Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Mike N]

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

Jesus wept.

 

[BlueAnorak]

I meant for the whole Track and Trace system, rather than just the app alone, but concede I got the figures wrong. It was only £22bn, not £25bn.

You'll be glad to know its finally working.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

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.

I can sympathise too and University students have had a bit of a raw deal, compared with most of the rest of the economy who have been supported by the Government.

Hopefully, the students have had their fun and will comply with the rules going forward.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Daily exercise.

I wish I would have joined them lol. There’s also a few snowmen that have appeared that are pretty graphic lol.

 

[Healdplace]

England Hospital Data:

Patients 32, 923 - down 439 on yesterday. Ventilators 3521 - up 61 on yesterday.



Regions:


East

Patients 4121 - down 145 on yesterday. Ventilators 372 - down 9. Improving picture here.


London

Patients 7571 - down 269 on yesterday. Ventilators up 43 to 1206. Big drop in patients.



Midlands

Patients- up 65 on yesterday to 5955. Ventilators up 29 to 599. Still having problems here.



NE/Yorkshire

Patients - down 16 to 3567. Ventilators down 4 to 280. Yorkshire looks to be emerging as the best region.



North West

Patients - down 18 to 4021. Ventilators stay level at 363. Not a disaster here either Though first signs of no rises so best to wait and see.


South East

Patients - down 109 to 5419. Ventilators up 15 to 512.



South West

Patients - up 25 to 2269. Ventilators up 8 to 193. Both of these easily the highest ever in this region. Low numbers proportionally but certainly having bigger problems.

 

[shootmeifipost10k]

I work at a student hall of residence here in Nottingham and can see it from both ways about them returning.
First of all Students get a bad rep mostly but they are just like all of us at that age and with over 700 first years students coming to my place every year I see a mixture of everything and in them main they are a good lot with the odd idiot here and there.

We all knew when they returned it would blow up. 120 flats of 6 at my place, 4 weeks after returning we had at one point 68 flats isolating. I have to say for all the reports of them flouting the rules just about all got with it and isolated in their flats and behaved in the two weeks. 6 weeks after they arrived a test site was put up what a joke that was, 1 week and 12 students went for a test the reason being most had already had symptons and tested positive most likelycaught it from a flatmate. I would say out of the 720 students I would be shocked if more than 50 haven't already caught it.
On returning I saw the offical emails sent out to them about who could return and for which courses and we expected around 50 or so. there are about 200 who returned. We are told we can not stop any student from returning and I agree with it even though i will come into contact with them and at risk.

They come by car straight from home and go to their flats and mostly stay there, there isn't anywhere to go. Shopping is done online and at most they go for a run or a walk about the campus here which is just out of town. It's basically to come back and have a bit more of the student away from home experience with the new mates they've met while here in their first year. They pay plenty for it and having worked here a few years they are paying for half of what previous students get.

Like I said they got a lock of stick for the spread but what could they do when they have a life to try and get on with like the rest of us who go to work.
I'll repeat and say the vast majority are good kids and are as concerned about covid as the rest of us and kept to the rules as much as possible. I know this as I saw it everyday in work. There were obviously some that didn't give fuck and carried on as usual but the percentage of those probably equaled the rest of the country but sadly they are an easy target.

 

[mrbelfry]

Nobody uses it talks about the Track and Trace app which was deemed so important to infection control when it was being developed. Has it been totally abandoned or discredited?

Got a ping on the track and trace app week last Thursday so had to isolate. When I was speaking to a few people about it most of them didn't have it on their phone.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Friend's 95 year old grandad got his first dose of Pfizer today so there's a good news story.

 

[Manc Born & Bred]

I work at a student hall of residence here in Nottingham and can see it from both ways about them returning.
First of all Students get a bad rep mostly but they are just like all of us at that age and with over 700 first years students coming to my place every year I see a mixture of everything and in them main they are a good lot with the odd idiot here and there.

We all knew when they returned it would blow up. 120 flats of 6 at my place, 4 weeks after returning we had at one point 68 flats isolating. I have to say for all the reports of them flouting the rules just about all got with it and isolated in their flats and behaved in the two weeks. 6 weeks after they arrived a test site was put up what a joke that was, 1 week and 12 students went for a test the reason being most had already had symptons and tested positive most likelycaught it from a flatmate. I would say out of the 720 students I would be shocked if more than 50 haven't already caught it.
On returning I saw the offical emails sent out to them about who could return and for which courses and we expected around 50 or so. there are about 200 who returned. We are told we can not stop any student from returning and I agree with it even though i will come into contact with them and at risk.

They come by car straight from home and go to their flats and mostly stay there, there isn't anywhere to go. Shopping is done online and at most they go for a run or a walk about the campus here which is just out of town. It's basically to come back and have a bit more of the student away from home experience with the new mates they've met while here in their first year. They pay plenty for it and having worked here a few years they are paying for half of what previous students get.

Like I said they got a lock of stick for the spread but what could they do when they have a life to try and get on with like the rest of us who go to work.
I'll repeat and say the vast majority are good kids and are as concerned about covid as the rest of us and kept to the rules as much as possible. I know this as I saw it everyday in work. There were obviously some that didn't give fuck and carried on as usual but the percentage of those probably equaled the rest of the country but sadly they are an easy target.

Forgive my stupidity I thought student fees were for their tuition etc and not to go out, get pissed, take drugs and shag around. I assume tuition is still being given online so what half are they paying for and missing?

 

[crublue1]

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

An early entry, but nonetheless a strong contender i'd say.
I can see several of us having to raise our game in the coming months.

 

[Bluesince1979]

Forgive my stupidity I thought student fees were for their tuition etc and not to go out, get pissed, take drugs and shag around. I assume tuition is still being given online so what half are they paying for and missing?

£9000 a year for tuition fees that they dont see. Plus grants for rent drink drugs food etc. Hell of a lot of debt

my son is on a very practical hands on course which he is doing on line , no way should he be charged £9000 a year for it right now

edit: he also works for me when he can and does deliveroo . Not all students are lazy tax dodging layabouts

 

[shootmeifipost10k]

Forgive my stupidity I thought student fees were for their tuition etc and not to go out, get pissed, take drugs and shag around. I assume tuition is still being given online so what half are they paying for and missing?

Accommodation. Over £100 a week for a tiny 1 single bed ensuite room. like a box room at home and a Shared kitchen.
I'm talking about 1st year students who stay at halls of residence on the uni campus.
The tuition fees are seperate.
They get charged each term so them being here is justifed for me seeing as they have to pay for it anyway.

Edit. Nobody tells me what to do with my money why should anyone really care, if they do well in life they pay it back, if not it doesn't really affect me

 

[artfuldodger]

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.

Where abouts are you? I’m in Heaton chapel. Lots of NYE parties round my way, including my next door neighbours. Plus people going to poynton, wilmslow right up to Christmas Eve for a night out.

 

[artfuldodger]

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

Lots of students have gone back. They’ve paid rent on a house and prefer to be there than ‘home’. Not much anyone can do about it.

 

[shootmeifipost10k]

I see the student arguement as one of look at them cunts going out in the week enjoying themselves, getting drunk, having loads of sex while I'm going out to work and doing none of that on a wednesday night.
Then covid came along

 

[cleavers]

Friend's 95 year old grandad got his first dose of Pfizer today so there's a good news story.

It seems a bit worrying that a 95 year old only got it today, my dad at 82 has had both does, and mum at 79 has had her first, so why has a 95 year old only just got it ?

The "deployment" seems almost completely random.

 

[Blue Potato]

So, back to blaming students. Let’s not forget that the ONS published a report in December stating that students complied better than the general population with regards to social distancing, despite being one of the worst affected and also the least at risk groups (this after being encouraged to return to their student accommodation by the government).

Furthermore, these students are being landed with a significant amount of debt in order to complete their studies (whilst also paying for accommodation), and are likely to graduate and enter the job market at the worst possible time in recent memory - can’t help but feel for them.

 

[cleavers]

I'll repeat and say the vast majority are good kids and are as concerned about covid as the rest of us and kept to the rules as much as possible. I know this as I saw it everyday in work. There were obviously some that didn't give fuck and carried on as usual but the percentage of those probably equaled the rest of the country but sadly they are an easy target.

We're all guilty of tarring all students with the same brush, so it's nice to hear from someone who actually works with them, that they're far from all the same, and most are just as worried as the rest of us.

 

[Ric]

You'll be glad to know its finally working.

I guess “working” is a subjective term in this context.

 

[artfuldodger]

We're all guilty of tarring all students with the same brush, so it's nice to hear from someone who actually works with them, that they're far from all the same, and most are just as worried as the rest of us.

I can’t believe some of the comments made about students on here. If you talked about any other group in those terms you’d be accused of racism/sexism/homophobia etc. They just seem to be fair game.