[Growster...]

Certainly right, John, and all I think of is an enormous spreadsheet somewhere in London, making statistics fit a programme which included the costs of furlough, real panic, indecision etc, when absolutely nobody could forecast what would happen just about anywhere! There were some hard decisions to make, and all of them would have been (and were usually), torn apart by the press and most other commentators. Politics went out of the window of course!

I just remember Excel (an enormous place for many previous commercial Growster 'triumphs'), being re-designed as a huge field hospital, and then wondering how it just became a contingency 'in case'.

All I thought was, 'if you're ill, be told to stay away and be treated off-pitch'!

[mumofstig]

Still think we could all have done with the open windows/fresh air approach that was used for TB when I was young.
I remember Mum going to see someone (can't remember who now, though) in the local TB hospital, while I waited in the gardens. All the windows were wide open, and some people had been wheeled outside in their beds  in the middle of winter! They certainly got a lot of fresh air that way
 
People don't like cold fresh air so much, nowadays though

[Growster...]

Just remembered a line from a book I read as a youngster, where a chap couldn't join the RAF, as he had once caught TB.

He just said '****** that', went to Canada, worked as a logger in the still cold air in the hills for a year, came back and was accepted immediately!

(Sometimes a good read in a good book means so much later on, doesn't it)!

[Yorkie]

Still think we could all have done with the open windows/fresh air approach that was used for TB when I was young.
I remember Mum going to see someone (can't remember who now, though) in the local TB hospital, while I waited in the gardens. All the windows were wide open, and some people had been wheeled outside in their beds  in the middle of winter! They certainly got a lot of fresh air that way
 
People don't like cold fresh air so much, nowadays though

I read an article yesterday which was referring to the factors which influenced transmission, and steps taken in some countries in the Far East as a result of their previous experience with similar viruses.  The essential comment was that the role of ventilation was still being vastly underestimated here in the West - it was even more important than social distancing.

[snowdrops]

My friend who works in a school tells me they’re having the windows open all the time & are having to wrap up well