Am I going insane? There was uproar about this at the time. "An image that resonates with me is a picture I captured of the thronged crowd. I still wonder if the 2020 Cheltenham Roar was the viral bomb we never realised was going off" - ThreadSky

suekirk.bsky.social • 18 hours ago

Am I going insane? There was uproar about this at the time.

"An image that resonates with me is a picture I captured of the thronged crowd. I still wonder if the 2020 Cheltenham Roar was the viral bomb we never realised was going off"

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silo64.bsky.social•15 hours ago

It was an obvious case of lobbyists and greed prevailing over health and common sense. I remember it well. Many were in uproar about it.

aidancurran17.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Cheltenham: the Glastonbury of eejitry

rdisc0mb0bulate.bsky.social•18 hours ago

There was a concert too the same weekend! I remember the uproar that both events had gone ahead.

itsnotsuzalright.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Yes! 👏

marionmcgarry.bsky.social•16 hours ago

There’s a national amnesia about all this… never forget the “meaningful Christmas”

dochara.com•16 hours ago

There's none so blind as those who will not see.

fancyvegaspro.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Sure the whole joke around that at the time was it was like the bit in disaster movies where everybody's been warned about impending doom but continues to act as normal

suekirk.bsky.social•18 hours ago

exactly! Even the ad at the time 'it's coming home' is exactly what we were worried about but this article is very much 'we didn't know!'. We did know

fancyvegaspro.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I guess they are trying to up the drama, also like in a disaster movie

suekirk.bsky.social•18 hours ago

yeah. Just a total rewrite of events

tinydonkey.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Yeah Patrick's day was cancelled already and Cheltenham was set to go ahead after that.

suekirk.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Exactly!

dermotcasey.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Nope the writer is in a bizarre parallel universe where the trending hashtag in Ireland wasn’t ShutThePubs and people weren’t furious about Cheltenham

suekirk.bsky.social•17 hours ago

THANK YOU!!! 😊

suekirk.bsky.social•18 hours ago

getting a few football bros suggesting there was not uproar at the time. You can literally google articles about it from the time

nocontextsiobhan.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Wasnt there a rugby match cancelled around that time too? There was a fuss but I think I remember the stuff that happened here around more because I dont follow the horses .

suekirk.bsky.social•18 hours ago

yeah, one of the 6 nations match. But there was uproar at the time about Cheltenham going ahead and this while article is 'we couldn't have known!'

nocontextsiobhan.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I think it was sort of early enough that some people still had their head in the sand who were like "itll be grand"but looking at the dates that was around the time everything closed here in Ireland so that writer is definitely a bit delulu . Maybe he is very English focused they were behind on this

suekirk.bsky.social•18 hours ago

ah you see, I remember it well. there was uproar at the time that it went ahead.

nocontextsiobhan.bsky.social•18 hours ago

It's a real pity England were so behind on Covid. I week or two later and it never would have gone a head.

lnr42.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Can't wait to see the 5 years on rewrite of "the government couldn't guarantee masks for essential workers so they deliberately downplayed the importance of them in the media" to "Masks! Who woulda thunk it?!"

liznugent.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Yes! They were absolutely condemned for going ahead with it.

suekirk.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Yes! Rewriting history!

'It's Coming Home' was an unfortunate advertising slogan for that year.

jonweir.bsky.social•17 hours ago

I very much remember people saying that this was a super spreader event at the time. Pretending no one knew is just daft.

suekirk.bsky.social•17 hours ago

thank you!! Had a guy respond saying 'no one thought this and it was months later'. Eh, nope...we ALL remember it being a thing at the time

jonweir.bsky.social•17 hours ago

well that guy wasn't paying attention.

jonweir.bsky.social•17 hours ago

and there was massive condemnation of everyone who still went along - mask less - then took COVID back home with them on planes, trains and automobiles.

jonweir.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Christ, they had already cancelled st Patrick's Day events before this - of course people knew!

suekirk.bsky.social•16 hours ago

EXACTLY!!

itsnotsuzalright.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Well well well

suekirk.bsky.social•16 hours ago

precisely!!!!

itsnotsuzalright.bsky.social•17 hours ago

A lot of “well I’ve paid a lot for my tickets and travel so I’m going and balls to the consequences-besides I never get sick🤧 ”

itsnotsuzalright.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Unbelievable revisionism there were actual family rifts over gobshites headin over to watch the nags! People were seen as pariahs for doing so

markmaguireb.bsky.social•17 hours ago

A lot of this type of re-remembering going on rn. It was obvious that this was a bad idea at the time. Things were already very grim in north Italy. On Thursday 12th March we were sent home from work and our first lockdown began.

suekirk.bsky.social•17 hours ago

exactly, people were horrified it was allowed to go ahead