At some point when the vaccination programme's even out there will be a background hum of cases round the world. Australia and New Zealand need to decide if they are happy to make their cases go up, from an admittedly very low level, by opening up their borders or continue as they are and...
Being scared of Covid is far from irrational and if someone feels safer wearing a mask when walking their dog then leave them to it and allow them to return to normal at their own pace.
One of the attractions of following a team around the country is the variety of experiences. You can go to Billion pound stadiums like Tottenham, old school marquee names like Villa Park or the more rough and tumble Burnley within a season.
I am absolutely sure there will be an increase in infections once schools and universities go back but not sure I would call it a wave. More of a butter knife than a spike, perhaps?
The figure updated after I made my post.
When you have been in various states of lockdown for 18 months the 4 months until Christmas is a long time. They secured their borders to keep infections out but didn't back it with a swift vaccination programme and now they have the army on the...
You can argue about the details and timings of restrictions being lifted but broadly speaking I think the policy of a holding operation until we could get the vaccine out was basically correct.
Unfortunately the Aussies have a 215% vaccination rate amongst the 16+ and won't hit 80% of the...
I had something very similar to the original strain of Covid, i.e high temperature, sore throat and generally aching but no headache or runny nose or sneezing in late February 2020 just before the information about it became widespread, hence I went to work. At the time i was working in Central...
Reduces the chance of the virus spreading and encourages people to get jabbed. Besides which, every club will have to do it from October onwards presuming the government doesn't change it's mind (which is admittedly something they have previous for).
People are really only arguing about timing.
Another couple of points:
Although being double jabbed massively reduces the impact of Covid for most it will still mean they have to isolate, which will impact their family, employers and any holiday or social plans. It is still desirable to reduce it's spread as much as possible.
The Amex...
Stop speaking such unmitigated nonsense then. I was going to say you have done the age old trick of putting up a headline with no link to an article to help your point but as I haven't got the remotest idea what you are getting at it has failed this time.
In fairness you did point out some...