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When fun could be fatal
In the current pandemic crisis, it's beyond belief that organisers are going ahead with music festivals in Europe this summer, says DAN NOLAN

AS A ticketholder for Primavera Sound in Porto early in June, I was disappointed to learn that the festival may still go ahead as planned.

Like all music fans, I have accepted that it is not acceptable to go to events until I’m doubly sure that I won’t risk endangering somebody more vulnerable than me.

I am accepting it much the same as how, as a film or football fan, I am not lobbying my local cinema or club to throw their doors open in defiance of a historic plague.

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