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The people are already there & will be in much larger numbers once all of the food places are fully up & running next week, seems little point in only having every other shop open at the rest of the site

Think it will be extended again until the next bank hol at the end of the month but with a few more things given permission to open every few days starting with the larger stores that make up the rest of some of the retail parks as distancing is much easier in some of those massive places. Most of them will be pretty much half open now anyway with a supermarket/pets at home/b&q/Mcdonalds/KFC etc so makes sense to start there for other things like sports direct & whatever other stuff is there

Free on gamepass for xbox/pc

You can get them but they aren't cheap. Even the crappy disposable ones are at least £30 for 50, (If you have a b&m shop near you some of those have boxes for £30 & they are selling smaller bundles of 20 for £15) most places selling them for £50+. I do actually buy masks from time to time as part of my job and the same company i have used for over 10 years now are charging nearly £60 inc vat for the cheaper version of the box of 50 masks they usually sell for £6. If you want a mask that is actually any use for anything you will be paying £10+ per mask if you can find them

Playing it now, Free with gamepass on xbox/pc looks & plays well, still the same issues as with any side scrolling beat em up really though in that it gets repetitive very quickly (mainly due to levels being too long at 10-15 minutes each, Hell you can finish double dragon quicker than you can get through level 2) but is enjoyable anyway. If you like the genre this is well worth a look. I know DF have made a bit of a feature out of intelligent AI constantly changing attacks but it's not something you notice too much ingame (at least on normal & hard so far)

Should be able to see some actual games running next week including assassins creed valhalla

messy further down the leagues too, Look at Wycome in league 1, currently sat 8th & out of the play offis but could go joint 2nd if they win their game in hand, tranmere are in the bottom 3 by 3 points but have won their last 3 games and have a game in hand over the team (wimbledon) 4th from bottom and still have to play them. They can't just promote/relegate teams on where things are now, Go back a few years and Leicester would have been relegated at this stage of the season, They pulled off one of the biggest shocks ever both by actually staying up & then winning the league a year on. Talk of playing the remaining 90 or so prem games at st georges park, 3 games per day, all on tv. Might be the only way it is actually achievebale in any sort of sensible format but who knows what will happen if some of the older managers/coaches end up getting it They need to make a decision on Europe too & soon, Wolves could end up playing qualifiers for the uefa league in a month or two so despite still being in this years and could potentially win it meaning they would be qualifying for the wrong competition next year ...

Most watched premier league game ever is city utd in 2012 with just over 4 million, very few games get anywhere near 3 million viewers. Eastenders still somehow gets around 5 million viewers per episode

Despite the hilarity of them missing out on the league the bad thing is that technically they would still be European champions, here's hoping they somehow manage to finish the champions league in Dubai or something

Looks like it is at government level rather than fa level, just banned it until at least August

Gears 'Tactics out today/tomorrow on Pc gamepass (console later in the year) & Streets of Rage 4 on Thursday. April has been a good month with football manager, nier, yakuza kiwami, long dark, stranger things, a bunch of smaller stuff & now these

Think some of this must be heart related. Honestly felt like I was having some sort of heart attack ranging from fairly constant dull ache to shooting pains for nearly a month. At no point did I ever really feel like I was about to immediately keel over but it wasn't fun. Still don't feel 100% now 6 weeks later but thankfully the main pain seems to have gone for the most part but god knows what it has done to my insides & until we have gone back to some sort of normal & presumingI am still alive & can actually get seen by a doctor we'll never know I guess.

They have done 3 or 4 musical episodes now. Seems to be a thing that lots of shows want to do since Buffy did it 20 years ago but Riverdale is now doing one every year & they are all shite

But you can't choose who does from flu every year either. Yes I know it isn't the flu & we already have vaccines for that but a good flu season in the uk will see a few thousand die, a bad flu season will see 50,000 die, most of them will be old & vulnerablebut plentyof youngerpeopledie too. never once have we had daily figures of 1000+ being reported on every news outlet. No outrage over how unprepared the country is, no calls for lockdown & isolation to help prevent tens of thousands of people dying despite it maybe actually being a good preventative measure. People don't wear face masks even when they know they have the flu and knowing full well that if the elderly person on the train sat next to them gets it, it could be fatal. Hell I would put money on every single one of you having gone to work, the pub, football, gigs etc when you have been I'll with flu like symptoms before and not even give a second thought about spreading it, even in the couple of years recently that we have seen nearly 50000 flu deaths.

1 month ago (20th march) the total deaths this year in England/Wales were just under 5,000 down on the 5 year average, The graph above seems to suggest that a fair amount of this is down to flu deaths being significantly lower than average most weeks. Is the thought that Covid has killed many of these people that would usually (going on the same average figures you keep using to argue your case) die from flu really that wild of a theory?

Perhaps because it's true but of course that doesn't suit the "we hate the tories" narrative of this place

You can now watch Nick Cave 24 hours per day

This seems to be automatically cycling through a bunch of live tfl cameras around london. Not chaotic normal by any means but plenty of people/vehicles about in some of them & hardly a draconian lockdown

properly scrapped too, No champions, no promotion, no relegation. Just start again next season exactly the same as this season started. Still seems like the only real fair & sensible way to go unless leagues are somehow able to be completed

That would be the couple that drank fish tank cleaner because they thought it sounded similar to something else.... Seems a reasonable chance that they are/were morons too

Glad it's finally sunk in, I know these things can be complicated...

No, that is only over 85s. Plenty of 65-84 would also have died, as would some random younger ones, especially those that already have existing health conditions like just about every single person dying of covid ag age is far from the only factor here.

They are someones relatives, may well be mine but if they are over 85 then the sad reality is that 15% of them will probably die this year anyway .Hell my one remaining grandparent died 4 weeks ago when I was in quarantine. It was shit, I couldn't go to see her in hospital, couldn't be there with my parents, 1 of whom couldn't go either due to having heart surgery recently. There were 5 people at the funeral which would have usually had 200+. Everything about it was & is shit.not that it really matters but She didn't die of covid, she died of being old, just happened to be at the worst possible time.