Why so much fuss about Covid19 effecting University Students relative to people doing a days work?

[Pilatus]

As above. Surely a lot of people working close together are just as vulnerable to catching Covid19 as students, yet they are not mentioned on the media.
Students are not keeping the economy turning over, where as those people working close together in shops, factories, warehouses etc etc are, so why all the hype bias towards hard done by university students??

 

[kiwi pom]

I don't know, perhaps they're easy targets?
They certainly ARE helping to keep the economy turning over though. Education's an industry and the fact that students are out and about spending money rather than hiding in their rooms at their parents house is helping the economy.

 

[br jones]

As above. Surely a lot of people working close together are just as vulnerable to catching Covid19 as students, yet they are not mentioned on the media.
Students are not keeping the economy turning over, where as those people working close together in shops, factories, warehouses etc etc are, so why all the hype bias towards hard done by university students??

Maybe they are taking more care not to spread ? By not mixing too much in social groups, wearing masks?

 

[Ncap]

And because they are a lot nicer than the rest of us!

 

[yin ewe]

As above. Surely a lot of people working close together are just as vulnerable to catching Covid19 as students, yet they are not mentioned on the media.
Students are not keeping the economy turning over, where as those people working close together in shops, factories, warehouses etc etc are, so why all the hype bias towards hard done by university students??

The media have already done the hype around workers on production lines/ factories etc., now they have to move on to the next batch of hysteria. Don't worry there's another batch on the cooker simmering for next week.

 

[hel123]

Maybe because someone people see this as a slippery slope of dictatorship and have been comparing it to 1930s Germany but told they were being ridiculous.

I guess now after sealing off the student blocks hand putting up security fencing around the perimiter we are now one step further down this road of dictatorship as we now have our own enterment camps or gettho, how long will it be before some tested people or people who refuse to be tested or take a vaccine will be put in these camps?

Any way not to worry the officials are only following orders, seem to remember that argument didn't hold up in history not that long ago

 

[Henarar]

how long will it be before some tested people or people who refuse to be tested or take a vaccine will be put in these camps?

I don't know, how long do you think it will be ? you guess first and we will see who is closest

 

[Northernlights]

More to do with money .Well known that packing in any animal in large numbers into a small enclosed space is going to allow any disease to spread easily.Could easiily do all teaching online today with just a few days a month on practical work for most courses. Of course that would leave halls of residence empty and no funds coming in for the Universities who might then look to Government for grants or loans. Guess what the decision was, as younger people do not seem to get so ill but long term effects still unknown.

 

[hel123]

I don't know, how long do you think it will be ? you guess first and we will see who is closest

If they get there way with this mass testing and the covid app being updated and progressing to be a heath passport I think a couple of months after that.

 

[Henarar]

If they get there way with this mass testing and the covid app being updated and progressing to be a heath passport I think a couple of months after that.

A few if's and but's in there but we will see, I will guess that it won't happen

 

[Ashtree]

The media have already done the hype around workers on production lines/ factories etc., now they have to move on to the next batch of hysteria. Don't worry there's another batch on the cooker simmering for next week.

Ah FFS, food / chilled factories and production lines right around the globe, are incubation centres for Covid. In more ways than one, this system has been utterly exposed. Cheap migrant labour, more often than not packed like sardines into rented accommodation, no sick pay benefits, no social distance either at work or in their cramped accommodation. It’s been exposed right across the globe as an utter disgrace, what’s happening in this industry. The media deserve nothing but credit for writing about it.
I don’t know about NI, but here in ROI it’s an utter shambles. I just hope the authorities clamp down like ton of bricks. I won’t hold my breath though!

 

[7610 super q]

Naively, I thought universities were a place of learning, but it turns out it's just an organised rave. Therein lies the problem.

 

[Hindsight]

Naively, I thought universities were a place of learning, but it turns out it's just an organised rave. Therein lies the problem.

Both old fella, both. In the dim distant past I assume you as I were young - though judging by a few of your posts am never totally certain of that

Anyway, the Bah Humbug and with a bit of luck Cromwell (aka Boris Johnson and Dom Cummings) will soon by decree reintroduce the 1644 Act banning Xmas. And only right too.

Keep your pecker up. Oh and can you do something about the weather - somehow we have some unexpected rain here this morning and I rely on it all falling on Crapweathershire - you have let me down today.

Best wishes,

 

[7610 super q]

Both old fella, both. In the dim distant past I assume you as I were young - though judging by a few of your posts am never totally certain of that

Anyway, the Bah Humbug and with a bit of luck Cromwell (aka Boris Johnson and Dom Cummings) will soon by decree reintroduce the 1644 Act banning Xmas. And only right too.

Keep your pecker up. Oh and can you do something about the weather - somehow we have some unexpected rain here this morning and I rely on it all falling on Crapweathershire - you have let me down today.

Best wishes,

Rare dry day today in Crapweathershire thanks. Doesn't look like we'll see another one.
Bracing myself for a " Boris get's it wrong with universities " thread on here soon.
Be interesting to see what the armchair critics would do differently ? Cull all those over 50 maybe ?

 

[Ashtree]

Naively, I thought universities were a place of learning, but it turns out it's just an organised rave. Therein lies the problem.

I know plenty who spent 4 years or more in university, came out with a degree, but in reality hadn’t learned anything useful.

 

[caveman]

Follow the money.
Who holds all the mature loans of students?

 

[yin ewe]

Ah FFS, food / chilled factories and production lines right around the globe, are incubation centres for Covid. In more ways than one, this system has been utterly exposed. Cheap migrant labour, more often than not packed like sardines into rented accommodation, no sick pay benefits, no social distance either at work or in their cramped accommodation. It’s been exposed right across the globe as an utter disgrace, what’s happening in this industry. The media deserve nothing but credit for writing about it.
I don’t know about NI, but here in ROI it’s an utter shambles. I just hope the authorities clamp down like ton of bricks. I won’t hold my breath though!

Don't disagree with anything you say, but it was an utter disgrace long before covid hit yet it didn't get the same level of media coverage.

 

[Lowland1]

This is all the fault of the unprosecuted war criminal Tony Blair who devalued education by allowing any two bit polytechnic or agricultural college to become a University thus education became a business as opposed to a noble profession. Whereas once upon a time the elite were University educated and the rest got on and there was no stigma about not going to University now if you don’t have a degree even if it’s in home economics you are destined for a life asking ‘ Do you want fries with that?’. So basically the Universities need the students and their money but as we see now have zero respect for their students. Me I had three years at University learnt nothing that I use in my day to day life but wouldn’t have missed it for the world. What I will say about the youth of today is they are very well behaved as we would have burnt the place down by now.

 

[caveman]

This is all the fault of the unprosecuted war criminal Tony Blair who devalued education by allowing any two bit polytechnic or agricultural college to become a University thus education became a business as opposed to a noble profession. Whereas once upon a time the elite were University educated and the rest got on and there was no stigma about not going to University now if you don’t have a degree even if it’s in home economics you are destined for a life asking ‘ Do you want fries with that?’. So basically the Universities need the students and their money but as we see now have zero respect for their students. Me I had three years at University learnt nothing that I use in my day to day life but wouldn’t have missed it for the world. What I will say about the youth of today is they are very well behaved as we would have burnt the place down by now.

Those with a degree ask... "Is that a meal"?
But they are easily fooked when you say "No, but I want a flurry and a latte too".

 

[arcobob]

Naively, I thought universities were a place of learning, but it turns out it's just an organised rave. Therein lies the problem.

You`re not far wrong. It always was in my time though drugs never featured at my college. Students went off the rails when national service was abolished and the average age of students dropped by four years. I saw it happen in the early sixties and the effect was quite dramatic. The schools seem to have it fairly well under control but they are children behaving as children with some discipline applied. The Universities and colleges are full of exuberant youths, fuelled with drugs and booze with no firm guidance. It is not the fault of the education establishments but the animals inside. We had similar checks in the early sixties called glandular fever. Few of us escaped.
If you believe statistics 43% of current victims are between the ages of 15 and 19. I would wager that most of those are near the top end of that age range.