What happens next season?

comment by Doggie Dog© - Psychic spies from China tr... (U22357)
posted 45 minutes ago
When do you think fans will be able to attend games Ginger? Personally I cant see it this year.
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Next year too I think.

comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 1 hour, 12 minutes ago
All the talk?

Who is saying fans can’t attend games until there’s a vaccine?

20 odd thousand die from flu every year and there’s a vaccine for that but I don’t see gatherings being banned because of that.


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The Scottish government have made it quite clear we wont see mass gatherings until a vaccine is ready to avoid a second wave. Social distancing will be here till a vaccine is out.

comment by Silver (U6112)
posted 38 minutes ago
Flu isn’t as contagious, fortunately.
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Has that been scientifically established yet? I’m not sure it has.

Ginger, I can't remember the source but have read similar reports that the transfer rate for Covid is higher than the Flu.

Other than what I read and not sure it is 100% agreed among all agancies I did see a few reports on the levels of how contagious the respective diseases are

Who knows absolutely atm though?

So the 14-15 flu season which was bad they attributed 26,000 deaths. Corona is about 21k hospital and they think about half that again in care homes in a much shorter space of time and with lockdown so I think we can assume it is more contagious?

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-contagious-r-naught-average-patient-spread-2020-3?r=US&IR=T
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It would seem to be more contagious.

Comparing it to the flu is kind of pointless. It'd be one thing if it replaced the flu completely - then you could have a like-for-like and decide which was worse - but you have C-19 deaths *as well as* the flu deaths annually.

Flu passes on to about 1.25 people this corona passes on to about 4 people due to it spreading through coughs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52460468

The Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 seasons will not resume after France banned all sporting events, including behind closed doors, until September.

There has to be a genuine fear for our game if this becomes the normal.

comment by PointyBirds (U21890)
posted 2 hours, 7 minutes ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-contagious-r-naught-average-patient-spread-2020-3?r=US&IR=T
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It would seem to be more contagious.

Comparing it to the flu is kind of pointless. It'd be one thing if it replaced the flu completely - then you could have a like-for-like and decide which was worse - but you have C-19 deaths *as well as* the flu deaths annually.
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People with the flu are most likely in among the Covid victims so that would be double counting.

comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by PointyBirds (U21890)
posted 2 hours, 7 minutes ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-contagious-r-naught-average-patient-spread-2020-3?r=US&IR=T
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It would seem to be more contagious.

Comparing it to the flu is kind of pointless. It'd be one thing if it replaced the flu completely - then you could have a like-for-like and decide which was worse - but you have C-19 deaths *as well as* the flu deaths annually.
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People with the flu are most likely in among the Covid victims so that would be double counting.
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What do you do then?
2020 deaths - 2019 flu deaths = Coronavirus deaths?
I'm not trying to be facetious; numbers aren't my bag.