Photos of crowded night clubs

[toffeeandcream]

Is it just me feeling a bit weird and uneasy looking at all the photographs of sweaty people literally crammed into packed clubs across the country?

Step away from the mainstream media and you'll be fine!

Don’t look then

It's legal now, nothing you can do. Just don't go to them.

It’s easy to criticise something you don’t like or haven’t participated in for several decades.

What about sweaty gyms with people huffing and puffing?

It’s weird after nearly 18 months of restrictions. I don’t find it bad or wrong, just weird. Life’s changed a lot. I’m glad for all the industries who have been on the brink of collapse, it must have been so hard.

The thought of a hot sweaty club in this weather sounds grim but I’m old and boring now.

No I’m glad for the businesses they can now legally open after being shut for almost a year and a half.

Hope the people that went had a great time. Presumably no one was there against their wishes. I have zero interest in clubbing but I support the individuals rights to choose to go.

@DottyHarmer

It’s easy to criticise something you don’t like or haven’t participated in for several decades.

What about sweaty gyms with people huffing and puffing?

People are generally trying to keep their sweatiness away from other people's sweatiness in gyms, quite different from nightclubs with people bumping into each other/dancing in close proximity etc.

I think we need to accept the fact that infection rates are going to soar, now. We've got to live with this thing. As individuals, we need to look after our own sensitivities. I'm staying in roughly a lockdown-style sort of life, and everybody can choose similar options to some extent. Don't go to the nightclubs, only go to pubs with beer gardens, do your shopping online, keep to quiet, less busy places/times when you're out, wear a mask, socialise a little less. There's lots of options that can lower your risk of catching something, even if it's rampant.

Why look then?

To be honest what is the major difference between the few nightclubs that can still open with generally a lower age demographic (lower risk from Covid complications) and the massive scale of sports events mixing people (men often) from all over the country with a wider age range

Most clubs are ‘00s or at most 1-2000
Sports events can be 20-30-60,000

No more uneasy than the pictures of the football crowds. It was inevitable that as soon as the restrictions eased there was going to be people who wanted to party.

I've no doubt there will be a surge in cases. I'm CEV so just do what I can to protect myself and don't get upset at other people's behaviour now.

Personally it made me smile to see people enjoying themselves.

Given that Covid cases in the Netherlands just rose by 500% in one week after they opened nightclubs it does seem a rather dubious decision. Especially as those going to clubs are more likely to be in the younger, unvaccinated age groups.

Not really, seeing as there's been many illegal raves, house parties and other large events throughout lockdown

Did the tens of thousands crammed into football stadiums bother you as much? Or the photos of the great and good mingling in Cornwall?

I agree that after a year and a half of keeping our distance the pictures do look a bit jarring at first. But that feeling quickly passed for me and was replaced by one of good for them, young people have had a shit 18 months. And thousands of people have had little or no income in that time, and now they can work again.

I don’t know... feels different to a packed beach or a stadium for some reason, just more enclosed, no ventilation, no distancing at all. Yes to PP that even if you don’t see it as ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’ it certainly seems weird

It's legal.

19y Dd is off to a nightclub tonight with friends. She's been looking forward to finally being able to go to one since turning 18y in lockdown 1.

She is fully vaccinated, although her second jab was last weekend so not yet 2 weeks post that. She will be doing an LFT before she goes in.

And I really can't blame her and her friends for wanting to just get in with their lives. Hopefully she will stay Covid free and it doesn't end up being a big cause of transmission, but you can't blame people for wanting to do things that are now totally legal to do.

Also - the venues really need this to work. They need the money after being closed for well over a year!

I'm fully vaccinated and I have antibodies from a previous Covid infection (well I did a month or so ago) though I am CV. Covid made me ill and I did need hospital admission when I had it. I don't know what it would be like a second time round - the long lasting complications of covid are still with me, and I will be taking medication for life as a result. However, I don't begrudge Dd going out and having fun, dancing with her friends. My biggest risk for catching it has always been my workplace anyway - crowded room, no masks, no social distancing, little ventilation. It's where I first caught it and where I'd be most likely to catch it again.

No. I’m sure they will all have a ball.
I loved my nightclub days, so I hope they all have fun.

If feels odd, but only as I'm not used to seeing such pictures. But good for them. I'm too old for clubbing, regardless of Covid.

Isn't it fab? My clubbing days are LONG behind me, but young people have given up so much for so long that you'd have to be very odd to deny them their fun.

Nobody's going to force you into a club if you don't want to be there.

I couldn't have gone there pre covid , let alone now it's a heatwave!

@TheVampiresWife

Did the tens of thousands crammed into football stadiums bother you as much? Or the photos of the great and good mingling in Cornwall?

I agree that after a year and a half of keeping our distance the pictures do look a bit jarring at first. But that feeling quickly passed for me and was replaced by one of good for them, young people have had a shit 18 months. And thousands of people have had little or no income in that time, and now they can work again.

They're going to have an even shitter 18 months if they come down with Long Covid or pass it on to an older or CEV relative.

More crowds in London ' anti vaxers' kicking off today as well!

It looks terrifying to me (and I’d rather dig my eyes out than go) but I agree with Abraxan. Schools and colleges have been open for months with people packed in together; sporting events with huge crowds are taking place left, right and centre; holiday makers are jetting off all over the world; trains and tubes are looking pretty full again. Why are nightclubs any worse? It allows a different group of the population (the 17- 30 age group who really have suffered, in my opinion) to regain some normality. If/when it all goes wrong, lots of decisions will need to be rethought but nightclubs shouldn’t be a special case.

They're going to have an even shitter 18 months if they come down with Long Covid or pass it on to an older or CEV relative

As adults, they've chosen to accept any risk to their own health. Any older/CEV relatives can likewise decide whether or not to take the risk of spending time with them, or requesting they take an LFT before they do.

I wouldn't join them but do feel very happy for those who want to be there clearly loving it!