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28 Feb 20
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Schools could be closed for eight weeks and sporting fixtures such as FA Cup, Grand National and London Marathon postponed under emergency plan to contain coronavirus as three new cases in one day are confirmed in Britain
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Today's paper headlines certainly not making good reading
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the more the papers ramp this up ( and its easy , free copy ) the more chance of it happening . when the panic hits the financial markets worldwide no one is going to bother about footy or racing being on . worrying .
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Influenza can lead to thousands of deaths a year, with the University of Oxford stating that in 2008-2009, there were 13,000 deaths in the UK alone related to the flu
Yet 3 people catch cornavirus in a day and its headlines. So we are ok to run a festival with the potential spread of flu that can cause teens of thoushands of deaths yet we have around 18 people with coronavirus and every major sporting event schools and the economy ready for closing down WORLDS GONE MAD |
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Confirmed in Ireland, would they get over for chelt even if it goes ahead.
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1.51 no change from yesterday which is surprising
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when the panic hits the financial markets worldwide
already has.. |
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1.5 out to 1.74 in the last few minutes
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Koikeeper
Do you think anybody planning to go to Cheltenham would change there mind as things stand ? |
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going by the market you'd have to think its got a chance of being off now
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Pretty sure it will go ahead..only 11 days away. So glad it starts a few days earlier this year. Just hope there are no new cases in the Cheltenham area in the next week. I'm flying long haul on the Sunday after Cheltenham and it wouldn't stop me from travelling. Olympics are in trouble though.
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Must have been really difficult to spot the other gloomster thread with only 245 posts on it.
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Foxy, I suppose I would now, but in 2 weeks, how bad will it be?
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suprised seeing todays news that the on price has been reduced back to 1.5 from this mornings drift to 1.8.
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At this rate willie it would be less than 50 by the start of the festival I badly won’t it on if I didn’t mind either way I would think been on is a big price
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What I mean is been on is a big price but still wouldn’t back it as I just want it on.
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^^ the 'on' price is also weather dependent !
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fill your boots only 11 days to go to late will be on
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19 people in the UK out of 66 million or so and the British Press go berserk and over dramatise the situation.
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1.55 racing to go ahead!!! and has had £72 matched at 2.02,expect this will be bookies hedging their bets on loss of profits if it is cancelled.
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Especially on course books mmm
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FFS people talking carp. All the info you need on this, Amanda Holden know...really
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Thats what I meant foxy.
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Load up to cover all your festival steaks.
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FFS 1.61
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you would need to assume events with high amount of international flight to attend would be at very least at risk
chief medic already mentioned mass gatherings along with schools |
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Today's 3 latest cases ...
I had been to Northern Italy - so that adds up The other 2 dopes had caught the virus in IRAN - FFS. Why would anybody want to be there? ---------- Wonder what Nationality they are...... Anybody care to open a Book? |
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British man who was on board quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship dies from coronavirus
By TIM STICKINGS FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 13:14, 28 February 2020 | UPDATED: 13:14, 28 February 2020 Panic on the streets of London Panic on the streets of Birmingham I wonder to myself Could life ever be sane again? The leeds side-streets that you slip down I wonder to myself Hopes may rise on the grasmere But honey pie, you're not safe here So you run down To the safety of the town But there's panic on the streets of Carlisle Dublin, Dundee, Humberside I wonder to myself |
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your on holiday you've already booked transport and hotel no refunds ,so although racing would be cancelled plenty will still travel to chelt and have a break so whats the point
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you got 11 days to go till chelt
how many more new cases in between is the deciding factor , i doubt it would take many to tip country into some form of shutdown added to that a rise in incidences in other countries esp in euro zone would rapidly increase measures effecting international travel , food imports , mass gatherings etc etc already a panic meeting called for Monday by boris , i would expect odd of chelt taking place to drift |
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YOU are panicking... with your posts.
Monday is a Cobra meeting - something of a pre-planned strategy in such, and other, circumstances. WHERE has it been referred to as a - "panic meeting" .... Other than by yourself. |
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I realise to many racing enthusiasts the festival is a very important event but I never thought the government would call a cobra meeting about it.
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op is a
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the russians spread novichok and not 1 meeting lost..
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yes onlooker a little panicked here , relatives currently travelling Europe and family spread over UK so be pretty hard not to feel a little worried
i stand corrected on cobra meeting , its classed as a "emergency" meeting but i think under current circumstances with hourly cases appearing the two classifications are not that far apart tbh |
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Switzerland has imposed a ban on public events that gather more than 1,000 people together in the same place until at least March 15 in response to the coronavirus threat.
The ban comes into force with immediate effect in the midst of the carnival season which draws thousands of revellers to many Swiss towns and cities. It also affects sports events across the country and has prompted the organisers of the international motor show in Genevaexternal link and the Baselworldexternal link watch fair to cancel their gatherings this year. |
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The clues in the title 'Cobra' (Cheltenham Off Betfair Refunds Antepost) fill your boots with the 6/4
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The DM has said sporting events could be CANCELLED
tHE FOOTBALL RESULTS WOULD BE NULL/VOID No Liverpool TITLE   |
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as a superforecaster if there,s less reported cases in china than anywhere else,everyone should go to china,
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Switzerland has imposed a ban on public events that gather more than 1,000 people together in the same place until at least March 15 in response to the coronavirus threat.
Wow they only have 15 cases and no deaths |