My young people - both positive it’s rife here!

[Benji13]

We have 2 sons at home still aged 20 and 24. Both now positive following bojos get out and get back to normal edict.

Ds2 aged 20 currently isolating elsewhere after visiting pals student shared house and testing positive there - double jabbed due to job and feels fine just feels bit of a cold.
Ds1 been very 🙄 sociable BUT does also travel on train to work (and works in open
Plan office) and since last week lots not wearing masks and packed in like sardines on the train soooo. He went nightclubbing last night and is symptomatic this morning feeling bloody awful, was due 2nd jab in 2 weeks.

Dh had covid last spring and me and the boys kept away and avoided it. Ds1 is isolated in his room and moaning. Keeping everything crossed 🤞 but all through this I’ve been VERY scared of covid.

I’m so annoyed feel we have been thrown to the wolves why didn’t Bojo wait until more of the kids (18 plus) were jabbed??

@doodleygirl

That’s the whole point, personal responsibility. Don’t get me wrong, I think Boris is a clown but please don’t say you actually believed COVID disappeared because he opened up the floodgates?

Your sons have COVID because they chose how they wanted to live, which is fine, just don’t blame others.

Indeed, surely nobody is so stupid and out of touch to think that Covid magically was unable to spread in packed, sweaty nightclubs on 19 July at the stroke of midnight.

I don't think anyone is so stupid. The government sanctioned the reopening of these places so I can assume the government want covid to spread amongst the people attending.

Agree that the nightclub wasn’t the site of infection - the OP’s ds is the one doing the spreading.

Also agree that a lot of people are all for pulling up the ladder firmly behind them. If young people have no education, no job, no travel, no life - even no partner - well, tough cheese.

Because lockdown was never to prevent anyone ever getting ill. It was to prevent the NHS getting overwhelmed.

Covid is still here and people will get ill with it. Just as people got ill prior to last March.

I’m not sure ejerce the idea has come from that the state has a responsibility to prevent all illness.

Surely people have learnt by now that just because the government says it’s ok it doesn’t mean it is! It’s usually because they want to boost the economy over people’s safety

Yep

The thing is health and the economy are much the same thing for the people who own, work in or otherwise reliant on a business that’s been shut for the last -8 months!

The economy over health narrative is nonsense.

The government is encouraging the spread of infection in nightclubs to all who attend regardless of whether they are vaccinated. That is until the end of September by which time there will be legislation to permit only fully vaccinated people. Make of that whatever you wish.

so in other words the 'nanny state' has been paused over the Summer only.

Most people are going to get it regardless. We are in Scotland with more draconian rules than most and DS 19 has barely been anywhere except local shops since first lockdown. Met up with a friend 3 weeks ago...now has Covid and is double jabbed.