From: slider@anashram.com

The COVID-19 outbreak linked to the Boardmasters event comes as Cornwall
and the Isles of Scilly recorded the second highest rate of coronavirus
cases in England in the week to 19 August.

Almost 5,000 coronavirus cases are suspected to be linked to a surf and
music festival in Cornwall.

Health officials have launched an investigation after it emerged 4,700
people had tested positive for COVID-19 following Boardmasters near
Newquay earlier this month.

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-almost-5-000-coronavirus-cases-may-be-linked-to-boardmasters-music-festival-in-cornwall-12388990

Around 800 are thought to be living in Cornwall, but the cases are spread across the country, a council official said.

The sold-out event - which featured headlining acts Foals, Gorillaz and
Jorja Smith - was held from 11-15 August.

(several images of jam-packed crowds wherein it's impossible to social distance)

According to the Boardmasters website, festival goers aged 11 and above
were asked to demonstrate their COVID-19 status via the NHS app before
being allowed to enter.

This required attendees to prove one of the following: they had been
double vaccinated, with the second dose given at least a fortnight before
the event; a negative lateral flow test taken within 24 hours of arriving
at the festival gates; or natural immunity after a positive PCR test -
taken at least 10 days earlier.

Camping ticket holders also had to take a second NHS lateral flow test
during the event on Friday 13 August - then register their results on the
NHS app.

Festival-goers were asked to bring their own lateral flow tests.

Face masks were "encouraged and welcomed for those who would prefer to
wear them", but not compulsory, the website said.

A Boardmasters spokesperson said its staff have worked closely with
Cornwall Council's public health team to implement risk management
measures "above and beyond national guidelines" - including using COVID certification via the NHS app as a condition of entry.

"The system detected more than 450 people who would otherwise have been at
risk of passing on the virus and as a result did not attend our Watergate
Bay site or left the festival early," the spokesperson explained.

"We are grateful to them and everyone else who took the extra steps this
year.

"No event is able to eliminate risk entirely and the latest Test & Trace
data includes reported infections among the 76,000 people who visited the festival or related activities at Fistral Beach, in Newquay and the wider
area during the week of Boardmasters.

"We will continue to work with our public health partners to understand
the extent to which attendance at the festival has contributed to the
figures.

"We look forward to sharing our experience with our local authority
partners and other large events so we can all continue to provide much
needed economic benefit to our communities and entertainment to our loyal audiences."

It comes as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly recorded the second highest
rate of coronavirus out of 312 areas in England, up from 383.5 per 100,000
to 717.4 - with 4,129 new cases in the week up to 19 August.

Sedgemoor in Somerset has the highest rate, with 892 new cases in the same period.

This equates to 722.6 per 100,000 people - up from 524.9 in the previous
week up to 12 August.

Now business leaders are blaming a "perfect storm" of a huge influx of
visitors and a lack of social distancing on the surge in cases in Cornwall.

Mayor of Newquay, Louis Gardner - who owns a deli in the town - said:
"We're seeing a spike in Cornwall because we've got the highest number of visitors we've ever had.

"Our accommodation is at 100% capacity, our hospitality venues are full, there's no social distance in place, but I think those factors all added
in all together are having an effect. It's a perfect storm."

Mr Gardner urged visitors to be respectful, adding: "Don't come down here thinking that you're on holiday and it's not gonna affect you because it absolutely is.

"You've got a higher chance of getting Covid by coming here than you have
by staying at home."

### - this is just absolute madness! in the 'middle' of a global fucking pandemic caused by what is now accepted as being THE most infectious agent
ever encountered (delta) they brought more than 70,000 people all packed together over 3 or 4 days at a music festival?? it's insane!

and then nonchalantly mention a HUGE spike in cases resulting directly
from it that's now threatening to close down the whole area???

people being told that it's officially ok, that it's now legal to go to festivals as long as they have the good sense to social distance and wear masks!? LOL ! one look at the accompanying images above showing very
clearly indeed that social distancing is totally IMPOSSIBLE under such circumstances! and yet the uk minister responsible is on breakfast news
this morning smiling and saying it's ok folks and actually encouraging
people to go to more of them??? DUH!

and that was only a SMALL concert compared to the several much BIGGER ones
due up over the next few days nationwide!? all completely sold out in
advance because people have been locked up for so long and can't wait to
get out!?

i mean, if'n one wanted to be totally 'cynical' about it, one could only surmise that having now weathered the huge death toll of 'immediately' susceptible types, they's going all-out now to get rid of the 'next' lot
of susceptibles down the list who avoided it before by staying home??

iow: they's apparently going all-out to quite deliberately quickly
'kill-off' all those who're still likely to die from it by dint of
deliberately exposing them (and their families) to it en-mass!?

wow, am literally speechless at the sheer callousness of it!

they KNOW people are gonna get it and die and they literally just don't
care!?

this being the equivalent of say deliberately sending known
super-spreaders to visit every care home in the land with the express
purpose of infecting everyone in them!

damn! (am actually shocked lol and i don't shock easily!)

so THIS is how they's ultimately gonna deal with the covid then eh?

by doing the complete 'opposite' to what they've been doing all along now everyone's been vaccinated???

which was maybe even their plan all along despite what they told people
before?

it certainly looks like it!

iow: we acknowledge that we just can't get rid of it even with the
vaccines, so we're instead gonna expose every fucker to it several times
over until the only people LEFT alive will be those who survive the encounter??? and then we'll be alright again!

maan that's harsh...

worse than harsh: it's unconscionable !

and in many ways reveals just how bad this virus actually is?

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