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Perhaps I'm expecting too much, but given such a pandemic can happen anywhere at any time, perhaps other places should have looked at that and at least had a better idea of what to do, rather than just the ones like SK with direct experience of it. The next such incident might not be quite so forgiving of a lack of experience.

What a day.

Very few. But those few proved that it could be done, and the current inquiry might use that as a point.

People said that at the time, too. I presume they didn't see what happened in the streets to get rid of both Park and Yoon? Korea does civil disobedience and refusal of authority much better than the UK, because they pick the right battles. It's something of an insult to how far they've come as a nation to consider them close to authoritarian now.

Could flip that and say that Oz needed England to bat as horrendously as they did to stay in the game themselves, missing two decent players or not.

The over rates have been shocking today.

That's what I meant by better prepared, better trained and better led in all honesty.

Anyone remember that bit at the end of the "Battle of Zama" in Gladiator where it cut to Proximo laughing his head off at what was going on? Yeah.

Cometh the moment, cometh the man. That's Stokes all over.

They've all brought their best, that's for sure. Need to break this partnership before the close, though.

Bloody hell, this is hostile stuff.

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Agreed, which means England can still get a result rather than this being a foregone conclusion. As some people appeared to think. A great deal of the commentary here went a fair bit beyond mere criticism of some of the shots. Which I'll happily admit were rubbish, I'm just not buying into the the fatalistic "we're doomed" bollocks just yet.

It was judging the teams, pitch and conditions before one side had batted on it, much less two. So yes, it was, and is. This team's results (with the exception of India away) really have done enough in the face of difficult conditions to deserve more faith from folks. Ooop, there goes another.

Good to see Smiths luck run out, too.

Good to see the usual reactionary rubbish after a tough session or two then. All the bowlers look up for it, need them five down by the end of the day to make it roughly even I think. Edit: Aussies getting a surfeit of luck here, too.

We will, in all likelihood, never have to deal with that very particular kind of situation again. The next peril the natural world throws at us, however, may well be worse instead.

There are a few remarkable examples, however, of nations that were apparently better prepared, better trained and better led, and so didn't have to trust to as much luck to weather the storm. And their outcomes speak to how successful they were at that.

Having it be 2002-03 all over again after choosing to bowl wouldn't be great either. Hopefully England will win the toss and Stokes will play the conditions.

Just on this subject? But yes, very much so.

Richard Tice. And RFK Jr for writing the playbook on autistic children that Tice is now reading chapter and verse from.

Don't worry, doesn't directly affect "us" so we don't need to care. Apparently.

The dearth of critical thought (though maybe it was always there, perhaps the internet made it patently obvious) when applied to policymaking, on at least some matters, is going to be highly destructive. That's moving from a probability to an inevitability. In times past, we (society) could get away with being "stupid". Now, however, with the way power and tech have advanced, so have the degree of consequences for that "stupidity".

Quoted for emphasis. We definitely stand at a crossroads as a species, with this and a few other critically important directions to take. And the route taken will affect all of us.

And I likewise saved while working abroad. As you say, it can be done by some. But I - and I like to hope a lot of other people - can and should push back against the sentiment in this and other cases where those "exceptions" are overlooked or appear not to matter. Because when that happens, it's very easy for those people to simply become "acceptable collateral damage" in some kind of social Darwinist ideal.