Indeed.
Some seem to have no grasp of just how a virus spreads.
Just because children and young adults aren't keeling over as a result of coming into contact doesn't mean that the rest of the population wont catch the thing themselves.
The whole situation is turning to farce.
How can people no longer be able to see their own family members but can now drop their kids with other families for formal and informal childcare.
There was an interesting interview on Look North with the Leader of Leeds council, who struggled to answer half of the questions put to her, that were sent in by members of the public.

Not a fiasco but close to fraud. Deliberately encouraging them back when it was obvious there would be a spike and online teaching. Just to help fund the universities and their research and to give the landlords cash.

It's a travesty, it really is.
Some of the poor lambs are even getting 'junk' food delivered to them during quarantine.

Well, it depends on what sort of accommodation they have paid for.
Back in the day, all students had to fend for themselves, cooking, eating, shopping etc

However, these days there is a "catered for" option, for those students who cant or dont want to do these things.

Now, if you've paid for a decent meal or two everyday and someone drops off crisps and kit kats at your door, you are most definitely being short changed.
Having said that, a balanced diet for most students is beer, pizza, beer and kebabs or, when looking after themselves, copious amounts of pasta..

It would be a bit like buying a season ticket to watch FC and then being forced to watch KR instead.
Some may be ok with that but, others wouldn't be very happy

“I see no problem. The larvae flourish when confined to their hexagonal pods.” - Dominic Cummings

No longer exists because of Corona or, knocked on the head before then.
I realise that canteens etc cant open as they did. However, is the "catered for" option no longer "sold" by the Uni's

As I said, close to fraud. The leaked SAGE minutes show that they were saying all lectures at least for the first term should be online/distance learning. Students sold a dummy (although, arguably,they can’t be bright enough to be at a proper university they could not see that).

The Universities, heavily in the ear of our Government are largely to blame here.
Not wanting to be put in a position where they may need to think about any refunds for accommodation, they willfully and determinedly encouraged all students to attend.
No staggered or later starts and look at the bloody mess.
The utter bilge and nonsense about "missing freshers" was ridiculous and this AGAIN falls directly at the feet of our Government.

It's a good job they arent sorting our the brewery trip

It’s not just the university lobby it’s the buy-to-let in university cities lobby .

Knocked on the head beforehand.

Having looked a little further into this, fully catered options are still being "sold" at a number of Uni's, with the main aspect being a full "dinner" each day.
Therefore, back to my earlier point, if you have paid for lunch and dinner and are then given "snacks" instead, surely you are being short changed ?
I relaise that, amongst the myriad of issues that the kids and Uni's are trying to deal with including not being able to run the canteen's etc, looking after those on the "gold accommodation package" will be well down the list but, they certainly aren't getting what they paid for.

It seems clear that there should have been a delay to the start of the year, with on line working (probably from home) being a far more sensible option and then perhaps the virus numbers, particularly amongst the 18 - 25's may not have spiked.

It also appears that this was suggested but, dismissed by those "in charge" and now we have much tighter restrictions for all.

Great work again Bojo.

It was never a thing back in the day and wasn't available for my eldest but, some of the "better" Uni's were certainly offering it when my lad went.
Personally, I thought that the "looking after yourself" was one of the main "tests" for getting through and I was amazed to see the "fully catered for" option.
Some would say that we are indeed too soft on the kids today and whilst I can see the advantage for anyone that has "issues", it didn't quite sit right.
Again, some of the places had en suite facilities akin to a decent hotel, a long way remove from the perceived student accommodation that we all hear so much about.

The obvious thing to do is shut the universities making the students work from home and see the impact this has on the figures for certain areas. I would guess the majority will be no worse off because at least they would no longer be locked in.