Reports that nearly everyone that went to Glastonbury came back with covid.

[Ohdearr]

It was on the news but also lots of fb posts from people saying buy a lottery ticket if you didn't get covid at Glastonbury because you are that lucky as so many have.

Hardly surprising I know but it seems its absolutely rife at the moment and it's highly contagious.

Not good news for hospitals and care homes who still have to follow rules around self isolation. Care Homes still have to lockdown if 2 member of staff or mote test positive and lots of hospital staff will also be off.

[Veol]

I bet there are a few people using covid as an excuse to get a few days off to recover from Glastonbury.

[Rispa42]

Still agree with the having to live with it approach, but I caught it in Dec 2021 as a very healthy person in my late 30s, double vaxxed and have had long covid despite my initial infection being pretty mild. No exaggeration, it’s been hell. The worst thing I’ve ever endured. I’ve just been very unlucky but it does frustrate me when it’s just been written off as a ‘cold’ - it’s not for everyone.

although despite that, still agree that life must go on and we can’t live with restrictions/ lockdowns…

[LikeAStar1994]

Whether you like it or not it's sticking around and we have to learn to live with it. If you're that worried then stay at home FFS. Let people enjoy themselves. We only have one life.

[toomuchlaundry]

Is Boardmasters on this year, that was a shitshow of COVID last year!

[viques]

@Ohdearr

It was on the news but also lots of fb posts from people saying buy a lottery ticket if you didn't get covid at Glastonbury because you are that lucky as so many have.

Hardly surprising I know but it seems its absolutely rife at the moment and it's highly contagious.

Not good news for hospitals and care homes who still have to follow rules around self isolation. Care Homes still have to lockdown if 2 member of staff or mote test positive and lots of hospital staff will also be off.

Wow. Do you also have the Covid infection stats for the people who went to Ascot the other week? Or the hundreds queuing at airports? Or the people who marched through London last Saturday? And the people who have been at the Hyde Park concerts? Oh, you don’t. shame, because that would have made your post so much more interesting……..

[carefullycourageous]

@brookstar

So, what's the answer? We stop doing normal things forever?

Testing as in other European countries? Masks in crowded places?

It isn't 'everything as normal' vs 'cancel everything'. There is a sliding scale. Obviously.

[ChloeHel]

I don’t quite understand what you are getting at with the hospital and care home staff? What, so because they work in those sectors they aren’t allowed to mix or go to festivals and for the rest of their working lives must isolate? Hm.

[x2boys]

Well you would expect it to circulate where there are festivals etc ,but what's the alternative?
It's school holidays in a few weeks people going on holiday etc ,it isn't going anywhere
Unless the NHS starts to get overwhelmed again then people are just going to get on with their lives

[mintybobs]

So what? we've had 2 years of isolating, people are fed up of that and npw want to socialise and dare I say it- actually have some fun?! (shocking I know!- since you apparently think we should all be scrubbing ourselves with bleach rocking back and forth in our joyless isolation rooms) now they will. We cannot live the next decade in isolation and fear for goodness sake. Care homes can insist on visitors/staff testing before they enter to reduce the risk.

You cannot dictate the lives of the entire population based on care homes I'm afraid.

[DogInATent]

Closest I got to Glastonbury was the sofa, but still managed to catch it last week somewhere. There's a lot of it about again.

Yes, we'll all have to find ways of living with it. But perhaps we ought to be reviewing how we live with other infectious diseases - basic things like not going to work with "just the 'flu", wearing masks as a courtesy to others if you have a respiratory infection. You know, the nice bits we should have all learned over the last couple of years about looking out for others.

[TooManyPlatesInMotion]

@heldinadream

...and trench foot and ear damage and crowd induced psychosis...

All of this. Covid would be the least of my concerns.

[DogInATent]

Care homes can insist on visitors/staff testing before they enter to reduce the risk.
It would be a f-ck of a lot easier to be normal if tests remained free. We don't all need a five-pack of tests a day, but it would be responsible to provide enough free kits for every household to be able to keep a pack or two available before visiting CEV friends or relatives, and before sending the kids to school with symptoms.

[Sally090807]

@Georgeskitchen

I call bullshit. Do you seriously think almost every single person who attended has tested themselves for covid?

Agree, especially now you cannot get the free tests in boots etc. Also what about the crowds in London for the queens jubilee, why haven’t they all caught covid too or the crowds at football matches etc.

[Livelovebehappy]

I’m just back from a cruise where me and DH picked it up, even though everyone who got on the ship had to provide proof they were covid free. I know a number of people who have recently tested positive. But do the government even have statistics anymore? Most people just do LFT, and then take paracetamol til it’s gone. They don’t inform anyone. So figures could be through the roof, but the government are oblivious.

[AmaryIlis]

@brookstar

So, what's the answer? We stop doing normal things forever?

Start being more careful, including use of effective masks?

[AmaryIlis]

@Sally090807

Agree, especially now you cannot get the free tests in boots etc. Also what about the crowds in London for the queens jubilee, why haven’t they all caught covid too or the crowds at football matches etc.

They have. That's part of the general rise in numbers which was happening well before Glastonbury.

[QuebecBagnet]

not true and I also wouldn’t care if it was.

[toomuchlaundry]

@Sally090807 the rates did go up after the Jubilee

[LazyDaisy22]

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-infections-uk-jubilee-celebrations-b2103505.html

[MargotMoon]

I went and tested +ve this morning. Logged in to work to let them know I'd be working from home and it turns out that loads of people have got it as well - all doing different things at the weekend that involved crowds (wedding, political meeting, church service)....

[I8toys]

Someone at work went and tested positive on Tuesday.

[CallOnMe]

Quite a few people I know are becoming positive and I have a feeling this wave will be bigger than the others but as most of us have had it or have been jabbed the symptoms won’t be too bad.

I have noticed that children seem to be picking it up more this time around and being quite poorly with it, whereas I don’t know many children who have knowingly had it before.

[Brideandprejudice]

I haven't even thought about covid for several weeks, maybe even a couple of months.

[CallOnMe]

I didn’t go and tested positive and I’ve not been anywhere apart from work (and shopping) for quite a while.

[Quarantino]

@AmaryIlis

Start being more careful, including use of effective masks?

Exactly.
Decent mask in indoor crowded spaces, and test before you go to a large event where you might spread it, and if you have symptoms.

Everyone who goes on about the only option being 'to lock ourselves away forever' is not being honest with themselves.

I say this as the friend of someone with cancer who has now gotten it from a small social event - which could probably have been prevented with people testing. Maybe, maybe not, but the risk is reduced.

And yes, I'm aware that the govt don't give us free tests any more, so it's not feasible for absolutely everyone.