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My uncle lost his battle to this in Royal Bolton this morning, so he will be one of today’s numbers. last rites over the phone held by a nurse with no family there. made an exception yesterday evening and allowed my Aunt in for a short while to say goodbye , she was so covered up and him in such a way will never know if he knew, but my aunt said he did and took comfort from it. None of his kids have seen him since last Thursday and can’t even be with their mum now. Not writing this for sympathy, very few know me and I know most on here are decent enough without needing to say anything. writing this to firstly echo how brilliant the staff Bolton are, cannot express how fantastic and hard working they are while remaining compassionate and patient. Special breed of person . Thank you to all posters on here who work there, for all I know you were the one that sat and held his hand in the absence of his family secondly, from reading not many do, but, if you think the virus doesn’t kill but rather underlying conditions do, be in no doubt this virus killed him, he wasn’t going to die if he got flu or a cold. thirdly, if you can’t imagine what we are going through, if you go out and ignore the rules you’ll be risking putting someone else through this and maybe even your own family will experience it or yourself and believe me, it’s fucking grim so stay home. Its also a better place for me to just write this than Facebook etc so thanks for obliging me in that.

I AM Mrs mustafa! 😁

This is by no means an effort to downplay the loss that the poster will be feeling today and no words from me could make them feel any better, but they know they have my utmost sympathies. But the sobering/frightening fact here is that by the end of this, every single one of us will have personally known a victim. And that is fucking awful, my friends. I hope those who have passed sleep well and that the ones they've left behind can eventually find some solace. Today would have been my father-in-law's 90th birthday : he died from leukaemia 9 yrs ago and my wife still hasn't got over it.

Other benefits aren’t affected I think pal. My place are saying to folk we will pay you the extra 20% if you burn a weeks holiday which is fair enough I think and gives folk the choice then of a reduced income or use some annual leave. our senior management couple of levels above me and upwards have all taken unspecified pay cuts and deferred their annual bonuses which were paid to us all last month. Fair play as well for that

HBAYT?

Don’t be dragging the name of trance through the mud. Scouse donk is where it’s at.

@ZicoKelly @Spider

Yeah, supermarket staff at massive risk for £9 an hour. Not belittling the fine efforts of our magnificent NHS, but they expect to have to deal with contagious people. Doris on the till at Morrisons didn't sign up for that.

Anyone got a megaphone I can borrow for this weekend so I can tell people to fuck off back home as I drove between patients?

Not sure society is for you Escobarp.

Fucking hell. Is this a serious post? There's plenty of stuff my tax and NI pays for that doesn't benefit me or any other person who gets up and goes to work all their adult lives.

EFA

Nowt like a local derby on an Easter weekend. Gillingham at home on Tuesday

Yeah The Prem has an issue as if they don’t fulfill the fixtures and fulfill tv obligations they will find themselves losing tv money which will send some to the wall. it’s a mess and going to take some sorting

If it is declared void then we’ll have to do it all over again, most likely with the -12 again. Would much rather they relegated us.

You were lucky, when I first posted the link, both sets were available. By the time you looked, all 10 of those that had sold out had gone. There were 11 of the sets available at that time, so you certainly got one of the last few!

Wedding Present at Bury Met in September hopefully

It’s JD so it’s possible

Belgian chap- vaccine September if clinical trials go well in July Euronews

Also - people if Asian and African descent are more prone to diabetes - which is a big risk factor for COVID if it's not well managed.

Im Actually considering a season ticket for next year. Why?? I can’t quite figure it out as it’s 7/8 hour round trip for a home game but I started watching us playing the likes of crewe etc so it’s sort of seeming like a good idea for a strange reason. I’m hoping I come to my senses shortly

Ha ha brilliant just looked at that, defo wolves fans. 😂

If you stick with it now Traf in a few years time she’ll be driving then it’s a free lift 😁 When we found out we were having a girl I was ever so slightly gutted because I just envisioned taking my son to the match but my daughter is almost 3 and her favourite thing to do is run around the garden blocking the ball or sitting with me whilst I watch games. It’s slightly killed my wife because I think she envisioned a pink pony riding little girl and at the moment she’s just not that.

Really sorry for your loss fatolive- the most poignant post of the whole thread, thanks for sharing it with us.

Sorry for your loss. Remember wways is always here for you

For the Wolves goal at Burnden did anyone notice the family sat on the front row straight after SJM scored? Everyone else was jumping up going mad. This lot were sat down with sour faces! Must've been Old Gold Cunts!!!

First game back home or away I’m there

Depends. Not arsed in the slightest about not seeing Keith in his cap and trainers building fuck all with his blocks. Would be good to go and watch some cohesive football though.

Ah, that's a fantastic start to the day. Can we not post this video on a Wolves forum? 😁

There might be a reason you’ve not been invited mate 😁

Please read this 4- minute article by an epidemiologist carefully. Jonahan Smith is a lecturer in Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases and Global Health at Yale University School of Public Health. His research focuses on infectious disease transmission dynamics. He is an affiliate of the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute and founding director of Visual Epidemiology, a non-profit organization seeking to combine academic discourse with personalized narratives. "As an infectious disease epidemiologist, at this point I feel morally obligated to provide some information on what we are seeing from a transmission dynamic perspective and how they apply to the social distancing measures. Like any good scientist I have noticed two things that are either not being articulated or not present in the “literature” of social media. I have also relied on my much smarter infectious disease epidemiologist friends for peer review of this post; any edits are from that peer review. Specifically, I want to make two aspects of these measures very clear and unambiguous. First, we are in the beginning of this epidemic’s trajectory. That means even with these distancing measures we will see cases and deaths continue to rise globally, nationally, and in our own communities in the coming weeks. This may lead some people to think that the social distancing measures are not working. They are. They may feel futile. They aren’t. You will feel discouraged. You should. This is normal in chaos. But this is normal epidemic trajectory. Stay calm. This enemy that we are facing is very good at what it does; we are not failing. We need everyone to hold the line as the epidemic inevitably gets worse. This is not my opinion; this is the unforgiving math of epidemics for which I and my colleagues have dedicated our lives to understanding with great nuance, and this disease is no exception. I want to help the community brace for this impact. Stay strong and with solidarity knowing with absolute certainty that what you are doing is saving lives, even as people begin getting sick and dying. You may feel like giving in. Don’t. Second, although social distancing measures have been (at least temporarily) well-received, there is an obvious-but-overlooked phenomenon when considering groups (i.e. families) in transmission dynamics. While social distancing decreases contact with members of society, it typically increases your contacts with family members / very close friends. This small and obvious fact has surprisingly profound implications on disease transmission dynamics. Study after study demonstrates that even if there is only a little bit of connection between groups (i.e. social dinners, playdates/playgrounds, etc.), the epidemic isn’t much different than if there was no measure in place. The same underlying fundamentals of disease transmission apply, and the result is that the community is left with all of the social and economic disruption but very little public health benefit. You should perceive your entire family to function as a single individual unit; if one person puts themselves at risk, everyone in the unit is at risk. Seemingly small social chains get large and complex with alarming geometric speed. If your son visits his girlfriend, and you later sneak over for coffee with a neighbor, your neighbor is now connected to the infected office worker that your son’s girlfriend’s mother shook hands with. This sounds silly, it’s not. This is not a joke or a hypothetical. We as epidemiologists see it borne out in the data time and time again and no one listens. Conversely, any break in that chain breaks disease transmission along that whole chain. In contrast to hand-washing and other personal measures, social distancing measures are not about individuals, they are about societies working in unison. These measures also take a long time to see the results. It is hard (even for me) to conceptualize how on a population level, ‘one quick little get together’ can undermine the entire framework of a public health intervention, but it does. I promise you it does. I promise. I promise. I promise. You can’t cheat it. People are already itching to cheat on the social distancing precautions just a “little”- a playdate, a haircut, or picking up a needless item at the store, etc From a transmission dynamics standpoint, this very quickly recreates a highly connected social network that undermines all of the work the community has done so far. Until we get a viable vaccine this unprecedented outbreak will not be overcome in one grand, sweeping gesture, rather only by the collection of individual choices our community makes in the coming months. This virus is unforgiving to choices outside the rules. My goal in writing this is to prevent communities from getting ‘sucker-punched’ by what the epidemiological community knows will happen in the coming weeks. It will be easy to be drawn to the idea that what we are doing isn’t working and become paralyzed by fear, or to just‘cheat’ a little bit in the coming weeks. By knowing what to expect, and knowing the importance of maintaining these measures, my hope is to encourage continued community spirit, strategizing, and action to persevere in this time of uncertainty." by Jonahan Smith. a lecturer in Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases and Global Health at Yale University School of Public Health. His research focuses on infectious disease transmission dynamics. He is an affiliate of the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute and founding director of Visual Epidemiology, a non-profit organization seeking to combine academic discourse with personal narratives.

😂 nailed it

Sorry BD, We know you're not a closet or a pinky 😊

Too many to mention, Anfield FA Cup, OT wins, Wrexham, Highbury when Walker scored. But Leicester 1st match of the season, it’s then I thought to myself that perhaps were a bit more than a cup run club. Felt smug about football in them days.

Actually, another one that made me feel good was Sheff Wed away when Mark Davies scored that screamer to win. Went on kids ‘n’ flids with the youngest. Was front row of the Leppings Lane stand when that bloke ran down the steps celebrating and flipped right over the railing into the lower tier. Honestly thought he was dead