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Title: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: Hugh on September 08, 2020, 10:42:48 PM
on BBC news, I think I heard that right. Exemptions include "some team sports".

Does this mean we can forget about watching Alty at Nantwich then, or will exemptions include crowds of up to 600 for a step 3 club?

I make no apologies for repeating that this madness has to stop, or it will be devastating for football and quite a lot of other things besides.
Title: Re: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: JD on September 08, 2020, 11:01:13 PM
on BBC news, I think I heard that right. Exemptions include "some team sports".

Does this mean we can forget about watching Alty at Nantwich then, or will exemptions include crowds of up to 600 for a step 3 club?

I make no apologies for repeating that this madness has to stop, or it will be devastating for football and quite a lot of other things besides.

Yes
Title: Re: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: distancetraveller on September 08, 2020, 11:07:59 PM
The ban doesn’t kick in until Monday so Nantwich should be ok.
If all the tossers who insist in ignoring the social distancing measures then this sh*t will keep happening until the penny drops.
Title: Re: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: JD on September 08, 2020, 11:30:21 PM
Why are we more likely to get C19 on Monday than Saturday?
Title: Re: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: distancetraveller on September 08, 2020, 11:49:09 PM
It’s a no brainer JD. People are ignoring social distancing guidelines.  This really is an unprecedented situation.
I’m going to Nantwich on Saturday . What I won’t be doing is standing next to anybody other than my partner whilst I’m there.

If the numbers keep climbing new cases etc, then things will revert back to  the way things were in April and May.

Title: Re: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: Hugh on September 09, 2020, 12:03:42 AM
Distancettraveller, apparently it's called a "casedemic", frankly I'm not interested in "cases" (often assymptomatic or triggered by remnants of dead virus etc.), only fatalities, and if this bug becomes less virulent and herd immunity is reached, more cases cease to matter much. Also worth noting, Peru locked down hard and early, and has the highest death rate in the world (apart from Italian village San Marino, I think), compare and contrast with Sweden. Our authorities have simply got it wrong. And it really is a pity I have to return to this subject, I wanted to talk about Macc in May (if they;re allowed to start the season).
Title: Re: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: CRT Butty on September 09, 2020, 12:15:05 AM
Distancettraveller, apparently it's called a "casedemic", frankly I'm not interested in "cases" (often assymptomatic or triggered by remnants of dead virus etc.), only fatalities, and if this bug becomes less virulent and herd immunity is reached, more cases cease to matter much. Also worth noting, Peru locked down hard and early, and has the highest death rate in the world (apart from Italian village San Marino, I think), compare and contrast with Sweden. Our authorities have simply got it wrong. And it really is a pity I have to return to this subject, I wanted to talk about Macc in May (if they;re allowed to start the season).

It's not less virulent. We have got better at managing it through hand washing, social distancing, lockdowns and medication. We're heading towards widespread full-on lockdown if people carry on as they have done over the summer. Don't misread death rates falling as a signifier of less virulence, there's many reasons for that (younger people testing positive, meds, PPE ec).

I'm a full on optimist for a vaccine earlier than expected, but for this winter everybody's going to feel some pain in their lives one way or another.

I'm not a betting man, but if I were I'd put it on a February 2021 vaccine rollout.
Title: Re: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: Hugh on September 09, 2020, 12:29:43 AM
Of course, this is disputed by some, and from what I've heard, these viruses have a tendency to become less virulent over time as a sheer matter of survival. And apparently the course of the virus has followed pretty much the same pattern in many different countries. But why on Earth are we only hearing talk about vaccines rather than nutritional solutions like vitamins c and d3? (Well actually I think we all know the answer is money). Anyway, you agree then that the actions of the authorities thus far imply that we will be in and out of lockdown permanently if no effective vaccine is found (and it's by no means guaranteed)? That'll be fun!
Title: Re: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: Bath Alty on September 09, 2020, 11:32:54 AM
Pubs are still open just can’t go in groups of more than 6 so presumably football grounds can still open as long as we don’t go in groups of more than 6?  If not we are back to the madness of the playoffs where we could stand 2m apart on the terrace outside but could sit 1m apart in the pub to watch it!
Title: Re: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: Steve from Sale on September 09, 2020, 12:08:42 PM
I am going to try and go on Saturday, I will of course social distance and also wear an Alty face-mask.
Title: Re: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: Jezza on September 09, 2020, 01:02:21 PM
few weeks ago death rates were in the half dozen a day....last two days in the 30s.....cases gone from 500 to 3000....its a steep curve.

With the ashton friendly falling foul not being the only example of a game being cancelled because a family member of a player was track and traced yo0u can see cup competions especially falling into chaos.

Vaccine needed ASAP...until then we will swing between locking down and lifting restrictions without too much logic applied...
Title: Re: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: Seth on September 09, 2020, 05:14:34 PM
Ollie Bayliss is saying 'Plans for crowds in Elite Sport (Step 2 & up) have been delayed'

https://twitter.com/Ollie_Bayliss/status/1303716731249217536
Title: Re: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: JD on September 09, 2020, 08:15:27 PM
I go by the evidence of such as the ONS (1.1% of all deaths are those WITH C19) and the Oxford Uni Centre for EVIDENCE Based medicine and MOT the government.

Amazing how, most of the time people generally say how you cannot trust a word governments say and how they always lie...but now they are taking in every word.

Meanwhile the increase in cases increases in parallel with the increase in tests, and I would not take one day of 30 deaths (still less than flu, suicide, pneumonia and any number of cancers) as any great indication as the previous days from the 1st Aug were 11 10 16 15 6 9 12 14 8 13
10 7 9 7 13 4 12 9 2 7
7 7 12 7 12 11 7 9 5 6
8
4 8 7 6 10 9 13 8 6 (From https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/deaths)


As long as we keep careful distancing and regular washing/sanitizing there really should be no issues, as Sweden has shown.
Title: Re: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: Sale Holmfield on September 09, 2020, 11:30:55 PM
Biting my lip to avoid getting involved in the politics with the misogynists, I will stick to the football.

Ollie Bayliss has since said that he expects two of the test events to take place - a game at Cambridge United and the non-League Finals day, but both limited to crowds of 1000, which I am sure is lower than before. I expect any further increase in crowds will be gradual, so I fear the start to our season will be delayed, or, perhaps not ,but with a very limited crowd. At least our first home games are not ones to attract large numbers of away supporters.

At lower levels, football continues as before, so the FA Cup will take place this weekend (apart from matches which are called off because of Covid-19 suspected infections - Carlton Town already is off) as will our friendly at Nantwich. As Jezza says, though, games are always liable to being called off until we gwt any vaccine.
Title: Re: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: Mrs Warbouys on September 10, 2020, 07:14:07 AM
Biting my lip to avoid getting involved in the politics with the misogynists, I will stick to the football.

Ollie Bayliss has since said that he expects two of the test events to take place - a game at Cambridge United and the non-League Finals day, but both limited to crowds of 1000, which I am sure is lower than before. I expect any further increase in crowds will be gradual, so I fear the start to our season will be delayed, or, perhaps not ,but with a very limited crowd. At least our first home games are not ones to attract large numbers of away supporters.

At lower levels, football continues as before, so the FA Cup will take place this weekend (apart from matches which are called off because of Covid-19 suspected infections - Carlton Town already is off) as will our friendly at Nantwich. As Jezza says, though, games are always liable to being called off until we gwt any vaccine.

It said on the radio after Cambridge’s first test event against Fulham u21s the Cambridge crowd for Saturday would be 2,500 including 1500 season ticket holders but no away fans. So I don’t know how they decide who gets in now.  Ballot presumably
Title: Re: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: whiskyalty on September 10, 2020, 08:52:45 AM
If the season starts with no fans. Let the clubs screen their own games live say £15 season ticket holders free and home club to keep the money.
Title: Re: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: Timperley The Best on September 10, 2020, 09:05:31 AM
If the season starts with no fans. Let the clubs screen their own games live say £15 season ticket holders free and home club to keep the money.

Its either that or keep putting the season back.£15 is a  bit much,its a tenner for league 2 games.
Title: Re: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: Hugh on September 11, 2020, 01:30:27 AM
Jezza, with regard to death rates, it is worth noting that there was one day when 32 deaths were 'reported' - obviously anomalously high, and probably a hangover from bank holiday weekend or something. Wednesday saw 8 deaths reported - two less than the previous Wednesday, with Thursday being one up from the previous week. Of course if deaths were in the thirties plus through next week one might be worried - extremely unlikely though.

It is worrying that the consensus seems to be that we could see games periodically called off for years, or even decades to come because of "cases" if the big pharmaceutical companies fail to come up with a safe and effective vaccine - and bang on cue, an astrazeneca vaccine study is put on hold due to an adverse reaction. We have to find a way to carry on with our lives and our football with or without a vaccine. Years of a de facto capacity of 1200 (if we're lucky) is too depressing for words
Title: Re: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: Silent but Ledley on September 11, 2020, 08:22:18 AM
From what I have read on the internet this morning there are 13 exemptions from the 6 rule one includes sporting events inside or outside. What this quite means for our football I don't know. SBL

 
Title: Re: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: MadFrankie on September 11, 2020, 10:08:06 AM
From what I have read on the internet this morning there are 13 exemptions from the 6 rule one includes sporting events inside or outside. What this quite means for our football I don't know. SBL
That's for participants though, not spectators.
Title: Re: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: Hale Alty on September 11, 2020, 11:39:07 AM
i'd be interested to know what plans the club has for the difficult of issue of distancing, especially where there are narrow parts of the ground such as between the turnstiles and the Golf Road end, and the gates onto the Chequers End from the pop side and the Family Stand. Also on and off the Main Stand.
Title: Re: Gatherings of more than 6 banned in England
Post by: Seth on September 11, 2020, 11:56:35 AM
From what I have read on the internet this morning there are 13 exemptions from the 6 rule one includes sporting events inside or outside. What this quite means for our football I don't know. SBL
It seems at the moment Step 3 and below will be allowed fans but Step 1 and 2 won't be, until something changes.