Should I report these students?

[OhBrar]

There's two massive student parties going on on the street next to me - music, lights, booze, noise etc. I'm not massively anti student but they do make living here more expensive and when they all came back our infection rate went through the roof while they were all whining about their freedoms and infecting the rest of us going to necessary work.

I've never grassed anyone up before but students as a cohort have not been good for our town in lockdown. Wibu to tip the police off?

[Greyhair59]

Well if you all wear masks and social distance and wash your hands the dear leader says all ok!!

[LAgeDeRaisin]

The police can 'get the facts straight'. The OP is just reporting a party.

[FromThe70s]

The more of them that catch covid the better so they will get immunity

No, this is not how it works. Also, please read up on long covid. GP here, FWIW.

[ArranBound]

You did the right thing, OP. The police can decide if they are doing anything wrong and what happens from there.

[WinWinnieTheWay]

Op, did you go to university? Did you realise you were living in a student area when you bought?

I wouldn't like to live in a student area - so I don't. It's harder on them than it is on the rest of us. Younger people debt cope with loneliness well.

[LAgeDeRaisin]

@FromThe70s thank you

Incredible people are still peddling this.

[WinWinnieTheWay]

And I say all that with the most annoying of neighbours who let their kids make a racket every Saturday of summer.

[Greyhair59]

"People previously infected with Covid 19 are "highly unlikely " to contract the illness again for at least 6 months" according to Oxford University.

[Awwlookatmybabyspider]

I wouldn't report them personally. I've had my younger years (as have you lot) Its hardly the Crime of the Century is it. Do you not think the Police have bigger things to worry about ie catching Rapists Paedophiles and Murderers ect ect.

[SchrodingersImmigrant]

Uni had a right to know. These students will then go and mix in others in the halls if they live in halls or uni if they have some f2f. One party can result in many isolating and it's not fun to isolate in halls or a sharedhouse when you've done nothing wrong, but someone reckless brought it in.

[pjmask]

@FromThe70s as a GP you must be aware of how much misinformation there is online when you suggest to non-medical professionals to just "read up" on long Covid. Could you link us to a reputable source or article? I have seen a wide range of theories bandied about online suggesting long Covid is no different or more likely than any other post viral fatigue that wasn't on anyone's radar before and I'd love to understand it better

[OhBrar]

@WinWinnieTheWay I didn't buy. I got moved here homeless with my kids and have worked and paid rent on my flat ever since.

And even if I'd bought, I wouldn't be wanting to be around people having parties in lockdown and then getting on the bus with those same people 48 hours later. Lockdown isolation is hard for everyone and I get that. I haven't seen my own mum since March and it's been hard working and trying to take care of my kids, but I've always tried to avoid doing things that mean cases rise locally and have simultaneously been shit scared of going out to work on the bus every day and wondering if today is the day I'll catch it.

[ItsAlwaysSunnyOnMN]

I personally wouldn’t

But you feel it was the right thing to do

[MrMeSeeks]

People previously infected with Covid 19 are "highly unlikely " to contract the illness again for at least 6 months" according to Oxford University.

Except not ALL get antibodies, and fuck all the people these people may spread it too hey?

[SamsMumsCateracts]

My sister in Law caught it at the beginning of April (nurse). She was part of a national antibody study. Despite being very ill, she did not develop antibodies and is now ill with it again, tested positive yesterday. These students catching it now might not become immune and in the meantime spread it to everyone around them, the supermarket worker who passes it on to his vulnerable relative. The bus driver who is vulnerable, the doctor who infects her family etc etc.

[Quarks69]

Ohbrar, I am guessing your children are still young. To answer your question you should ask yourself what if they were my children.

I find your blaming students for the towns covid rate unfair. Did you blame all those elderly folk in the first lockdown. Of course not.

The latest medical report says asymptomatic people do NOT spread Covid. It’s still the care homes and hospitals that are the main point of contact for spreaders.

[BullshitVivienne]

@Awwlookatmybabyspider

I wouldn't report them personally. I've had my younger years (as have you lot) Its hardly the Crime of the Century is it. Do you not think the Police have bigger things to worry about ie catching Rapists Paedophiles and Murderers ect ect.

I know things are stretched in the public sector but did I miss the rule that we should only contact the police for sexual offences against children and murders?

Great, I'll be round yours soon to nick your valuables and see if you practice what you preach.

[OhBrar]

@Quarks69, not at all young: my eldest is 15. He has a half sister in her 20s. They've both been hard hit by losing a family member to covid and not being able to go to the funeral and both me and their dad are working out of home so it feels close, not abstract. It was actually ds who said, should we be telling someone about this. He's lost people to this. I have too.

[OhBrar]

It's not that I wanted people to get bollocked: it's that I don't want this spreading. I've lost people far too young over the last few months to this disease and I don't want to get it myself or other people around me to get it. Ds himself was designated vulnerable first time round, now apparently not, but I dunno, I have to keep going to work, he has to keep going to school, everyone in our community has to keep doing the things we need to do and we're trying to stay safe but these people from out of town are having parties.

[Awwlookatmybabyspider]

"Its not that I wanted people to get bollocked"

A bollocking will be the least of their worries. They'll probably be looking at a hefty fine.

[TalkingToMyselfAndFeelingOld]

I just knew this would be a covid snitching one!

Actually if in were in your shoes I think I'd report them too. someone shopping for non essentials in the aupermarket? Nope. But a student party? Yes I think I would report.

[TalkingToMyselfAndFeelingOld]

@Awwlookatmybabyspider

"Its not that I wanted people to get bollocked"

A bollocking will be the least of their worries. They'll probably be looking at a hefty fine.

And I hope.so too!

Twats.

[Awwlookatmybabyspider]

They're young people getting together having a party. Its hardly akin to punching puppies and kicking kittens is it. I think calling them twats is a tad over board. Like I said you've all had your younger party days.

[thosetalesofunexpected]

Hi Op if it was just a couple or a few people only 6 in a bubble it be kinda of ok, at this party, I would say don't report,
But if its bigg party thing of course you should report it to the relevant parties and their university which ever one it is.

You are obvious protecting lives ,

You are not a spoil sport killjoy or a boring fart,

You know and I know this this,
Just do the right thing report it.

[TalkingToMyselfAndFeelingOld]

@Awwlookatmybabyspider

They're young people getting together having a party. Its hardly akin to punching puppies and kicking kittens is it. I think calling them twats is a tad over board. Like I said you've all had your younger party days.

Not during a pandemic we didn't

I am not saying they should be hung drawn and quartered. But we aren't talking about the same youthful hi jinks we all did in our uni daya. Because there wasn't covid then.
1919 second wave of Spanish flu was the last ti me we.saw a serious pandemic globally