Because one of the major breakouts occurred when a infected person went to the emergency room. There by he/she infecting a whole hospital where many elders are treated.
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Quarentine extended to the whole of Italy now. Pretty unprecedented
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Madrid closing all schools and universities too.
With all these games behind closed doors its surely just a matter of time until the Champions Legaue and other events are postponed
I know I was rather scornful of the banned handshake before games but I can see football (not a popular opinion on a football forum, admittedly) becoming irresponsible soon.
They should be banning games, they should postpone public gatherings. Theyâre all just too worried about the loss of money and revenue at the minute
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Any decent articles on why Italy has been hardest hit?
I canât get my head around why Italy features so much either.
Italy and Iran, so random.
Also @DavidHillier youâre right, football isnât above society. Cheltenham should be banned too really but thereâs too much money involved so it will sneak past the post
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Football is a business. Itâs not going to shut down unless instructed. No more than a cinema or a shopping centre would. The Trafford centre gets somewhere around 750k visitors a week for example.
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I get you, but what are we waiting for? 1 person to come back from a football match saying they were infected by coronavirus? (which isnât practically true, either. If one person coughs with coronavirus at tonightâs game, more than 1 person will be infected by the airborne droplets)
Itâs as if weâre waiting for a death or a critical incident before we impose measures.
Why not be proactive rather than reactive?
I get the the Iran thing actually. China is one of their main trading partners and the outbreak was under reported by China which seriously hampered Iranâs initial response who are now under reporting information too. Itâs why alot of senior minister in their government picked up flu like symptoms and the virus itself in the early stages.
They basically didnât know what they were dealing with and the infrastructure to deal with the outbreak was strong in the first place
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Thatâs not the job of a football club. Thatâs the job of the government.
Itâs not like Arsenal, for example, can decide they are going to do it. They have obligations to fulfill games unless otherwise instructed.
Italy gets a shit ton of tourists from China and it has an abnormally old population (avg age of 45 vs 37 in US for example), so I guess that could be why but thatâs guess work from my end.
I had a feeling weeks ago this was gonna get really bad. I can see London getting quarantined as well.
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Boarders, airports, everything should just fucking close. Humans are too dumb to deal with this.
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Youâd think weâd learn our lesson from 28 Days Later. Bad idea, gotta think bigger
Honestly I was telling family and friends weeks ago that I thought we needed to just shut down all the borders and completely isolate China.
Despite the severe economic consequences.
Nah would effect money. Kill people instead.
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Economic effect will be big tbh, this is a pretty big move too;
Absolutely, just looking at the price moves in oil and in the stock market today was pretty damn frightening. A lot of pensions will have lost huge chunks of their value down to this virus.
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Iâm surprised theyâve even went this drastic.
You think of the market and the capitalistic world society we live in as impregnable, that only minor things can stop it but things usually just go on.
But this kind of thing is a bit unprecedented in terms of my lifetime.
I think the next people that get hit hard may be the US because if their pitiful response and infrastructure.
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Was there this much panic in 2009âs outbreak? Genuinely cant remember.
Noooo way. Nothing near it.
SARS, Bird Flu and Swine Flu were all more or less contained in SEA with a few individual cases in the western world.
This is the worst weâve had in half a century for sure. No countries, regions or cities ever got quarantined in those other virus outbreaks.
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