Will Coronavirus lead to the cancellation of Glastonbury?

[thewayiam]

10 minutes ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

I’ll admit that if somebody put a gun to my head right now and asked me will Glastonbury go ahead I’d say no, but I do largely agree with all your points about how it might.

Most people process the information as it comes, so everyone is naturally getting more and more pessimistic. The reality is where we are now is exactly where we were expected to be when the poster dropped, or if anything we are in a slightly better position.

Where we are in a couple of months won’t be a surprise the experts or the government. We are going to see stricter measures and they may or may not impact Glastonbury, but they will be relatively short. Anybody who thinks they will go on indefinitely is deluded.

The one single thing I see stopping Glastonbury is the availability of medics, that could be a problem or by then it might be ok. At this stage we simply don’t know.

There is too much riding on it if it all goes tits up. 

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

2 minutes ago, thewayiam said:

There is too much riding on it if it all goes tits up. 

Like what?

[Lycra]

3 minutes ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

Parking Glastonbury to one side for a bit... The more I think about it the more I can see stricter measures being put in place, but once we hit a peak a campaign to push us back into Restaurants, pubs etc etc 

It's not just not determined by hitting a peak, it's also about how far and how fast we get down the other side. Government experts would be cautioning against early relaxation of measures in case they cause a relapse. Recovery here will be tempered by what the status is elsewhere.

[fatyeti24]

10 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

I know being a pessimist on here so uncool, but we're fucked.

Ok

[thewayiam]

2 minutes ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

Like what?

You've just said it yourself?, medics etc onboard. They need to know that come the end of June it will completely be out of the way and that the need for extra precautions is not needed....and by the time the balance payments happen or the end of this week I think it's a fairly good guess that it won't be known until it actually happens.

[sisco]

I want it to go ahead more that anything but I’d say a number of factors will stop it happening, namely people pulling out, emergency service resources it would pull from places that need them and the world wide negative publicity it would receive from going ahead.

Ive seen multiple reporters and others moaning at the Stereophonics going on so I’m imagining there’ll be a massive backlash if Glastonbury does too. 

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

3 minutes ago, thewayiam said:

You've just said it yourself?, medics etc onboard. They need to know that come the end of June it will completely be out of the way and that the need for extra precautions is not needed....and by the time the balance payments happen or the end of this week I think it's a fairly good guess that it won't be known until it actually happens.

There is nothing at risk if we know it’s ok by then, at this stage we don’t. 

[theesundayroast]

2 minutes ago, sisco said:

I want it to go ahead more that anything but I’d say a number of factors will stop it happening, namely people pulling out, emergency service resources it would pull from places that need them and the world wide negative publicity it would receive from going ahead.

Ive seen multiple reporters and others moaning at the Stereophonics going on so I’m imagining there’ll be a massive backlash if Glastonbury does too. 

Twitter seemed to be moaning that the Stereophinics continued with their tour yet simultaneously praised that Lewis Capaldi went ahead in Aberdeen.  

[mcshed]

The funny thing is a few weeks ago most people where pretty confident things would go ahead as everything here was fine. Now things have worsened and it's starting to genuinely get worse here most people are now on the other side and think it will be cancelled, this is despite things moving pretty much in line with expert predictions all the way through. Those predictions think we'll be over the worst of it by the end of June. The disruption during the build up and proximity of the festival to the end of the peak may well mean it doesn't go ahead but the facts have changed very little over the last couple of weeks.

[uscore]

3 minutes ago, theesundayroast said:

Twitter seemed to be moaning that the Stereophinics continued with their tour 

fair enough imo, but that's nothing to do with the coronavirus.

[Euphoricape]

Is it actually worth paying the balance when it's such a slim chance it will happen now? I dont want to risk paying it then being out of pocket for months before they refund everyone.

[RarerThanDandyB]

1 minute ago, Euphoricape said:

Is it actually worth paying the balance when it's such a slim chance it will happen now? I dont want to risk paying it then being out of pocket for months before they refund everyone.

If you get the choice to buy one and you do then that may give you the chance of a 21 ticket if they rollover. If you don't buy it you may not get the 2021 option when they do cancel.

[philipsteak]

Woke up with a persistent cough. No other symptoms, don't even feel ill, but work with the public and a reasonable sized team so taking no risks and self isolating. Unfortunately that's in a shared staff house so stuck in my room. Thank God for streaming box sets

Just thinking of the many many interactions I had with customers over the weekend.

[hfuhruhurr]

On a slightly different note, and maybe this needs a different thread.

I volunteer for my local community and already we're having local businesses that will suffer looking for crowdfunding to help them through. Then there's the issue of looking after the over 70s - a lot of whom have very little experience with online shopping and also have loneliness issues.

Why am I posting this? Well, you lot are by far the best online community I've ever tuned into, thoughtful, positive and very caring. So is it right to start a discussion on what we should/could be doing to help? Or is that waaaay off topic for a Glastonbury chat forum?

[NerdsNatterings]

Blossoms UK tour postponed

[st dan]

16 minutes ago, mcshed said:

Now things have worsened and it's starting to genuinely get worse here most people are now on the other side and think it will be cancelled, this is despite things moving pretty much in line with expert predictions all the way through. Those predictions think we'll be over the worst of it by the end of June. 

The main issue I think with this, is that we may well be over the worst of it by the end of June, but it will have taken unprecedented actions for it to do so. To then potentially undo all the preventative work and sacrifices made, to then allow a festival with 200,000 people would be massively irresponsible if there is any risk of it starting up a further outbreak. 

[FloorFiller]

1 minute ago, NerdsNatterings said:

Blossoms UK tour postponed

Silver linings.

[Babylon sister]

4 minutes ago, philipsteak said:

Woke up with a persistent cough. No other symptoms, don't even feel ill, but work with the public and a reasonable sized team so taking no risks and self isolating. Unfortunately that's in a shared staff house so stuck in my room. Thank God for streaming box sets

Just thinking of the many many interactions I had with customers over the weekend.

Dont dwell too much on who you've had contact with you didnt know you were going to feel unwell today. , you're doing the right thing now in not knowingly passing on whatever you have right now. Concentrate on getting well. Sending healing thoughts your way xx

[Zoo Music Girl]

1 hour ago, Ozanne said:

What type of staggered working did your work put in place? I’m not working from home yet, they’ve spilt the work force, half work from home for 2 weeks and the other is in the office for 2 weeks then it switches. We can’t socialise with the people in the other group at all. I imagine by end of the month though I’ll be working from home though.

It was similar to that, only half the workforce in at any one time, but the plan lasted a day and was overridden by the chairman saying to all stay home from four weeks over the weekend. It never got implemented but was going to be everyone doing a few days from home each week, never crossing over with the other team.

My partner is doing what your workforce is doing, but one week in one week out. Wouldn't be surprised if they change that to everyone staying home though.

We live in London so that might have influenced it as tube etc is obviously high-risk for transmission.

We only have one desk and a very small flat in the process of being decorated so today I am literally working on my lap while he has the desk.

[fatyeti24]

8 minutes ago, NerdsNatterings said:

Blossoms UK tour postponed

Shit just got real 

[Homer]

10 minutes ago, hfuhruhurr said:

On a slightly different note, and maybe this needs a different thread.

I volunteer for my local community and already we're having local businesses that will suffer looking for crowdfunding to help them through. Then there's the issue of looking after the over 70s - a lot of whom have very little experience with online shopping and also have loneliness issues.

Why am I posting this? Well, you lot are by far the best online community I've ever tuned into, thoughtful, positive and very caring. So is it right to start a discussion on what we should/could be doing to help? Or is that waaaay off topic for a Glastonbury chat forum?

Out of upvotes...but upvote

Community action groups are springing up:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/906156979855211/?fref=nf

[squirrelarmy]

Slightly alarming information for those self isolators but it seems internet use is obviously higher in countries which are locked down and ISP’s are struggling to keep up. 

We’re likely to be suffering the same in the UK soon. This may be the cyber equivalent of stockpiling but I’d download boxsets, films, games etc now before our internet use is limited. Better to keep bandwidth open during isolation for those people who need it. 

Could also be a good time to do some old school gaming so starting buying board games too. Time to dust off that CD collection as we could be going back to a pre digital society for a while. 

[Homer]

10 minutes ago, fatyeti24 said:

Shit just got real 

ha!

[mcshed]

14 minutes ago, st dan said:

The main issue I think with this, is that we may well be over the worst of it by the end of June, but it will have taken unprecedented actions for it to do so. To then potentially undo all the preventative work and sacrifices made, to then allow a festival with 200,000 people would be massively irresponsible if there is any risk of it starting up a further outbreak. 

Oh I'm far from sure that being over the worst of it means it'll definitely happen. I just think it's interesting that most people seem to have gone from being certain it'll happen to certain it won't despite events following the expected path. People seem to have a binary switch in their heads rather than dealing with uncertainty, that switch also seems to respond to the situation in front of their noses rather than expert predictions.

[hfuhruhurr]

13 minutes ago, Homer said:

Out of upvotes...but upvote

Community action groups are springing up:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/906156979855211/?fref=nf

Fab  - thanks, also found this: https://covidmutualaid.org/resources/ (thanks to your link)