Brits 'postpone' March's English National xc meet which has never been cancelled except for a World War

Rojo, ever heard of a chronic condition? How about legal liability?

The Big Chungus wrote:

Rojo, ever heard of a chronic condition? How about legal liability?

Repeatedly posts under various handles indicating he has no capacity for understanding the issues surrounding Covid.

The Big Chungus wrote:

Rojo, ever heard of a chronic condition? How about legal liability?

Very simple.

If you don't want to risk it, don't go. The legal liability argument is crazy. I could maybe see suing an employer, but who are you going to sue if you sign up for a voluntary race and get Covid? Yourself?

I think we need to let people make decisions like this for themselves. The reality is over 50% of people in France have said they will NOT take a Covid vaccine. I think that's crazy but unless 75% of people take it, we're going to have this around for years to come.

rojo wrote:

The Big Chungus wrote:

Rojo, ever heard of a chronic condition? How about legal liability?

If you don't want to risk it, don't go. The legal liability argument is crazy. I could maybe see suing an employer, but who are you going to sue if you sign up for a voluntary race and get Covid? Yourself?

What about when all of these healthy runners contract covid at the race and bring it back to their hometowns and each kill several old people? If the race organizer's and runners' negligence end up killing people's parents, a fair number of them might want to sue the race organizer, the race sponsor, and UK athletics.

If you're referring to me I'm glad to say my name. The misinformation spread and enabled on this website is beyond toxic these days.

Why do covid deniers focus on a single statistic and ignore the other pathologies caused by covid? Seriously, rojo, this is a RUNNING website, an activity which relies heavily on a healthy cardiovascular system. Wtf is wrong with you?

lovely turtles wrote:...

What about when all of these healthy runners contract covid at the race and bring it back to their hometowns and each kill several old people? If the race organizer's and runners' negligence end up killing people's parents, a fair number of them might want to sue the race organizer, the race sponsor, and UK athletics.

This is the problem with people looking for the biggest purse strings to go after. If an individual decides to race, then it is that individuals "fault."

We cannot protect every person, from every thing, all the time.

That said, the title of this thread is stupid. We could just paraphrase it "race has never been cancelled except for the other times it was cancelled"

Otherwise, you will get "well this race has never been cancelled except for two wars, and then two years of pandemic"...but outside of those it has never been cancelled!

See the thing about streaks is that they are streaks, not streaks with exceptions. If you took off from WW2, then you have no streak that straddles that time. It is understandable.

The Big Chungus wrote:

If you're referring to me I'm glad to say my name. The misinformation spread and enabled on this website is beyond toxic these days.

The reference was to Rojo...and Wejo....and likely others who own/run/moderate this group.

Oh Please wrote:

lovely turtles wrote:...

What about when all of these healthy runners contract covid at the race and bring it back to their hometowns and each kill several old people? If the race organizer's and runners' negligence end up killing people's parents, a fair number of them might want to sue the race organizer, the race sponsor, and UK athletics.

This is the problem with people looking for the biggest purse strings to go after. If an individual decides to race, then it is that individuals "fault."

I'm not saying that runners who compete are the ones that are going to sue. I'm saying that sons and daughters of the coworkers that the infected runners kill when they return to their hometowns are the ones that are going to sue. Because the race organizer and sponsors chose to have their race, completely uninvolved and innocent people are killed. How are they not responsible?

Something else that has never been cancelled in england - not brushing teeth.

Starting on January 1st, the Brits will have bigger problems than to host some races.

Things will come to a sudden halt after the crash out Brexit.

This might have also huge implications to the world markets.

Just 20 days to go until we can watch to see a Nation going down for no good reason at all.

Why is the word postpone separated by single quotes in the subject line?

Every form of racing is cancelled here and has been for nearly a year now. Except elite level only races. Thats right. Competitive running in England has been turned into an elite sport only, and no-one is talking about it.

Very easily controlled population.

Puntenel wrote:

Every form of racing is cancelled here and has been for nearly a year now. Except elite level only races. Thats right. Competitive running in England has been turned into an elite sport only, and no-one is talking about it.

Very easily controlled population.

We had our short course national xc the other day but its a small field, nothing like the English National. Our long course event isn't until March (if it goes ahead).