numbers do YOU suggest before restrictions are eased in any way ?


Personally speaking over 650 deaths in a day sounds too much.

We are teetering under an R1 of 1 after being locked down for month. I'm no expert but surely that rises again pretty quickly once we come out from under our rock.

When and how I dont know. I'm not paid the big bucks to make that call.
 

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It's inevitable cases will rise but you can't lock down forever, the whole point of the lock down was to flatten the curve and protect the NHS, this has been done and has been successful.

It only takes an idiot to think coming out of lock down would be back as we were, that's just not gonna happen what is scary is there will be some out there that think everything is hunky dory and good to go, the family two doors down from me for one, I'm not even sure they are aware of it the amount of visitors they've had.
 

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As lock down is released, more people will come into contact with others. Anyone unknowingly infected will have more chances to infect more people. Who will in turn meet more people..........
Only when universal testing can show that no one is infected should lock down be lifted fully (ie social distancing obsolete)
 

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Personally speaking over 650 deaths in a day sounds too much.

We are teetering under an R1 of 1 after being locked down for month. I'm no expert but surely that rises again pretty quickly once we come out from under our rock.

When and how I dont know. I'm not paid the big bucks to make that call.


There is a separation between deaths and the R number, many deaths will lag behind the point of catching it by 2-3 weeks particularly given time on a ventilator or will be for the very vulnerable in care homes for example where I expect you may have high deaths even where the R number is lower in that setting.

The R number will be looking at rates of infection currently and therefore can still be lower than 1 as cases are reducing - it's just we are reducing from a very high number of cases hence the deaths.

If they can keep that R number (think they mentioned it's currently between 0.6 and 0.8) lower so the cases fall further it then gives them a better chance of testing and track/tracing when isolation is partially lifted which just wouldn't have been possible at the start given testing capacity and knowledge of the virus at that stage.

That's my non-qualified, very basic understanding, anyway.
 
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