Council have cancelled all events for rest of the year

[Beebityboo]

I've been sent an email from the council stating all large outdoor (and obviously indoor) events for the rest of the year are cancelled. No funfairs, no bonfire night, no Christmas celebrations. I know that safety is more important and I understand the decision but I'm still so sad. I feel rather hopeless tonight. I keep expecting to wake up and it will all be over .

Wow. I thought things were aupposed to be returning...

Wow it’s amazing how many people have lost their jobs, businesses, income, relationships, sanity, but at least we didn’t catch a virus that we 99% would have recovered from anyway. And now, no events for the rest of the year. Wonderful! Just wonderful!
Btw if that fucking mask we are supposed to be wearing is so brilliantly efficient, then why did we need a sodding lockdown? We could have gotten on with our lives as usual, only with the mask on our faces. But if it’s rubbish and useless then why force us to wear it? Anyone?

I did wonder about the fair we have every year ...oh that is still sad.

I think it will slowly dawn on people that Whitty is right. We are in this for the long haul, and there is no way out except a vaccine or brilliant treatment. To date things have been broken down into bite size chunks for us - wasn’t it a review every 3 weeks at the start? Now it’s elongated to “when we have something to say”.

I think because these things take so much advance planning and financial commitment up front that a lot will continue to get cancelled even if by the time they were due to happen it would have been okay. I was talking to DH about this kind of thing tonight, there’s going to be a bit of excitement as some things start up again but then it all feels a bit flat when you realise that there’s a lot that will still take a long time to return.

The council can't possibly know what the situation will be in 6 months time. No-one does.

Yes Lemons I think that's what has upset me so much, I think I was in denial. We're in this mess for a while yet .

I imagine we will be in this mess till there's a more viable treatment/vaccine.

Having said that we don't actually ^know^ for sure, so cancelling everything this far in advance seems a bit premature. Surely if cinemas/pubs etc. can open some of the events could be done with 1 metre distancing and maybe limited numbers?

Could be partly a budget issue as well...

@Potatobug..spot on!

I agree with pp a lot of council’s are desperate for money. So they will make cuts where they can I guess.

Things starting to open up again doesn't mean this has gone away - it just means they have room for you in intensive care. For now. It will be back

Err, hadn't you heard? There's a worldwide pandemic happening at the moment. Some Councils are now so short of cash that several are filing for bankruptcy (or as close as they can get). They have more important things to worry about than fireworks!!

If you're that bothered, organize something yourself.

@Potatobug is your post a joke? Sorry I actually can’t tell... surely you get why masks alone wouldn’t be effective in tackling a worldwide pandemic...?

People are going to start just doing their own thing.

Just checked our local Christmas market is still going ahead, but the festival it coincides with has been cancelled 😫😫😫😫

I work for a LGA, yes we do need to claw back £££ but all of those summer events and fairs and carnivals and music days etc bring in so much needed cash. It really isn't a decision that we have made lightly. We are gutted we can't put our summer programme on. I don't think the Christmas Panto will happen either

I'm not surprised. Winter will be crazy with flare ups every so often. Easier to cancel now than leave people hanging at the last minute.

many of those events were sponsored by local businesses, who are also struggling/ folding.

@Legoandloldolls
The festival it coincides with?
You mean they've cancelled Christmas?!?!?

I would have thought that the insurance would have increased massively compared to last year.

I would read between the lines that there will be a massive spike in early autumn / winter. We will be in a hard lockdown so far more cost efficient to cancel now than get into planning spend and then cancel.

What @bug said. I think if we’d all worn the simple masks - the ones thankfully protecting frontline medics - since Feb when covid hit european shores, then 10,000s of lives could have been saved, plus normal life would have resumed quicker. Just look at the world tracker covid death rates for mask-wearing countries - south korea, hk, singa, japan, TAIWAN, czech rep, germany, compared to the non-mask ones - uk, us, italy, france, spain, brazil. But I think that is only part 1. In part 2, many countries now wearing masks - france and italy for ex - and maybe their recovery will be swifter and betta than ours.

Let’s hope for this vaccine hey.. I don’t much care about missing events for a year but I do want to spend my daughters first Christmas with her family!

@AriettyHomily - it’s pretty unlikely we’ll lock down again, let alone a hard one. Potentially local ones. And you can’t read between the lines of a virus. It’s all very unpredictable. Vaccine, treatments, effectiveness of local lockdowns & track/trace, the virus itself mutating (either way).. who knows! Hence why there’s a billion threads on Mumsnet trying to find out the answer. But there isn’t one.