Quote Originally Posted by KerrAvon View Post
It would be surprising if there wasn’t some spread at Cheltenham and via the Champions League game played at Anfield . I would be surprised if the government doesn’t either agree or is forced to publish the minutes of the SAGE meetings at which decisions upon them were taken so that we can get to see the science and policy behind them.

I don’t envy the government for the task they have at the moment. The fact is that this is a new disease and we don’t know much about it. Another fact is that the government has to balance its actions on the virus against the need to keep the economy running. I know that sort of comment leads to the ‘profits not people’ drivel, that is popular from the Left on Twitter at the moment, but the fact is that people die when the economy tanks.

We heard a lot about confirmation bias on here at the weekend. Other examples of bias are hindsight bias and outcome bias.
When you analyse an event like Cheltenham it becomes even more disturbing .

What you have is thousands upon thousands of people coming in from all corners of the UK and the Irish Republic .

Thousands of whom either come for the full 4 days or do a couple but are staying in hotels within a 30 to 40 mile radius of the circuit .

I'm not much of a racing guy but even I know that .

As far as the economy goes then yes I take the point it's a difficult one and certainly not a decision I'd like to make .

My own personal view is that the economy is fecked anyway and even if this thing disappeared tonight and we all went back to work tomorrow morning we are still going to be hit with depression the size none of us have ever seen before .

A bit of this and a bit of that opening up is simply sticking plasters on a huge gaping wound , is it really worth the risk of a second wave coming and putting ourselves back to square one ? .

Even if our incomes drop by 50% or less its definitely beats death or seriously ill or even infecting someone else .

Just my opinion and people's circumstances obviously aren't the same .