Sports will be largely played, under this banner - for some time - during the virus problems.

Those that go ahead at all, that is.


Manchester United are currently playing LASK of/in Austria, where the silence is deafening.

Like a practice game on the Hackney Marshes.


Reduced revenues are obviously a side effect.

Perhaps the Ireland solution is best - close/cancel everything, for a couple of weeks...

'My heart is broken'

- 'but where am I?'


Barney is in NYC, singing that famous song.

All Broadway theatres closed.


Coughing in Manhattan is now becoming illegal.

And the (ubiquitous) masks are really helping crime...

I'm not sure that playing behind closed doors will be effective, as you will just get all pubs with a tv within several miles radius rammed with people watching it. Probably in more danger as they are in closer proximity and inside.

As you've probably heard the EPL and EFL have been suspended until 3rd April. I think this is probably the right thing to do, to contain the virus. This is resulted in a sharp fall in daily cases in China and South Korea.

Virtually everything is off

Nothing to do with current pandemic infections


Or potentially more serious ones

Just the media looking for a good story...

Are you being deliberately stupid Barney? Nobody is saying this latest 'flu epidemic is less serious than previous ones; just that the over reaction ruining our world is down to media promoting and inflating it out of all proportion.

Precisely JK and that is why I am working from home next week even though my cough is going and will be gone completely in day or two and I am otherwise fine. This hysterical pact between media and public is likely to bring on the doom you seem so fixated on Barney; not the virus itself. We carry on like this millions will be out of work as the economy as we know it ends.

But before you start firing stats at me Barney no I do not think the virus isn't real ok...I can't comment any more on that out of sheer boredom...

I fear Barney has caught CoronaVirus of the brain otherwise known as LovingTheMedia.

I have posted earlier that humanity is due a plague but this isn't it.

I have realised I may be terribly wrong: Covaid-19 may be the one.

It may biologically end only a few thousand globally (nothing in plague terms) but it will prove to be the first plague responsible for millions of deaths due to collective psychological mass panic; the first post-reality mass extinction event deliberately engineered by the media to make money and further careers.

We had seen intimations which with hind sight should have signalled trouble ahead in the years prior to 2020; paediatricians tied to lamp posts and flogged with live kippers in Portsmouth, people who otherwise appear intellectually functional voting for Brexit..

But nothing prepared humanity for this. Covaid deniers or minimisers were hounded from public life; #NotInMyCough was formed to shame doubters...

All airlines went bust, millions unemployed, "tube vigilantes" formed: gangs of patriots armed with coshes and rolling pins patrolling the underground beating startled "coughers" to a pulp. A cashier in Leeds with learning difficulties was throttled when he refused to sell a third loo roll to an aggressive businessman in a hurry.....

And so it went on, humanity on the brink until media realised their approach was self defeating ultimately and started empahising how many weren't actually dying, and then an hourly count down of how it is "plateauing" across the globe. Gov then have confidence enough to let football games resume and the tube patriots, once lauded, are condemned...

My prediction: the media reverse will start in a month max...

JK2006 wrote:
Nobody is saying this latest 'flu epidemic is less serious than previous ones


We don't have a 'flu epidemic

It's a Coranavirus pandemic


Something nobody's seen before

Are our governments, UN and WHO all overreacting!


Investigation is required, and prudent safeguards

Until we know how lethal it is - and how to eradicate it

Barney wrote:
Sports will be largely played, under this banner - for some time - during the virus problems.

Those that go ahead at all, that is.




It hasn't really been thought through. At the biggest stadia, you don't get these games started, sans crowd, simply by having some bloke with a hanky over his hooter pull the ON switch and then run and hide. The biggest stadia, even without fans, require huge numbers of people to make them function. Both teams turn up with big squads of players, medical staff, analysts etc. The analysts alone require all kinds of technical stuff to be working for them to do their jobs, which are provided in turn by big groups of specialists behind the scenes. Then there's the stadia medical team, and the big media presence (they'll have to be televised), etc etc. That's not a modest number of people. It's the size that's elsewhere leading to people being told to work from home. It's not a sensible solution at all.

The number of recoveries could at least be shown along with cases and deaths. How many have reported that there were only 8 new cases in China yesterday?

Stories of potential threats to life and health provide a perfect hook upon which feelings of terror and fear of the unknown can be projected without the need to think things through to consequences. The hackles are bound to go up whenever the false sense of safety and security that the hook provides is threatened. FDR could see that inner states of fear were a huge problem. Trump and Boris simply go along with the widespread collective belief that the source of all human problems exist only on the outside.

The following research article published by The Centre for Research on Globalization (an independent research and media group of writers, scholars, journalists and activists) is well worth a read.

www.globalresearch.ca/politics-corruption-who/5702045