Coronavirus

They’re students mate and they didn’t bring rockets

 

Us organised alcoholics have ample time and opportunity to buy our alcohol, even if it's just to keep in the house and not drink it. What tickled me though in the first lockdown in March is that the shelves in our Tesco here in York were cleared of.... non-alcoholic beer and wine. FFS, why?

 

If one thing comes out of all this malarkey I hope it's that the locals of Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle etc (and indeed here in York) come to realise just how much their economies depend upon the much derided and under-appreciated students. They're being ****ing shafted at the moment; I saw a C4 report on Monday night about Liverpool students. They (and all students) may as well be at home and on Zoom lectures and tutorials if they can't do the main reason for going to uni and college - to socialise and make an utter dick of yourself.

 

My daughter's Uni experience so far is pointless but no sign of them reducing fees.

 

Students seem to be the chosen scapegoat for the “me, me, me!” generation of entitled boomers, who resent any threat to their (our) plans to live forever in comfortable retirement.

 

It's a ****ing outrage. My niece is half way through her masters in maths (try saying that without spitting) in Lancaster, at great expense. Tbf, she's being part-funded by a scholarship from some accountancy firm, but it's a complete rip-off. The thing is though, they were specifically told there would be no restrictions by now when they enrolled into these colleges and unis. I also read somewhere that the government are simply desperate to get them into digs as the property market would be decimated without them - so basically they (or their parents, if my daughter's degree a few years ago is anything to go by) are being used as a milk cow to keep mostly Tory-supporting landlords insulated from the pandemic. Nice trick, eh?

 

Yeah they’ve been goosed over this in fairness.

I heard that film from last night was taken by a Norwegian film crew btw, who were openly encouraging the students to chant **** Boris and the like. Make of that what you will.

 

Now THEY would be Liverpool fans.

 

I think they’re over for the derby mate.

 

They should never have sent students to start uni this year, it was clearly going to be a total disaster. Any learning they do at uni can easily be done online. The reason they've let them is because they don't want to lose out on the massive amounts of money they make on accommodation and all the economics and spending attached to that and having students in the area, they also didn't want loads dropping out and deferring because again they'd lose a shed load of money if none of this was up and running, either through having to refund payments or money that just wouldn't be getting spent by students because there wouldn't be any there to spend any

 

Yeah that was me and my tee-total mob stocking up on supplies

Agree with the point you make, though. Folk have all day to go out and buy alcohol for after the curfew.

 

well if you are sensible you get it delivered .

 

I think the country is at a really dangerous point now, because there are so many people who are fatigued at the prospect of more restrictions and there seems to be more and more divide about how to move forward creeping in. You've now got City Mayors openly disagreeing with Govt strategy and you've got more and more people who seem intent on simply ****ing all of it off.

Back in March, when we locked down, the whole country (other than the 5G crew) were fairly unanimously behind it and stuck to the rules. Since then, we've seen the Govt's woeful management of the crisis, along with loads of businesses going to the wall, jobs losses, NHS operations being delayed, mental health suffering, people becoming more isolated and on it goes. The prospect of more lockdowns is just too much for some people.

Problem is, this virus doesn't suffer from fatigue, it is relentless and will carry on infecting people. I know it's not easy, but folk need to dig deep and show some resolve with this. Okay so you can't go on your usual half term holiday with the kids, sorry but that's insignificant in the grand scheme of things. I think the whole country needs to show some backbone here.

 

So how have some countries virtually eliminated it?

 

Stopping incoming visitors, testing at airports, quarantining in government appointed facilities, curbing domestic travel and wearing masks.

Or in the case of Indonesia, living in generally unsavoury conditions, with **** water supplies, for so long that even Ebola would just require a couple of days in bed and a herbal remedy from the mobile Jamu lady.

 

I agree with that. Today we had 23 more people infected with covid-19, nobody else died as a result of the virus and yet we are still concerned.

 

Some countries clearly have it under control now, is it just a matter of time or have their measures worked?

 

London to go into Tier 2 lockdown from midnight tomorrow ...

 

Excellent news, I’m going London on Sunday