The self-declaration form is really quick to complete. 30 seconds. It’s even quicker if you’re not thinking through what it is that you’re agreeing to.
I haven’t signed and returned it yet, although I almost certainly will return it today or tomorrow, but just two things.
1. There is no end-date on the commitment you’re signing up to, other than the validity of your supporter account. This lasts for as long as the club says it lasts, or as long as the government tells it to last, whichever is the longer. It might last until, say, a Champions League semi-final, when infection-rates are low, when the elderly and vulnerable have had their 2nd booster, and all 11-15 year-olds have been vaccinated.
2. If you’ve got some symptoms of the common cold Manchester City do not want you at the ground. Symptoms “such as” a high temperature also include ones not specified here, such as a runny nose. Having these symptoms trumps your negative PCR and double- or triple-vaccination. You’re simply breaching your conditions of entry by going, whatever other requirements or recommendations you’re following. Hard lines on those FOCs with a smokers’ cough.
In the rush to condemn people who don’t think they way we think, we forgot to read the small print. I’m not an anti-vaxxing nutjob, I care just as much about being responsible for spreading disease as anyone else does. “It’s only a piece of cloth”, “it only takes 30 seconds to sign”, “it’s the responsible thing to do”, “I wouldn’t want
my family infected by selfish bastards like you” are all truisms: so unarguably true in themselves as to be meaningless.
Just read the small print. If you’ve got a cold, you should never go and watch City. Ever.
Merry Christmas, all, btw.
