Doncaster Show.

Anybody know if Doncaster ME show will be on this year. Assuming that the lock down will curtailed by May? Or has it been cancelled for another year? No info on the web site.

Google came back with this link

https://www.thedoncastershow.com/

H

May would be very optimistic.

Unlikely, even if the current lockdown is lifted by then things like social distancing will still be in place. With punters at 2m apart you won't be able to let many through the door so ticket sales will be much reduced. If footfall is going to be that low then traders are not going to pay for space as takings will be down so I can't see any show organizer wanting to make a certain loss.

No one knows! Covid's a virus, it mutates, and it's unusually persistent. Last week I heard the original Chinese version is undetectable now. Viruses replicate far faster than organisms and a year is plenty of time to evolve.

Each new generation of the virus is slightly different, and a few branches of the family have proved more dangerous than others. Unpleasant variations have appeared in South Africa, Brazil, and the UK, but the virus can mutate anywhere in the world and almost certainly is.

In the UK two different exceptionally nasty variants have been detected. Not because the UK is a plague pit, more likely because we happen to have world-class facilities for testing DNA and can detect new variants faster than most.

Although mutation is scary in science fiction, Covid is as likely to degrade in the real world as it is to burst out. It might just fade into the background.

At the moment the only way of controlling Covid is to make it harder for people to spread it: isolate, wear masks, keep clean, and ban unnecessary meetings etc. If the vaccines prove effective and continue to work over time, or the virus naturally fizzles out, then the number of people made seriously ill will drop to an acceptable level and we can all go back to normal.

Also heard on Radio 4, two attempts to answer the question: If all the Covid virus in the world were collected together, how much space would it take up? The answers were on the same page: low estimate, about a small shot-glass full, high estimate, half a can of Coca Cola, roughly 150ml.

We live in interesting times.

Dave

My thinking was that if you consider the age profile of the people who will attend the show, then the vast majority will have had at least one jab and a significant number will have had the second. Also, last night, Boris mentioned that to open places such as night clubs (where people are in very close proximity to each other) they may be able to use rapid testing prior to entry. Why can't we introduce testing prior to the show and have to provide evidence at the door that you have tested negative. Hope the organiser of the show is following this thread.

The above being said I'm not overly optimistic. Hopefully the Midlands Show will make it,

Alan.

Under 65’s aren’t due to have their first vacation until May - June from what I’ve seen, with the second dose up to three months later. On that basis some under 60’s may not have received both jabs by the end of this year. Hopefully we can resume these sort of things next year.

Although the announcements have been that the 65 to 70 are about to begin, in my area they have been going on for the last couple of weeks. Before you say these are not vulnerable people in any sense of the word, so just a case of more vaccine and open appointments than envisaged. So I fully expect numbers to be met until the working population is started, then it will be a question of hours available after working day to enable numbers to be achieved.

Last night on TV they announced that all over 50's and those aged 16 - 64 with underlying problems (total circa 17M) would receive the first jab by end of April. Also during last nights news the presenter's were criticising Boris for being to cautious, when compared to the current rate of injection progress. They were estimating that if the current rate is maintained then all over 50's and 16 - 64's would be completed by end March!!

Alan.

Edited By alan ord 2 on 16/02/2021 13:05:20

There was a fascinating snippet on the radio the other day about Covid 19. What volume would it take up, some chap was asked, if you could scoop up the entire Planet Earth supply of the virus? A swimming pool or two? A thimble? It turns out (after some nifty work with a calculator) that the answer is about the average coffee mug.

Would that it were possible to scoop it up and fire it off into space or somewhere... Hope to meet up at Doncaster in 2022!

S O D says "We live in interesting times"

There is an old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times!"

I couldn't possibly comment

Howard

I see the Doncaster Model railway show went ahead at the racecourse two weekends ago. The organisers obviously had faith that it would be a success and no new restrictions would appear. ‘nuf said to quote LBSC!

National Model Engineering and Modelling Exhibition at Doncaster is definitely NOT on in 2022.

See website for details **LINK**

John