Clubs still allowing sailing

Griff, have you not worked out figures are for public consumption? There are figures available if you look.
One of the main issues is that when someone goes into hospital with it, they can be in intensive care for weeks, work it out, if intensive care is full for 2 weeks, what happens to new patients? They could be any type of incident, not just coronavirus.

The problem with this coronavirus is that it is far more infectious than normal flu. The infection rates are exponential so although it appears that the current death rates are lower than seasonal flu that is because on the whole governments moved quickly enough to introduce social distancing and then lock-downs. It is these measures that have realatively speaking reduced the impact of the infection. You can bet your bottom dollar that if they hadn't it will have taken off in an almost unmeasurable amount and as 423zero said, ICUs would have been swamped and over-run.

Edited by maxibuddah - 22 Apr 20 at 12:07pm

I think the fusion looks alright... but it's a bit on the small side.

I fully accept both 423 and Maxi points, and I'm not expecting a return to normal club activities anytime soon, but as I've said time and again this period is engendering a really wrong culture, it's bad enough folk are encouraged to rat on their neighbours, but it smacks of Post War East Germany and the Stasi. We shouldn't be turning on one another, there is only one source for blame and it's Chinese shaped.

However it still doesn't mean that lone wolf exercise by whatever means should be banned providing it fulfils government guidelines, wether that's an Olympic hopeful out training with their own rescue support, or a lone windsurfer fully capable of self rescue, or SUP rider. Here locally we've already had conflicting messages from the local bobby (isn't it amazing there are now bobbys on the beat when the task is simply to sort soft targets) he said to a chum of mine who carried his Sup down to the beach that it is perfectly OK for him to use it. Meanwhile all the SUP members in our club have no chance since the place is locked and barred they couldn't take their board out if they wanted to, nor can any of us freesail in a dinghy, which I accept may in certain cases be a rescue risk.

Most of the above is unacceptable.