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Of course, I expect any kid issued with a sunflower lanyard would get mercilessly bullied - so you'd want to find something more discreet than that.

I've heard that on buses here in the North East. I've heard some places which don't mention exemptions, but it's by no means all announcements. I wouldn't be surprised if organisations and companies based in Scotland are being more aggressive in their messaging - could that account for some of...

According to the 2019 life tables, the figure rises from 1 in 12 for 90 year olds to just over 1 in 5 for those aged 100+, over a six month period. But bear in mind that not all over 90s have been infected - so the chances of a man of that age dying would be higher than 1 in 60. I can't...

It's funny you should mention Kirkbymoorside, Helmsley, et al, because I was looking at the data on cases by neighbourhood, and it appears that in that part of the world there have been no cases at all during the entire pandemic (due to data suppression there might have been one or two). It's...

One interesting (and sensible imo) point from that is that Blackburn and Darwen are to be decoupled, despite being in the same borough. Darwen will be treated the same as Wigan and Rossendale with the current restrictions dropped, while Blackburn will have these new stricter restrictions.

I hope this is not an ominous sign of things to come when winter strikes in the UK and when we will spend most of our time indoors.

Now your main reason for leisure travel looks like it's going to be allowed again pretty soon (thanks to some rather vigorous campaigning by various clubs and quite a few MPs), will you consider returning again?

I don't believe that there is much chance of a huge second wave of deaths, but I do think it's premature to look at those graphs. There is a fairly significant lag time between infections and deaths. Obviously the hospitalisation rate has remained low, which is a good sign, but we can't be...

Another thread on here was based on a study, that said that if a vaccine could not be found, half of the population would be willing to see home schooling become the norm for the very long term. That sort of figure is utterly terrifying - people would be willing to throw away the ability for...

Even though I don't agree with the regulations, I agree with you here. If we're going to have rules, they can't just be toothless - otherwise what's the point?

Yes, the figures went from 10% to 19% across the population as a whole. Even worse affected are groups such as younger people (under 40), those in a precarious financial position, and those with some sort of disability - all three of those have more than 30% reporting moderate to severe symptoms...

A third of young people have shown significant symptoms of depression, with the figure one in five among the population as a whole. The mental toll will only increase as time goes on. We can't just remove all restrictions, but equally we can't deny that these restrictions are having an awful...

I believe wheeling is just using a wheelchair - I imagine they would thing saying just walking or cycling would exclude those with mobility issues.

One thing which doesn't seem clear from a lot of the guidance is the difference in the face covering guidance between Wales and England/Scotland. So what exactly are the rules surrounding "three layer" face coverings? Are they mandatory, and will you be stopped if you're not wearing one? To be...

Oh, I can believe that - I deliberately pessimistically rounded all of my figures in my back of the envelope calculation - so I rounded up the mortality rates, rounded down the potential length of immunity, that sort of thing. I could probably give a better figure if I looked at some life...

Yes, I believe there's quite a large set of changes due in September (particularly XC), though I'm happy to be corrected on that. Hence the reluctance to release advance tickets.

Back then there wasn't social media and the likes of Piers Morgan stirring things up. As to the wider point, that poll doesn't make me depressed as much as it makes me angry. The fact a huge proportion of our population would be willing to exist like this (it's not really living, is it?) for...

Oh I know - just saying that it's illogical. Though I probably shouldn't say that too much, perhaps Matt Hancock reads these threads and will make masks mandatory in all parts of sports venues next!

I believe that's what they're doing in the snooker, where they're trialling having a live audience. And I can't see much difference between watching an indoor sporting event and watching a film.

Not really. The risk of a vaccine could even be greater than the risk of the virus, and I'd still take it. Why? Because the damage social distancing, masks, and all the other restrictions we know and love cause to my mental health is far greater than the risk of a vaccine. And realistically the...