The London Festival of Railway Modelling- 21 & 22 March 2020

[richscylla]

It's on the Daily Mail website, so take with a grain of salt, but this might make people's decisions for them. 

[ikcdab]

This looks to be bad news...

BBC News - Coronavirus: Mass gatherings could be banned in UK from next week
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51882897

 

[Gwiwer]

"Could be" being a holding position.  The advice which seems to be coming from various sources that large and open-air venues are considered less of a risk than smaller enclosed ones.  

[Nile]

Mass gathering is more than 500, according to Newsnight.

[Trainshed Terry]

Oh dear the world is becomming unstiched at the seams.

 

Running for the door.

[mevaman1]

To be honest, I was expecting this.  I hope that the Ally Pally Team get some clarity from government to enable them to make a timely decision.

[sharris]

11 minutes ago, richscylla said:

It's on the Daily Mail website, so take with a grain of salt, but this might make people's decisions for them. 

 

It just appeared on The Guardian's site too

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/uk-to-ban-mass-gatherings-in-coronavirus-u-turn

[Gwiwer]

2 minutes ago, Nile said:

Mass gathering is more than 500, according to Newsnight.

That will be interesting to enforce on trains, tubes and some larger workplaces.  

[tc]

This latest development is being reported widely this evening, and although it sounds like it's got foundation we'll need to wait for the announcement. As soon as anything is decided it will be posted here, on social media and the world-of-railways and MRC websites, noting that the weekend might slightly slow that formal process down. 

[richscylla]

1 minute ago, Gwiwer said:

That will be interesting to enforce on trains, tubes and some larger workplaces.  

My work place is an office of more than 500 people and we've already been asked to stay away and work from home.

[JohnDMJ]

TBH, all this conditional tense (e.g. 'could', etc.) stuff is, by its conditionality, pure conjecture and fuelling the potential ensuing massed hysteria.

 

Let's try to be rational, listen to expert advice and decide accordingly.

 

Any of you remember the Asian Flu epidemic of the late 60s?

 

 

[Gwiwer]

2 minutes ago, JohnDMJ said:

Any of you remember the Asian Flu epidemic of the late 60s?

 

And numerous other fast-spreading viral infections.  None of which triggered anything like the response this one has.  There remains no cure (indeed there is none for any corona virus of which the best known is the common cold) and few hard facts.  But is there really a need to scare-monger and hype?

 

Without wishing to breach our political comment rule I would have hoped a decent leader might have said something along the lines of "There is no need to bulk-buy or stock up on anything beyond normal weekly shopping" rather than "many more will lose loved ones".  

[friscopete]

your all bonkers

[TomE]

Oh yay. More speculative press induced hysteria to look forward too. 

 

I’ve been doing this so much this week I’ll soon be as bald as Picard. 

 

Tom. 

[lapford34102]

Asian Flu was 1957, remember my dad caught it and was pretty rough for a time.

Late 60's was Hong Kong flu, that seemed to pass us by.

 

As regards the present situation it looks as if the Govt has been bounced into further steps.

 

Stu

 

 

[John M Upton]

Looks like speculative off the record guff regurgitated and interpreted to once again try and sell more newspapers.

 

As far as I am concerned until anything official is announced, this can be ignored.

 

It is pretty much unenforceable in law anyway.

[Claude_Dreyfus]

23 minutes ago, Gwiwer said:

 

Without wishing to breach our political comment rule I would have hoped a decent leader might have said something along the lines of "There is no need to bulk-buy or stock up on anything beyond normal weekly shopping" rather than "many more will lose loved ones".  

 

They did...

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/08/coronavirus-stockpiling-supermarkets-toilet-paper-hand-gel

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51800046

 

[Stevelewis]

29 minutes ago, JohnDMJ said:

Flu epidemic of the late 60s?

 

 

Yes  I  remember  the Asian  Flu epidemic  still went  the  The  Corn  Exchange  in Manchester for  the   Annual Manchester Model Railway society  Christmas Exhibition,

 

I Also  remember  the earlier  problems  we  encountered  with  Polio, Diptheria,  Smallpox, and  a few  other nasty things in the 60s

 

[bart2day]

30 minutes ago, Gwiwer said:

 

Without wishing to breach our political comment rule I would have hoped a decent leader might have said something along the lines of "There is no need to bulk-buy or stock up on anything beyond normal weekly shopping" rather than "many more will lose loved ones".  

 

He has (effectively) said that though: "I am confident we have fantastic supply chains. It is very important that everybody should behave responsibly and think about others."

 

 

[Anglian]

38 minutes ago, JohnDMJ said:

TBH, all this conditional tense (e.g. 'could', etc.) stuff is, by its conditionality, pure conjecture and fuelling the potential ensuing massed hysteria.

 

Let's try to be rational, listen to expert advice and decide accordingly.

 

Any of you remember the Asian Flu epidemic of the late 60s?

 

 

 

These sources state the ban will happen rather than might happen.

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/03/13/mass-gatherings-banned-britain-boris-johnson-makes-coronavirus/

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/uk-to-ban-mass-gatherings-in-coronavirus-u-turn

[sharris]

54 minutes ago, Gwiwer said:

indeed there is none for any corona virus of which the best known is the common cold

 

There are over 200 viral types associated with colds, coronaviruses are responsible for about 15%. Better known are the rhinoviruses - part of the enterovirus family.

 

Remember, just because a coronavirus can cause colds, it doesn't mean that this virus just causes 'a bad cold'.  Some Enteroviruses cause colds too, but some are responsible for polio.

Edited March 14, 2020 by sharris

[AY Mod]

As a business we will have to wait for clarity on this issue before any further statement can be made. The timing over a weekend isn't ideal either with a few more days of fog for everyone. The news doesn't say when any directive will be made but undoubtedly there will be a short delay before we can issue a statement of confirmation and what the next processes for trade and ticket holders may be so please bear with the team.

 

There's a slim chance that nothing may be announced from government I guess or an effective ban date which may be after the event. Please do bear with us and the MRC during this stage.

[John M Upton]

I can't help thinking this is weekend papers speculation to fill pages as they have nothing new to report until Monday.  At least I hope it is otherwise Boris Johnson will find himself going on my err poo list...

[AY Mod]

5 minutes ago, John M Upton said:

I can't help thinking this is weekend papers speculation to fill pages as they have nothing new to report until Monday

 

Don't blame the media for this one, it will have come from a strategic leak from Whitehall.

[lapford34102]

4 minutes ago, John M Upton said:

I can't help thinking this is weekend papers speculation to fill pages as they have nothing new to report until Monday.  At least I hope it is otherwise Boris Johnson will find himself going on my err poo list

Well you've probably got a couple of days to get used to the idea and cross him off your Xmas card list.

Too many coming up with the same news........!

Stu