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There are multiple routes to final evacuation points and with many of them external there aren't short term, critical evacuation times required. In which case the FRA dictates there's little risk in knowing who is where? In the stands Fire Marshalls will move top to bottom to establish nobody is in occupation but other than than how many or who is irrelevant.

Been banging on about him leading 'Cold Play' ( cf 'Hot' ) since he arrived but those near me suggest that whilst he's crap he's still the best we have, hence should start. I remain to be convinced there isn't a part time player somewhere in non-league that couldn't outperform the uncompetitive drivel he serves up week in, week out. I get he's old, and immobile, but his lack of ability to jump, compete and control the ball is beyond a joke.

It's about risk for sure but in a civilized society it's sometimes about deferring personal expectation for the common good. What else can we do? Well we can try and limit the damage this new variant might reek and as guidance shows that's simply a matter of numbers. With R around 5 that's over 3m infected at Xmas; if 3% need assistance that's 90k, that's 65% of all hospital beds and there aren't that many acute beds in the UK. It's simply the quantum.

'Money' and what it does sure as hell exists as that's why folks spend their lives trying to acquire it and those who don't have it spend their existences moaning about those that do. Half the world's populous has never seen a computer screen, but ask them what money is and they know.

Actually, given its new independence, the BoE can say no but it would be a very brave Governor who acted that way. The Government overdraft isn't limitless, that's why controls were introduced and if the Chancellor exceeds forecast and needs extra he has to go cap in hand explaining why. The BoE then works out how best to source funding. Increasing currency in circulation is easy, problem being it devalues what's already circulating plus increases the cost of borrowing. Look at Turkish Lira this week. It's one of the prime reasons the UK defect increased. Ditto issuing gilts, which isn't creating money rather creating financial options. UK raises money by issuing them, not buying them. That's why economies are credit rated, why post QE the UK's was downgraded.

Not sure the blokes he was convicted of lumping would agree with that......

Which subject was that? If Covid then there are millions of folks who know the subject better than I and why wouldn't they? It's not a competition and I've no issue with that concept, that's why I trust and heed mainstream scientific advice. I also appreciate there are few who know less about the subject of covid than you but again that doesn't concern me. Living in a world where fact and fiction are indistinguishable I profess I'd find comforting or, as Neil Innes so aptly put it: "How Sweet to be an Idiot."

Oh dear. Do you think the Old Lady has a bottomless pit in Threadneedle Street? As it happens the BoE's function is two fold : regulatory policy and approval for issuance of banknotes, though quite a few folks issue those. BoE doesn't 'create' money, though through issuance of notes may regulate it's worth. The money the Government spends beyond that recovered by The Treasury is borrowed, in exactly the same way you or I might borrow money. It attracts interest premiums and must, ultimately, be repaid. Default means lenders may not lend again in future

Remind, what did the fruitcake day? If to form it'll be unfalsifiable claptrap (it's the principle of falsifiablity that's key, as Popper so thoroughly explored.)

Which subject? BS for sure he is. Thankfully, despite all his supposed medical expertise, he's no longer working. Now if only there was a vaccine that helped folks differentiate fact from fiction.....

He hasn't practiced for some time, having been dispensed with by his associated hospital for conduct contrary to espoused medical ethics. As to being more of an expert, that depends on the subject. Fictional, delusional BS - he's top of his class in that. As a cardiologist I doubt very much he had much dealing to Covid patients, that's how hospitals work, each to their own specialism.

Go on, from where does Government get it's money? That you think it bottomless, try being Turkish this week, or most Central African states most weeks. Theoretically most things are possible but money lending has never, ever been theoretical - it comes with a real world, real time price tag as those in debt understand.

So you're now resorting to citing an unemployed and discredited cardiologist hosted by a shock-jock UFC commentating comedian. Strange you neglect to reference what both Senate and the US medical profession had to say about McCollough. Look forward to what evidence you'll dredge up next - Chris Kamara having David Icke explain how purple tracksuits repel the virus? What a bizarre existence you enjoy.

Quid pro quo was the Sky deal in 2018 which expanded the streaming rights that now allow red button services. I've kept a season ticket though only as it allows me to keep a seat. Given the convenience and now expanded presence of being able to watch City via my existing Sky contract there's really little point on my renewing next season ( in truth there hasn't been for many a season.) If so, City lose that chuck of upfront money, I have to buy access to fewer games of benefit to City, plus those I do I could potentially split with like-minded supporters.

Nothing superior, arrogant or condescending, simply providing a public service in correcting untruths presented as fact.

I should be shocked at your level of ignorance, though as I suspect you're one of those unable to identify a library come Saturday afternoon, a bloke who lives in an estate akin a small US state given the size of your garden shed (replete with windows and door,) I'm not. The word you were looking for (but couldn't find,) is therapeutics. As well as dictionaries libraries also hold a useful series of publications, newspaper and journals alike. Read those and you'll have discovered huge steps have been taken in not only identifying how existing drugs have successfully been deployed to counteract Covid but also new drugs developed and approved; sotrovimab and molnupiravir being the latest, with dozens more in the pipeline. Now you've laid blame fully at the feet of Government, despite the fact Government neither develops nor approves therapeutics and treatment protocols, the latter being the responsibility of the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA.) Hint: the word 'Agency' denotes a body funded by but wholly INDEPENDENT of its funder. Now they know their stuff and will readily confirm vaccines are treatments, despite your believing otherwise. Much as the concoction of drugs many of us take each day are treatments. They are because they cause our bodies to do things they would otherwise not of themselves do. It's called preventative treatment. Correcting mistakes? Ball's more in your court than theirs.

Where did I tell you what to do? You've shown your cards, made your point (badly,) and will continue your existence, albeit one apparently devoid of intellectual or emotional empathy.

Yeah, the unnecessary dead, dying and incapacitated are no cause for emotional, excessive outburst. I'm all right Jack.....

It's neither. It's a case of people dying where they should not because people are, well, selfish tw*ts.

Look, I only wear a purple, nylon tracksuit, sleep within a circle of zirconium crystals, have covered my windows with aluminium foil and swear when close up to Prince Philip I observed scaley nodules on his sunburnt, Greek snozzle. Plus, I've never contracted Covid. If that doesn't provide credibility, what might?

But does Kieran have pillars?

I fear those staffing London's ITU may disagree, but as you'll never enter them (unlike them,) why would you care whether you're right or wrong?

Best about Ayling was when WeeLee publicly called him out for errors, then due to injury had to recall him where Luke played an absolute blinder. Ayling knew it, the crowd knew it, WeeLee through gritted teeth knew it but would never admit he called it wrong. For good reason Ayling at interview talks of Arsenal and his wondorous time at Yeovil. It's as if his period at City never happened. No wonder he did what he did when scoring against us at Elland.

Or the truth that GoN & Tomlin openly mocked WeeLee in front of the squad when he questioned their play suggesting he, too, could have played in The Premier had he desired. They openly laughed in his face, thus condemning themselves to the naughty step. Or Kent, highly rated, WeeLee had the World's top coaches on speed dial, until he didn't. Played out of position, undermined, not allowed to develop. A kid who looked in yards if not chains, but who was ordered to play by inches and punished if he looked beyond. Klopp and Guardiola appear to have lost WeeLee's ( and City's) number. That's unlike quality man-mangers of their ilk.

Sure. No problem.