Is it because the Euro semis and final are international, so the Government get to make an internal public display as a statement of how ‘well’ we are doing to show the success of the vaccine program? I guess Kendal Calling does not quite serve their purposes in that same way

I haven’t been paying any attention to international travel nor the Euros, but are fans from competing countries allowed to travel over to watch the matches in the U.K.?

Oh, right, I see.

So, if the final is, say, France v Netherlands, would those fans be allowed to travel over with current restrictions?

Meanwhile, officials at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) say discussions are ongoing over controversial requests from Uefa that VIPs, sponsors and broadcast partners be allowed to travel to the final without the need to quarantine.

There are similar discussions over whether, and how, to allow overseas fans into the country for the latter stages. Earlier this week, Uefa proposed that fans should be able to travel into the country in 24-hour ‘bubbles’, where fans’ movements would be restricted to “approved transport and venues only”.

Sounds like a nightmare. Because fans will of course stick to pre-approved transport only. How have they got this close to the final and haven’t yet thought this through?

I’d say you’ve got a better chance of controlling risk and social distancing in a seated environment than leaving thousands to roam in a field. Just my two pence.

Seats enforce a lack of social distancing.

Plus you have to go indoors to get in and out, to concessions, and to bathrooms.

The entire of festivals is outdoors with masses of open space

There's talk of them having 'special rules' which is, again, Tory fucking bullshit. The government will cave to that because of Matt "totally fucking hopeless" Hancock and his knob mates

I note 140k people can watch car racing two weeks before Truck music festival would have been

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/ ... ilverstone

Note that Truck can go ahead, they've just decided not to because they can't predict the impact of any unexpected restrictions.

I see tens of thousands are being allowed in to watch the tennis a month before Truck festival was going to happen.

It seems crazy that next week I won’t be able to go to my son’s first ever sports day*, because of Covid, but I’d be able to go to a nightclub surrounded by sweaty drunk people in a dank dark box of doom.

Ah well, what it is, right, is that while letting it rip through the populace like a normal flu was wrong for the last year, now that half have had both jabs it's right.

Coincidentally the group vaccinated are more typically Tory voters who now may also think "Boris saved me from covid!"

But also all the vaccinations start to drive it into pockets which will increase selection pressure and the chance of something nastier, I guess.

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Coincidentally the group vaccinated are more typically Tory voters ...........

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No, what I meant was, is there any reliable data that Tory voters, regardless of age, were vaccinated BECAUSE they were Tory voters?

Now double-Pfizered.