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[selby]

   Nobody who finds themselves in financial difficulties should ever be criticised for putting more important things in their lives than football to the fore.
  In fact we should with the club be looking at some way to help them, I would certainly be willing to chip into a fund to help any long standing season ticket holders who were in difficulties to attend matches if the club were to organise it.
  Probably something for the future, but a situation that may arise and could be given some thought



























 

[BobG]

The government expect that over the course of time, something like 80% of us are going to get the blasted virus. That means that the lifting the lockdown is going to be neither quick or everything at once. if you look at the Wuhan experience, they started to lift just a couple of restrictions after 7 weeks.  They now have a secondary wave of infections.

I have a mate, a Cambridge graduate (you will remember him Dutch Uncle: Spuggy) who has spent a significant number of years doing statistical analyses for the NHS. He tells me that it is is going to take 2 years before this is fully over. And by that time there will be something like 50% bankruptcy of pubs and restaurants to think of just 2 areas of business. He firmly believes that nothing will ever be the same again. We will all be noticeably poorer. Property prices will fall. Pension funds will therefore struggle.

Spuggy may be wrong, but he's nobody's fool. To quote from an email he sent me today "Look at Germany. It's doing way better than us, at least five times better, and no real sign of lockdown easing. We have to get to their standard of tracking and testing before we can even start thinking about easing".

But he also said that we should be glad we're not living in Belgium. To quote one of his emails again "An utter disaster, way worse than us. More than twice as bad. Look at their deaths per population".

Oh. And he also thinks the way the US leadership has behaved is totally bloody crackers.

Cheers chaps

BobG

[silent majority]

Did you really meant to put this in here Bob?

Should it be in another thread?