Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
I did say a few months as opposed to a few weeks. Six weeks is one and a half months, I was thinking more in terms of August-September by which time an awful lot more knowledge about the virus would have been accumulated than there is now and you'd like to think we'd be much better placed to avoid or deal with the sort of scenario you outline.
I can only talk for myself here, but I was struck by a message I read from Trigger I think it was a couple of days ago about how it seemed to him that there was more traffic about in recent days and more people appeared to be out and about than previously. This struck a chord with me for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I can't fully explain why and I think I'm almost certainly wrong in thinking this, but I've been feeling safer than I did this week. Part of the reason for this is that, although I'm not on the most vulnerable list it seems, the council agreed to have someone do my weekly shop for me - the girl who's done the shopping for me is very good, but she will only go to two smaller shops, so, inevitably, there are one or two items I really want which I'm not getting.
Three or four weeks ago, I would have just decided in that situation that I'll have to find a way of muddling through, but, now I have gloves and masks I can wear, I've been out twice this week to do food shopping and yesterday I drove over the mountain to Tescos Aberdare. What I saw made me believe Trigger was right - there was far more traffic around and there were two or three cars parked at all of the spots where you can stop to go walking or exercising - I saw about ten people just sat on some of the seats close to these areas just taking in the sun.
The evidence of how I'm thinking and the numbers I saw on my drive illustrate the difficulty involved in trying to get people to stick to the current policies, or something close to them, for weeks, let alone the months that were talked about yesterday. I'll admit to being surprised at how well the social distancing and isolating policies have been observed so far, but people are going to need to be shown a bit of light of the end of the tunnel at some stage because otherwise they'll start thinking the "cure" is worse than the disease and I feel a return for sport, albeit on a very limited basis, would be one way of providing this.
Finally, I'm fairly sure I would have little appetite for a full return for sport to what it was just six weeks ago, but I am missing it and I am missing City, so I would definitely be interested in watching fixtures and events played behind closed doors online.