[Football] Going to the Game Saturday or Staying away because of Corona Virus?

[Invicta]

I'm going, feeling this will be the last game live for a while for any of us.

 

[Diablo]

nearly 10% not going because 360 people in uk have coronavirus and six old people with underlying health problems have died. WTF.

 

[Surrey Phil]

Went to Wolves and surprisingly I survived, even though there was no hot water in the bogs! Will be there on Saturday as usual.

 

[Knocky's Nose]

I'm going, feeling this will be the last game live for a while for any of us.

I'd go see the Albion even if I was dead.. Although I may be by the time we get our next win.

 

[The Birdman]

Please could the club move the hand dryers in the WSU toilets next to the sinks as you have to push through the queues with wet hands to dry them.
I mentioned this to the club when the ground was first opened.
Thank you

 

[Invicta]

nearly 10% not going because 360 people in uk have coronavirus and six old people with underlying health problems have died. WTF.

Only 17 people on the number voted, wouldn't read too much into it. How many of them have a ticket/could go ?

 

[Surport Local Team]

Went to Wolves and surprisingly I survived, even though there was no hot water in the bogs! Will be there on Saturday as usual.

Is that a midlands thing to have hot water in the toilet? How odd!!

 

[Surf's Up]

nearly 10% not going because 360 people in uk have coronavirus and six old people with underlying health problems have died. WTF.

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[METALMICKY]

I'm going, feeling this will be the last game live for a while for any of us.

This I'm afraid!

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Er... did you miss the bit about the (average) six-day incubation period? That is, you can carry it and unwittingly pass it onto others for six days without feeling ill.

Well if the government insist that I go to work every day in a place of 2500 people (a school), I'm not sure why I should unilaterally decide to self-isolate away from the football on Saturday on the off chance I might have it, when the other 2499 will be going about their daily business (as well as the tens of thousands attending or working in the city's other schools). Sorry if that seems selfish. And no doubt the other 28k attendees at the game have been in all sorts of busy environments themselves.

As I said, I'm not a dick, if I felt the symptoms then I'd stay away, as per the advice.

 

[Giraffe]

My place of work is way more likely to expose me to it than the North Stand. Obviously I wouldn't go if I actually felt I was carrying any symptoms etc.

Indeed.

 

[RossyG]

I’ll be going but from now on I won’t be licking the banisters. You can’t be too careful.

 

[Giraffe]

I'm not a STH and haven't bought tickets for a while - and won't be buying them until the "event" is over. The problem is the transport and the concourse, not the so much sitting in my seat in the ground. Same problem as going to a busy pub (which I won't be doing either).

You do know that in the whole of Sussex there are only 11 confirmed cases as of today? And all of them have been isolated.

 

[Easy 10]

nearly 10% not going because 360 people in uk have coronavirus and six old people with underlying health problems have died. WTF.

360 people have tested postive. We have absolutely no clue how many people in this country actually have the virus yet, but if we follow the same pattern as Italy, then in around 2 weeks time we'll have north of 10,000 diagnosed. Even our own health minister has gone down with it.

I'll be going to the game anyway, but the glib "big deal, 350 people out of millions has it" remarks are so wide of the mark now. I don't know what you've been watching this last week or so.

 

[Wozza]

Well if the government insist that I go to work every day in a place of 2500 people (a school), I'm not sure why I should unilaterally decide to self-isolate away from the football on Saturday on the off chance I might have it, when the other 2499 will be going about their daily business (as well as the tens of thousands attending or working in the city's other schools). Sorry if that seems selfish. And no doubt the other 28k attendees at the game have been in all sorts of busy environments themselves.

As I said, I'm not a dick, if I felt the symptoms then I'd stay away, as per the advice.

Yeah, that's fair enough. Workplaces are open, schools are open, football stadiums are open. Nobody is telling you not to go. As things stand, I'm going too

What will have to change soon though is people's casual attitudes that "I won't get it" and "Even if I do, I'll be alright" - because that person can be a carrier.

Now, statistically, if you don't feel ill at the moment, you probably haven't got coronavirus so you can't spread it.

But as the infection figures rise, the risk of becoming an unwitting carrier becomes greater - and, that, I guess, is when the government starts to shut everything down.

I wouldn't be entirely surprised if a shutdown happens before the weekend. Put it like this: I won't be buying my train tickets until the very last minute. Fingers crossed.

 

[Wozza]

You do know that in the whole of Sussex there are only 11 confirmed cases as of today? And all of them have been isolated.

Have YOU been tested as of today? Or anyone you know?

 

[Giraffe]

Have YOU been tested as of today? Or anyone you know?

No and no.

 

[spence]

Starting to have doubts if i'm honest. I'm more worried about passing it on if i catch it to elderly family members.

 

[Easy 10]

Testing from tomorrow is going to be ramped up by 500%.

As a US viral disease expert said on tonights Newsnight - testing is like turning the light on. You have no idea what you are dealing with till that light gets switched on. Until then, we're all in the dark on just where and how widespread this thing really is. As Italy is finding out.

 

[RossyG]

I’m coming, but only to nick the toilet rolls.