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2 hours ago, mattiloy said:
Yeah and about 6 seconds will tell you that if they are charged the same as individuals, they’d have to pay it on vacant properties, so there would be more onus on them to fill the property, that makes the market for renters more competitive, landlords’ offer has to be better, downward pressure on rents, upwards pressure on quality.
Them having to pay it on vacant properties is good news for councils, especially in heavy student or second home areas. However I've never paid higher council tax than rent - if a landlord isn't filling a house to collect the rent I can't see the council tax bill on top of that pushing them to fill it.
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17 hours ago, steviewevie said:
I've tried that trick to be on time, doesn't work.
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1 hour ago, mcshed said:
Up here in Scotland you don't have to wear a mask at a club if you are dancing but you do have to wear one to go to the bar or the toilet, I haven't been out yet but I assume everyone is ignoring this.
The thing is masks do reduce transmission and any reduction of transmission puts us in a better place, a rule that said only people whose names begin with a vowel have to wear masks would be more effective than nobody wearing them so I do see the reasoning behind these seemingly arbitrary rules I just don't think they chime with how we see the world. Giving public health advice that no-one follows isn't good for faith in public health advice.
Yeah, if you make the rules seem illogical I think people are less likely to follow them.
I've been to a few places that have specifically put up signs saying what they want you to do with masks as a request, I wish more places would do that. I am double jabbed and still test regularly so am comfortable not wearing a mask (and TBH never had a whole lot of fatih in them in the first place) but still wear mind in a lot of places essentially out of politeness.
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Went past the site on a train on Saturday. They're putting up the normal main stage, no signs of work on the new one yet.
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On 7/24/2021 at 9:53 PM, mph said:
Hopefully off to Green Man in a few weeks, double jabbed so went on NHS covid pass link as it says on Green Man website, I live in Wales so followed Wales info and ended up with a QR code for England ? Anyone else in Wales tried it ?
Yeah I had to show proof for Latitude last weekend. Got the same QR code, waved through the gates. Note there is an expiry on it (for the QR code not the jab!) so you may need to go on the site and get a new pass before the show. I don't think any of the Welsh test events have worked on vaccination status yet so maybe that's why it says England on it, may change in the near future.
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On 7/26/2021 at 1:38 PM, LowerMead said:
Reading resident and multi-time veteran here, I live about a mile from the site. We're not going this year for the first time since the 90's (I'm 49, not really the demographic they are after!) so having a year off to go elsewhere, but hope to b back in future.
My biggest concern is the noise issues; currently the main stage points Westwards, so any noise complaints generally come from a small number of well-healed residents of The Warren (the big houses the opposite side of the river) and Caversham Heights, or the more Average Joe types in West Reading and Tilehurst, but the noise has to travel a decent way before it hits the latter.
If FR don't go 'side-by-side' and decide to put a main stage at what we currently know as the back of the arena, facing eastwards towards Caversham, then I can imagine there is going to be a significant increase in noise complaints from the local NIMBYs. It's already a very sensitive issue, people often complain, it gets turned down, etc etc.
It's a fairly divisive issue. Loads of people love the festival for what it does for the town, but there is a fairly large vocal minority who don't, who will already be up in arms about (I paraphrase) "all these unvaccinated kids coming to town, spreading their Covid" etc etc etc. Dumping a load of additional noise on their doorstep is a recipe for getting said NIMBY's hackles up.
Call me a traditionalist, but now is not the time to be experimenting with new layouts.
TBF I think noise complaints are quite a small amount of the flack festivals get. It's the traffic that most locals really hate - and FR have done a lot over the last decade or so to keep traffic out of the town center.
Main stages have to shut off reasonably early and you can be much more directional about sound nowadays than you used to be so I think this probably won't cause too much issues. Other than those people who want to complain because they hate the festivala and love to moan.
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Yes you can leave site to restock, there will also (probably) be a coop on site in a tent selling cans of beer but be prepared for a long queue.
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45 minutes ago, Tartan_Glasto said:
Yep, thank that's what it's been.
Do we know what bit of it has been? Is it folks going into each others houses? Or the Tartan Army mobilizing to seize London? Because I thought (the old) COVID was really hard to spread outside? Though I guess they all got together on the trains for hours.
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54 minutes ago, balthazarstarbuck said:
Red is the first wave, blue is the second wave/whatever we’re in now.
x axis is how many people are hospitalised each day. y axis is how many people are currently in hospital.
It’s all plotted on exponential axes, so a straight line means it’s going up at the same rate, a line bending up means it’s going quicker and a line bending down means it’s slowing.
Cool thanks never come across a graph like that before
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5 minutes ago, balthazarstarbuck said:
Oh piss. Cases matter less, but hospitalisations going up pretty sharpish too.
I don't understand that phase portrait chart, how does it work?
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13 minutes ago, philipsteak said:
There used to be a tiny one day event near me (organised by Gandhi's Flipflop, veggie curry guys). I knew a few people who worked at the venue. One year they had the bright idea of putting one of the volunteers who was there as part of a program to boost his confidence, out front of the gate to stop people parking/abandoning their cars in stupid places. Nearly broke the poor guy.
Oh dear poor guy! Though I think a good half of the confidence I have now comes from working traffic management at festivals (and it beat litter picking as a job!)
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1 minute ago, gooner1990 said:
Which festival did you do parking at?
Must say I've never seen anyone shouting at parking stewards!
Loads, some are worse than others (Guilfest probably the worst) but when your doing traffic you get verbal abuse almost hourly. I've seen people get punched by drivers who thought they had a god given right to do what they want. I've had quite a few people square up to me. All we were trying to do was keep the traffic flowing but it turns out getting behind the wheel turns some people into entitled pricks. The worst is trying to keep a semblance of order when everyone is leaving. I've seen people purposely drive into people who stopped them to let another traffic lane move.
The funniest thing is you'd see the people who had shouted at you later in the festival. They wouldn't recognise you and would be all chilled, full of the peace and love, and having fun.
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Getting flashbacks to my days parking cars at festivals. I've never been shouted at like it. I don't know what is it about being in a car that makes people think they can treat you like that. From the stewards perspective they have thousands of cars to park and just want to get them in, where you want to part isn't really part of the equation because it's not possible to put you anywhere other than the place you end up in due to the order you arrived at. You couldn't get people in at the speed required to stop queening on the roads.* Though to be fair we always started nearest the gate, and I've never done parking at Glastonbury.
*The think that pisses locals off about festivals much more than the noise is the traffic they cause. You get a queue on the road and the council will be there straight away to bollock you.
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1 hour ago, zahidf said:
That's a bit of weird analysis. For a start its a half truth because first jabs are continuing at the same pace they have been for a while, no drop off. Also the decision to not give under 40s AZ was to do with the balance of risk, would be really stupid to race though the jabs with an unsuitable vaccine and do more harm than good.
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Festival Republic have just announced Latitude as a pilot event so no matter the changes in restrictions it's going ahead. Do you think this will start a trend? Many more festivals becoming pilots?
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5 minutes ago, zahidf said:
Delta plus is already being investigated for the last couple of months. Cant find the tweet but its basically nothing massively different to current Delta
Someone online has made JUly 19th the equaivalent of getting Brexit done. Just going for it and hoping for the best. GET COVID DONE
Delta plus binds to the lungs more effectively than the Delta standard and antibody treatments (as in where they get antibodies from someone else and put them in you, not your own) are less effective. The article I read didn't mention anything about it evading your own antibodies so hopefully it doesn't do that.
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24 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:
Common sense dear I say ?
Thousands travel an area from all across the country and then cases spike...
But can I say 100%... no... the virus doesn't carry a passport...
And thousands traveled there and didn't cause a spike before, there haven't been similar spikes in other tourist hotspots either (albeit without the G7).
Having a birthday in a house increases the chance of anyone in that household getting covid by 30% within the fortnight. Your common sense might indicate that the person hitting another rotation of the sun is the cause, but its not.
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13 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:
So if we go with that - neither did the G7...
But what we do know it did spread so you are on thin ground with your thought process.
How do we know it did? That's what I was saying, I think its correlation not causation.
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29 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:
When you come in close contact with someone then its not a given you will get the virus. Your chances of getting the covid from the Indian variant was greater than your chances of getting it from Kent which was greater than the Original strains.
Not following your logic at all.
The logic is that tourists/visitors and the settled population don't really come into contact in a way that usually spreads the virus. I.e. tourists and locals broadly aren't spending 15 minutes within a meter of each other. Authough virus transmissibility is increased the opportunities don't often present themselves. So even with the increased spreadability of the new mutations the spikes are unlikely caused by outsiders. The short answer being people don't often catch COVID from strangers.
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9 minutes ago, Barry Fish said:
We have had India and Kent since the last summer period. Both changed the game on transmission
But social interaction - which is where transmission occurs - has not changed. There was zero spike caused by summer tourists and although slightly hyperbolic 0 * 50% increase in transmissibility is still 0.
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Bold statement but I recon the G7 thing, and the holiday makers, is coloration not causation. There were no spikes in Cornwall or West Wales last summer despite the locals (and most other people) fully expecting there to be and both those areas being rammed to the ceiling with tourists. Holiday makers (and I expect G7 circus folks) don't tend to mix that much with the community at large so don't spread the virus into the community, especially at the moment where the places they would come in contact with locals (pubs, restaurants or outdoors on a beach) are all pretty COVID secure.
What does spread the virus is people from inside communities heading out somewhere, being irresponsible then coming back home and continuing to be irresponsible. I wonder if these spikes have anything to do with locals having Euros parties? It's just much easier to blame outsiders though.
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15 minutes ago, steviewevie said:
I guess balances out the playing all their games at home advantage a bit.
That very much depends on tonight!
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Just now, JoeyT said:
Chilwell and Mount will isolate and train individually in private areas at England’s training base St. George’s Park, with the rest of the squad returning there after tonight’s fixture against Czech Republic at Wembley.
Cheers - though still missing a week of training with the team will put them and England on the back foot
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19 minutes ago, jyoung said:
Mount and Chilwell must isolate up to and including Mon 28 Jun... Meaning they will be available for the round of 16 if England finish 1st and play 2nd in Group F on Tue 29 but not if they finish 2nd as the game will be on Mon 28. Not sure about if we finish 3rd. If they are training away from the squad I don't think either would make the team anyway.
What a farce.
They will be available but are they training in that time? What does isolate mean in that sense? If they are having to stay in their homes or in a hotel room for a week they're not exactly going to be match fit are they? Does St Gorges Park have space for them to train independently?
*edit* apparently they will be training independently of the team
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I don't think the actual testing will be costly for nightclubs. Checking someone's phone is no different to checking ID. When I had my vaccine status checked at festival this year it took seconds.
It may well cost their bottom line if it effect's the amount of people going into the night club though. But then I guess it's possible it might encourage some people to head out if they know vaccines passports are in place. I was talking to a friend of mine about going to a gig and he decided to hold off buying tickets to see if vaccine passports were introduced, he was on the shielding list so he he's only going to go if they are brought in. Obviously he's only one person but it would be interesting to see what the effects of passports are on a population that's got a very high rate of uptake like ours.