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Is anyone still listening to the rules over there? Genuine question. From what I hear hardly anyone (North or South) is wearing a mask out and about apart from when they have to, and even then it's far from 100%. This was inevitable from way back when the Cummings Barnard Castle thing happened and the entire government lied to everyone to protect one man and we all knew they were doing it, and they knew we knew. 'We're all in this together' died on that day. There are a number of smaller issues such as dreadful communication and the number of u-turns they've made making people think well I think this rule is stupid and they might repeal it anyway so why bother? The biggest problem is still the Test and Trace not being up to scratch. It's been the case for months now so people seem to have forgotten about it but it still isn't fixed. You can't expect it to be fixed either when the quality control in place is so paper thin that it took them days to realise that copy and pasting into an Excel spreadsheet that didn't have enough rows meant a load of the data got lost. Utter nonsense. England doesn't actually realise what a basket case it has become because Trump is over the other side of the pond making everyone else look vaguely sane.

TF365 saving lives since 2017 .

In seriousness, you should definitely get a test. A lot of people get it without symptoms so the taste and smell test is reassuring but irrelevant. If you don't have it you should take the test so you know for sure that you're not spreading it. If you do have it you should take the test so that you know you need to stay away from people. Either way the best thing to do is take the test and find out to remove the risk of you spreading it by accident which is going to make you feel like a dick down the line.

You might make a recovery in 3 days and decide that it makes you 'immune'. Apparently that's a thing now.

Well at least we haven't spent actual money on Lossl or Olsen. Pickford's problem for me is that he has completely lost his confidence but his ego and personality are such that he won't look in the mirror and have an honest conversation with himself about it. He's in denial about what the problem is. He panics when he's under pressure in games and hasn't taken the time to understand why. He seems to think his ability is enough that it'll average out and he'll play himself back into form. I'm not in the lad's head but that's what it looks like to me.

In theory, I'd love to sit and puzzle it out but I get as far as "something is suspect about this" and then decide that I owe it to myself to go about my day instead of worrying about this moron for a second longer than what's necessary, because that's what he wants to get out of this. Another argument where his opponents and anyone with any critical thinking skills can question the inconsistencies in his story while his window-licking supporters can scream back 'fake news'. It seems to drum up more support for him but for me, yawn.

I thought it was generally accepted that it takes about 14 days for the virus to run its course. A few days before symptoms, a few days to a week of symptoms, then a few more days of self-isolation as a precaution.

As much as he'll do anything to win, this still isn't China or North Korea we're talking about. Trump may trump loyalists in key positions but he doesn't directly control them and there will come a point where they choose to preserve themselves instead of going down with his ship and end up in jail like so many of his previous advisers and cronies. He's lost too much support and he's losing more. The gap is growing in every poll, he's making no progress and he only really has his extremists left. Some people are determined to believe that he's going to find a way to win dirty in the face of all actual evidence. He will try, I'm sure, but he doesn't have the national support to cling on, it simply isn't tight enough. He's not going to close the gap either. All he has in his locker is what he's been doing for the past 5 years and it's turned too many people away from him. If he had an ace in the hole, he would have played it already.

He'll be gone in a month. Biden is polling up to 10 points ahead of him nationwide.

Why is he even in Everton kit though? They're not even signing him from us . The Schneiderlin bit is hilarious though because they actually do look sort of similar and you could be forgiven for not noticing it on first glance. I'm not really optimistic about Olsen. From what I've heard, he's not going to be an improvement on Pickford, but hopefully he can act as a shot across the bows to get Pickford to sort his shit out. I can't see Olsen even being better than Lossl really but we've already reached a point with him where it's clear that Silva and Ancelotti both didn't trust him enough to drop Pickford so there's no pressure on the number one to improve. Although I don't actually think that a lack of pressure is Pickford's problem. It's a good window overall. What was bigger yesterday was getting rid of Sandro Ramirez who was on £100k a week thanks to braindead Steve, and we managed to get Walcott on loan to Southampton who are paying half of his wages which is another £50k a week so that's a saving of £7.8m on wages over the next 12 months. Kean is also temporarily off the wage bill along with Besic, I don't know how much they're on. There was talk of Bernard leaving on loan to Roma which I'm glad didn't materialise. We have no clear back-up for Calvert-Lewin with Kean gone so it looks like Richarlison will have to operate as our second choice centre forward, meaning we have need of Rodriguez, Iwobi, Bernard and Gordon for the wide positions to give us six forwards, i.e. two in each position. Still need to get Bolasie a move but we're slowly chopping back the hundreds of thousands we're paying a week to players who are no longer in the first team plans.

Yeah they've really rescued it after the mishandled and overly-long Rick vs Negan arc. The whisperers stuff has been generally very well done. I do feel like the commonwealth arc is the best way to wrap things up though, going beyond the written material from the comic books for further content would be stretching it out. They're already going to hit 10-11 seasons.

Michael Keane apparently suffered some longer term issues beyond the 2 weeks during the lockdown but he's fine now. The majority of footballers and other athletes that have been infected have been symptomless and shaken it off comfortably in time for the two weeks to be up and slotted back in to their sides without issue. Thiago and Mane are likely to be fine for the derby.

Yeah I've read to the end of the comics so I can assume :p .

I haven't watched it yet.

I'm actually on board with the conspiracy theorists now. The story is all over the place, they can't make their minds up when he was diagnosed, if he needed oxygen, anything. It's so easy to believe that this was a publicity stunt and they've abandoned it having failed to see a boost in his polling numbers. He's had an absolute meltdown on Twitter today and now he's already getting discharged mere days after apparently needing emergency treatment. I'm sorry, the whole thing stinks. Trump and his team's heads have absolutely gone. Can't get their story straight. If it wasn't for all of the other senators and White House staff testing positive I'd be completely convinced the whole thing was a hoax.

You couldn't write it. You just don't need to comment anymore. How hard is it to see what successful countries have done and just copy them for christ's sake?

I do have some hope but there's also probably more chance of us losing. We have a lot of Goodison draws with them lately. This year we have a better chance of competing with them so we might go for it more and get done but I'd rather see us do that than scrap for another 0-0. Also, I know they look shite against Villa right now but that's more reason for them to bounce back when they play us in a couple of weeks.

The excitement over this is absolutely absurd. I have no idea what's actually going on in the UK news-wise today. 8 of the top 9 stories on the Sky News website are about it. Alright, it's a big news story but for fuck's sake get a grip.

I didn't hear any of his excuses and I'm not saying they're any good, just pointing out that as much as you might expect the PM's Dad to try not to embarrass him, at least we aren't talking about someone who has stood for office and been voted into a position of responsibility by thousands of people.

To be fair to Stanley Johnson he isn't an elected official. Corbyn's offence is nowhere near as egregious as the SNP MP but still, how can you be so lacking in self awareness getting in a picture with over 6 people and allowing it to be shared on social media.

Christ alive.

How did England's midfield end up being so fucking shite? After Henderson, that's a potty full of average or worse.

*long sigh*

It was understandable early on as it was very literally an emergency but yes there's no reason they shouldn't be trying to plan ahead at this stage and debate stuff in the Commons before putting it in place.

How can anyone not be in favour of the referees having access to extra replays to help them make the right decisions? Even the referees, who I'm never shy about pointing the finger out due to the complete lack of accountability for game-changing mistakes that they make, can't be blamed for this situation with handballs. They started by saying that clear and obvious mistakes would be reviewed. They quietly allowed clear and obvious as a phrase to slip out of our vocabulary, now they're obsessed with reviewing every goal or goalmouth incident to interfere with the game. These decisions have all been made by humans. The value of having a video assistant referee is objectively good. Nobody can argue with that, so don't try. It is an absolute fact that having more opportunities to see an incident from more angles gives you a better chance of making the right decision. If the handball rule is open to interpretation, you have a better chance of making the right and fair call by watching a slow motion replay than you do by relying on what the referee and linesman could see in real time. Too bad this absolute and undeniable benefit to fair officiating of football matches has coincided with idiots in board rooms somewhere bringing in absolutely farcical initiatives to try and take advantage of the new technology, without giving it a season or two to see how VAR works in its most basic form. Literally all of the problems are created by humans and how they're using the technology. Claiming that VAR should be scrapped and not used at all cannot be backed up by any feasible argument. What needs to change is the idiots using it, the human people, not some mysterious AI that doesn't exist.