Whether at Uni or at home most would be out on the razz in some format, even with closed pubs

It's too late now, the horse bolted from the stable 6 weeks ago
Freshers week is one of the highlights of any students time at uni, meeting lots of NEW people and getting to know housemates etc.
Circa 2,000,000 young people moving house, into new areas and partying hard.

It's difficult to imagine a better "hot bed" for a virus spreading than these circumstances.

Now, having encouraged all students to return and with virus numbers rapidly increasing, the students are left, isolated to their accommodation and working on line.

The alternative was to delay or stagger their move to (or back to) Uni and tell them to study on line, until they could return.

The rocket scientist in me, still thinks the latter of these options would have been better for the students and better for the locals in the area where they were moving to.

WTF were those "in charge" actually thinking, it beggars belief and now, EVERYONE is facing much stricter rules and a further lockdown, foe all of us seems inevitable.

Last week over 2000 students alone diagnosed with Covid in Newcastle

This week the number of students in Durham went up from 200 new cases to 1000 cases.

On;y an idiot could have seen that not coming

Aye the same idiot who doesn’t want kids from poorer families to be fed.

Is there a stronger version that cba with young adults and instead only targets the over 50s?

Surely if they are only infecting each other then its a good thing if the incidence of re-infection is miniscule - herd immunity?

Most of these have mild or no symptoms at all

This. How many of these students have died? None. What a surprise!

Better to get it now rather than in December when they will going home and sending Granny to Dignitas!!

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Fortunate then that they are only infecting each other. Could bee that they only hVe student virus which only affects other students.

I guess the security guards cleaners lecturers and shop workers all got a different strain of non student Covid

Last April/May you were telling me your parents wouldn't if they died as long as the young people carried on and it was good for the economy.

Then again, as long as Granny has the power of positivity I'm sure she will be ok?

Not to mention parents or grandparents who they will return to and who may just want to see their family at some point.
Maybe we should put barbed wire and a few land mines around each Uni, to keep the students safe. After all, they're already locked in their cells, sorry, I mean bedrooms.

Doubt there will be many cleaners in student accomodation - nor many shop workers?

There are some cleaners, which depends on how much students are paying for their hall of residence. There won't be any shop workers as such, but stuff is being delivered to students who are self isolating. Cannot tell you who by, though.

There may well be some logic to that happening. The Christmas holidays aren't going to be an easy relaxing time for folk due to many different reasons.

The world has certainly changed since my youth and that of my children - they certainly would have developed immunity to most things given their living arrangements

Within a month most students will have been exposed to the virus and with not be able to pass it on - let them crack on. Rates in Leeds are already on the decline