If / when it gets serious, most people won't be going out at all, voluntarily. Will see hospitals overflowing with the sick and not enough intensive care beds and won't want to be joining in.
Football going to be the least of our concerns.
As a doctor, I’m genuinely curious as to how the workings of our healthcare system will change with this. We currently don’t have any cases, and long may it continue, but it really does make me wonder.
If we do get a confirmed case, will it make patients who have other issues less likely to come into hospital, for fear of contracting the disease?
Will they suspend/gut other services in the hospital to divert more resources to this? For example, I’m currently on the neurology team, who only see patients by referral so we’ll end up being pretty far from all of this. Will they say that in times like this neurology doesn’t need a full team, and take one or two of us and put us on units that will be dealing with this?