60,000 to attend at Wembley stadium

[Arcadia]

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.com/sport/football/57546042.amp

So angry. How far can they push this 'test/research events' bullshit? Why is everything in my child's life being cancelled and yet this gets to go ahead?

So sorry to hear about your nephew @Arcadia

Next someone will bring in the war analogy. Kids shouldn’t have to cope with all this. Who are we protecting anymore? The BBC article says schools rates tend to reflect rates in the community.

So we’re allowing rates to rise in certain communities (Cornwall anyone?) then they’ll rise in schools and we’ll blame the schools again. And kids are suffering the most.

will Henman hill be packed out for Wimbledon too i wonder

I don’t think history will look back favourably on how children were treated during this pandemic.

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Football is a very important part of the social structure. Kids are resilient they will cope.

More resilient than adult men (mainly) who want to watch football. Would the adults suffer more without football than children do without school?

My year 10 so 1st year gcses been unable use her school libary all year or print stuff off as the library is different year groups zones and they not meant to mix zones.

Utter madness.

Rugby Premiership final on Saturday and only 10,000 allowed.

But in addition to above have had to postpone (again) a family holiday -4 households all double jabbed !!!

Football could still go ahead with a reduced capacity crowd reflecting the capacity allowed in other similar venues.

My daughter is isolating for 10 days after being 4 desks away from somebody who tested positive in class. 60,000 at a football match does seem a bit much!

@puppeteer

Are you serious *@evilpea*? (Like the name, BTW…)

Anyone vulnerable that thinks all the prevention and testing measures are keeping them safe by keeping transmission down needs to get out from their rock and take a look around!

All the measures are doing is keeping us locked up. They absolutely are not keeping case numbers down.

I’m not talking about case numbers. I’m talking about keeping vulnerable teens safe. If no one tests and sends their a symptomatic kids in, it will spread to those.

Now they are saying cases of Delta+ are hitting this country, why would you allow 60,000 people to be in close proximity to each other as well as likely to be travelling on public transport as well? It doesn't look well for July 19.

And there is more...

news.sky.com/story/covid-19-government-changes-rules-to-allow-visiting-officials-and-vip-fans-to-attend-latter-stages-of-euro-2020-at-wembley-12339659

Not testing kids isn’t a fuck you to the government.
It’s a fuck you to everyone who still, for whatever reason are trying to stay safe

Most of the parents at my dcs school are still singly vaccinated. We need to keep ourselves safe and we need to look out for each other. As frankly, the government aren’t

@Bitofachinwag I think it’s because the men are more likely to riot and protest than the little children.

I think @Delatron is right. History won’t look favourably on how children were treated during Covid... it’s terrible.

And i had to sit inside my car while my dd had a netball match the other night.

TBH, is it a problem though?

I mean, we don’t routinely test for other illnesses. And although COVID spreads, so do others. Especially around children.

A positive result really badly disrupts education for many many children.

Perhaps from now we need to reverse the situation — test positive, and the vulnerable cohort can elect to leave the bubble if they want? Or some other approach that is more proportionate.

[quote Wheresmybiscuit3]@Bitofachinwag I think it’s because the men are more likely to riot and protest than the little children.

I think @Delatron is right. History won’t look favourably on how children were treated during Covid... it’s terrible.[/quote]
Particularly those children suffering from Long Covid. 15 paediatric clinics needed. So far. Quite a significant minority of ill children.

Gambling with children's long term health. Yes very wrong.

As for the poor CV and CEV children. Who, according to some on here, just don't really matter. They're just 'the vulnerable'. They have had to isolate for an extended period. Talk about disrupted education!

If people want to talk about children, let's focus first on the need to get vulnerable children vaccinated as soon as is possible.

Meanwhile like I said yesterday. So it's safe for 60,000 football fans to mass gather in Wembley and on poorly ventilated underground trains.

Right then. Time to reopen Parliament.
(And as MercyBooth says, back into the room for the journalists too).

Safe for the public? Then it's safe for MPs.

Oh - and summer recess? (Conveniently timed to coincide around so called 'freedom day'?)

Well just as schools need catch-up extra hours, so does Parliament.

Despite what it looks like here I’m aware we need to get back, we need to open, we sadly do need to live with this virus as part of our lives

However, I don’t believe we are there yet. We need to get to a point where the only ones affected are the few who escape the vaccines efficiency. A 60,000 “test” is madness.
They are interesting test events chosen. All incredibly expensive.
Goodwood festival of speed
Grand Prix
Euros

Absolutely agree though. Children's education comes before football VIPs.

Far more important to suppress and contain (so as to minimise risks of continued school disruptions) then to let in loads of unquarantined Euro visitors.

Meanwhile, whilst Boris and chums keep the doors wide open, Angela Merkel is having none of it. She's pushing other European countries to adopt the same pandemic border control measures that Germany has. Restricting entry from high risk countries like the UK.

Germany's children will face less disruption than the UK's. But then Germany has a scientist in charge. We have an fool.

They are interesting test events chosen.

'Test events' my arse. Other countries that have done test events have actually done so under test - controlled - conditions. Eg. All attendees return negative PCR tests, quarantines (if foreign travel), masks at the event, etc.

Btw if it's genuinely the case that flu cases and deaths are beginning to be an issue now (despite low prevalence worldwide so limited spread). As opposed to misdiagnosed Covid (due to at least 30% PCR tests returning false negatives). Then all the more need for caution. Seeing as though flu can be deadly for young children.

You cannot sing at a wedding or funeral, and yet 60,000 can chant at the top of their voices at Wembley.

It is a virtually guaranteed super spreader event.

I will never be cynical about Japanese ‘research’ whaling again…

is a virtually guaranteed super spreader event.

And that is why Angela Merkel is encouraging other European countries to join Germany in restricting entry from high risk countries like the UK.

She, unlike Boris, has a sensible rational scientific mind.

Yes but we’re not controlling the virus, the people that should be testing aren’t so they don’t isolate and carry on spreading it, so it will always be the children testing isolating and the virus will carry in spreading, sod that I’m not putting my daughter through that and like I said I don’t know any child that has long Covid if it was so common this board would have lit up with threads. So we will have to agree to disagree, my daughter won’t be regularly testing. Everyone has a choice thank goodness.

Football is a very important part of the social structure. Kids are resilient they will cope.

Adults are equally as resilient. They will cope without a few football matches.