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What D'You Reckon? - talkSAFT - 13-11-2020
Covid Vaccine on the way:
When will the spectators be allowed back? (if Johnson's as confident as he seems, and everyone gets it. Will Covid then be treated just like the flu, say?)
Next question:
Will 'Football' have lost a number of fans who formerly attended out of habit, and have now lost a little bit of interest, or found other hobbies, or are not as well off as a year ago, or stopped to consider that the attraction has gone and they don't like cheering on and worshipping multi-millionaires? (A combination of all factors?)
Or will fans be even more keen than a year ago to get back to normality, and meet up with their old mates behind the goal?
The same question - for Albion - will be even more complex if early season form continues (except for the last match).
We play Brighton in February. What d'you reckon? 18,000?
We play ManU in February. 22,000?
Liverpool v ManU? Full House or not?
RE: What D'You Reckon? - Ska'dForLife-WBA - 13-11-2020
Rollout of the vaccine is going to take a fair bit of time, as our capacity for storage and distribution of it isn't up to scratch. Distancing measures of some kind will probably remain in place for most of 2021, though growing progressively less stringent as the situation (hopefully) improves.
I think fans will be allowed back in dribs and drabs at first (though February seems overly optimistic to me for that), and that will create an appetite for packed grounds again.
RE: What D'You Reckon? - theo_luddite - 13-11-2020
One of the Docs (Dr. Rosemay I think) they roll out on the Beeb Beeb Ceeb every morning pointed out most doctors practices have a couple of fridges or so where they keep the flu vaccines for the slightly older codgers than me, oh and their packed lunches if they are on day shift - like they have a night shift.
I'm sure I read somewhere this new Covid AV needs to be kept a tad cooler than the average Argos/B&Q built in fridge/freezer can manage, but I might be wrong. Any road up, they will need to use sports halls and school gyms to do it all because they can't do the normal stuff in their Covid free practices with all these Covid vaccines to hand out. The fact that all their staff will be down the local sports hall or school gym means they won't do their normal stuff anyway.
Then again - with Bodgit in No. 10 - it's far more likely that some ferkin' trainee (aka - a currently otherwise unemployed yoof) accountant from one of his favourite 'private' companies, who will be charging us £6000/day for the privilege, will be taken off 'advanced track and trace phone duties' and told do it with yet more in the way of bugger-all training. After all, how hard can it be to fill a syringe with a bio-hazardous material, stick a needle on the end and then shove it up someone's arse - sorry stick it in their arm? Just stick a bib on them with the NHS logo on it and everything is cushty ain't it bruv?
Coming soon to a Park and Ride Car Park somewhere near you - sooner than you think.
Oh, you'll have to book in advance and maybe drive half-way across the country to get it due to the incompetence of the pillocks who developed the booking software, but are charging us £10,000 per day, to get a spotty teenager to write the code for them, and then stick a ripped off NHS logo on it.
Meanwhile your local Test, Track and Trace/Covid Injection unit is staffed with 200 folks supplied by Bodgit's favoured set of accountants or out-sourcing company, who then recruit from the local Job Centre, and organised by the odd Army Sergeant Major (in his little tank) who are all stood around all day doing fook hall and wondering when the next family from Aberdeen might turn up. Failing that - some chap with apparently dodgy eye sight who claims he's just driven all the way from Durham via Barnard Castle might turn up.
As the leaflet that came through my letter box today says - book online at www.gov.uk/kissyourassgoodbye or call 119 and report the family next door for having a family BBQ and not inviting you. You'll need to do a bit more than just self-isolate when they realise it was you that grassed them up.
RE: What D'You Reckon? - Ska'dForLife-WBA - 13-11-2020
Having worked in a doctor's surgery for a short while many years ago, I can assure you that I'm familiar with the contents of the in-practice fridges.
![[Image: fridge-full-100309-1.jpg]](https://i.ibb.co/g4XLg7Q/fridge-full-100309-1.jpg)
Digging out those spare flu vaccines tends to be a job of work.
RE: What D'You Reckon? - Dingle-Dingle - 13-11-2020
It`s November 2020. surely it`s time to start worrying about Pangolin-V 20.
DD
RE: What D'You Reckon? - theo_luddite - 13-11-2020
'kin hell Ska'd, when did you take the photo of my fridge?
No, sorry, not mine, I've only one salad crisper drawer at the bottom, not two, phew.
Pangolin is apparently off the menu this year. Could be rook, giant panda, toad, lizard or road kill this year.
RE: What D'You Reckon? - talkSAFT - 14-11-2020
(13-11-2020, 15:09)Ska\dForLife-WBA Wrote: Rollout of the vaccine is going to take a fair bit of time, as our capacity for storage and distribution of it isn't up to scratch. Distancing measures of some kind will probably remain in place for most of 2021, though growing progressively less stringent as the situation (hopefully) improves.
I think fans will be allowed back in dribs and drabs at first (though February seems overly optimistic to me for that), and that will create an appetite for packed grounds again.
Yeh - a tad optimistic - I think I was still hungover from the other night! Vaccination would probably take a year.
I think spectators might have lost the habit of buying £30 tickets, though.
RE: What D'You Reckon? - Baggiebob(BBB) - 14-11-2020
(13-11-2020, 17:35)Ska\dForLife-WBA Wrote: Having worked in a doctor's surgery for a short while many years ago, I can assure you that I'm familiar with the contents of the in-practice fridges.
Digging out those spare flu vaccines tends to be a job of work.
Well that cwetainly more than I have in my special fridge, which makes you a 'double' alcoholic.
