Coronavirus (2021) thread

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PannickAtTheDisco said:
It's not a reason though. They just want to go back and not behave in the rules, as proven by the students out making snowmen and throwing snowballs in a lockdown. We don't need anymore mixing so they should stay where they are and if they try to travel back they should be arrested. They're just whinging because when they're in the family home they have to behave.
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Oh, believe me, I fully agree. Would like the authorities to be proactive on this and get universities to push them to remain at home for now. The last thing we need is another spike in a few weeks.
 
Cotswold Knight said:
What I’m finding fucking annoying is that the house next to me is student house, the country is in lockdown I can’t go anywhere and the fuckers have all returned in the last week
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Not sure what you see as being the problem? They are no doubt paying for a private house, classed as their primary residence, and are bored after being at home for 4/5 weeks and would prefer to be in lockdown in the company of their mates. I’ve said to my own son who is at Uni in Nottingham that when he feels like he wants to go back then I’ll take him, they are all getting shafted enough by paying for fees and housing, at least have a bit of appreciation for what it’s like for them.
 
Rammy Blue said:
Not sure what you see as being the problem? They are no doubt paying for a private house, classed as their primary residence, and are bored after being at home for 4/5 weeks and would prefer to be in lockdown in the company of their mates. I’ve said to my own son who is at Uni in Nottingham that when he feels like he wants to go back then I’ll take him, they are all getting shafted enough by paying for fees and housing, at least have a bit of appreciation for what it’s like for them.
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My lad hasn't gone back cos no one else in his accommodation has either so has stayed at home,done his assignments and worked in medical records for the NHS. They rightly got a lot of stick initially but not all are as selfish as some others in society. He also has continued to pay for the accommodation without being there
 
Rammy Blue said:
Not sure what you see as being the problem? They are no doubt paying for a private house, classed as their primary residence, and are bored after being at home for 4/5 weeks and would prefer to be in lockdown in the company of their mates. I’ve said to my own son who is at Uni in Nottingham that when he feels like he wants to go back then I’ll take him, they are all getting shafted enough by paying for fees and housing, at least have a bit of appreciation for what it’s like for them.
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and they can have some appreciation for people who are in lockdown like them and are having to put up with being fucking bored. They just want house parties and mixing and spread it around because they don't think it applies to them. Well it does.
 
Ban-jani said:
As someone in Stockport, well one of its villages in the borough, I can’t understand why, traffic is bad but I don’t see that much stupid stuff.

People must be secretly mixing.
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I probably over emphasise issues with Stockport because I have family there and by chance happen to know Elise Wilson a little - head of the council. Though I doubt very much she reads this thread or would recognise it as me even if she did. And I will certainly not be telling her! She has a tough enough job as it is.

So we will see how things go as day to day numbers can fluctuate and I am only really curious to see if its previous low numbers and Oldham's terrible ones explain why Oldham is now top of the tree in GM and Stockport at the other extreme as if the different levels of infection over the months shown by the Pop Score are a guide to who still has more able to be infected as they might still be susceptible versus somewhere that has less.

It may be that Stockport with the best Pop score (for now anyway!) at minimum 5.3% who have had it (as they tested positive) versus Oldham with the worst at a maximum 7.9% who have had it from its Pop score might be a factor.

If the virus has already got to the easy targets by now then those differences might be why this new strain can get to more in one place than another as it just has more targets left.

In truth those base levels will have to factor up a few times for all those who had it and were never tested so it might be say Oldham has a 30% + level towards immunity and Stockport more like 15% and with the vaccinations adding to the numbers now not easily able to be infected these modest differences might dictate the flow of cases at this point in time.

Its only a theory. A guess more correctly.
 
PannickAtTheDisco said:
students who can't cope with being bored are the pathetic ones. Get in the real world where everyone's suffering and having to put up with this shit.
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They have every right to be in their primary residence, they’d still be in the same lockdown as everyone else and just as bored as the rest of us, just in the company of some friends of their own age. Don’t see what the big problem is with that.
 
Rammy Blue said:
Not sure what you see as being the problem? They are no doubt paying for a private house, classed as their primary residence, and are bored after being at home for 4/5 weeks and would prefer to be in lockdown in the company of their mates. I’ve said to my own son who is at Uni in Nottingham that when he feels like he wants to go back then I’ll take him, they are all getting shafted enough by paying for fees and housing, at least have a bit of appreciation for what it’s like for them.
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Thousands of people are dying that’s why the Government put the country into lockdown, we all know students are a bunch of assholes who just want to piss it up and party why should Tax payers have too play by the rules but Tax Dodging Students think they can do what they like
 
Rammy Blue said:
They have every right to be in their primary residence, they’d still be in the same lockdown as everyone else and just as bored as the rest of us, just in the company of some friends of their own age. Don’t see what the big problem is with that.
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We're in lockdown and we're not allowed to mix. So if you're where you don't want to be then tough unfortunately. We have to get through this and in such a way that we can live with the virus and not have these restrictions. We've all had to make shit choices and not see people we'd rather be with and living with your family rather than friends may be boring and an inconvenience but it's a privilege compared to those homeless or living on their own or living in student areas with them breaking the rules and mixing when they shouldn't be. If they are to be trusted not to break rules then they can stick to these until we're able to open up for everyone, for good.
 
Cotswold Knight said:
Thousands of people are dying that’s why the Government put the country into lockdown, we all know students are a bunch of assholes who just want to piss it up and party why should Tax payers have too play by the rules but Tax Dodging Students think they can do what they like
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Strange hatred for students , are you paul calf ?
 
PannickAtTheDisco said:
We're in lockdown and we're not allowed to mix. So if you're where you don't want to be then tough unfortunately. We have to get through this and in such a way that we can live with the virus and not have these restrictions. We've all had to make shit choices and not see people we'd rather be with and living with your family rather than friends may be boring and an inconvenience but it's a privilege compared to those homeless or living on their own or living in student areas with them breaking the rules and mixing when they shouldn't be. If they are to be trusted not to break rules then they can stick to these until we're able to open up for everyone, for good.
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That’s a fair enough response, and I’d simply counter that maybe then whilst the government is spunking money all over the place they should help the students out. My son, for example, is paying full rent for a house in Nottingham and full Uni fees for practically fuck all tuition, hardly fair on them is it?
 
Gabriel said:
Perhaps for the latter point, but I fear more will return for the former point. Heard one girl interviewed the other day saying she wanted to leave her family home, went back for Christmas, and drive to her rented accommodation to be with her three housemates. No practicals, simply paying for the room and having mental health issues living at home.
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I agree mate. There was a huge snowball fight in the student area near a couple of days ago. It was featured on the news.

I think there was also some school kids involved and having fun in the snow was too hard to resist. I would have probably done the same in my youth.
 
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Rammy Blue said:
That’s a fair enough response, and I’d simply counter that maybe then whilst the government is spunking money all over the place they should help the students out. My son, for example, is paying full rent for a house in Nottingham and full Uni fees for practically fuck all tuition, hardly fair on them is it?
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I agree with that. Student loans should be turned into grant payments for at least this term and a separate grant for accommodation for this term (private or halls)
 
Rammy Blue said:
That’s a fair enough response, and I’d simply counter that maybe then whilst the government is spunking money all over the place they should help the students out. My son, for example, is paying full rent for a house in Nottingham and full Uni fees for practically fuck all tuition, hardly fair on them is it?
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My lad was tempted to come home but i put him off. Hes much better with 2 likeminded flat mates
 
Hospitals in Manchester are now operating at 175% capacity and utilising children's wards to cope with demand,staff have been warned to expect the peak towards the end of the month.

Many still wankers are not taking this seriously,sad as fuck.
 
Tim of the Oak said:
I agree mate. There was a huge snowball fight in the student area near a couple of days ago. It was featured on the news.
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I can sympathise with them, indeed empathise, because it’s not as if anyone is currently enjoying life to the full, but even a cursory glance of the news should be enough to alarm everyone. All of our actions can now have unintentional consequences, often dire, whereas our inactions can save lives.
 
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