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Isn't going ahead with Cheltenham too risky ?
Isn't going ahead with Cheltenham too risky ?
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All hypothetical at the moment. Two weeks to go and I believe the decision will be made the weekend before the meeting. If things don't escalate in that time the backers of being on will be in clover imho.
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Panic buying in the shops has already started and if you're thinking now is the right time to acquire a few face masks then good luck to you because the prices have already skyrocketed and supply can't keep pace with demand.
The media coverage of this situation does not help. It merely encourages the sort of irrational, panic behaviour that will no doubt only get worse in the coming days/weeks. (Thankfully I've got 500 recently acquired cans of baked beans in the larder!) |
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it's not even got started once they do go it will be full on carnage in the aisles
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beans&sausage for the elite though
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Man Utd doctor Advises players against shaking hands. !!
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Yes Stewart B, some horses usually begin travel to Cheltenham the weekend before, so I would expect any decision to be made before commencement of travel.
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Man Utd doctor Advises players against shaking hands. !!
That's the important one......not the constant spitting that goes on in glorious 4HD for 90 minutes. |
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true enough
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I often notice that sistwosix and wonder why roger federa Andy Murray Steve Redgrave Chris hoy and many other sportsman don’t need to do it.
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luckily bought 500 masks 3 weeks ago, must be evens it going ahead i hope im badly wrong, more cases daily means its more likely off fk if we can just hold it off but grand national looks certain to be off if these cases keep rising, they have to stop the spread close everything down
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its quite alarming the panic over so few cases tbh so i guess the threat of transmission at speed is very high
UKs chief medic talking about shutting schools and mass gatherings for 2 months any country with cases right now is preparing to avoid a china type breakout , i don't see how chelt will avoid this given the international travel for one |
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This is blo*dy nonsense.
On today's worldwide figures, let alone the even smaller ones from the UK, there is more chance of being kicked to death by a donkey or a giraffe than catching and dying of this virus. Yet the panic is now stupid. If a betting forum has people who really cannot judge the tiny, tiny risk here then we are in trouble. And if those who run racing panic, like they may well do, then I give up. Influenza is a bigger killer each winter and is equally virulent and yet I don't hear a peep about that. Seeing as 'flu strikes every winter, lets just cancel everything between November and April. We keep being told that anti-biotics don't work with any virus (they only work with infections) and that a virus just has to pass through a human naturally. So, what is different with CV19 from influenza? It is the younger, snowflake, generation who just love a panic up and to begin invoking various procedures. In that way, they can justify their salaries paid to them for dreaming up impossible scenarios and 'solving' them with tick-box procedures. This stupid country needs to get real and grow up. |
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there is more chance of being kicked to death by a donkey or a giraffe than catching and dying of this virus
fck me, I've just bought two giraffes and a donkey |
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and totally agree knight
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So 60,000 people per day go to Cheltenham races, an event staged in the open air. How many per day travel on the London Underground, other commuter rail lines, go to the supermarket, sit in a hospital or GP waiting room, because all those would strike me as more likely sources of infection than a race meeting.
And to avoid being kicked to death by a donkey, stay well away from anything Big Mart has tipped at Cheltenham! |
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its the older generation at risk like most on here lol and nhs says that if it does spread they will not treat the older generation first as they have less chance of survival, they will prioritize those who have better chance of survival lol
will the forum survive ? |
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just had a look at the world wide timeline of cases excluding china
goes from nothing to through the roof , i would rather action is taken now than have a take a chance attitude because there is no telling how much of a hold this will take your right knight , more chance of getting kicked by a donkey at moment But i can easily avoid a donkey tbh |
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theres surely no reason excuse for stopping sporting events other than its an easy target,till they stop flights,trains etc to other countries,
stopping 40,000 going to races but allowing same 40,000 PLUS MORE TO WALK ,SHOP,drink,eat in chelt centre and every other centre in uk is beyond madness |
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Boris taking control big crisis meeting monday morning at no 10, i think it depends what happens between now and monday fingers crossed
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very strange patterns tbh
seemed to be calming in china with everything else fine then Italy came out of nowhere seemed to be a calming of incidences yest then today back to panic tbh its seems even the WHO are finding it impossible to put a lid on this and at this moment it seems uncontrolable on the surface amount of cases seem small , its the ones we don't know about yet that's a big unknown |
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know all 28 Feb 20 13:08
Boris taking control big crisis meeting monday morning at no 10, i think it depends what happens between now and monday fingers crossed nice to know they are all having a nice weekend off before the crisis meeting , idiots |
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yes its a feeling like to try to not cause panic the bbc as usual covering it up but newspapers seem to be exposing a bit more
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man utd doctor advises players not to make contact with any metal surfaces ,players not worried as no chance of them lifting any silverware in the near future .
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The danger here is the significant risk of exponential growth of infection. it takes time for the number to increase from handfuls to hundreds but at that point without control, there is no control and numbers can rise into astronomical figures very quickly.
I agree, a token shutdown of Cheltenham alone does nothing but once the number reach a certain point a total community knockdown may be enforced. |
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id be amazed if chelts go ahead.could you imagine the flak the gov were to get if the virus spread and one cause was the festival.
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with the markets reaction to supply chains in china,despite all the sabre rattling,trade wars etc etc,china is basically free to carry on with their human rights abuses,do what it wants because this proves its to big to be allowed to fail
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Just read this from Daily Mirror.
It emerged last night that overstretched hospitals here in the UK would be forced to treat only the patients most likely to survive should the virus take hold. That's rather worrying for us old f@ckers, especially with heart and lung complaints! |
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breaking ....first british man dies he was one of four british in hostpital in Japan on that cruise ship quarantined there
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stock market in freefall worse than 2008 fk
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Food deliveries could stop purely for financial ( credit ) reasons never mind the virus. Stobarts ( tesco suppliers ) were 200m in debt until bailed out a couple of months ago.
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/dec/06/eddie-stobart-wins-reprieve-as-ex-owners-bail-out-trucking-firm
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tourist industry took massive hit feb with lack of travel , will be smashed to pieces over next 2 months after a boom over recent years
many new startups fin before they started very sad , retail and leisure industry in much same position and looking bleaker by second tbh if i was boris i would take drastic measures to contain or take chance of months of hardship for many in uk buiseness and public |
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" take drastic measures to contain" - would, likewise and surely, immediately create - "hardship for many in uk buiseness and public" ...
Rather than - Potentially, or only POSSIBLY - doing so in and for a few months. |
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better having a tough month than a tough year onlooker
proactive always better than reactive , reactive means its already too late imo |
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heard the bbc travel fella simon calder say on tv on Saturday that in this day and age he cant understand why people book ,pay for holidays a year in advance,he reckons no need to,travel companies must have been kicking the tv,calder must no the travel business is basically a ponzi scheme future bookings paying current bills,debts
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No guarantee - "a tough month" - would nail it, either - hello
2 of the latest cases caught the virus in Iran. Bet they are not responsible Brits called Bert Smith and Edna Jones. |
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Tightening one's belt occasionally is prudent and good practice as it helps to put everything in perspective. It also helps us to appreciate what we already have and values it.
Cancelling the Cheltenham Festival is no big deal given what's happening around the world presently pertaining this virus, its consequences and the deaths of victims. A curse of nature, I believe. |
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^^^^
Unless you have already paid out a grand on hotels and flights with no chance of getting that back |