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The vacant lots can be used for the bodies. There’s bound to be general overspill problems
Good Fertiliser too
On the subject of Kempton, Jockey Club Racecourses could make a killing (pun entirely intended) selling off the home of the King George as a graveyard.
The added bonus is that there won’t be significant transportation costs involved for many of the cadavers.
The lock down is needed to slow down or flatten the curve.
It allows the vunerable to better protect themselves and the medical resources to be better prepared and utilised. Without that, quite a lot more people will die needlessly.
SHL
Racing could police itself, football has, it seems unbelievable that it continues
as if nothing else is happening in the world. France now is staff only, no owners.how about cancelling all events every year to prevent the transmission of a virus that killed 19000 last year ?
And even more people will die from the flu if resources have to be channelled to treat another virus won’t they? Strangely enough I don’t recall people, prior to this, bombarding the media/MP’s etc with calls to reduce the number of deaths from the flu….
It’s a fair point. It’s all very confused of course but I think banning certain”gatherings” is just a bit ott.
Personally I don’t know of anyone that has died of the flu. But, by the time this is over we’ll all have known someone that has died of this virus. But the thought of all sport etc being banned for the foreseeable future is horrifying, too. Anyway, it’s all my fault. Not only have I recently rejoined my local indie cinema that I’m now too scared to go to, but I also, for the first time in my life, booked a holiday cottage and didn’t bother to take out cancellation insurance.
The simple fact is we don’t want another Italy where the doctors are making decisions to just let certain people die.
My wife is in her 40s and is immuno compromised. I have a mate with Cancer and and my parents are pretty old. When you overwhelm a health service, more people die from lots of things and they are all in the firing line.
The current fatality rate in Italy is somewhere closer to 5%…which is alot of people.
Of course we can’t hide away all the time from every disease. This is new and we are trying to buy time until we decide on a new norm.
Who knows, it might mutate and dissappear soon. But that still won’t make a lock down the wrong decision
SHL
I think, in a weeks time, there will be a lock down. Till then, the more of us that can self isolate, the better for everyone. I, selfishly, wanted Cheltenham to go ahead because I’ve been stuck at home due to the floods and Cheltenham helped with the cabin fever. However, if I’d booked tickets for this year [first time in years that I haven’t] I don’t think I would have gone. Stay safe everyone.
for the first time in my life, booked a holiday cottage and didn’t bother to take out cancellation insurance.
Assuming you’re well enough to travel and travel is still permitted, hunkering down in a holiday cottage out in the sticks far from the madding crowd would seem an ideal place to avoid the contagion for a while. Hope you make it there
The reason for banning (outdoor) gatherings such as sports events is not so much to reduce the rate of infection but to relieve pressure on the emergency services who would normally attend these events
Where it goes nobody knows
It isn’t actually for me; the whole family are going to Northumberland and there wasn’t enough room for everyone at my partners place. I thought that, even if someone dropped out, there’d still be others to fill it. It just means that, as Mike and I are sort of high’ish risk [ie old], we’ll be surrounded by little germ carriers. I shall, however, do a pilgrimage to Lindisfarne to get a bit of divine protection. If anyone wants to be added to the list of people to save just let me know….I might just take a boat to one of the Farnes and stay there for the duration.
I might just take a boat to one of the Farnes and stay there for the duration.
If venturing there before late September be sure to take a hard hat, goggles, gauntlets and thornproof jacket with you as the nesting Terns are vicious. Don’t think they’d like your tent either
Actually they’re wonderful, as are the Seals
….I meant Warkworth; Alnmouth just has a golf course. Don’t want to get stuck on a golf course…..
Rumours are that the government will this week ban mass gatherings of over 500 people.
At least all-weather racing will be able to continue with impunity, I suppose.
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