Corona Virus - Should we be worried?

[bombfrog]

37 minutes ago, kalifire said:

You joined a Glastonbury Festival forum and made a joke about the likelihood of AIDS being prevalent at the area LGBT+ people enjoy congregating.

 

6 minutes ago, Chicken Bob said:

It wasn’t homophobic 

Well, we'll never know unless Neil un-deletes it or somebody still has the page open. Maybe instead of deleting things they should just be hidden with a warning about c**tish behaviour so that people can be left to judge for themselves?

[Chicken Bob]

Just now, bombfrog said:

 

Well, we'll never know unless Neil un-deletes it or somebody still has the page open. Maybe instead of deleting things they should just be hidden with a warning about c**tish behaviour so that people can be left to judge for themselves?

We’d moved on from this yesterday and someone brought it up again. 

[TheDayman]

Anyway, back to the important stuff... hand sanitizer (or lack there of)

[Hugh Jass]

This is clearly just an idiot who likes to say outrageous things to get a rise from us.

He’s had his fun, can we just bin him now and move on with our lives?

Edited March 1, 2020 by Hugh Jass

[morph100]

6 minutes ago, LostHorizon said:

Anyway, back to the important stuff... hand sanitizer (or lack there of)

Where’s the pic from? 

[Andy0808 v5]

*logs on properly for the first time today, sees 8 pages of unread Corona material*
 

*sigh*

 

The persistence to try and get that lead balloon of a post to fly is quite something. 

Roll on tomorrow when @northernringo saves us all with the latest figures. 

[morph100]

Seeing France banning things with more than 5,000 people and shutting the most popular museum in the world is quite concerning for Glastonbury.

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, morph100 said:

Seeing France banning things with more than 5,000 people and shutting the most popular museum in the world is quite concerning for Glastonbury.

wasn't it indoor events ? 

[morph100]

4 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

wasn't it indoor events ? 

Yeah but Glastonbury 200,000 outdoor for five+ days is probably higher risk than 5000 indoor

[parsonjack]

9 minutes ago, Andy0808 v5 said:

Roll on tomorrow when @northernringo saves us all with the latest figures. 

Notwithstanding the increase to 35 in UK today I'm reasonably confident that the overall picture is one of slowing infection rates due to containment measures, and increasing recoveries.

Is the fence going up soon?  👍

 

[Hugh Jass]

Just now, morph100 said:

Yeah but Glastonbury 200,000 outdoor for five+ days is probably higher risk than 5000 indoor

So shut the JP, Acoustic and Dance Village and we are good to go.

[lukethekid]

1 hour ago, DeadAmos said:

 

I think we are going to have to agree to disagree on this , but as of now this is totally academic and the festival will take place 😀

There’s no agreeing to disagreeing I’m afraid 

[Hugh Jass]

Just now, lukethekid said:

There’s no agreeing to disagreeing I’m afraid 

I don’t agree to this.

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, morph100 said:

Yeah but Glastonbury 200,000 outdoor for five+ days is probably higher risk than 5000 indoor

of course ... I posted it a bit earlier but I wonder why this 5000 figure has come into play ... surely thats a shit load of people to go spreading things further ? just seems a bit of a strange number plucked from thin air 

[parsonjack]

1 minute ago, morph100 said:

Yeah but Glastonbury 200,000 outdoor for five+ days is probably higher risk than 5000 indoor

I don't know.....surely you've more chance of coming into contact with an infected person, or something they have touched, in an arena or conference space than you would in 1000 acres with 3000 toilets to choose from?

[morph100]

4 minutes ago, parsonjack said:

I don't know.....surely you've more chance of coming into contact with an infected person, or something they have touched, in an arena or conference space than you would in 1000 acres with 3000 toilets to choose from?

I think the 3000 toilets are worse than the Louvre after a few hours, let alone 5 days 🙂

[whitehorses]

3 minutes ago, parsonjack said:

I don't know.....surely you've more chance of coming into contact with an infected person, or something they have touched, in an arena or conference space than you would in 1000 acres with 3000 toilets to choose from?

At Glasto it would spread readily among circles of friends; sharing tents, beer, food, notes. Those circles would rapidly intersect with others; bog handles, snogging, dancefloors. Could pretty easily imagine it infecting several thousand people over the weekend. 
 

We did an experiment in uni where we swabbed the bog handles in the student union and analysed the germs. Holy fuck. 

[Crazyfool01]

2 minutes ago, whitehorses said:

At Glasto it would spread readily among circles of friends; sharing tents, beer, food, notes. Those circles would rapidly intersect with others; bog handles, snogging, dancefloors. Could pretty easily imagine it infecting several thousand people over the weekend. 
 

We did an experiment in uni where we swabbed the bog handles in the student union and analysed the germs. Holy fuck. 

did  you swab the students also ? 

[incident]

10 minutes ago, morph100 said:

Yeah but Glastonbury 200,000 outdoor for five+ days is probably higher risk than 5000 indoor

As I understand it, the general rule is that outdoor events are considered less of a risk than indoor.

Mainly because you're looking at a confined space, with comparatively limited airflow, so the transmission rate indoors is likely to be much, much higher.

[whitehorses]

Just now, crazyfool1 said:

did  you swab the students also ? 

No. Dirty student bastards. Wouldn’t touch them with yours 

[TownesMR]

Highly doubt France's ban on events will last all the way until June. If anything, it means that we'll hopefully see people receiving faster than the rate of infection. Let's all just hope for smooth sailing come June.  

[lukethekid]

13 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

I don’t agree to this.

I don’t agree to agree to disagree with your disagreement therefore there shall be no agreeing to disagreeing today

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, lukethekid said:

I don’t agree to agree to disagree with your disagreement therefore there shall be no agreeing to disagreeing today

i think someones showing signs .....

[Big Bellend]

1 hour ago, Big Bellend said:

That's just what Boris and his government coronies would like you to believe! Trust me, the situation is far more serious than you could possibly imagine. Fear for your lives, fear for your festival and fear for your forum. This strain of corona is coming for us all.

 

Sincerely,

 

Big Bellend

@Ommadawn has downvoted this which has now ruined what was a good day for me. I am rather upset.

[John Bates]

Quote on the BBC: "Matt Hancock said the UK was still in the "containment" phase of the outbreak. He said the government contingency plans, which will be published this week, included banning big events."

We still dont' know yet, and I'm still getting ready for June, but it does seem to be moving that way.