09-27-2020, 04:33 PM
(09-27-2020, 03:46 PM)baggy1 Wrote: Now it's not going to be a surprise to anyone that students will party and get together in big groups when they go to Uni, especially for freshers week, so I'm not certain why it's a big surprise that the virus has been able to spread amongst them. However, there seems to be a lack of detail about how it's affecting them, are they collapsing with the illness, or are they lying in bed with, what we used to call, freshers flu?
If it's the latter then why are they locking them into halls, this isn't a new phenomenon at this time of year, so why aren't they being treated as some form of bubble that needs to be contained whilst they go about their learning. If the virus is behaving as it has done the serious effects of this for that age group will be flu-like without being life-threatening.
Once again the government have done something without thinking through the options and are now having to react to it. They really are fucking imbeciles.
If there is no real threat to the age group and the lecturers / staff can be protected then they should be allowed to carry on. When it comes to returning home for Christmas, start the testing mid-November, tell the students to go into a form of lockdown and let them go home when they have had two negative tests two weeks apart.
That's too logical for this government!