Boardmasters Festival - superspreader event!

[ineedaholidaynow]

Did anyone go to this festival and not come down with COVID! Every local youngster who went to it seems to have contracted COVID, and I see it keeps getting mentioned on MN, and all posters can't be referring to the same youngsters.

Have other festivals been the same?

Cev kids are at very low risk of covid

Cev adults should be double vaccinated

Vaccinated adults don’t have to isolate and Cornwall has a higher than normal average age

People really are being dramatic

@Watapalava - Have you any idea of the situation at the one hospital in Cornwall? In August, even in previous years (and this year is insanely busy) the hospital, local GPs and ambulance service could not cope as it was.
Plus isolating staff - and the number of staff has gone up again as if they have family members with COVID then the staff have to isolate, double vaccinated or not..

It really isn’t as simple as “only 30 people in hospital”

My DD went (she had Covid a couple of weeks beforehand). She went with a friend who had just got over it, and three other friends about whom I haven't got a clue. Nobody has mentioned Covid, though.

I honestly couldn't work up the energy even to think about it.

There are 3 hospitals in Cornwall (one trust but 3 nhs hospitals)

Pretty much squashes the government approved theory that big outdoor events are safe, doesn't it?

Doesn't matter though does it so long as they don't start dying? Covid is here to stay, so get used to it.

I'm so glad our young are getting to go out and enjoy themselves again - it's absolutely right that concerts and festivals should be going ahead now, despite what some doom-mongers on here would like (that we stay locked down forever!!)

Do you know what services and how large the 3 hospitals are @Watapalava?

Son 17 is positive after the festival - so are the other six lads in the group he went with!!

All too young to have been vaccinated beforehand xx

@ineedaholidaynow - I was just shaking my head at that 🙈

Dd is coming back from Cornwall on Wednesday. According to her Insta stories she's been sitting in crowded bars every evening. She's double vaxed. What happens if she tests positive - do we all have to isolate - can't believe I don't know the answer to this!!

www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/19522364.letter-health-leaders-hospitals-cornwall-breaking-point/

Probably just being “dramatic” though @Watapalava , don’t you think?

After all, what difference will a couple more patients in intensive care make, more care homes closed, social care unable to take patients, staff isolating throughout the NHS and local social care services?

@Bryonyshcmyony if you are double vaxxed and have been for more than 2 weeks then I think you don't have to isolate, but your DD will if she is positive (assuming your are in England)

Cousin went and is positive. Also went to London the day after it finished so could also have been that.

Thanks. It's actually not clear on the govt website.

@Bryonyshcmyony I don't think they make a distinction between close contact and household contact anymore

Aha. I must say none of my friends who've kids have had it don't seem to have isolated

Quite a few friends of mine went to Bloodstock and one came back with Covid. Apparently quite a few caught it there though.

Friends also thought that the ‘main culprit’ was the toilets, said they were much dirtier than usual and all the extra sanitation etc just didn’t happen after the first day.

DS went and doesnt have it, nor do his friends, feel pretty lucky... but he hasn't tested for a couple of days so might grab him and swab him tomorrow, although he should be in the clear soon?

@Watapalava

Cev kids are at very low risk of covid

Cev adults should be double vaccinated

Vaccinated adults don’t have to isolate and Cornwall has a higher than normal average age

People really are being dramatic

Do you have a CEV kid?

thought not

@DottyHarmer

Yes, if people stay outdoors it’s largely ok. But sharing tents/convening in pubs etc not so covid friendly.

That's the difference with other events with older people. Teens and younger have higher rate not vaccinated and close contact sharing tents etc.

There must be a really high rate if people that have already had it now at some point

@Refreshpage bit like a school classroom then

Not the same but we all came back from a south coast. Arabian leak with Covid and reading trip advisor seems many people are the same. It's not surprising at all with that many people in close proximity.

Eh? Caravan park!

@Soyouthought

Surely this was the governments aim all along. Get all the young together for herd immunity. A bit like a massive chicken pox party.

Well it worked for my year 7 (going on to year 8) and all her friends who were taken for free by school for a week away as they'd had such a shit start to secondary. Dropped like flies.

Although I very much doubt it was herd immunity just very bad luck :(

[quote ineedaholidaynow]@Refreshpage bit like a school classroom then[/quote]
Going by reports on here most school children and teachers have also already had it. So many buses being thrown under for the last 20 months.

I really cannot understand why vulnerable children and children over 12 that want the vaccine haven't been offered it though. At least the boardmasters brigade younger adults have had the chance to gave a vaccine if they wish.

Latitude was predicted to be linked to around 300 cases, it pushed to infection rate up significantly in the local area (East Suffolk). I’d thought about going, but glad I didn’t.

I accept the ‘learning to live with the virus’ idea, but I don’t think we needed to dive straight back in with mass events. Delta is so much more transmissible.