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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Paragraph 1. I did not state that health and safety law was over-ridden by government adviceof this nature. I argued proportionality. If you want a link to prove the point I am not making, feel free to Google to your heart's content.
Paragraph 2. Again, I did not claim that as employers, etc, they had not weighed up the risks. What I said was that I thought it was an over-reaction.
Paragraph 3. I do not need your agreement to invite views on this.
Paragraph 4. Well, clearly you have been taken in by the hysteria. You have not commented on my pointing out that the worldwide death toll has not even reached 5,000 yet, when influenza kills over half a million in a year. So what, exactly, is so special about this one? Yes, it is a new strain, and no, we do not yet have a vaccine. Nevertheless, the death toll comparison is extremely significant. We scarcely notice the presence of the flu viruses that are normally present until they affect us or a member of our own families. The media has scaremongered to such a degree that this new strain results in the public clearing the supermarket shelves in abject panic. Funny old world. Just as well it's not Spanish flu, that really would have been a cause for concern.
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A death toll comparison is completely insignificant at this stage Old Boy - given the steps that many countries are taking to prevent the infection spreading (including belatedly, this one).
It's an apparent quick win for anyone ignoring the evidence. It ignores that the valid comparison is against number of cases and number recovered - not how many people die from the flu (a separate illness) in a calendar year.
If you scale up the number of infections to the equivalent of Influenza A (no reason to expect it couldn't achieve this) the death toll would be much, much higher.
Anyway, that's for another thread but thanks for confirming that Government advice doesn't override Health and Safety law which the football clubs as employers have to abide by.