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Crowds at Concerts and Sporting Events Could Plummet if People Face Long Waits in “Socially” Distanced Queues, According to ONS Data

by Michael Curzon
14 May 2021 8:41 PM

While most Brits continue to support Covid restrictions, most would be put off going to concerts and sporting events if they had to spend hours in “socially”-distanced queues and wear face masks throughout, according to new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). “Britons love to queue, but not that much,” says Gabriella Swerling in the Telegraph.

The weekly ONS survey on the social impacts of Covid for May 5th to 9th found compliance with measures to stop the spread of the virus remained generally high.

However, new questions revealed that most adults were nervous about attending organised events as lockdown restrictions ease. 

Between April 28th and May 3rd, the ONS asked adults how the pandemic had affected the likelihood of them attending such events.  It found 41% would feel more positive about attending if an event required people to show proof of a negative Covid test.

In comparison, 71% said they would be less likely to attend an organised event if they had to spend an extra two hours in a venue while a socially-distanced queue was formed.

Researchers also found that having no social distancing, being told to wear a face covering during an entire event and not being able to eat or buy food also made people less likely to want to attend.

Reports suggest that whether people want to spend hours queuing or not, audience numbers at large events will be capped even after the “end” of lockdown on June 21st. Football’s UEFA is said to have already been told by the Government that crowd sizes at upcoming events will be limited to 45,000.

The Telegraph report is worth reading in full.

Tags: ONSSocial distancing

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Lucan Grey
Lucan Grey
4 years ago

Not going anywhere until the masks are ditched.

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smithey
smithey
4 years ago
Reply to  Lucan Grey

Then you won’t be going anywhere ever again I am afraid.

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TheBluePill
TheBluePill
4 years ago
Reply to  smithey

Not sure that this comment deserves such a down vote. I hope we haven’t got sockpuppets here with ten votes each.

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Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  TheBluePill

Agreed.

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Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
4 years ago
Reply to  smithey

So be it

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Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  smithey

Smithey has a point. The government and Bill Gates don’t want things to ever go back to anything that remotely resembles the old normal. Unless this government goes masks will stay.

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tom171uk
tom171uk
4 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Sadly, I am sure that is correct 🙁

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Winston Smith
Winston Smith
4 years ago
Reply to  Lucan Grey

Agree

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago

These lying, sociopathic scam manufacturers have done so much damage.

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A Heretic
A Heretic
4 years ago

Where can I get paid to research the bleeding obvious?

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
4 years ago
Reply to  A Heretic

SAGE?

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Jaguarpig
Jaguarpig
4 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

Obvious big fucking lies

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Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  A Heretic

Imperial College.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

Stay home and protect your naan

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

A solution for the well bread.

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Noumenon
Noumenon
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

That’ll curry favour with the covidians.

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  Noumenon

You trying to spice up this discussion?

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Hugh
Hugh
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

they’s just (rogan) josh-ing.

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Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

My nan died in 1936, so I don’t expect my staying at home to do her much good.

Last edited 4 years ago by Rowan
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fon
fon
4 years ago

It will test their deterimination to be “free”, the weaklings will go home and give up, and hence not spread it.

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Noumenon
Noumenon
4 years ago
Reply to  fon

So you didn’t see the article stating that research had shown the vaccinated were less likely to want to get involved with events or other people?

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Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  Noumenon

It is postulated by some, that the vaccinated will be shedding the damaging Sars-cov-2 spike proteins until they take their last gasp, which probably won’t be that long if all goes to plan. It would seem wise for the unvaccinated to stay away from these vaccinated permanently infectious hybrids.

Last edited 4 years ago by Rowan
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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  fon

You have earned your third “FON.”

Fuck Off Now.

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Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  fon

Now that’s more like it . The fon will always supply real nonsense, courtesy of 77th Brigade.

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fon
fon
4 years ago

It’s obvsly just a plan to stop the dirty anti-vaxxers spreading it everywhere.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago
Reply to  fon

You do know that the vaccinated spread it, how many times

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7fonn7
7fonn7
4 years ago
Reply to  fon

Half the New York York Yankees just caught it post second dose… Stop kidding yourself

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  fon

Little vaxtard fon,
I for one
won’t go anywhere
if you are there,
so don’t hurry
to worry.

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helenf
helenf
4 years ago
Reply to  fon

Fascist fon

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SueJM
SueJM
4 years ago
Reply to  fon

Bait.

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Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  fon

Thank you fon, you demonstrate my point so regularly.

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago

Well I’m not going anywhere that imposes isolation and face knickers. No way. NOOOO WAY.

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I am Spartacas
I am Spartacas
4 years ago

If this is the case then the British government should stand trial for crimes against humanity.

Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists.
Scientists on a committee that encouraged the use of fear to control people’s behaviour during the Covid pandemic have admitted its work was “unethical” and “totalitarian”….

Gavin Morgan, a psychologist on the government team (Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour (SPI-B), said: “Clearly, using fear as a means of control is not ethical. Using fear smacks of totalitarianism. It’s not an ethical stance for any modern government. By nature I am an optimistic person, but all this has given me a more pessimistic view of people.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/14/scientists-admit-totalitarian-use-fear-control-behaviour-covid/

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago

As usual, Kim Jong Johnson is a great fat communist fraud.

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helenf
helenf
4 years ago

Has anyone considered the possibility that these so called surveys may be pretty much fictional and spouting lies in an attempt to perpetuate the narrative that the populace are still terrified? How can we trust anything backed by the government after what we’ve experienced over the last 14 months? Yes re people not wanting to queue or wear masks (no, the Brits don’t “love to queue”, they just want fairness and a sense of order), but I just don’t buy that most people are nervous about covid any more. That’s what they want us to believe. It’s all just a psychological manipulation to make us compliant, mailable. The ONS are part of the problem, they are not neutral.

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helenf
helenf
4 years ago
Reply to  helenf

Maleable

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  helenf

Femalleable.

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Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  helenf

The points you raise, about not trusting official figures and surveys, have been aired many times, but they well worth repeating. Personally I would suggest that only utter fools would trust anything that now comes out of any and every corner of the totally corrupt UK government. No doubt, the same can be said of most governments elsewhere.

Last edited 4 years ago by Rowan
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bringbacksanity
bringbacksanity
4 years ago

Given 21 June is off. That essentially means football as a spectator sport is dead in the U.K. another 5 weeks post 21 June before any restrictions are eased means another season commencing with no fans – something that never even happened with Spanish Flu by the way. No way clubs are surviving 3 seasons without capacity. Still let’s be happy the NHS is going to entertain us. And anyone notice that despite this new 1000 cases a day warning there has yet to be one bed added to permanent NHS capacity ?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  bringbacksanity

Spot on.

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JohnK
JohnK
4 years ago

Isn’t the term “continue to support Covid restrictions” a bit selective with the truth? Who really wants it, and why? Financially, it looks like a form of blackmail; not good for large audiences, unless they jack up the fees and rely on the rich.

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wesmonty
wesmonty
4 years ago

Meanwhile 70,000 fans watched boxing last week in Texas.

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tom171uk
tom171uk
4 years ago
Reply to  wesmonty

Oh no! Are they all dead or on ventilators? Or did they wear face rags to ward off the evil spirits?

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thedarkhorse
thedarkhorse
4 years ago

I never used t go to concerts or sport events so this really doesn’t bother me, but if it did, no way would I go and wear a face-rag right throughout the proceedings. And why sweat over whether someone’s got a negative test or not, to get in? They might be carrying something else, like flu, or chickenpox, but you don’t need a negative test for those. If Brits continue to “support the measures” then they can wave goodbye to all those things they once loved, on a large-gathering scale. Easing of restrictions next week needs to be grabbed with both hands by people, and keep it going, and buggar any attempt to pull-back on June 21st. We should be “open” and stay open.

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ebygum
ebygum
4 years ago
Reply to  thedarkhorse

Loads of reasons to avoid if the only people going are mask fascists and their kids!I Thinking about one of the last rock concerts I went to, not that long ago, the young ‘uns in the mosh pit didn’t seem to sweat getting pushed and shoved and covered in piss! Whatever has happened?

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