To be pissed off because the university in my city is totally skewing the Covid figures?

[Destinysdaughter]

The city I live in has currently got 175 cases per 100k, which is high. However I checked the numbers for the different wards throughout the city, mine is 6, the others aren't much higher, but the area where the ( campus, on the outskirts of the city ) Uni is, is 175. I'm worried that, because of that, the whole city is going to go into stricter measures. I read today in the DM that our numbers are higher than London, which will have the stricter measures applied, so why weren't we. But it's NOT the whole of the city?

Pissed off!

Is it Manchester? I believe the argument you’re making is the same one that Andy Burnam is using to try to avoid it

But students are part of the city. They go outside in the same places non students do, and are in contact with teachers and support staff and cleaners and catering staff who work all over the city, and go in the same shops and buses and parks and pubs as everyone else.

I suspect it's also one of the reasons for shutting pubs across the central belt in Scotland. Keeps students out of them for a few weeks. Numbers do seem to be flattening out in places where students have been back a few weeks.

I live in a city with two universities.

They are part of the city. We don’t complain about the jobs they create, and the money they spend in the local economy. Can’t complain about them now

I think it’s recognised by the decision makers. I’m assuming that’s why Nottingham & Newcastle aren’t going into tier 3, because the cases at the moment, although high, are contained. Are you Exeter? That looks like a clear uni-only spike. Cross fingers it stays that way.

I wish the powers that be had taken this more seriously in Nottingham. Far from staying localised in the university areas, numbers are spreading very very rapidly throughout the city and out into the county. The chances for damping the spread down have long since passed and the consequences locally will be heavy for many.

*I live in a city with two universities.

They are part of the city. We don’t complain about the jobs they create, and the money they spend in the local economy. Can’t complain about them now*

I agree.

I live in a city with 4 universities. They and the students are a big part of our community.
We can't start separating out groups of people.
A dangerous road.

The spread is not contained in Nottingham. Pretty sure we were going to go to Tier 3 today, the government arranged an emergency meeting with local MPs this afternoon, but they've had to delay it because they forgot to invite the council.

How inept can you get?

Why do you think the city will move to a higher tier? Coventry and Oxford are two cities in this sort of situation, and (whatever the DM says) they look pretty much set to stay in Tier 1 unless the outbreaks spread beyond the areas where the universities are. It's a completely different situation to London.

Meh I live in a small university city it is absolutely rife in the secondary schools, the uni figures are much lower...

Ah, sorry to hear that about Nottingham 🙁