Someone who attended tweeted it was “worth the risk” to go. No doubt she’s not in the at-risk age group — so what she’s saying is she doesn’t mind risking other people‘s lives so she can watch some lads sing pub anthems. What a jerk.
I am a great fan of the Dropkick Murphys, Boston-based Irish punk, etc., band, who every year do several St. Patrick’s Day shows in their hometown. This year, for the first time in over two decades, they will not be doing live in-person shows, but will instead do a free live feed on YouTube and elsewhere, with special guests and all that. In my opinion, that is really freaking cool of them.
It is perhaps not smart, but there is something uniquely Welsh about gathering and singing, even or especially in the face of danger and hardship. I think of a Welsh crowd singing Bread of Heaven, or the crowd at the Aberfan funeral singing ‘Jesu, Lover of My Soul’, and I think there was an element of that in someone saying it was ‘worth the risk’.
I think – forgive me for saying this, Naif – that you are being rather naive. I was at college & worked in Wales in my youth, can sing Welsh songs and have done so in rugby crowds and elsewhere – Mae hen wlad fy nhadau’, ‘Calon lan’, etc. I really don’t think these people are being very sensible, considering the kind of danger & hardship that may be brought on, and I imagine a great many Welsh people didn’t think it a very good idea, either – though it may be very much in line with Boris Johnson’s anxiety to develop a ‘herd immunity’. And, forgive me again, I do not think that bringing the Aberfan funeral in this connexion was a good idea,
Still, if anyone wants to listen to some great Welsh singing from the greatest Welsh male-voice choir, you can find on YouTube the Morriston Orpheus Choir singing ‘Myfanwy’.
Yes, the singing at the Aberfan funeral wasn’t during a highly contagious epidemic. The slagheap wasn’t contagious so there was zero prudential protective reason not to attend the funeral. An indoor concert as a pandemic is gathering speed is a very different matter, especially since they’re risking other people’s lives along with their own.
Someone who attended tweeted it was “worth the risk” to go. No doubt she’s not in the at-risk age group — so what she’s saying is she doesn’t mind risking other people‘s lives so she can watch some lads sing pub anthems. What a jerk.
I am a great fan of the Dropkick Murphys, Boston-based Irish punk, etc., band, who every year do several St. Patrick’s Day shows in their hometown. This year, for the first time in over two decades, they will not be doing live in-person shows, but will instead do a free live feed on YouTube and elsewhere, with special guests and all that. In my opinion, that is really freaking cool of them.
It is perhaps not smart, but there is something uniquely Welsh about gathering and singing, even or especially in the face of danger and hardship. I think of a Welsh crowd singing Bread of Heaven, or the crowd at the Aberfan funeral singing ‘Jesu, Lover of My Soul’, and I think there was an element of that in someone saying it was ‘worth the risk’.
I think – forgive me for saying this, Naif – that you are being rather naive. I was at college & worked in Wales in my youth, can sing Welsh songs and have done so in rugby crowds and elsewhere – Mae hen wlad fy nhadau’, ‘Calon lan’, etc. I really don’t think these people are being very sensible, considering the kind of danger & hardship that may be brought on, and I imagine a great many Welsh people didn’t think it a very good idea, either – though it may be very much in line with Boris Johnson’s anxiety to develop a ‘herd immunity’. And, forgive me again, I do not think that bringing the Aberfan funeral in this connexion was a good idea,
Still, if anyone wants to listen to some great Welsh singing from the greatest Welsh male-voice choir, you can find on YouTube the Morriston Orpheus Choir singing ‘Myfanwy’.
Yes, the singing at the Aberfan funeral wasn’t during a highly contagious epidemic. The slagheap wasn’t contagious so there was zero prudential protective reason not to attend the funeral. An indoor concert as a pandemic is gathering speed is a very different matter, especially since they’re risking other people’s lives along with their own.