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Frank Lampard has put an interesting thought forward:
He's 'uncomfortable' with the idea of football resuming, if to do so requires testing. He's of the opinion that those tests would be better used elsewhere. Do many in motorsport have the same opinion? |
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If it is literally a zero-sum equation (one footballer tested is a nurse not tested) then you'd choose the nurse. But I don't think it is like that. Prioritisation means the nurse would get tested first. And expansion in capacity means more people in lesser priority groups can get tests without it impacting higher-priority categories.
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Presumably they'd be tested the day before. Given the test only confirms you don't have the virus now. In which case there is a risk of matches being called off with zero notice if the whole team has to go into quarantine, and then the league would not be able to complete its matches because that's another 14 days lost.
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Same for me! But some decisions are rather hard to understand, seems we'll be allowed to take the Métro in May but not to go on the beach in July… May be because we are running out of scuba masks, who knows?
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Not so hard to understand. Taking the Metro means people can work. No-one need to go to the beach in order to put food on their table.
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Probably right, all the system must restart. But there's a lot of business made around the vacation, many hotels, restaurants or bistrots need tourists and who can say how many will avoid financial troubles. Same situation for the business around racing.
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Quite apart from anything else, many of the beaches here in the north are so big you can walk all day without seeing anyone, let alone coming within two metres.
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It will be ten meters soon. And the "déconfinement" is now not sure for May 11 we are warned. John, did you understand how the maps work, three colors orange, red and green and? I guess its not directly related to the virus itself but the result of a combination of infected people, transmission risks and the emergency services capacity. Right?
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More will be revealed in the week ahead. They are going to review the lockdown on Thursday. So we’ll see if there is a gradual lift
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just moved all the over 70s to holiday camps by the sea where they can be protected from the masses by "security" measures whilst they retain their fitness wandering the beaches and, on the better days, get a good dose of vitamin D from sunshine effects and so on.
Once that is effective they can move things through to the younger generations - back through the age 60s for example - although of course that gets little to close to people who will not be of retirement age yet since that target is heading in the opposite direction. Other benefits could accrue - too many to discuss in this post. |
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I still have not seen a single gendarme in the last seven weeks but I guess they will be busy this week, making as much money as possible. The cleaner at Michele's office was saying on Thursday he had the most expensive baguette in the world. He had popped out from his apartment to a neighbouring shop to buy bread & had the misfortune to meet a policeman, so his baguette cost 135 euros! There is a little lane behind my house that goes nowhere in particular & is mostly used by farm machinery. However, in the last few weeks I've never seen so much traffic! I guess people are using the back roads in the hope of avoiding police. |
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Far from there being discontent and lockdown fatigue, it seems the "stay at home" message has so successfully scared the crap out of people that it may well be a challenge to get them to venture back out to work, let alone to events and pubs. |
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Certainly we’ve had a few people wrongly defying the lockdown, but we certainly are a lot better than understanding the situation than America. I doubt we will see the kind of idiotic anti lockdown protests we have seen over there over here. We’ll do it gradually as they say
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Public pressure here is that people want to go out and live normally but not catch the virus. Just impossible. Hence the lock down to be questioned. Might be better to explain them in russian!
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A looooong time later, at last my memory serves: Team Les Galapiats. Ever heard bout John? Nice person in fact. https://www.teamlesgalapiats.com
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I still think that marshal numbers will fall quite dramatically as many senior marshals I know have decided that having had a break, albeit enforced, that this is a good time to call it a day. |
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Also as you guys are volunteering, you are not missing out on a pay packet by not going. Have nothing but respect for the guys in orange who give up their free time to make sure races happen smoothly as possible
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Palmer on the future of motorsports after the end of the ban
clubracing to start first all very sensible and well argued Palmer, of course https://www.autosport.com/national/n...WNy1cO808cSw44 RuE |
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Palmer has always had good ideas in place and this is no exception. Give a few minor races a go and then see what’s what
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One thing the lockdown has proven is that a majority of daily travel is totally unnecessary.
Obviously not everyone can or wants to work from home, but most of us do not need to be polluting the atmosphere for an hour a day and wasting valuable time in the process. |
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Not really as a significant amount of work just isn't being done at the moment as most places are closed down. The current "nirvana" many a heralding as a model for the future only exists because the economy is effectively shut down and the Government is paying millions of people to stay at home and do nothing and as such they have no daily travel to work. It isn't a situation that is sustainable. There will undoubtedly be some changes in how things get done as the world comes out of the current situation however without wholesale change to a new "normal" some of the short-term alterations that have come about due to the pandemic won't remain in the longer term. |
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The most interesting aspect of Palmers interview is that he expects motorracing to take 3 years to recover to pre crisis levels of spending and activities.
More that I would have thought, but, he may have a point and he may have given this more thought than me I can also several drivers, not only marshals either calling it a day or greatly reduce their level of commitment to historic motorsport, having learnt how to get on in life without it RuE |
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