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 Rudi Hedman  Caterham 11 Mar 20 8.55am |
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U.K. interest rates cut by 0.5%, from 0.75% to 0.25%. Get ready.
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 11 Mar 20 9.13am |
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I see the Italians have their priorities in order. Complete lockdown apart from Italian teams playing home matches vs European opposition. Getafe are refusing to travel to Inter Milan for Thursday’s Europa League match. Man c v Arsenal tonight postponed due to Olympiakos owner testing positive and a group of Arsenal players meeting him 12 days ago. Their 2 week self isolation ends on Friday. Edited by Rudi Hedman (11 Mar 2020 11.03am)
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| Painter Croydon 11 Mar 20 10.49am |
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle
It is noticeable by reading the threads how old a large number of HOL regular members are with many of us in their sixties and seventies. If I remember correctly there are also quite a few of us who have medical issues so the likelihood of several of us contracting this virus is quite high. Let's hope that we all manage to get through it unscathed You have said you are in the endangered group. What is misleading about all this media frenzy is that at least 18,000 people die in the UK each year from flu already, nobody says a word. Now we have this new strain of flu, which kills the elderly with under lying health issues and now the world panics. Not undermining the issue, but the futility of buying a years worth of big rolls is strange.
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ASCPFC  Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 11 Mar 20 10.54am |
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I have a sore throat and a temperature but feel fine. I rang work and was told in no uncertain terms not to go in. There's not even any snooker on the tele. I was just going to go to work. There must be plenty of people in my position.
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| Rudi Hedman Caterham 11 Mar 20 11.08am |
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Originally posted by Painter
You have said you are in the endangered group. What is misleading about all this media frenzy is that at least 18,000 people die in the UK each year from flu already, nobody says a word. Now we have this new strain of flu, which kills the elderly with under lying health issues and now the world panics. Not undermining the issue, but the futility of buying a years worth of big rolls is strange. Covid-19 spreads faster and wider and kills quicker. It isn’t the same and anyone thinking it is and not washing sufficiently will be in denial and could be part of the problem, just like people stockpiling hygiene essentials.
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| Midlands Eagle 11 Mar 20 11.42am |
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Originally posted by Painter
You have said you are in the endangered group. What is misleading about all this media frenzy is that at least 18,000 people die in the UK each year from flu already, nobody says a word. Now we have this new strain of flu, which kills the elderly with under lying health issues and now the world panics. Statistics claim that on average 600 people die every year in the UK from complications arising from flu not 18,000 Additionally most at risk people are offered a vaccination every year against flu which seems to be quite effective - it certainly is in my case anyway
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| Sportyteacher London 11 Mar 20 11.45am |
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All schools; cinemas; museums etc in Poland now closed due to Coronavirus and yet this is a country with only 25 cases so far reported and no fatalities (at the time of making this comment) : Link: [Link] Link: [Link] Is our Government guilty of being REACTIVE rather than being PROACTIVE?
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| ASCPFC Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 11 Mar 20 11.47am |
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Originally posted by Sportyteacher
All schools; cinemas; museums etc in Poland now closed due to Coronavirus and yet this is a country with only 25 cases so far reported and no fatalities (at the time of making this comment) : Link: [Link] Link: [Link] Is our Government guilty of being REACTIVE rather than being PROACTIVE? I take it you want some time off.
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| W12 11 Mar 20 12.08pm | |
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Coronavirus is roughly 30 times more lethal than a standard flu virus, can survive in the air for some 30 minutes and appears to survive on hard surfaces for potentially weeks. Clearly this is a biological weapon and not just another seasonal virus. 200,000 people are currently attending the Cheltenham Festival. What a joke.
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| Pete53 Hassocks 11 Mar 20 12.10pm |
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I tend to be of the opinion "better safe than sorry". We still don't know enough about this virus to be casually dismissive of it. If we don't take robust precautionary action then we could regret it. It's easy just to dismiss a few thousand deaths if it is happening to other people. If it is your family or friends dying then it's a different matter. It is not a strain of flu as some people suggest, although many of the symptoms are similar. If we can contain it this season then there should be a vaccine available should it reappear next winter. And the good news is that the Covid 19 virus is, according to medical sources, unlikely to mutate in the way flu viruses do.
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 Cucking Funt Clapham on the Back 11 Mar 20 12.20pm |
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle
It is noticeable by reading the threads how old a large number of HOL regular members are with many of us in their sixties and seventies. If I remember correctly there are also quite a few of us who have medical issues so the likelihood of several of us contracting this virus is quite high. Let's hope that we all manage to get through it unscathed I'm on the cusp of the high risk age group and I also have a chronic underlying medical condition. Perhaps now is my time. Life - overrated, I say.
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| Sportyteacher London 11 Mar 20 1.11pm |
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Originally posted by ASCPFC
I take it you want some time off. Bizarrely not. But children are unequivocally prime spreaders of viruses...
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