Could they void the PL due to the Coronavirus? | No | Resuming June 17th

NBA is suspended now. Seems only a matter of time a Premier L league player tests positive and they’ll have to suspend the league. It is super silly that they will wait for players to be exposed to coronavirus before taking an action. Id be perfectly fine if United withdrew from the league for rest of the season to protect the players. Just because these players are super fit does not guarantee that they won’t be critically affected in case of an outbreak.
 
Maluco said:
Is there something to be said for the death rate being artificially higher because of undiagnosed patients?

I was wondering today if more people have maybe had mild versions of the disease, and assumed it was the cold or sniffles and just gotten on with things?

Presumably the death rate will still be very high, but I was wondering if it’s possible that the death rate could be slightly lower because it doesn’t account for mild, unrecorded cases that went under the radar?
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On the flip side, people who have sadly died from the disease got sick 7 days ago on an average. So if you do the math where you divide total deaths by confirmed cases 7 days ago, the death rate would be far greater than 2%. Scientists use this stat often during a virus breakout but report the conservative number out of the two.
 
The NBA has been suspended indefinitely. As we have seen since January 1st - every country sequentially goes through the exact same thing. It's not 'if' it's when. It's inevitable. In the next few days half the Juventus team will be confirmed with corona virus. People will be losing their mind over ronaldo and the CL/EPL will be pulled for the season.

I give it a week
 
Maluco said:
Is there something to be said for the death rate being artificially higher because of undiagnosed patients?

I was wondering today if more people have maybe had mild versions of the disease, and assumed it was the cold or sniffles and just gotten on with things?

Presumably the death rate will still be very high, but I was wondering if it’s possible that the death rate could be slightly lower because it doesn’t account for mild, unrecorded cases that went under the radar?
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Children have been confirmed to carry mild to relatively minimal symptoms when they contract COVID 19. In fact, their symptoms are so mild that a lot of these kids are being brushed off as their usual monthly cold and they're are the ones really infecting a lot of the adults that are getting seriously sick by it. The number of kids infected is severely underdiagnosed/reported.
 
RedCurry said:
NBA is suspended now. Seems only a matter of time a Premier L league player tests positive and they’ll have to suspend the league. It is super silly that they will wait for players to be exposed to coronavirus before taking an action. Id be perfectly fine if United withdrew from the league for rest of the season to protect the players. Just because these players are super fit does not guarantee that they won’t be critically affected in case of an outbreak.
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Also the fact that these players could contaminate the clubs' staff, their families, the fans etc etc ...
 
If we end up with a major lockdown across the world, we are going to see another baby boom.
 
bushyzor said:
Not sure what medical advice or "common sense experts" (whatever that is, not sure how you get this qualification) you're listening to if you think my comment is out of line. All of the medical experts you should be following are telling people to remain calm not panic and just wash your hands.
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Yeah, countries on lockdown, WHO declaring the virus as pandemic, alarming spread rate, schools, unis closed, mass events cancelled everywhere, and that's just the beginning.. All of it fake news.

Keep calm and wash your hands. It will eventually go away.

Christ on a bike.
 
Maluco said:
Is there something to be said for the death rate being artificially higher because of undiagnosed patients?

I was wondering today if more people have maybe had mild versions of the disease, and assumed it was the cold or sniffles and just gotten on with things?

Presumably the death rate will still be very high, but I was wondering if it’s possible that the death rate could be slightly lower because it doesn’t account for mild, unrecorded cases that went under the radar?
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The same could be said of of flu. A lot of people with flu might not even go to the doctor about it and just get better by themselves.
 
Pexbo said:
If we end up with a major lockdown across the world, we are going to see another baby boom.
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Surely people won't be wanting to have kids in this uncertain environment. Or do you think there will be be lots of accidents?
 
Surely, the safety of fans are as important as the players. The fans deserves more protection, and there should be no compromise on their safety. Football and sports itself is all artificial, and they aren't important at all in reality...
 
Sounds like today's cobra meeting will be huge.
Rumours all football to be closed doors jobs and talk of schools shutting and wfh being recommended.
 
Gazzetta is saying that according to the Times all Premier Leagues matches going forward will be played in empty stadiums.

Surely a matter time before a player or two have been exposed, forcing teams to self isolate and then it will impossible to play games.

This season is done, I hope Liverpool haven’t mathematically won it before it gets suspended...
 
Finn MacCool said:
Trump has been trumping.

Trump banned all flights from EU into States for 30 days. He’s blaming them for not acting quickly enough and putting clusters of cases in USA down to European travellers.
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His handling of this has been an utter disgrace. The US are the ones to keep an eye on here, nevermind Italy, Spain, Germany, the UK, France etc. The numbers coming out of the US are eye-watering and they allowed this to fester for the past six weeks whilst refusing to test people. A complete shitshow.
 
Even Henry Winter is tripping over his own feet, clutching his pearls and telling English football to suspend the season for a month, whilst also telling them to follow the advice of experts... who have of course briefed that the risk of them continuing has been acceptable until now:



Henry, if you think this is going to be in a better place in a month’s time, I’m not sure what to say. Think September.

Suspension is coming, but you get no benefit doing it alone without part of wider interventions.
 
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No one actually knows how long this will go on for, what they do know is need slow the infection rate as much as possible so hospitals can cope.

it's impossible to stop it because it's spread by asymptomatic carriers.

Grim times for football. Guess there could be the odd silver lining, from football perspective anyway.
 
The NBA just pulled the plug on Basketball season.

This is going to happen now with the PL.
Common sense has to prevail.
Fcuk football to be honest
 
Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish First Minister) making an interesting point this morning. Whilst the current advice they’re receiving from experts suggests stopping mass gatherings will have a minimal effect at the moment, it’s the police and medical resources at these events that are needed that are hard to justify keeping them open whilst the nation becomes stretched.
 
PSG fans made it immediately clear that playing behind closed doors will achieve nothing.
 
Judge Red said:
PSG fans made it immediately clear that playing behind closed doors will achieve nothing.
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It stops people from travelling from other towns and countries spreading it and relieves the stress in emergency services. So it kinda does achieve something
 
Is it true if the PL is suspended that the season will more or less be void with no promotion or relegation and the same representatives in European competition as last season?
 
Buchan said:
His handling of this has been an utter disgrace. The US are the ones to keep an eye on here, nevermind Italy, Spain, Germany, the UK, France etc. The numbers coming out of the US are eye-watering and they allowed this to fester for the past six weeks whilst refusing to test people. A complete shitshow.
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And the US also has no public healthcare system. Imagine millions of people afraid to go to the doctor for their symptoms spreading the contagion around their states. There's potential for tragedy on a massive scale.
 
Buchan said:
His handling of this has been an utter disgrace. The US are the ones to keep an eye on here, nevermind Italy, Spain, Germany, the UK, France etc. The numbers coming out of the US are eye-watering and they allowed this to fester for the past six weeks whilst refusing to test people. A complete shitshow.
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Absolutely, he refused to admit there was a real problem until now. Although I read that in private he has been very paranoid about catching covid-19. The fact that he is allowing in people flying from the UK and Ireland is also a joke. People from the EU will just fly first to London and then to US.
 
esmufc07 said:
Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish First Minister) making an interesting point this morning. Whilst the current advice they’re receiving from experts suggests stopping mass gatherings will have a minimal effect at the moment, it’s the police and medical resources at these events that are needed that are hard to justify keeping them open whilst the nation becomes stretched.
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I think the bit where we're in the ground watching the match is probably only a minor contributor to risk, the rest of it is more serious. The "trapped like sardines" trams, buses, trains and the sheer number of people moving between areas.

Most of us have relatively small territories - work, home, family, friends etc. Football matches mix that up - our close ("2m for 15 minutes etc") contacts go from maybe twenty locals, to hundreds of strangers. Plus, the idea that football matches go ahead, when schools shut etc will just look and feel wrong.

I can't imagine we'll see any more international football (club or national team) this season/summer. I suspect we'll see the PL stop (within a couple of weeks having tried the closed doors thing) and then restart in August or something. All a guess of course.
 
Finn MacCool said:
Absolutely, he refused to admit there was a real problem until now. Although I read that in private he has been very paranoid about catching covid-19. The fact that he is allowing in people flying from the UK and Ireland is also a joke. People from the EU will just fly first to London and then to US.
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In theory nope. Can’t enter US if you have been in Schengen Zone last 14 days. UK is now just the US’ border quarantine zone.

In practice lots of people have dual nationality and may just fly out of the UK on a different passport, visa-free status permitting.
 
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