QUOTE=The Bedlington Terrier;39653189]I read Steve Bruce's take on this today with two of his players seriously stricken with this bloody virus.

I have no inclination to kill my father-in-law over Christmas.

This might be bollox, but I just cannot risk it. [/QUOTE]

Our family agree with you. They are staying away.

Could be the end of St Maximins career.

What’s weird is we have the

43rd highest number of infections in the world at 31000 per million

18th highest numbers of tests at 753000, (three quarters of people but no doubt some are getting several and lots have none) but the

11th highest number of deaths after 28 days which are now 1004 per million.

So we seem to be good at keeping infections low by our various policies or testing is missing a lot of virus cases
We don’t seem to be over testing but either we’re not good at treating the infection or other countries are getting less virulent viruses or are not measuring all deaths as we are or some are not declaring their true death rates.

There are examples where countries only report hospital deaths and where true death rates are suppressed. The new variant started here in September, but other countries haven’t looked for variation and are only now finding they have had it for a while too.

Lots for Sinkov to postulate from.