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so does anyone know how this 40 million will be dished out?

Ginger, I have mate, I know some of them

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comment by JFK - The Rebel Treble (U8919)
posted 1 minute ago
so does anyone know how this 40 million will be dished out?
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Give it to me. Ill sort it out no bother.

comment by JFK - The Rebel Treble (U8919)
posted 1 minute ago
universities going back is an odd one. some classes i understand but others could easily be done at home or zoom.

i done my degree with open uni and it took me 6 years and i got one tutorial a month, the rest was me following the coursework.


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What?

An entire year of students paying tens of thousands of pounds to be stuck on their own in a tiny room and guarded with no contact and can’t be fed or clean properly for two weeks?

I mean, what was unforeseen in all of this?

Absolute mayhem and a complete lack of thought yet again. It’s quite apparent that these individuals who are dictating our every movement and criminalising what they don’t like are completely incapable of thinking through any consequences of their ridiculous actions.

Does anyone actually read any news on the affects of this or do they just console themselves with the continual media hysterics on what this virus is doing nor even worse; they imagine will do?

Not one person who supports this has given any notion as to when even they’d say enough is enough. When will the real cost be too much?

FFS 17/18 year olds were sent to war. These are asked to sit in their house playing Playstation or watch Netflix and from what I can see a huge amount are incapable.
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Aren't wars played out on monitors these days?

Anyway, as always, it is SOME students, not all.

Furthermore, I have bigger worries right now with the behaviour of over 80s that are in the fck it phase of their lives. Two of them off today for a jaunt in England where groups of 15 are still allowed. Packed in a coach, going to indoor events. Madness. Let's not forget the selfish olds as well. Unfair to automatically bracket one age group.

The BIG issue with students is the unis having next to zero plan and next to zero resources to contain the inevitable. Failures of successive governments as well as the institutions themselves.

comment by BB⁷ (U13430)
posted 3 minutes ago
Ginger, I have mate, I know some of them
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You’re probably one of them

comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 59 seconds ago
comment by BB⁷ (U13430)
posted 3 minutes ago
Ginger, I have mate, I know some of them
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You’re probably one of them
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I'm spartacus!

i dont think they should be in the dorms mate and thst costs should reflect that

comment by JFK - The Rebel Treble (U8919)
posted 7 minutes ago
so does anyone know how this 40 million will be dished out?
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Wee Nic will keep it in her handbag and give you a right good telling off before tossing a morsel.

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Just a wee question.

When we’ve done this latest set of rules and the numbers don’t come down or more likely increase to a degree; what do people want then?

And more importantly for how long?

Harder lockdown until March maybe? And then what do they expect as an outcome?

Will we see a government actually set out the lives saved and the cost involved against the lives lost and the economy damage at certain time intervals so the country can make a tough but necessary choice?

comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
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comment by BB⁷ (U13430)
posted 3 minutes ago
Ginger, I have mate, I know some of them
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You’re probably one of them
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I have the odd mate to the house here and there for a few beers but apart from that ive lived like a saint through all this

Silver, agreed totally, I guess it comes back to what I was saying earlier about selfish people in general

comment by JFK - The Rebel Treble (U8919)
posted 3 minutes ago
i dont think they should be in the dorms mate and thst costs should reflect that
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Ok. So they’re stuck at home and expected to remain indoors and not to socialise with anyone outside their own household. And their education (an entire year) is set back a year at least.

My opinion

We're not going to suppress the vaccine through social distancing but herd immunity is a pipedream without a periodically updated vaccine

Any measures put in place are to prevent the health service getting overwhelmed
.. they just won't tell us that

We'll know it's a big deal when Tesco run out of toilet paper

Anyway. Enough for me tonight.

Take care all

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 18 seconds ago
My opinion

We're not going to suppress the vaccine through social distancing but herd immunity is a pipedream without a periodically updated vaccine

Any measures put in place are to prevent the health service getting overwhelmed
.. they just won't tell us that

We'll know it's a big deal when Tesco run out of toilet paper
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The health service was nowhere near capacity at the very worst of this and is now dysfunctional and a place of fear for millions.

The countries who have suffered many deaths from Covid are witnessing a huge reduction in deaths from flu in their “season”. One has taken the lives of the elderly and unwell before the other might have.

Great

Will we see a government actually set out the lives saved and the cost involved against the lives lost and the economy damage at certain time intervals so the country can make a tough but necessary choice?


What a very Tory question

Night pal

comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by JFK - The Rebel Treble (U8919)
posted 3 minutes ago
i dont think they should be in the dorms mate and thst costs should reflect that
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Ok. So they’re stuck at home and expected to remain indoors and not to socialise with anyone outside their own household. And their education (an entire year) is set back a year at least.

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no, they do what i did.

i worked a full time job and volunteered at weekends as well ffs i think they will cope.

My brother in law is a lecturer in a catering college, culinary arts and food technology. He told me this year they had to "consider all applicants" as they had their lowest ever number of applicants in the colleges 75 year history. And all lectures will be online for the coming year.

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comment by JFK - The Rebel Treble (U8919)
posted 5 minutes ago
i dont think they should be in the dorms mate and thst costs should reflect that
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Where would they be if not in dorms? Hotels? Not enough hotel rooms before we even discuss costs. FFS, in StA there's more students than residents so there's not even enough houses if the uni were to buy every house in the town!

Vast majority of 'dorms' these days are en-suite rooms maybe 6 to a flat with common kitchen / living space. These 6 will be in a bubble. That is not the 'issue'. The 'issue' is meeting outside the bubble which was always inevitable and the unis were not geared to deal with that inevitable.

FFS young people, away from home, 25% for the first time - where is the care? Know one lassie was put in a bubble with one that never showed up, one sherman that was quarantining, one in full hijab, one that never came out their room and she doesn't know why and one unallocated. WTF was she meant to do - not see anyone for first 2 weeks?

comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 13 minutes ago
My opinion

We're not going to suppress the vaccine through social distancing but herd immunity is a pipedream without a periodically updated vaccine

Any measures put in place are to prevent the health service getting overwhelmed
.. they just won't tell us that

We'll know it's a big deal when Tesco run out of toilet paper
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Or beer

comment by BB⁷ (U13430)
posted 3 minutes ago
My brother in law is a lecturer in a catering college, culinary arts and food technology. He told me this year they had to "consider all applicants" as they had their lowest ever number of applicants in the colleges 75 year history. And all lectures will be online for the coming year.
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