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Nottingham has the highest rate of COVID-19 infections in the country. We were put on Tier 2 this week, and it looks very much like it has been decided that we go to Tier 3 on Monday. That\u2019s serious. More serious than Tier 2. And it was already serious before that.<\/p>\n
The biggest cause of COVID-19 spread is people not following the rules (at the very least, it is people carrying on like nothing is wrong, which is what happened during summer and well into the early part of Autumn). Certain neighbourhoods in Nottingham are unfortunately populated by people of limited general intelligence (some are populated by people of limited actual intelligence, but this isn\u2019t just about Broxtowe). I\u2019m talking about the kind of people who, for whatever reason, think they know better than a world filled with genuine, qualified experts on infectious diseases and treatment.<\/p>\n
One of the biggest contributors to this group is students.<\/p>\n
Every year – without fail – Nottingham has huge problems at the start of the university term as students arrive and immediately blow huge amounts of money getting pissed and going around in childish costumes for freshers\u2019 week. The streets where they live are literally paved with… broken glass. And, if you\u2019re lucky, full bin bags of garbage that get ripped and kicked everywhere. And fast food packaging. And gas canisters and discarded sharps. And no matter how anyone might try to deny it, all this is true of many student areas. I see it with my own eyes when I pick pupils up there. It isn\u2019t all of them, of course. But it is<\/strong> a hell of a lot of them.<\/p>\n A couple of years ago now, a house with a maximum occupancy of (if I remember) ten held a party which 250 people attended. As a result, a wall collapsed – pretty much exploded from the pressure of people – which could have been much more serious than it fortunately was. The event was typical, even if the outcome was more extreme than usual.<\/p>\n Nottingham University is currently bigging up the fact that its number of COVID-19 cases is falling. Yes, any fall in new cases is good, but when the University still has three times more cases than the county as a whole, let\u2019s not kid ourselves that there isn\u2019t really a problem. Because since the term began, there have been numerous reports of students crowding on to trams with no face masks and no distancing when the pubs shut at 10pm. There have been numerous reports of students holding house parties – the most publicised one being the one where the organiser was fined \u00a310,000. When three times as many of these people is infected, there is a serious<\/strong> problem. And still they keep saying \u2018the majority are behaving\u2019. Stop that! It doesn\u2019t matter if it is technically \u2018the majority\u2019 who are behaving. What\u2019s far more important is the size of the very large minority who are behaving like arrogant prats. And that<\/strong> is why we have the damned problem!<\/p>\n That brings me on to the latest story illustrating how \u2018the majority\u2019 is behaving itself<\/a>. Bear in mind this is on top of all the other stories about partying, boozing at weekends, crowding trams, and the idiot a couple of months ago who was also fined for holding a party<\/a>.<\/p>\n In this case, four complete wankers\/wankerettes were each fined \u00a310,000. When police turned up to a reported party, despite being initially told no one was there, 30 people were found hiding in a house. That was when these four came out with the immortal lines that police were \u2018spoiling their fun\u2019, and that they should be having \u2018the time of their lives\u2019.<\/p>\n THIS is why we have a problem. I only hope they are on Mickey Mouse courses, because God help us if they\u2019re medical students, or ones studying proper subjects. Fortunately (in a way), they\u2019re Nottingham Trent University students – albeit third year – so the likelihood of them being on serious courses is somewhat less. But you can\u2019t be certain – this is the same University whose biology students killed a hedgehog several years ago by attaching <\/a>so many tracking devices to it it couldn\u2019t move. And Nottingham Trent University refuses to reveal how many positive cases it has \u2018to protect\u2019 the reputation of these morons.<\/p>\n