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1 hour ago, DeanoL said:

It's not only going to increase though. Especially if you're referring to virus circulation - we can argue the toss on hospitalizations and deaths, but circulation will definitely go up.

And that's the thing. We could probably have outdoor festivals in the UK now fairly safely. Like, Glastonbury could go "surprise, it's next week" and we could all go and there'd be very little chance of any major transmission.

But that's *because* people currently can't meet indoors, it's because they're still being told to work at home, it's because they're being told to avoid public transport.

The situation now is not the situation festivals will be running in (if they run at all). Festivals are not a priority, so they won't be allowed to happen until pretty much everything else has opened up first. And those circumstances will be different. And I agree with the sentiment that they'll probably be okay. The vaccination programme should get us on top of it all. But we don't know that for sure, we don't have enough information on what impact opening things up will have until we actually do it.

Were we a country that had a huge festival industry that it was crucial to get up and running, we'd be doing that now. We'd be delaying the opening of shops and indoor socialising instead so festivals could go ahead. Because they absolutely could go ahead right now. 

I don't disagree, Deano, but pretty much every metric and modelling points towards risk only decreasing. As I said, there is, in reality LOADS of mixing now, and there have been mass gatherings (protests etc) that seem to have made zero impact on cases and certainly illness and death. The trajectory only makes that more likely. So, it is entirely reasonable to assume that as the summer progresses, the data will support progressive lifting of restrictions.

I've already said it many times, but although I understand why the festivals have cancelled, I am very sure that they could have occurred at their intended dates in, say, late July or August.

Now? No. Stupid to put pressure on the system. But after 21 June*, with nearly two more months of vaccination, increase in natural herd immunity? Absolutely. If, domestically, we can contain the risk from overseas, COVID will continue to be insignificant on a medical population basis. IT ALREADY IS NOW!!! HONESTLY!!! You will have gathered that I work in Health, and COVID is not causing any significant burden to the health service. Right now! If it was going to do so, we would already have seen worrying trends. Easing of lockdown is happening alongside a steady increase in population protection. It really should all be ok!

Ben

 

 

* and I'm NOT just saying that, as of 22 June, masks off, hug each other, back to normal!

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Just now, Gilgamesh69 said:

ngl one of the things im looking forward to about tonight is actually being able to dress up. I mean, its not my greatest outfit ever, but its nice to wear something that isn't just work clothes or casualwear. I've got like glow in the dark tshirts and 3d glasses and stuff for tonight, waheeey

Is it not an all day job ? Could u not be there now ? Or is work an issue still ? 

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3 minutes ago, Gilgamesh69 said:

ngl one of the things im looking forward to about tonight is actually being able to dress up. I mean, its not my greatest outfit ever, but its nice to wear something that isn't just work clothes or casualwear. I've got like glow in the dark tshirts and 3d glasses and stuff for tonight, waheeey

Is it this event you're going to pal?

 

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29 minutes ago, Gilgamesh69 said:

Oh I think its started now but I didnt want to arrive at the start; dont think my poor old body can handle an all dayer yet haha

Unbelievable. This is the equivalent of telling a starving man you're only going to eat half of your sandwich as you're just not really feeling the multigrain bread today.

GO AND HAVE FUN YOU ABSOLUTE BASTARD!!!!!

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1 hour ago, priest17 said:

absolute scenes when it turns out we all have to wear masks at gigs so can't drink inside and everyone has to go back to the spots we used to scull a tonne of pre-gig tinnies minutes before the band were on. 

You mean some people have stopped doing this?!

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7 minutes ago, Homer said:

You mean some people have stopped doing this?!

I miss the first couple of songs from the nearest pub like a grown up now.

Although I do miss stuffing all our coats and bags into a bin bag and stuffing that into a nearby bush like we used to, always had a problem with cloakrooms. 

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