The thought process behind the "open the EPL" idea

https://www.cpfc.co.uk/news/2020/may...rystal-palace/

There's a bit of self serving in all this but one paragraph stod out to me

First, we will not walk from this nightmare in one quick step to a bright future, the disease over, the world on the same track that it was before. Barring a miracle or a vaccine, the next months are likely to involve a game of cat and mouse with Covid-19, with restrictions ebbing and flowing. Every facet of normal behaviour is going to crawl slowly from the wreckage — we may have to develop a completely new normal for work and social places.
Nice of somebody in sports to finally admit that "this" is not going to be "this" but more "changing constantly and us adapting as it all goes along and guess what, mistakes are going to happen"

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I couple this bit of English plucky optimism with a document that came out this morning about Ontario - these are some of the brightest minds in Ontario epidemiology right now.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....29.20084475v1

In particular, this:

Using a model, we demonstrate the marked impact strong public health measures had in reducing ICU admissions and mortality in Ontario. We also show that this hard-earned success is tenuous: relaxation of physical distancing measures in the near-term is projected to result in a rapid resurgence of disease activity.

In general, I always try to balance the "there is hope" with the "but if we still don't do x, we are so screwed".

Anybody who says they know exactly what is going to happen is making a projection.