We all mature at different rates and human brains aren't fully developed physically until about 25. Uni students at 18 are as much children still as adults.

Many are lonely and struggling and in reality only half flown from the nest.

To stop them returning to see their parents and families at Christmas as Scotland has done- and we are thinking about - is monstrous.

This hysterical insanity must stop.

I can't see my daughter's leaving their mothers (Step) father's nest, one of them has learning difficulties and is extremely gullible. She tells everyone she has 3 biological parents ... their step father is more of a dad to them then I was or ever be.

I get on extremely well him so there's no hatred, jealously or even awkward chats. I know what he has done for their mother and I have nothing but respect for him. Not forgetting he bought the girls up to be polite and respectful at all times.

My other daughter is not interested in dating because she is a devout Christian, she's worried about her sister as whom will look after her if there's no around ?


I won't be going over to Long Island this year; thanks China.🤬

Wyot wrote:
human brains aren't fully developed physically until about 25.


JK had graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge by then.

middlemas wrote:
Wyot wrote:
human brains aren't fully developed physically until about 25.


JK had graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge by then.


Possibly made easier by having a close and supportive mother?

I am sixty and miss mine every day, but when I was snowed in aged twenty and couldn't get home for Christmas I was jubilant.

Course there are exceptions with some uber confident undergrads.

What more proof do we need though that the world has gone mad then pics of teenagers staring out of halls of residence windows; effectively under house arrest. Studying in the hope of getting a job in an economy we have wrecked for at least a decade.

All done to vainly stop a virus that kills less than 1% of those infected and who are mainly in their 80s and 90s.

Or has it all been done for short term politics to minimise the death count on Bo-Jo's watch?

Has the clown PM become something far more sinister...?

Wyot wrote:
All done to vainly stop a virus that kills less than 1% of those infected

Actually, the death rate now exceeds 3%. A million dead; 33 million infected.

But yes, there'll be too many graduates for the jobs available.

middlemas wrote:
Wyot wrote:
All done to vainly stop a virus that kills less than 1% of those infected

Actually, the death rate now exceeds 3%. A million dead; 33 million infected.

I would accept this data if anyone had a clue how many people have been infected (likely to be far more - millions worldwide- than we know about) and if the definition of a Covid death wasn't loose enough to include all those who died from whatever cause, but also happened to have tested positive at some stage for Covid.

We just don't know. Yes it is a mortal threat to a very small number. Not at all to the vast majority.

The price of continued lockdowns will be far worse.

You can't cripple humanity for every health risk that comes along, unless the death rate is significantly higher than Covid will ever be.

It is impossible to know how dangerous covid is without knowing how many have been infected.

When someone says for instance that there has only been four deaths in healthy teenagers from covid, it doesn't tell us how dangerous (or not) covid is, because we only know the figures WITH lockdown, not without.

Even comparing different countries doesnt give a full picture.
For instance, in Sweden the culture is to have a very large personal space. They were ALREADY distancing.
You would have to replicate the same conditions to expect the same result.

My objections are to the pretence and silliness of it all, rather than imaginary numbers.
The principal would be the same however many people died.

Tut. Principle not principal. Isnt it funny how you only spot your spelling disasters right AFTER you press send?