Madness, They Call It Madness

[fiction-factory]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/11866666/shops-opening-nike-store-high-street-reopen/
Don't Young Lives Matter? Are they immune from Covid and unable to pass it on to family?

[emmie]

its not just the young queuing up though is it.
personally i think its about time, and many of the stores have put a variety of measures in place to hopefully
stop this virus from spreading.

[Spicerack]

Yes, yes and yes.

[vulcan42]

I wonder why a few of them, having gone to the trouble to put on a mask, are wearing it under the chin.

[Hopkirk]

... but what are you supposed to if you urgently need a pair of expensive trainers?

[fiction-factory]

The queues outside Selfridges and M&S etc were following social distancing. Some of the scenes outside the Nike store where people were pushing and shoving were so bad I wouldn't have opened the doors if it was my shop

[Spicerack]

Would you have 'rang the bell' at them, ff.

[fiction-factory]

More here at a Manchester rave this week
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/snapchat-video-shows-sea-people-18417551

I suppose we've done well to at least contain things for 3 months but the lid is off now. Some clearly don't believe it's something that can affect them and their families- it's just for old people. The BAME stories don't seem to have put them off outside NIKE. Having said that the rave scene pics I've seen suggest that the attendees were predominantly non-BAMEs but all were young -well 18-25

[Spicerack]

'C'mon now, form an orderly line or you won't get in. You're wasting your own time. I can wait here all day'

[fiction-factory]

That's it, Spicerack. As for the bell: "the bell's for me, not for you".

[Peter Pedant]

they certainly dont seem to die from it
so presumably it doesnt register

two raves in Manchester ( a hot spot anyway ) so wait two weeks
BUT more than a week since the crowds at Lulworth and nothing !

[youngmafbog]

Well some of them wont be able to whinge on about BAME people being more prone to COVID now will they?

Think is, if you put up a bargain people will go and the reality is young people statistically have very little chance of dying if fit and healthy.

[fiction-factory]

>the reality is young people statistically have very little chance of dying if fit and healthy
True, but that didn't stop parents from complaining on safety grounds about schools partially reopening

[KARL]

Probably not what you were looking for as an answer, but one is that, sort of yes, youngsters are bordering on immune. Here I am referring to the finding that has come out of close examination of the "geographic genome tree" of Covid 19. I first came across news of this "tree" having been put together in March and it has "grown" since. It seems it is possible to trace the virus' spread practically down to who infected whom, given access to samples from the different individuals. What then came out was that there was no evidence (within this study) of children up to higher levels of primary school age infecting adults or each other but several examples of adults infecting children. This together with (almost all) infected children showing at most mild symptoms puts them at (not quite) invincible.

[ToraToraTora]

Although It's clearly radio rental to mob up to get into a sports shop, Karl has a point. Not sure what constitutes a "youngster" but clearly they are largely unaffected by the virus, not necessarily immune, but suffer no symptoms. Apparently 78% of cases show no symptoms at all anyway. https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-bmj-study-suggests-78-dont-show-symptoms-heres-what-that-could-mean-135732

[fiction-factory]

As long as they can't pick it up and pass it on as it has been getting into the older generations, particularly in BAME families, somehow.

[jim360]

The speed at which we've re-opened surprises me. I'm hoping it isn't a reckless gamble. So far it seems that the lockdown easing has merely led to new cases staying stable, rather than climbing, so it may yet pay off and the "second wave" will not come here after all.