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He reminds me of the Harry Enfield character , Angry Frank.

I had my treatment at St James before this outbreak occured so I was quite lucky , if you can use the word "Lucky " when referring to cancer . It's horrendous for anyone battling this disease and having life saving treatment cancelled due to this virus is beyond words Stay safe mate and best wishes to you and your family.

Just going on what my oncologist told me.

Its a wait and see scenario , in a few months time we will have a clearer picture of what has been the best approach but on what you have said it has been announced today that non emergency appointments at hospitals are being extended indefinitely to allow the NHS to cope with a possible second wave after lockdown has been lifted so they are expecting it or making sure they are ready either way.

No many ! We saw the Chinese build a hospital in what was it 4 days and even then thought it was just something that would affect Asian countries and didn't get too alarmed . No excuse when Italian doctors were advising the British Government to lockdown and were ignored preferring the herd immunity model before realising that was a mistake . Now we are looking like being the worst affected country in Europe . Mistakes were made but nobody can say if they were in charge they would have handled it any better for certain .

Having Cancer treatment weakens your immune system so you have to be careful at the best of times not to catch an infection if you catch a common cold or seasonal flu on top of the treatment it makes you feel worse but it won't kill you , Covid19 will kill you hence isolating and staying home instead of being careful. Having Chemotherapy at the moment puts you at a higher risk of dying if you catch Covid19 as your immune system is so weak it cannot fight this particular virus as it could other viruses ,so what you are saying is it's the cancer that kills you when the point of Chemotherapy is to try and beat the disease and many make a full recovery and live a normal life being cancer free. Isolating and lockdown because a dangerous unknown virus is out there and protecting the vulnerable , which bit don't you understand.

So the hand car washing businesses have not opted to furlough their employees , I wonder why? It's is definitely not essential work , neither is window cleaning , are people just not bothered about catching a deadly disease .

The exit plan from this lockdown has now been put back to next Sunday instead of this Thursday which is the end of the this current 3 week lockdown . I get the impression the government dont really know what to do , I cannot imagine another 3 weeks as they seem to be worried about how that will affect the economy and the mental state of people being locked down another 3 weeks . It's a difficult decision , play safe or bow to pressure . For me and I could be wrong but looking at the amount of new cases every day it's still a huge amount , as the amount of testing has increased so has the positive cases 6000 end of last week and 4000 over the weekend . If testing is around the 100,000 mark and 4-6%are coming back positive that seems quite high when we have been isolating and social distancing for nearly 6 weeks . The amount of deaths are declining which is a relief and gives us hope but if 4-6000 new cases are being announced everyday then how can any part of the current lockdown be lifted , I might be reading too much into the figures but until the daily new cases drop significantly then it's a very tricky decision to lift any restrictions in less than a weeks time .

Who went through in group F , Flashmans or Bow legs?.

Rugby league now being helped by the Government , 1.6 million in loans and are being treated as a special case as they dont want to wipe the game out as it's a mainly Northern sport or something along them lines. 1.6 million still won't cover Blue Frocks rent arrears.

Man U are pencilled in to play their remaining games in Valencia so Neville can at least see his team win a game there.