Plenty of football league clubs are panicking about this, could send a few under.

Not sure if we could cope to be honest

The thing is getting quite big now, and a a concern, that is for sure

I'm due to fly out to Sri Lanka in 7 days, back for a week, and then Greece.

Just seen a news thread that the gym is a place of high risk. Think I've done my last session for a while

Any vacancies at your place

Cinemas, restaurants and shopping centres too surely.

Pubs

not so long as you drink John Smiths - Antiseptic on tap.

Ha ha.

The Sri Lanka trip is a second honeymoon, so only me and Mrs EW going. Been booked a long time.

We were booked to go there in 2005, but had to change it due to the Tsunami. Hoping to take in a day at the Galle cricket test.

The second trip is a bit of Easter sun for the whole family

lets hope there's plenty of runs

I could have, if I eat too many of them kottu rotti's.

It means 1984 will soon be a reality if the scaremongering continues

Good for the toilet paper biz alteast.

Or France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, USA, China etc, etc
Because people are so mobile these days, it is just a matter of time before the UK is something close to Italy, in respect of the virus.
Even though there would have been massive resistance, the travel bans should have been in place already.

It looks nailed on that sporting events will be hit and the "closed door" option will probably be the only way to have games going ahead and even that may not be possible.

Everything that I've seen and read, suggests that we may be in a similar position in the next couple of weeks.

Then, it will be a case of waiting to see just how long it takes for things to peak and then start to improve.
It could be a few weeks but, more likely to be a few months.

In the grand scheme of things RL and sport in general aren't important and we will just have to see how the situation develops.

Your comparison to Italy could well come back to haunt you though.
They may be close to the peak but, we have barely started the ascent.

Because it's been too early thus far - you don't manage the peak if you go all out too soon; ICU's end up full of people, then you have no facilities to deal with those cases that come later. As far as I understand it, the phased process is about flattening the peak, and enabling the health system to deal with cases in a gradual way, rather than all at once. There is also the social and economic impact to consider - for example, if you close schools and all the Dr's and Nurses suddenly have kids at home who need childcare, who staffs the wards?

I suspect that after today's COBRA meeting, we'll be officially in phase 2 - Delay - which means you might get some of the things you want; school closures, cancelled events etc etc.