All Right

And yet key workers can come over and be digging a hole in the prom in half an hour of arrival and that’s ok? Sorry we agree on quite a bit but I will never accept this apartheid like system where key workers can do what they like and everyone else is treated like a total moron who has to be locked up. If it’s ok for key workers to be out and about with no self isolation and sensible precautions then it’s ok for students to be allowed out for an hour taking precautions. The risks are the same (in fact they’re probably lower).

But what are the grounds that exist to believe that people won’t follow the rules? There are few that I can see. Just a load of vocal baby boomers (normally) who seem to have a real problem with Manx students. Let’s not forget these kids have been living with mask wearing, and distancing, and practicing good hygiene for months when the average Manx resident has experience of .. doing exactly nothing. Sorry but the risks are minimal I’d say and we are doing a huge disservice to our own citizens by just assuming their all idiots and wanting to lock them down further. The Isle of Man’s problem now, IMHO, is the completely unrealistic objective of perpetual virus eradication at all costs.

Yes I think most people think that way to be honest. It was sent by an employee to someone who regarded him as their superior in a work setting. It wasn’t a personal letter at all.

The law, their parents, the fact that they can’t now share a household if all members aren’t also self isolating. So just about everything really. What leads you to pursue the belief or fantasy that they won’t? Are you jealous of people who gained degrees and seek to take this opportunity to stigmatize them? I’m genuinely interested in understanding why you think it’s an issue? The laws and rules are clear.

He’s hardly Jimmy Saville.

How do you transmit to other groups in compulsory self isolation especially when most of them now will not even be self isolating within the family home?

How would that happen? Firstly all the students are being forced to self isolate even if away from family in separate premises and secondly hardly anyone aged between 18 and 21 is going to end up in hospital as they’ll just feel a bit unwell for a few days while they’re self isolating. On balance largely a poor attempt at student bashing.

That’s properly cheeky though. She supplies them with re-agents at cost even though she’s a private business as she wants to help and they use them to flog tests to people to make money. You honestly couldn’t make this up.

There is quite a bit of legal work involved apparently. I can put a German flag up in my garden. It doesn’t mean that I live in Germany.

And the agreement to leave kept being extended by mutual agreement to the point that the UK a has still not actually left.

Well yes which was my point but I’m confused as to why someone who posted “But I suspect that that health passports will be a de facto requirement enforced by employers, private companies and organisations because their staff, customers and shareholders demand it” then sort of mocks me for suggesting that people will likely be forced to comply with vaccination requirements as that’s what they said too. I don’t believe it will be mandatory but I do believe the world has lost its head to such an alarming degree that it’s likely inevitable that you will see your life being restricted if you don’t conform with their expectations and requirements.

We are heavily restricted whichever way you look at it. Yes we can go to pubs (you can also go to the pub in the UK too provided you also eat) but if your have off island family you’re actually more segregated here than you would be if you all lived in the UK. It’s even difficult for people to come over here for funerals and to see sick relatives. Off Island family can’t visit. Friends from across can’t visit. Students are basically treated like pariahs and many have even been forced out of their homes for two weeks on return now. It always amazes me that people say it’s so free over here when the reality is that it isn’t. If your life revolves around the pub and going for coffees rather than wanting your family and friends to be close to you you’re probably a very shallow person.

Confusing, you appear to say one thing then you say the exact opposite in an apparent attempt to try to sound clever. It’s either one thing or the other surely?

Well with all those buses that can’t carry mobility scooters I suppose they’re going to have to accommodate all those disabled drivers.

Can you explain what you mean please?