Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness podcast. I have Shona back with me. Hi Shona, how are you?

I'm great. Thanks. How are you? I'm good, although we had to do this. I'm calling this early because I've been so lazy slash drugged up that 8.30 in the morning is now early for me.

Ugh. Oh, it's really for me.

Anyway, we wanted to start by talking about, so just to pre-curs, this podcast that we do together as a duo,

is usually about things we don't know very much about, but we like to talk about.

So we thought, why not talk

about coronavirus? Yeah, why not? Like completely uneducated but opinionated. Love it. Let's do it.

So why did you want to talk about it? Because the rugby's cancelled.

Oh yeah, so I was chatting about it with a client last night because there is a rugby game, Italy versus Ireland in a fortnight's time, and it's being cancelled.

And he was outraged because the game's been cancelled cancelled but no flights have been cancelled so Italian

fans who have tickets for the game who have flights booked who have hotels booked

they're probably still going to go for a weekend in Dublin let's face it and his

his point was that it's just totally ridiculous it's not going to stop people going to

Ireland people who are in

that closed-packed environment of the temple bar all drinking together are probably more likely

to pass coronavirus to each other than they would be in an open-air stadium like a rugby. And he just

thinks it's totally ridiculous in mass hysteria.

And to an extent I kind of think the same as well.

I think that coronavirus, from what we've been told, is very similar to flu.

And thousands of people die of flu every year, which is awful.

But it's not too dissimilar to that. Okay well this is what makes it worse.

The fact that it's not that deadly makes it worse because let's say if we look back to

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