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?

I wouldn't go

No I would not go

For me it feels different today. Two weeks ago I was probably telling you to go. Now I don’t think I would.

Hi there, we are moving this to the coronavirus topic area now.

I would probably go to the concert, as a generally healthy, non-elderly person. But regardless of whether or not I went, I would be cancelling the family gathering anyway. I am encouraging elderly friends to self-isolate as much as possible, as they are much more at risk of complications than I am.

I'd go, and I'm doing things this weekend which are higher risk. I'd say follow the advice from the government's medical team. If they advise against then don't do it.

I’ve cancelled an outing on Monday. I’m not going to the gym either. I’ll try to do some online exercise and walking, because I can find quiet areas to walk in. I have asthma and I’m older, so I think it’s a no brainer. The thing that bothers me is that my mental health is suffering because of this. Depression and anxiety are really hard to deal with.

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

This is aggressive, and untrue. As I have posted elsewhere, we do need most of the population to catch the virus, and therefore develop immunity to it. If (in theory) we banned all travel to the UK and made everyone here stay at home for 2 months, we may prevent many people catching the virus. But then as soon as “normal life” resumed, the virus would start to spread rapidly again, because it is present all over the rest of the world.

I think it is important to try to prevent vulnerable people getting it, so elderly people, and those who are immunosuppressed for other reasons would do well to self-isolate as far as they can. But the more people in their communities who catch the virus, recover, and develop immunity, the more protected the vulnerable people will be when they do venture out again.

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.

‘A gift to the rest of the world’? Almost a fifth of said world’s population is Chinese. I imagine locking down two provinces was a precautionary measure for the rest of the vast country before anything else.

Isn’t there evidence that it doesn’t really pass on that effectively in big crowds, and that is why BJ hasn’t cancelled large events yet?

I wouldn't do either. It's just increasing the already very high likelihood of getting it and spreading it.

I wouldn't go now

I just read a few interesting tweets from someone called @eveewing which I think sum up my views well:

“ It would be really beneficial for all of us if we can change our way of thinking from just "am I going to get sick?" to "can my actions inadvertently put others at risk? do I want to be a link in a chain that ends in someone's death if doing so is avoidable?"

“Ironically enough, staying home from that conference or washing your hands is kinda like voting. no, your "individual vote" doesn't make all the difference (most of the time!). but that's not the point. we act collectively and we make collective impact.”

Stockpiling hand gel so others can’t have and continuing to attend hugely busy crowd events are both dangerously selfish.

*have it

@StillCoughingandLaughing Wuhan is in Hubei province, not a second province. My goodness. But please, more China Factz when you're ready.

Oh I do apologise. And there was me claiming to be an expert on Chinese geography. How foolish of me.

I mean seriously, ‘My goodness’? Had you even heard of Wuhan before Coronavirus?

I had a concert on 4th April, the band have cancelled the whole European tour

The govts strategy is that we are all mostly going to get the virus and then society will develop a herd immunity that would protect the more vulnerable.

I'd go to the concert, but avoid nan.

Those who are more vulnerable should be self isolating to avoid the virus (IMO). It seems to be a given that a huge number will get the virus, but mostly be ok.