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

Am a bit puzzled by the 'stop picking on Liverpool' given Liverpool is in the highest tier and it's presumably Liverpudlians who will be affected when the infection rate continues to rise and there's no ITU capacity or electives get cancelled or family members get shipped a long way away for treatment or patients get shipped from acute to care homes.

@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?

Agree. Good for them.

@TempsPerdu

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.

This! Why is it shocking to some people that humans won't live their life avoiding social interactions with no end date?

@DesdemonaDryEyes

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.

Throwing drinks at police cars?

Sorry but I find their behaviour rebarbative.

They may think covid won't affect them, they may be right, but the consequences of exponential growth of the virus will affect them. This isn't just about them protecting others.

I missed the but about young people being asked to cut themselves off from everyone forever. Away from the university of hyperbole, that's not been my experience.

Utter wankers. Liverpool ITUs already stuffed to the rafters with covid patients and these desperately ignorant ADULTS thought this was the right thing to do. Honestly as someone working in the NHS and off sick with covid at the moment it's makes me want to cry.

SD should become the law then fines and criminal records issued for scenes like this. Maybe they won’t want their DBS to show anything as they start a career after graduation.

@ChaChaCha2012

People have had months of mixed messaging, u turns and outright lies. Many thousands do not believe coronavirus to be a big issue, because the messages from covid deniers has been more convincing than that of the government.

I'm not a rule breaker by my nature, but I can see why people are sick of lies and choosing to ignore official messaging. Why follow the science when the government are not, why listen to experts when the Brexiteers told us not to? Said Brexiteers are now our leaders, how does anyone expect them to be taken seriously?

This

Lockdown madness I think OP. What made people go to beaches in the summer and leave litter everywhere and defecate. Who knows.

Because they are selfish and give no thought to others.

@AlecTrevelyan006

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

They're far from normal. They were attacking a police car.

Those ppl are an embarassment. England have had the softest rules of all the UK.
We had a 3 week lock down with more closed down than Liverpool have and there was no behaviour like that.

Those 300ish ppl are an embarrassment.

@CurbsideProphet

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

Well of course the southern London-based media always like to have a go at Liverpudlians.

Given they never vote Tory and more of them voted to remain in the EU than not, they're a lot less stupid than a lot of southerners, in my view.

However, I will admit that southerners don't get let off covid stupidity - see my previous post about littering and defacating on beaches (which did get a lot of media coverage).

@janetmendoza

Utter wankers. Liverpool ITUs already stuffed to the rafters with covid patients and these desperately ignorant ADULTS thought this was the right thing to do. Honestly as someone working in the NHS and off sick with covid at the moment it's makes me want to cry.

Yes, it's unbelievable. I heard that the staff in our hospitals were distraught by the scenes. Those absolute idiots will want treatment though from those nurses when they contract Covid. Selfish doesn't even begin to cover it.

Fair play to them, they only have their youth once.

Is it any surprise that this generation will act in this way when the country has inflicted 10 years of Tory policy and Brexit upon them. If I was in that generation I'd be doing the same.

It's quite ironic that we don't have the police numbers to deal with them or the NHS capacity to deal with the pandemic due to every election going the Tories way since 2010.

The country has to reap what it's sown.

"Students/young adults have not had a worse lockdown than any other" "generation."

Not condoning all of the behaviour but I think that young people have had a worse lockdown in many respects. For sixth formers and students they have in many cases lost a lot of once in a lifetime/rite of passage experiences that they won't get back. I might have had to spend time at home and missed out on a number of holidays and parties I'd been looking forward to but there'll be other opportunities for those - not so leaving school/graduation etc.

This is the 2nd time the media has done this to Liverpool.

The majority of those young people were student and as previously they were dispersed quickly and the the city centre quiet.

@user1471448866

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 .

Exactly this - thank you user1471448866.

Most of the city centre was deserted last night. Our town, which is part of the Liverpool City Region, was also deserted. These videos do not show a true picture of how this region has responded to the new measures but I guess deserted streets don’t make a good news story.

Because they are stupid.

No other explanation possible.

When I was there age I would have done exactly the same thing. Now I have matured, I am less selfish.

Students/young adults have not had a worse lockdown than any other

Well this point itself is debatable - I’d say being forcibly isolated from your peers during a time when your still developing brain is hardwired to socialise is pretty tough. Not to mention the disrupted education, lost rites of passage etc.

But it’s not just about lockdown itself is it? There’s Brexit, climate change and the fact that this generation faces paying for the massive economic fallout of all this. Plus the general pessimism and sense of diminished opportunity. Every day young people are told by the media that their future will be bleak; it’s hardly surprising some of them are choosing to live in the moment right now.

Selfish is an interesting word.

Its thrown at young people wanting to have fun and live a normal lifestyle that most of us did at that age.

Its not thrown at old people wanting to limit young people's lives in order to protect their own.

They've given up 7 months for you /your loved ones. Is it selfish to keep fucking them over to keep yourself safe?

I dont blame them making the most of what little slivers of joy the older generation will allow them.

We should all be ashamed of how we are treating our young people.

You saw this because it happened in Liverpool. Scenes like this have been happening all over the country. It isn't right. However, it isn't all Scousers. Always the easy target.

The report I read said that it wasn't just students but a mix of ages and backgrounds. Yes, some students but by no means over represented in the mix.

We can't just blame students for it all. Just reading MN tells us people from all over don't follow the rules.

She and her boyfriend visited Liverpool in the summer and they came home commenting on the fact that they'd not been anywhere else with so many people, young and old in the same numbers, not,wearing masks and not SDing. She was surprised, and that was before students returned.

Not all students are out partying and ignoring all rules - she's at university half an hour away from Liverpool though currently home as everything's online at present and, as I tested positive today (after being super careful and following the rules) she is now SI here through no fault of her own. Her friends flatmate tested positive after spending a week in hospital. She returned and passed it on to two other flat mates - again not caused by parties.

Yes, students moving hundreds of miles across the country to move in, in their thousands, with strangers in big blocks of flats have raised cases. Of course it has. That was always going to happen. It doesn't mean they've all partied hard to catch it. If you'd moved that many people in that way then regardless of age it would have happened.

The people on these images are a disgrace.

It's not ALL students, but yes, those people behaving like this are simply disgraceful.