Corona Virus - Should we be worried?

[Pinhead]

2 minutes ago, Smeble said:

I think balance week will be telling, I think that’s the deadline they will have set them self to make a decision. 
 

would they consider pushing back the festival to later in the summer?

Nah - their key staff may well be elsewhere on other projects.

[Sasperella]

7 minutes ago, deebeedoobee said:

BBC local news highlights

glastonbury are working with PHE

council say still 3 weeks too early to make a decision 

Only three weeks to early!  😕

Whats PHE?

Hmmm. I feeling particularly unoptimistic 

[Sasperella]

1 minute ago, crazyfool1 said:

 

Who is this Ben Price fellow? Is he qualified?

Love that the start of this is basically just shit people on here have said.

[Freddyflintstonree]

Yeah I feeling shitty about this too. I have a very bad feeling rash decisions are gonna be made 

[Splatt]

1 minute ago, topmarksbri said:

I think balance week will be telling, I think that’s the deadline they will have set them self to make a decision. 
 

would they consider pushing back the festival to later in the summer?

I think you're probably right, ticket balance week comes at a suitable go/no-go point, as if we are to have a country wide epidemic it'll be very clear by that point. 

I'm not convinced pushing this back gives much benefit, everything I've seen predicts a peak in June, decreasing through September before a second wave is predicted to start ramping back up at end of the year....too small a window & too big a risk to commit all the expense in trying to reschedule .

[Ozanne]

4 minutes ago, Lycra said:

The government will cancel events when it is advised the risk of letting the event go ahead is to onerous, not for political reasons.

This is the Conservative Party we are talking about, everything they do is for political reasons. 

[whitehorses]

@Sasperellapublic health England (PHE)

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, Freddyflintstonree said:

rash

is that a symptom ? 

[deebeedoobee]

3 minutes ago, Sasperella said:

Only three weeks to early!  😕

Whats PHE?

Hmmm. I feeling particularly unoptimistic 

Public Health England 

[Sasperella]

Just now, whitehorses said:

@Sasperellapublic health England (PHE)

Thanks! I feel I should probably have known that.. 

Watched the video now. Feeling rather glum 😞

[Pinhead]

Go or no go in about 3 weeks then. I'd say its looking unlikely. Anyway, sure the current 'government' will think nothing of cancelling that 'lefty festival' that's been an ideological thorn in their side since the Thatcher years.

[Lycra]

19 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

I’m not in denial about the virus, I understand how virus’s spread, I get the possible severity I just think the talk of cancelling events that are months away is hyperbolic. I don’t mean to sound dismissive.

 

People will still continue to go to events I believe, they aren’t going to stay inside until this dies down. Come on to say otherwise is just silly, take this place as an example it seems mostly everyone would still go to a music festival if it’s on so I dare say heading to a cinema wouldn’t be too much of an issue either. That is unless are beloved government decide to step in.

It's all about risk management. The next phase of the government plan is mitigation and delay. Limiting the size of mass gatherings could be crucial to this and it slows the rate of infection, which in turn puts less strain on the NHS. It also means more people will be in work and not off sick. 

[AlexOvd]

What the fuck? If I am understanding correctly they will decide in three weeks if the festival will take place? At this stage? 

[squirrelarmy]

1 hour ago, zahidf said:

James bond running scared

 

 

 

 

 

 

Someone needs to photoshop that poster. 
 

Not The Right Time To Die seems appropriate 

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, squirrelarmy said:

Someone needs to photoshop that poster. 
 

Not The Right Time To Die seems appropriate 

no time to diet ?  

[squirrelarmy]

1 minute ago, AlexOvd said:

What the fuck? If I am understanding correctly they will decide in three weeks if the festival will take place? At this stage? 

In three weeks infection rates could peak. It will probably be as bad as it’s ever going to get. Could be a good time to make a judgement. 
 

 

[guypjfreak]

15 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

 

You could have turned it up old son lol... 

Love you Dee lol xx

[Lycra]

2 minutes ago, AlexOvd said:

What the fuck? If I am understanding correctly they will decide in three weeks if the festival will take place? At this stage? 

It will shape thinking and if too many things stack up in the negative tray the event could be pulled. 

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, guypjfreak said:

You could have turned it up old son lol... 

Love you Dee lol xx

PARDON ?  so can you guy  

[Avalon_Fields]

1 minute ago, squirrelarmy said:

In three weeks infection rates could peak. It will probably be as bad as it’s ever going to get. Could be a good time to make a judgement. 
 

 

That’s optimistic hoping it will peak in 3 weeks, as the strategy is containment, to delay the peak until warmer months when the NHS can cope better.

[Pinhead]

They have to minimise their losses b4 fully committing and potentially losing more so an early decision is likely i would think.

[Sasperella]

8 minutes ago, AlexOvd said:

What the fuck? If I am understanding correctly they will decide in three weeks if the festival will take place? At this stage? 

Yeh....that bit really worried me

[strummer77]

The three week bit was a complete guess by a former leader of the council. Let's not run with it as gospel.

[TownesMR]

I hope to god in the chance it's cancelled, my ticket is transferred to next year or we at least have access to an earlier pre-sale. Would be absolutely gutted after saving for years for this.

[Pinhead]

Its a deliberately ignorant government fallicy that the NHS or Social Services could cope now or in the summer. Best hope is that infection rates drop and dont increase exponentially.