wadesmith

Does it bother anyone that our lives are in the hands of someone who's senior advisor thought the best way of checking if his eyesight is ok is to go on a 30 mile drive with his family?

Dr who?

It's the introduction of Coronavirus that's taken the edge off it for me.

It's the Coronavirus that's taken the edge of it for me.

I think people may be missing the point a bit. The whole point I believe is that it's being shown during mental health week, is that the at most risk group for suicides are males in middle age. Probably for some of the reasons stated above. Ie you health's starting to deteriorate, you're drinking too much it suddenly dawns on you that the new girl in marketing hasn't even knowledged your existence, you start realising that the years to a possibly slow death in a care home are fast approaching, you're divorced...you're not divorced etc etc From the stats i've seen it has actually helped male interaction with help groups which certainly spiked after the last series.

I wonder how the whole last two months would have played out if this had happened in say 1999 before the saturation of social media? Would the governments/the publics reactions and been any different?

Obviously while people are dying I have complete sympathy and understanding with anyone who says isolation should continue until a vaccine is sought, or until the death rate is nearly zero, or completely manageable. I do think the acid test will be when the furlough money runs out, isolation is still imposed & you've got a family with two kids and a decent car on the drive, and the main wage earner isn't being told 'I'm sorry, you're redundant' I do wonder if the public mood may change at that point?. I don't know the answer to that by the way. Will there be a point when practicalities rule peoples heads?

To be fair they tried fascism once...& that went down like a fart in a spacesuit

Sorry I also meant to say that the aftermath of Coronavirus could well mean that people have a lower standard of living. Jobs may be scarcer. People may be more stressed/anxious. The use of alcohol could conceivably decrease. If social distancing becomes the 'new normal' people may become less mobile. All of these things could conceivably play into lower life expectancy. We've seen the stats where deprived areas of Britain have lower life expectancy...well those areas could be becoming more deprived for the forceable future.

Good question. I'm not medically trained, so i'm winging this. My gut feeling is that people aged say 75 with respiratory problems in the future may have less change of survival than someone of 75 with respiratory problems 3 months ago...assuming that some strain of this coronavirus is still at large. Instead of 8 out of 10 making it through to 80, maybe on 5 out of 10 make it to that age. It's just a thought. I've started googling life expectancies through the ages in the UK and I was quite shocked at the figures. We've gained 6 years since the year 1990....maybye we going lose a through of those years. I'm not saying bodies are going to be piling up on the streets in 20 years time, but I just wonder if maybe the peak of life expectancy has been reached. maybe we will see it slow down, or regress slightly.

At some point are we not going to just accept that probably left expectancy is going to drop by 3/4 years, but for the sake of the economy/mental health/phsyical health they are going to have to let people live their lives (Within the new normal) It's hard to imagine this thing is ever going to go away. If the government were that concerned about peoples health and freeing up hospitals they would probably ban cigarettes (I realise you can't equate the effects of Cigarettes with Coronavirus... cigarettes are a choice....but it does raise some questions) I'd rather none died....but theres going to be some horrible moral dilemmas approaching for those in power...I just hope their up to it.

Wasn't there a game with a half-time kestrel display that all went a bit pear-shaped in the nineties?...or am i just imagining it? Someone help me out with this.

Struck me today, with Abbott probably at the last year of the peak of his powers & Nathan Lyons contract (for this season at least) cancelled, this might have been our best chance of winning the championship. It's the only trophy i've never watched Hampshire win.

Obviously when I said 'Your Company' I meant 'Your Employer"

Because it might help the economic position of your company, and therefore give you a better chance of remaining employed, rather than thinking short term and watching your company go bust.

Well actually you are 100% right. if the CEO of some huge corporation furloughs his staff..then myself and probably most others think "Ok fair enough some people I don't know on a good to average wages can pay their mortgage for a few months' even though that company may have billions in the bank. When a football club does it, it naturally causes a different reaction to people. We all have a decent idea of what these players are earning, we kind of feel we know most of them in some way, even the bog standard players in the premiership are earning in the a year what it might take most of us ten years to earn. Does that make it right?..I actually don't know. I would like to think if I was a premiership footballer for the last 5/6 years and had a steady wage of 80k a week and lets say a million in the bank or invested, I would be uncomftable with my club furloughing staff...but I'm not a premiership footballer so it's difficult to put myself in that position. It's all relative. I could afford to give the NHS £300.00 a month for the next 6 months with the money i'm saving being at home..but i'm not going to. Does that make me as bad as a premiership footballer unwilling to take a wage cut? I don't know the answer to that. But you are correct. Footballers represent something tangible. that's human nature.

I think most of us knew...but for some this might be the first time it effects them personally..and a bit like when a political party bends you over & doesn't even have the decency to use lube..some people might choose to remove their support temporarily..or permanently.

That's it over for me than if true. TBH I haven't missed it, & saved ****loads of cash not going, if you told me a month ago i'd never attend a Saints game again I would have thought you were mad. N

I wouldn't necessarily say 'Everythings in their favour' I mean they've only dropped 4 points in 27 games. So they've pretty much earnt the right to feel pretty happy about themselves. And then a worldwide pandemic calls a halt to proceedings. No offence but i know some Saints fans that are still bleating on about that Watford goal that was punched into the net.

Probably act about as 'Classy' as we would act if we were denied the title. Obviously i'm entering a world of science fiction here.

I suppose (& believe me I'm playing devils advocate here) A footballers career is a little bit unusual. If you are a low to middling player , and your contract is due to run out in 12 months..& more crucially you don't know what the football landscape is going to look like after this has ended (I think we can be certain there will be less money to throw about at average players) you could sort off understand why that sort of player may not want to take a pay freeze. (Again i stress I am playing devils advocate), but it may not always be as simple as saying, 'yeah footballers make ****loads of cash, they can afford it' everyones situation is different

Shelves t in Shirley (Sainsbury's, Lidl's,) Iceland pretty much stripped by Midday. I couldn't by any bread or meat. I don't even bother looker for toilet rolls,hand wash etc.

I was thinking today, lets say for instance you're a terrorist group...why bother strapping yourself with dynamite and heading to a city centre. Wouldn't it be easier to just get one of your members to contract Coronavirus & make sure your saliva ends up on every city centre doorhandle. The virus will never recede, you will be undecectable & Britain will be paralysed for eternity. Chilling.

Yeah, maybye, like everyone else I haven't got a clue my friend. I don't know how it's going to pan out, I don't know if either of us will ever see Saints win at home again (hopefully it's over by 2024) I haven't got a clue....but I do know that this probably isn't thread to be calling people 'f*cking thick'. Just my thoughts.

I think a bit empathy could be used here. If you're 70 & a bloke statistically you've got about 12 years ahead of you. If the government then say you've got to self isolate for a lengthy I can understand why people over 70 may react in the negative. It's a worrying time for people, emotions are running high. Without getting too 'Spirit of Woodstock 69' here, this probably isn't the time to start turning on each other, it would be nice if people supported each other..or at the very least remained civil.