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?

Better they all get it now then when they go back to school/uni. My 18 year old caught it on A level results day. Quite a few of them came down with it

@Hellotoallmyfans

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!!)

It does bloody matter if they spread it to other public transport users and (potentially CEV) family members.

Not to mention Long Covid.

I feel sorry for the care homes in Cornwall currently closed and the intensive care on Cornwall. Obviously older double vaccinated and cev etc a certain number don't take the vaccine so they are the collateral damage of boardmasters fir the young and feckless

Yes,this exactly sadly

My dd isn't feckless. They've spent nearly 18 months locked up. Time to party.

Nothing to add other than

🤣🤣🤣🤣 @ "Arabian leak"

@Bryonyshcmyony

My dd isn't feckless. They've spent nearly 18 months locked up. Time to party.

Indeed. They have linked around 4500 cases across the country to boardmasters now. According to an article on the news so superspreader events like boardmasters work. Time to party 🥳 on as you say now and ignore the care home residents. I guess that's an attitude some take and others worried about cev relatives will struggle with. I don't have the answer but it's very much polarised still depending on whether you have anyone vulnerable or not 🙄

@NannyAndJohn

My main concern is that they'll have passed it on to so many others via the use of public transport, and will have also passed it on to their younger siblings just as schools are about to go back.

It's going to be carnage.

Carnage? Really?

I know you have a total Rep on here for being a do merchant on every possible CV thread and predicting the end of the world, but still ... at least you're consistent in your hysteria.

I do have a very vulnerable relative with terminal cancer. Actually my mum was on the cev list too. They take precautions themselves and so do we when visiting them. None of us expect other people to stop going places and having fun though. Teenagers have had over a year of doing that!

Dd is double jabbed. If double jabbed people can't go out and about in groups then we'll never be able to?

I caught it off a family member who went.

They take precautions themselves and so do we when visiting them

Yes so imagine if you were living full time with them having to continually take precautions. It won't be easy to take precautions when children are sent to school mixing indoors without having been vaccinated. You can make choices easily enough as to whether to attend recreational events but school is compulsory unless you have the ability of homeschooling.

Children have been at school since April, it's not going to make a difference to us when they go back. Like I say, my cev relatives don't expect everyone else to put their lives on hold anymore than they already have

@Watapalava

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

One main one and that's it and it's up shit creek.

I have a "hospital" just up the road from me, the most it has is a minor injuries unit and an X-ray dept that shuts at 5pm.

I have to say I agree with Nanny and John on this, look at the data from Israel. Dd caught it being 15, she has passed it her doubled vaxxed healthy 47 yo Dad, I was toying with taking him to hospital yesterday, very tired, borderline oxygen. The vaccine immunoty is waning.

Also here to laugh at Arabian leak

Cornwall main hospital has 15 ICU beds and last year made capacity fr 146 if necessary.

There are 5 people in ICU

It's ridiculous - there's more than that in just one of my local hospitals

I'm hoping cases will gradually decrease in the SW when everyone stops coming here on holiday.

@Klee30

I know people who went and are fine (so far). A (few friends and a couple family members went...) they were day visitors though rather than camping as live nearby and didn't use public transport to get there. Not sure if that makes a difference or not.

I've heard that there was a lack of hand sanitiser but people would take their own surely? Also a lack of hand washing facilities with water which there's no excuse for. Have heard tests weren't checked over. People faked lateral flows. Lateral flows are inaccurate anyway... those who were vaccinated didn't have to do a test.

I know we need to get back to normal but I feel that it shouldn't of gone ahead or at the very least been stricter with tests etc. I've heard the toilets were pure filth. I know that portable loos are never gonna be spotless but during a pandemic it's not good enough!

You expect most teenagers to take hand sanitiser or use any that's provided? DD's nearly 14 and would forget, I'm pretty sure she's not going to be any more responsible at 16.

@Watapalava so that 5 beds is a third of their normal capacity.
5 operations that might be cancelled because they might need an ICU bed.
As a tourist. destination their population balloons in the Summer. I suspect more RTAs as tourists don't know roads etc.

@overthethamesfromyou

My dd went, shared a tent with three others, two have come back with Covid. She didn't along with one other girl, but they had both had it in the previous month.

She saw numerous positive LFT lying on the ground, discarded when presumably others went to get their mates to test for them!

They probably weren't positive when taken. LFTs often develop an evaporation line when dried out fully which is why you are meant to ignore any result after 30 minutes!

@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

I keep saying this on here. My CEV adult DS has been double vaccinated and could still die if he catches Covid. If one of my other DC caught it he'd be at risk.

We went to Latitude. There were a lot of people, who were sometimes squashed together more closely than I was comfortable with. Two of my three DCs came down with high temperatures 2 days afterwards and but we all tested negative on pcrs. I know lots of people who went to Latitude and the only one who got covid caught it from a family member who was unknowingly infections before they entered the festival site. I googled yesterday and it seems like they estimate about 1000 of the 40,000 people who attended got covid (2.5%) compared to 1.4% of people in the population who have it. There was lots of close contact with people despite it being outside. I guess the main differences to the Broadcasters event was that Latitude probably had a much older demographic so more people vaccinated and more people arriving in their own cars instead of public transport. I also knew of people who did not go because they were self-isolating.

My double jabbed DD returned from boardmasters without covid - one case in her group of friends. I expect next week we will have threads about Reading and Leeds.

DD went in a group of 20 and no one came back with Covid. They didn't spend much time in the large tented stages, so that could have made a difference.