COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[hilts]

His constant that pensioners are somehow fine is amazing , breathtaking lack of knowledge and empathy , i was hoping covid would reset the human race, make us nicer and more understanding of each other , i was wrong

Oh the irony

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

That's why I said his post had to be a wind up

300000 fought in those wars and fair play to you if you did. 12 million+ pensioners currently in the uk though, most of whom didn’t.
It’s not meant as a criticism either, it’s a good thing. Just wish you’d stop blaming the young for being young and I fully accept I’m guilty of generalising in a way I’m criticising you for, having never met you, so it’s probably best I apologise for that and leave it there.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

pubs are a convienient scapegoat. The government know the main issue is familes mixing, but cant do anything about it.

it's certain families mixing, as the post above identified, but we can't offend anyone by doing the right thing so other people have to suffer.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

The irony of this post is outstanding.

think you've missed the point, as usual.

 

[Corky]

Exeter University!

The areas that surprise me are Oxford and Cambridge. They don't appear to have a problem.

How come other countries haven't had such a big thing with students going to college? Are halls a UK thing? My Mum tells me that in France students tend to go to the Uni in their home town and stay at home.

Some countries travel is free for students, so they live at home, and you see mainly international students in halls type accomodation.

At Oxford you are accommodated next to your college, aint the same as Manchester with large bauhaus halls shooting up post war.

 

[Healdplace]

Of the 60 England hospital deaths today they were aged between 41 and 93.

And 5 of them - aged 72 to 86 - had no previously known underlying conditions.

 

[blueparrot]

pubs are a convienient scapegoat. The government know the main issue is familes mixing, but cant do anything about it.

Is it? just heard of a couple both critically ill in hospital, in their 60s. Picked it up on a holiday in blackpool. Most likely place that picked it up would be a hospitality venue. Like it or not the feedback from the more serious hospital cases is it’s coming from hospitality and then getting into the vulnerable.

 

[mosssideblue]

300000 fought in those wars and fair play to you if you did. 12 million+ pensioners currently in the uk though, most of whom didn’t.
It’s not meant as a criticism either, it’s a good thing. Just wish you’d stop blaming the young for being young and I fully accept I’m guilty of generalising in a way I’m criticising you for, having never met you, so it’s probably best I apologise for that and leave it there.

We are all guilty of generalising, Just wish those constantly protecting the youngsters would acknowledge that there are a large number of which have and continue to ignore social distancing.

I posted this morning a fifteen year old inadvertently passed on Covid to both his grandparents and it sadly took their lives

 

[Gabriel]

Exeter University!

The areas that surprise me are Oxford and Cambridge. They don't appear to have a problem.

How come other countries haven't had such a big thing with students going to college? Are halls a UK thing? My Mum tells me that in France students tend to go to the Uni in their home town and stay at home.

England’s university culture is odd in that it encourages the mass movement of young people away from their home towns, even cities, to study elsewhere in the country. Residential halls are common in the U.K. and U.S. public systems, whereas students at European universities often attend from home or rent in the private sector, even from first year.

The colleges at Cambridge and Oxford tend to be much smaller, but Anglia Ruskin and Brookes do have residential set ups. Probably just smaller numbers.

 

[Gabriel]

We are all guilty of generalising, Just wish those constantly protecting the youngsters would acknowledge that there are a large number of which have and continue to ignore social distancing.

I posted this morning a fifteen year old inadvertently passed on Covid to both his grandparents and it sadly took their lives

;-)