Quote:
Originally Posted by Julian
You may find THIS explains the decision, based on scientific evidence and advice.  |
Quote:
"Of course there is a risk," he said. "But on average one person infects two or three others.
"You therefore have a very low probability of infecting a large number of people in a stadium, or a rather higher probability of infecting people very close to you, and that means most of the transmission tends to takes place with friends and colleagues in close environments, not in the big environments.
"It is true that any cancellations of things can have some effect (but) if you then get a displacement activity, when everyone congregates somewhere else, you may have perversely an increased risk, particularly in an indoors environment.
|
The problem with large gatherings of people who have gathered from afar, is that it takes just one transmission from a person from one area to transfer it to another area. Instead of one close group being potentially affected, two get affected.