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.

But here you are on the covid board .....

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.

Surely if you’re ill with something that’s contagious like covid, chickenpox, norovirus, monkey pox, the flu etc - you should stay home for a couple days and not spread it.

You can still have fun afterwards but I don’t want to get D&V or whatever because someone was fed up of isolating.

Huge over exaggeration !

@Crikeyalmighty but presumably you and your more vulnerable friends wouldn’t be risking the likes of Glastonbury or anything else with masses of people up close, e.g. Wimbledon. From all I’ve heard it does seem to be a very mild illness for the majority.

(I’m older than you BTW).

Massive majority of those that get covid get it very mildly and many without showing any symptoms at all!

i went with a couple of friends, so far no one has complained.

one was supposed to travel back to Germany and took a test just in case, and it was clear.

Exactly.

How many have been hospitalised from that lot? How many have died from covid?

Care homes and hospitals are quite a different cohort, and a cohort most likely to get an adverse outcome from having covid.

How on earth would those statistics have been gathered?

Was there a special 'I've been to Glastonbury' button to press when people reported their results.

How weird that millions of people in the world have died due to covid, how can that be the case when a few oldies only needed some painkillers?

What a stupid comment, I don't personally know anyone who has died due to covid but I'd be an idiot to extrapolate from that that no one is at risk.

The problem with this way of thinking for vulnerable people is that the people who do go to these things, and are generally living life normally, are also going to places that carers and loved ones of vulnerable people are going to -hairdressers, Doctors, supermarket etc- so that keeping vulnerable loved ones safe is harder and harder.

it may well be mild for the majority but if your loved one is immunosuppressed, so won’t have made a full immune response to the vaccine, with COPD or emphysema they may not survive Covid. But that’s okay? because it’s not your DM, DSis,DD one whoever.

I was in Orlando for two weeks at the start of June. In parks most days with thousands of other people, in restaurants, shops, airports and on planes. You would never have thought we were in a pandemic in Orlando. No one wearing masks, social distancing or using anti bac that I could see. None of us got covid and we had it last August so well out of our immunity phase.

Honestly who cares? And who even tests? DH works at a care home and they no longer test him

Oh give over.

I know of dozens of people who went and not one has been ill/tested positive. Half of DH's office went and none have it.

People are catching Covid at work or school, places they have no choice to be, Covid positive or not. Covid doesn't prey solely on those having fun, whatever people here might say or think.

Covid isn't going anywhere ,
Vaccination, s were a game changer ,
People are still going to catch it ,but are the number of people getting very unwell and needing hospital admission going up ?

We need to crack on with life.

Does anyone know if the chap who has cancer made it there ? He was flying in on a helicopter for one last shindig.

It’s everywhere at the moment! I’m north west and multiple family members, work colleagues and friends have had it recently 🤷‍♀️ our last boosters are probably starting to wear off now and new strains around

although a woman at the drs told me it was the jubilee lol 😂

Everyone i know who went to Glastonbury has come back with it (10+ people). I could understand 1 or 2 but for all of them to be off. It's crazy.

Most people died before vaccinations and since then the unvaccinated are more at risk

it is not still causing mass deaths in care homes now. Things have changed since 2020. Vaccines have changed the landscape a lot.

People largely didn’t wear “effective masks” even when they were compulsory. They wore cheap cloth or paper ones because they had to. People have been saying for over 2 years now that people weren’t wearing masks properly - well that is what it is. They don’t and it’s not going to change so suggesting it as a measure is pointless.

My sister went to a wedding that weekend and a lot of the guests there also got Covid. What’s your point? That an infectious disease is infectious? That’s not exactly new information, is it?

Some real hysteria on here, everyone has it. The cold!

Husband and 12 friends went. Not one has Covid - they just stank something rotten! Don’t believe all the rubbish you read..

Nah.

We should have better sick pay, that was a disgrace long before Covid 19 ever emerged and still is. But reinstating self isolation rules is a terrible idea. For one thing, it would require the colossal expense of a return to universal free testing access and of some form of testing and tracing service to enforce it.

But even if we decided that those things were a worthwhile investment, and they demonstrably failed to stop the last Omicron wave, it simply isn't going to happen any more. The time when isolation was feasible and useful has been and gone. There was already widespread avoidance of testing and non-observance of isolation rules amongst those who had tested positive even while it was still a legal requirement. Having laws that cannot be enforced is a bad thing.

Isolation laws fail to curb the spread of Omicron, we have already seen that. And even if we were daft enough to bring them back, people simply wouldn't test.

Always amazes me when people know exactly when they caught it. Unless they've been going absolutely nowhere other than a jubilee party or an airport, there's no way of knowing.

I'd imagine work and school - both places you're expected to be, in the main, even if you have covid (and frankly how would you know anyway, given most aren't testing) - are far more likely to be where people are catching it.

Funny. We had an all day online workshop today and at the beginning of the call was telling us how brilliant Glastonbury was the at the end coughing and coughing and telling us how awfully ill she felt ☹️🤨