How is that a generalisation? It's the real world. The world of looking after and protecting our senior citizens....this particular one at 92 years old was still raising money for her local community. So no, there was no generalisation there bud.
At least no more than your ridiculous defence of a student culture that many of us on here have experienced and therefore are qualified to commemt on the fact, fact, that for many, not all...it's all about the social.
My mother in law died in hospital in july aged 91, nothing to do with Covid, but she had a greatly reduced access to visitors and only a handful of mourners at her funeral. As a family we didn't generally blame those circumstances on the younger generation. You might choose to. We don't.
A few people here smoking crack of a Saturday night .. It’s always the governments fault .boring boring boring ... The pubs are packed as I write this ..I drove past two with at least 60 people queued outside waiting to be let in to socially distant drinking while huddled outside ..
Which again is the point being missed, why take the risk of letting it happen, when the university year could easily have been deferred until the spike in cases has been assessed and managed?
This. They are stuck between a rock and a hard place - go to Uni and have a sub par experience/get shut in your flat like a bunch of criminals. Or defer and go and sign on with the millions of others who can't find work. We were all young and sometimes irresponsible once. Given the severity of the disease in their age group I can see why many of them aren't particularly worried.
Well I drove along the whole length of Camden High Street at about 3pm this afternoon, past the market and the lock. Apparently social distancing doesn’t apply in trendy parts of London. We’re doomed.
But they aren't the only ones suffering... they don't deserve any special treatment or any special sympathies. Each and every one of us is suffering in some way. It's a pandemic. It's a PITA. Therefore we ALL have to do our bit. I'm just glad we're not under threat from an invading enemy force.... We would be screwed... Big time!
Did you not see the result of the GCSE and A level debacle. Hundreds of young people who's 'lives were over' because they had estimated grades rather than having had the opportunity to endure the real stress and pressure of the emotional fight for a place at college based on their ability to perform for an hour and a half in an exam hall. So we can argue until the cows come home about deferment, but I'm guessing having seen some of the emotional angst reported, that the decision not to defer was in the interest of keeping teenage suicide figures under control. In the same way that many working tax payers are having to resume difficult and challenging roles and are scared and worried for their financial and health futures. Who knows what the right decision will be, only future historians will debate that. The point is that we all have a responsibility to contribute to society and stop *****ing moaning about what we have currently no control over.
You've walked away from university places several times? Not a very responsible attitude really. From my experience of a son spending the last four years at the University of Sussex, getting into halls for the first year had to be done well in advance and getting private accommodation thereafter needed to be arranged by the previous Christmas to avoid being in a hoval, with me as a guarantor to the tenancy and payer of a substantial deposit.
Never do anything in advance, plenty of people drop out in the first month and plenty before, just gotta have big nuts and yes several times , uni was fun , got plenty of qualifications and lots of experiences more important ironically following the government guidelines for universities etc doesn’t work best
