Quote Originally Posted by OldThrostle View Post
Before you get too dismissive of the numbers:

Firstly, it's 0.07%, not 0.0007%

Secondly, virtually all the Covid-related deaths have been of people aged 45 and over, so the 50,000 is out of a population of about 40 million not 65, so about 0.12%

To put this into context: Picture yourself sitting at The Shrine on a normal match day before all this happened. You can see about 25,000 fans packed in there. Statistically, 30 of the people you could see will have already died of the virus, and the number is still rising.

So yes, I've thought about it. From where I'm sitting, as a member of the "extremely vulnerable" category, it looks anything but insignificant.

Just saying.
It’s convenient to change the size of the U.K. population to suit you’re narrative, the fact is that the population stood at 66.65 million as of 2019.

I accept your figure was correct at 0.7%......too many zeros in my bad maths!

You quote that 30 people from an average 25,000 Albion home crowd would’ve died from Covid but I’d contend that most of those would’ve died from something else over the same period.

The median death rate for the last 10 months is up a chunk from last year but it’s nonsense to suggest all 25,000 in the crowd would’ve been immune to death if Covid didn’t exist.

My point was more about the Boris self isolation aspect.

If you think about this logically you could end up in almost permanent isolation.

You do your two weeks and each time you complete it you’re unlucky enough to be in contact with someone who tests positive for it the very next day!

I would’ve thought that by now some trials would’ve been done to see if people who have had Covid like Boris Can then still be a carrier having come into contact with someone testing positive?

To me that’s not rocket science but a legitimate scientific test programme to set up.

It’s not about me or others “knowing better” and the pomposity of others on here who are decrying “armchair doctors”.......I’m not for a minute saying that I do know better.