Concert on Friday....would you go?

[Hairydogmummy]

Have tickets for a concert at a huge arena on Friday...basically this is a repeat of a post from two weeks ago...then everyone said go and I would have too but now not sure. DH not keen and he is v senior in the local uni hospital. Definitely if I go I will isolate from my 86 yo nan with lung disease but was meant to be hosting her birthday on Sunday. Probably shouldn't do family gathering with her anyway regardless of concert! WWYD?

Id probably still go to the concert.

As for your nan’s birthday, I’d be still going ahead and planning the gathering. We are still in the ‘intro’ stage from what has been reported so far.. how long are you meant to delay her birthday for before the whole thing is fully under control and considered safe?

I wouldn't do both...

Id still go to the concert.

Im hopeful my trip to Poland is still on in 4 weeks. If its ok im still going.

I wouldn't do both. You need to choose or it's not fair on your nan.

No way would I go given your DH job. CMO has advised actual cases are between 5-10 thousand.

Nope not worth it. I went to one last week but no I wouldn't go again/this week

I think you should choose to host your Nan's party. If that means missing the concert then so be it.

I'd go. But I'm very pragmatic and a bit gung-ho

I feel like I shouldn't do the party for nan either way? I'm a teacher, there's 4 kids involved, any of whom could have mild symptoms and we may not realise plus other adults working in all different jobs. DH always mixing with people from all over. He's constantly in Coronavirus meetings and it doesn't look good apparently. He's not saying we definitely shouldn't go. The tickets were for my Christmas present so he's leaving the final decision to me.

I wouldn’t go to be honest. It feels different today.

You need to start social distancing NOW. I don't get why there's so much reluctance. It's going to be much harder to claw things back from the position of Italy, you know. It's going to take much longer and be much, much harder on our vulnerable and elderly. I know it sucks, and I know that what makes being human worth it is often social proximity, but this is going to have to start happening.

So, no. Don't go to the concert. Don't go and sit in a cafe, don't go out for a meal, don't go to the pub, or invite a load of people to your house. If you want to mix with other humans, do it outside.

We've not gone to a concert in London tonight. We saw it as not worth the risk.

And try and remember that the people of Wuhan and Hubei province have been locked down since Janurary 23rd. The whole of China has been confined to very, very limited movement, and this was done in part as a gift to the rest of the world, to give us time. Can you imagine how spoiled we look to China right now? Can't even give up our social lives.

We know how this plays out of we don't control ourselves.

China bloody gave us the virus.

I’m possibly going to the same concert tomorrow. I’m going.

No I wouldn't. I was very relaxed about it last week but as a PP said, today it feels like something has changed. I'm pulling back on social events, not shutting myself in but minimalising what we do, not to necessarily stop getting it but to stop spreading it

No I wouldn't go.

I would go. I am going to the football on Saturday and the pub tomorrow. Not putting my life on hold. However, as I'm only 48 with no health worries, I'm unlikely to get very ill if I catch the virus.

But you are likely to pass it to other people who many not be so lucky.

I’m surprised the concert is still going ahead!

I went to a big sporting event (tens of thousands of people) last week but I’m not attending events like that now. There’s a very real risk that people who have a false sense of security because it doesn’t seem that bad yet or because they have no symptoms that they can wander around in crowds as usual. That’s the very thing putting everyone at risk of it spreading quickly. The most important thing we can all be doing now is actively trying to help contain it by not putting ourselves in situations where the virus can be spread.

I wouldn't go - if it was a small thing (I went to something this week, 350 people all seated and nobody seemed ill) I'd do it, but the big events? nope

Parky04, that’s such a selfish attitude, it really is. ‘I’m low risk of getting very ill so don’t care if I catch it.’ Perhaps if you catch it, rather than just thinking about yourself, show less selfishness towards people who are your age but who are, as an example, recovering from cancer and have low immunity.

It is selfish to continue as normal on the basis that you consider yourself to be low risk. You are still liable to pass it on to other people. Who may not be low risk.

It is easy to say ‘well I’m just doing what the government advises”. People say that when it suits them. In every other respect we are all quite able to disagree with the government and form our own views. A socially conscientious approach would be to avoid all but really essential interactions.

The UK insistence on continuing its social life - when elderly and immune suppressed people are at risk of dying - is really quite abhorrent in my view.

It was hardly part of their foreign trade and international relations plans for 2020, @Jumpjumpjumper . The people of China didn't in some way deserve this.

There is no way to make this situation less shit, right? You all get that, yeah? The least awful now is social distancing. It's going to be boring and lonely and stifling, but maybe we'll be able to limit the impact on our beloved elderly and vulnerable ones. We can't just pretend this isn't happening and it'll go away. In fact, the opposite. The better we accept reality, the better we can get a handle on this.

All of you who want to continue as normal, you do a violence, however indirectly, to my elderly relatives.