Why would anyone behave like this? Liverpool partying scenes

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www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/14/covid-liverpool-mayor-says-partying-crowds-shame-city

Because they are young and have had a crap year so far and the future is looking pretty bleak.

Eat, drink and be merry.

Good luck to them.

Because they are twats.

HTH.

They’re just normal young people acting just like normal young people do and they’re having to pay a much heavier price than older people like me

This.

We can’t act all surprised when human beings act like human beings.

Prepare to see a lot more of this until the government get considerably better at their strategy and messaging.

Because at weekend they will have to pay 5.00 or so to go o the train to Wigan or Chester to party.

Have you seen the photos of Soho? Interesting how they aren't being splashed across the papers.

@CurbsideProphet

Have you seen the photos of Soho? Interesting how they aren't being splashed across the papers.

Not really all that interesting, is it? Liverpool is splashed everywhere because it’s in the highest tier. Soho isn’t.

Those folk are twats too, mind.

Because they're pissed off with the new rules and see the police as an extension of the government? Wait until they put us all back into lockdown and I think you'll see similar scenes everywhere. I've had enough. Feel like starting a riot myself at times.

They’re just normal young people acting just like normal young people do and they’re having to pay a much heavier price than older people like me

This. I’m quite pleased some younger people are realising what they’re losing and kicking back a bit. We can’t expect the young to act like altruistic automatons indefinitely.

The majority of us are fed up but we don’t all go out without social distancing, London or Liverpool.

If you're the sort of person who immediately brands the behaviour stupid of selfish, then you evidently lack brain power.

It's quite clear why people are behaving like this.

Maybe they believe life is for living?! Perhaps they don't think cutting themselves off from everyone forever is the best response to what is objectively, only a moderately dangerous illness?

@RuffleCrow

Maybe they believe life is for living?! Perhaps they don't think cutting themselves off from everyone forever is the best response to what is objectively, only a moderately dangerous illness?

This.

They are idiots - irrelevant as to where they are from. Students/young adults have not had a worse lockdown than any other generation.

Because it takes a few days for any restrictions to come into play. Because all bars throw everyone out at 10pm. B cause they are young and have paid such a heavy price already. Because most of them have been locked away in their student rooms and paying a fortune for the privilege. Because they have had enough.
Many reasons why I should imagine if you asked them.

This made me quite angry. This is why we are in tier 3.

Almost everyone I see and deal with wear masks and take all precautions so I am quite pissed off about the whole thing

So long as they keep it amongst themselves. No visiting nan.

We did have BLM demos and full beaches earlier in the year.

Just keep our fingers crossed again.

Inevitable that the media would be out in force last night looking for such scenes. I watched the ITV 10pm news and the reporter was in a virtually empty street and acknowledged that whilst there had been fears that thousands would congregate in the city centre this had not materialised. As far as I could see the only scenes filmed of disturbances were in Concert Square, an area of the city which most Liverpool people would never frequent but which is popular with students, stag and hen parties(although obviously not last night) and people from outside the city coming in for nights out.Liverpool has a population of over 550,000, the scenes last night appeared to involve a couple of hundred people - a tiny percentage so whilst regrettable I am sick of our elected representatives doing a hatchet job on the city to the delight of the right wing press and Government by referring to the ‘shaming’ of the city whilst failing to acknowledge that the overwhelming majority of Liverpool residents continue to abide by increasingly draconian regulations .

Because they're fucking fed up and people like you banging on about them being 'selfish' doesn't bother them one bit. Not everyone sees this situation the same way!

Lazy OP, Why do you think?

Yup.

@LaurieFairyCake

Because they're young 🤷‍♀️ and young people never think they're going to get ill or die

And maybe they don't mix with people at risk

They’re right. They have an absolutely minuscule chance of dying from covid. More chance of being knocked down by a bus and killed on their way home. They know this and are living their lives accordingly.

Do you really not know ?

@Ohthatsgreat

Funny people playing cricket on the streets of Peckham didn’t come in for the same vitriol

Well said. Liverpool has been the punchbag of the Tories for generations. There's a thread with a poster talking about an outside event with 2000 people planned for her area but as it sounded like a leafy village they won't get shamed either I expect.

Half the country refuses to wear masks and about half of MN is already saying it won't respect the new rules. I've seen some of the same people mouthing off about obligatory masks, rules of 6 and yet slagging off Liverpool. Ironic.

Because they think that critical care capacity currently at 80-90% in Liverpool won't pose a problem. Judging by some PPs, they aren't the only ones. If you are hypo-empathic, life's for the living (until someone you care about dies or has long COVID or there's no space in ITU or the O2 runs low).

Another Goady Covid post, how about asking DC if his trip up North was worth it considering he caused everyone to ignore the rules and follow?