How Safe Will It Be at the Riverside?

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What do people think? Are you concerned with numbers escalating daily and hospital admissions rising about how safe the return to football might be. People will be meeting indoors (pubs) and then semi-outdoors in huge numbers and in close proximity.
I am not at all sure of how safe it can be without restrictions. Could football be an absolute super spreader?
Do you think we should have to show vaccine passports? Maybe show or even take a lateral flow test? This would be regardless of having tickets or season tickets.
We are sitting outside - but only sort of?
Would you be happy if concourses were open or closed? Do you think people should be encouraged to wear face masks in their seats?
Should we have a bubble situation? Should we possibly move in the stadium to sit in bubbles.
 
Less happy than a month ago. Some of my family members will go to the first match, but I'll wait for their report! I'd go early, wear a mask and leave late to avoid crowds in the concourse.

Vaccine passports would be divisive. LFTs are too easy to fake.

Could make sense to distribute STs and ticket holders around the ground in the early part of the season.

The way things are going there may be further government restrictions by mid-August.
 
Meanwhile a quarter of a million people are at Silverstone.

Get double jabbed as soon as you can, get boosters in autumn and crack on.
No entry until you are double jabbed.
The vulnerable have now had every chance to be protected. Accelerate the roll out to the stragglers.

The constraints should be around foreign travel, not domestic mixing.
 
It's not just at the ground, it's also getting there. I had an email from LNER yesterday saying that they are doing away with social distancing on their trains from Monday. I really don't fancy three hours in a packed train before I even get to the game. I'm going to wait and see how things go.
 
I'm going to see how it goes. At the minute I don't fancy it. I went to the England Czech game at Wembley and that felt pretty safe but that was 20k odd in a 90k stadium.
 
I will be changing my routine. No going to the Pig Iron, maskless to the ground, mask on through concourse, then assess the seating arrangement. There is always somewhere where it is empty.
 
But the chances of them getting seriously ill, hospitalised or dying is extremely low.
Nobody is ever 100% safe and immune. It is always a balance of risks.
Life should not be on hold forever waiting for an immunity that will always be elusive.
I know what you are saying and see that we have to open up at some point BUT this was the press release yesterday afternoon from Middlesbrough Council...
"A further 339 positive cases were recorded in Middlesbrough on Friday, pushing the town's infection rate up to 1,139 per 100,000 of population.

Covid admissions to James Cook University Hospital jumped by 30 in the space of two days this week. The hospital was treating 84 patients with Covid as of Thursday."
 
I know what you are saying and see that we have to open up at some point BUT this was the press release yesterday afternoon from Middlesbrough Council...
"A further 339 positive cases were recorded in Middlesbrough on Friday, pushing the town's infection rate up to 1,139 per 100,000 of population.

Covid admissions to James Cook University Hospital jumped by 30 in the space of two days this week. The hospital was treating 84 patients with Covid as of Thursday."
Or in a 20,000 crowd 225 people could be infected. (Although by the time August 14th comes around those rates will be much higher)

You pays your money & makes your choice whether to go or not.
 
Indeedido, it is all about risk- some will manage it to far greater degrees compared to others. With other medical issues the current rate will make me think twice
 
I can't imagine I'll be going to the Riverside any time soon.

The thought of sitting packed in with people coughing and spluttering all over seems ridiculous.

We've all got our own views on acceptable risk.
 
I will be changing my routine. No going to the Pig Iron, maskless to the ground, mask on through concourse, then assess the seating arrangement. There is always somewhere where it is empty.
Sensible, the pig iron has to be an absolute breeding ground for the virus. Red hot and stuffy all year round.
 
Or in a 20,000 crowd 225 people could be infected. (Although by the time August 14th comes around those rates will be much higher)

You pays your money & makes your choice whether to go or not.
Good post - I would add though, a decent % of those infected will know say have positve result or ill or self isolating, and thus I would hope not go to a match. So my guess is probably half of your number.

Could the club do temperature checks befroe entry? They are very quick. Warn people to get to the ground 15 minutes earlier than normal.

Ideally I would like lateral flow tests to be shown, but I can see some people (10%? ) would not bother and cause issues at the ground in the vain of Wembley last Sunday. Free lateral flow test kits to be given out at the August open day.

Double vaccination to me are not fair on young people until mid September as many have just had their first jab. And even though I ma concerned about privacy and how to deal with the 15% who are not.

I will wear a face covering in August unless I am 2 metres away from others.

Are there any stats from the Euro games on infections gained at matches at Wembley?
 
I would have thought all catering would be off. For one it's almost impossible to rely on staff availability. My concern would be things like toilets at half time when there large queues how to negate that. I haven't had St for years but still attended fairly regularly precovid to be honest it doesn't appeal to me at all to return. I suspect things will be a lot worse in a months time so the choice maybe out fans hands
 
The thing is some double jabbed folk have contracted it. So no one is 100% safe and immune
Yep. Shut everything down. My eldest is now having to self isolate for 10 days missing the last week of term because of a "close" contact with a positive tested person. Yet me and the missus don't have to, she has both jabs I've got one.
Nothing makes sense anymore unless you are rich, famous or powerful.
 
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