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I think the period where games were played behind closed doors weakened the link between fans and the match day experience which I don't think will be restored until some sense of normality returns. We all had to make a decision last night whether to attend the game and risk potentially serious...

Crackerjack reboot? (just read they did that last year but you take my point)

We had to agree on something eventually! There are going to be new strains appearing forever now, although hopefully after a few years it will be similar to flu strains, and a consensus needs to be formed about what we do going forward. I kind of get why people would hold off and let others...

I certainly agree with you on the last part!

I don't think there will be any lockdown restrictions in place by Christmas but if there was I would follow them. Problem is we could go a long way if people would view their Christmas plans through the Covid lens and review them and instead of having a dozen extended family meet on Christmas...

That might require some joined up thinking, which isn't the current government's strong point.

While it's possible that money and equipment could have been allocated to the NHS over the last 18 months, it isn't so easy bringing trained Doctors and Nurses in. Brexit and variable travel restrictions hardly make the UK desirable to foreign workers anymore and it takes years to train people...

Accepting that a virus can mutate to become more or less stronger (or presumably stay the same), isn't the limitation of a stronger virus that it is more likely to incapacitate the recipient, making them less likely to infect others?

For me: Kickoffs: The whole 1730 on a Saturday thing is getting tedious now. It is also costing me more than £20 to attend a match I have already paid for on Boxing Day as Seagull Travel are the only game in town. Games on TV: I am sure someone will prove me wrong but I don't remember so...

Thing is about models (not the Naomi Campbell type) is they are an attempt to make an estimate with the data and knowledge available at the time and should always be open to refining as understanding evolves. However we all pay our taxes to a government who I expect to sift through the data...

Funnily enough the last game I saw pre original lockdown.

This is encouraging.

Apologies. I suppose it does give time to accelerate the vaccine boosters being rolled out.

As opposed to not being able to attend pubs, restaurants, gyms, etc, at all?

In a month's time if it is a problem then it would be too late to act as it would be firmly seeded by then. Decision makers don't have the luxury of sitting back and waiting to see what happens in the absence of definitive evidence.

Well if it does lead to lockdowns, which is admittedly a sizeable if at this stage, then they have themselves to blame. I don't imagine for one minute a Conservative government who instinctively anti restriction did this without good reason.

Again I am not claiming to be an expert but my understanding is the new strain is more mutated than Delta. From memory the vaccine was slightly less effective against Delta so expecting any vaccine to be less effective against a further mutated version is a fair prediction. Blindly assuming...

I am not sure they are going to lose people by accelerating the vaccination programme and asking people to wear face coverings in shops and public transport. It isn't a return to lockdown and needs to be put in perspective.

I would say the head of a pharmacy company predicting that the vaccine they produced for a strain of virus saying it is not going to be as effective against a fairly (was going to say heavily but that might be overstating it so won't) mutated version of the same virus is probably talking sense...