1919-20 season and the flu

[upthemaggies]

Utm, you might know this, how did football clubs survive during the war without any income from league games? Did they rely on the money from the friendlies?

From what I could make out from the article previews, they stopped paying the players wages immediately and they would have had less staff in general.

[irishpete]

Health.com date:11/02/20

While everyone is in a panic about the coronavirus (officially renamed COVID-19 by the World Health Organization), there's an even deadlier virus many people are forgetting about: the flu.

Flu season is hitting its stride right now in the US. So far, the CDC has estimated (based on weekly influenza surveillance data) that at least 12,000 people have died from influenza between Oct. 1, 2019 through Feb. 1, 2020, and the number of deaths may be as high as 30,000.

The CDC also estimates that up to 31 million Americans have caught the flu this season, with 210,000 to 370,000 flu sufferers hospitalized because of the virus.

Didn't see many stopping going to sports last year? do we catch flu the same as corona virus?

https://www.health.com/condition/col...flu-every-year

The Winter bug, norovirus, is in the QMC at present

[BigFatPie]

From what I could make out from the article previews, they stopped paying the players wages immediately and they would have had less staff in general.

Blimey, seems players may have to take a hit this time if some clubs in the lower leagues are going to survive.

[irishpete]

Blimey, seems players may have to take a hit this time if some clubs in the lower leagues are going to survive.

A lot of people will be in the same boat on less money in different professions

[ncfcog]

Blimey, seems players may have to take a hit this time if some clubs in the lower leagues are going to survive.

I think BA have announced today they have asked many of their staff to take 8 weeks unpaid leave?

[frenchmagpie]

Just looked at the 1919-20 season at the height of the Spanish flu epidemic that killed more than died in the first world war, we played man united at meadow lane attendance 35000, every home game crowds over 10,000 , away games Birmingham 30,000 Liverpool and Villa 35000, and not one fixture cancelled.
what a bunch of wusses we've turned into nowadays, the programme seller gets a sniffle and off the lot goes!, then again back 100 years ago, i suppose when you've just return from a war, survived the trenches of the Somme and constant death and shelling on a daily basis, a virus with a risk factor of 1 in 173 of killing you , that's not going to bother you.

Personally, if staying away from a few matches might save 500,000 people from suffocating to death in terror I think I would make that ultimate sacrifice. Each to their own I suppose

[upthemaggies]

In 1939, most of the players ended up in the armed forces or presumably something related to the war effort, so they were not without pay. Also, they would have all lived in very modest homes with relatively low overheads, it was not a well paid profession in those days.

The modern day footballer, particularly those that have only recently bought property and begun to have families, have much more to lose.

[irishpete]

A microbiologist on Sky has said that people have had this twice already, so that is different to what someone said on the BBc this morning. He said he believes it could be Spring next year before it clears up. The EU showing what a mess it is in this. They should all be pulling the same way at the one time,not individual countries doing their own thing. He said the virus is here for good now in some various strain.
France is believed to be going into lockdown to night

[frenchmagpie]

A microbiologist on Sky has said that people have had this twice already, so that is different to what someone said on the BBc this morning. He said he believes it could be Spring next year before it clears up. The EU showing what a mess it is in this. They should all be pulling the same way at the one time,not individual countries doing their own thing. He said the virus is here for good now in some various strain.
France is believed to be going into lockdown to night

We're all prepared for lockdown. The roads have been quiet for days and supermarkets opening early for over 70's only and then limiting shoppers to 100.
The EU can't do anything. It has no competance over national healthcare systems. Just cos you're in a trading block doesn't make that organisation responsible for everything. Individual states will deal with it but hopefully learning as this thing moves. Can you imagine if the EU imposed rules on UK in the transition period !

[irishpete]

SKY The EU is proposing banning movement for 30 days tomorrow except for goods. Macron has met the Police & Army about the lockdown

The UK & Politicians need to get off their high horse about Brexit now.More serious thing to sort out