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Considering what the 1st year of Uni is normally like, it is a bit s**t for them so I do have sympathy for them. Plenty of middle aged and older people are crying about restrictions as well or ignoring measures/restrictions.
Democratic country, I’m happy to listen to complaints about restrictions from all ages.
However, I couldn’t care less that they’re missing the ‘student experience‘, and just listening to the whiny stories on TV of how hard done by they are in lockdown only reinforces that view...You reap what you sow?!
But... the Govt. has to take a portion of the blame for the student predicament; it was naive at best of them to expect first year students to not socialise and drunkenly spread a plethora of viral and bacterial infections. Maybe the Govt. wanted this to happen....herd immunity?
The students have plenty of time when they’re older to do all that though, it’s not like this is their only chance is it, fellas, it’s even still possible at 55..
 
Missing the point completely.

If it wasn’t for all of those who fought two world wars, endured horrific conditions and gave their lives, many of these students would have the freedom they enjoy now.

So stop whining about a few months of imposed isolation or getting stressed because they are missing freshers week.

It’s really not a hardship.
.... Especially as half of them only got in because they didn't actually have to take their A-level exams and were just given the optimistic grades their teachers gave them.
 
.... Especially as half of them only got in because they didn't actually have to take their A-level exams and were just given the optimistic grades their teachers gave them.

How dare you, we just so happen to have on our hands the greatest graduating class of students of all time, and by quite a significant stretch too ?

Hopefully employers will look twice at these kids' qualifications before employing them. It's so annoying for some of the kids in the year before and after this lot that they haven't actually earned their grades fairly.
 
Democratic country, I’m happy to listen to complaints about restrictions from all ages.
However, I couldn’t care less that they’re missing the ‘student experience‘, and just listening to the whiny stories on TV of how hard done by they are in lockdown only reinforces that view...You reap what you sow?!
But... the Govt. has to take a portion of the blame for the student predicament; it was naive at best of them to expect first year students to not socialise and drunkenly spread a plethora of viral and bacterial infections. Maybe the Govt. wanted this to happen....herd immunity?
The students have plenty of time when they’re older to do all that though, it’s not like this is their only chance is it, fellas, it’s even still possible at 55..

They reap what they sow? I blame the Universities for having them there in the 1st place when they could have done their studies at home but they wanted the rent for the Halls of Residences. The Govt can take some blame as well as you say. Gavin Williamson has reiterated that Uni courses won't be online only as well today.

Undoubtedly, there are Covidiots within the student population but that exists for all ages it seems.
 
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So we agree then..................... work shy soap dodging lefty snowflakes studying pish subjects?

Well most of them anyway.
 
They reap what they sow? I blame the Universities for having them there in the 1st place when they could have done their studies at home but they wanted the rent for the Halls of Residences. The Govt can take some blame as well as you say.

Undoubtedly, there are Covidiots within the student population but that exists for all ages it seems.
They reap what they sow? I blame the Universities for having them there in the 1st place when they could have done their studies at home but they wanted the rent for the Halls of Residences. The Govt can take some blame as well as you say.

Undoubtedly, there are Covidiots within the student population but that exists for all ages it seems.
The Govt expected common sense from the students but yet again the Govt expected way too much. You‘d think they‘d have learnt that by now..The students socialised, now they’re paying the price for not doing as requested. But it was inevitable, at their age, possibly away from home for the first time, who wouldn’t do what the students did given the opportunity?
I just don’t need to hear their stories of confusion and unfairness and how hard done by they are. They’re not. It’s two weeks. Batten down the hatches, use the time to good effect and it’ll be done before they know it.
 
The UK reported 71 deaths today.
Vietnam (with a larger population and a border with China has reported 35 deaths in total since Covid-19 was discovered.



I can see the usual suspects are blaming young people rather than a moronic government that kept changing the regulations - so that even the Prime Minister doesn't know what they are- launched daft schelem like eat out to help out with the Chancellor opf the Exchequer serving up meals without a mask and protected the Prime Minister's chief advisor when he behaved as though the regulations didn't apply to him.

Many have been saying for months that teaching online only until Christmas, or starting term in January would have made far more sense than moving a million young people around the country and then putting them in rabbit hutches-. Campuses are less full- so that social distancing can be maintained. Student dorms aren;t
 
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The UK reported 71 deaths today.
Vietnam (with a larger population and a border with China has reported 35 deaths in total since Covid-19 was discovered.



I can see the usual suspects are blaming young people rather than a moronic government that kept changing the regulations - so that even the Prime Minister doesn't know what they are- launched daft schelem like eat out to help out with the Chancellor opf the Exchequer serving up meals without a mask and protected the Prime Minister's chief advisor when he behaved as though the regulations didn't apply to him.

Many have been saying for months that teaching online only until Christmas, or starting term in January would have made far more sense than moving a million young people around the country and then putting them in rabbit hutches-. Campuses are less full- so that social distancing can be maintained. Student dorms aren;t
People of most age groups have been to blame at some point. Students are currently in the spotlight, as well as those at house parties and illegal raves and those incapable of deciding to leave pubs at times when thousands of others wouldn’t do the same.
And they are the ones moaning when lockdowns occur as a result.
‘Confusing’ (they’re not) local lockdowns and restrictions wouldn't even be necessary if people acted responsibly but we’ve been here before, many times on this thread. And we will be again. Because there are too many selfish idiots in this country who will blame everyone but themselves.
 
The most selfish idiot of them all

The man who went to a hospital bragged about shaking hands with everyone and ended up in intensive care,

Whe his sidekick clearly broke the laws several times instead of making an example of him he showed that there was one rule for Johnson and his posh clique and another for the rest of us.

During the war the Royal Family made a big display that they too were limiting the amount of water in their bath and having rations. It was probably untrue, but it had a effect on morale. Ivor Novello who drove around in a Rolls Royce was prosecuted,

The rules are so complicated Johnson doesn't know what they are.

So don't blame us for not keeping his endless changes his terrible communicating, changing the rules at a moment's notice via a tweet or a leak to the SUYn instead of decent open communications

We have done terribly in Brirtain. More people died today in the UK than died in the whole of the Covid outbreak in Vietnam. Viernam is poorer than us. has a bigger populaltion than us and is a lot nearer the original outbreak,
 
We have done terribly in Brirtain. More people died today in the UK than died in the whole of the Covid outbreak in Vietnam. Viernam is poorer than us. has a bigger populaltion than us and is a lot nearer the original outbreak,
The government have been awful, no doubt.
I think we have to be careful comparing numbers 'reported' by other countries though, especially specifics. I think it's easy to see how some governments have suppressed the amount of deaths in their countries for selfish political purposes and others have quite probably not got the the infrastructure to keep the tallies anywhere near accurate.
 
The most selfish idiot of them all

The man who went to a hospital bragged about shaking hands with everyone and ended up in intensive care,


Whe his sidekick clearly broke the laws several times instead of making an example of him he showed that there was one rule for Johnson and his posh clique and another for the rest of us.

During the war the Royal Family made a big display that they too were limiting the amount of water in their bath and having rations. It was probably untrue, but it had a effect on morale. Ivor Novello who drove around in a Rolls Royce was prosecuted,

The rules are so complicated Johnson doesn't know what they are.

So don't blame us for not keeping his endless changes his terrible communicating, changing the rules at a moment's notice via a tweet or a leak to the SUYn instead of decent open communications

We have done terribly in Brirtain. More people died today in the UK than died in the whole of the Covid outbreak in Vietnam. Viernam is poorer than us. has a bigger populaltion than us and is a lot nearer the original outbreak,

Make up your mind.
 
The most selfish idiot of them all

The man who went to a hospital bragged about shaking hands with everyone and ended up in intensive care,

Whe his sidekick clearly broke the laws several times instead of making an example of him he showed that there was one rule for Johnson and his posh clique and another for the rest of us.

During the war the Royal Family made a big display that they too were limiting the amount of water in their bath and having rations. It was probably untrue, but it had a effect on morale. Ivor Novello who drove around in a Rolls Royce was prosecuted,

The rules are so complicated Johnson doesn't know what they are.

So don't blame us for not keeping his endless changes his terrible communicating, changing the rules at a moment's notice via a tweet or a leak to the SUYn instead of decent open communications

We have done terribly in Brirtain. More people died today in the UK than died in the whole of the Covid outbreak in Vietnam. Viernam is poorer than us. has a bigger populaltion than us and is a lot nearer the original outbreak,
The rules and restrictions are as simple or as confusing as people want them to be. That’s my opinion. You travel back to England from abroad, follow the quarantine rules applicable in England. Not Scotland. Or Wales...You live in the North East? Follow the local restrictions and rules applicable to the North East. Not Manchester. Or Cardiff.. unless, of course, they happen to be the same.

As for Vietnam, it’s a beautiful country with an interesting past, but I’m sceptical about their claimed infection and mortality rates and as we know, comparisons with other countries is unreliable at times. That’s my opinion, and it’s based on my time there in the past. Not to say the UK Govt hasn’t made mistakes though.
 
The UK reported 71 deaths today.
Vietnam (with a larger population and a border with China has reported 35 deaths in total since Covid-19 was discovered.



I can see the usual suspects are blaming young people rather than a moronic government that kept changing the regulations - so that even the Prime Minister doesn't know what they are- launched daft schelem like eat out to help out with the Chancellor opf the Exchequer serving up meals without a mask and protected the Prime Minister's chief advisor when he behaved as though the regulations didn't apply to him.

Many have been saying for months that teaching online only until Christmas, or starting term in January would have made far more sense than moving a million young people around the country and then putting them in rabbit hutches-. Campuses are less full- so that social distancing can be maintained. Student dorms aren;t

Eat out to help out was a daft scheme................ unless you are running a restaurant or the like I suppose?

Vietnam? They`ll just bury granny in the rural village, she won`t get counted.

And this would have gone down well in the UK.....
Vietnam closed its borders to all travellers except returning citizens as early as March.... no problem with that myself.
It quarantined and tested anyone who entered the country in government facilities.... the frothers on here would call them concentration camps.
They also conducted not optional contact-tracing and testing nationwide... not optional... would you like that?
 
The government have been awful, no doubt.
This government more than any in living memory is the worst equipped to deal with this pandemic. A limelight seeking lazy leader, who picked a cabinet that would not challenge his position, full of ministers out of their depth that has been further exacerbated by the removal of parliamentary scrutiny. Many of the policies are half baked and I'll conceived, it is really ironic that Teresa May would have lead the country far better through a pandemic if only because of her attention to detail. At the end of the day we cannot complain because we voted him in with that majority.
Looking deeper it shows the mess that the UK is in, that the 2 best politicians were Johnson and Corbyn and we the masses simply accept the inevitability of political incompetence.
 
You're arguing with yourself mate "the frothers on here"

I think testing for a disease and contact would make perfect sense.

Eat out to help out was good if you were running a restaurant. not if you were trying to stop a pandemic.

If you are running a scheme like that why are the publicity photographs all showing Sunak NOT WEARING A MASK?
then you say therules are clear to everyone.

.... Especially as half of them only got in because they didn't actually have to take their A-level exams and were just given the optimistic grades their teachers gave them.

How amusing. Why does everyone above forty in this country seem to hate the yound.

What a lack of humour and irony you have.
What's amusing about calling people "work shy soap dodging lefty snowflakes studying pish subjects?" It just means like most bullies you can insult people and then pretend it was a joke if someone calls you out on it.
 
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