Young people breaking virus rules risk ‘second wave’

The UK could see a second spike in coronavirus cases if young people don't follow social distancing rules, the health secretary says."The numbers have been have been going up. And we've seen in other countries where this leads, and it is not a good place," Matt Hancock says.Speaking to Radio 1 Newsbeat the health secretary pointed to France and Spain,"where that second wave started largely amongst younger people, it then spreads".

"And now we're seeing a sharp rise in the number of people in hospital and the number of people who are dying in those countries. "That hasn't happened here yet. And if people follow the social distancing rules, then we can stop that from happening here."- the highest figure since 22 May. Experts are monitoring infection rates around the UK and imposing restrictions in places where coronavirus numbers are climbing.

Leeds has been added to the lockdown watchlist. Officials said there had been a increase in music events,

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I went shopping yesterday everybody was wearing a mask. except who you ask? well the couple in there 70s who think covid is conspiracy, The middle aged fat bloke and our local druggie. Other than that yeah it's all the young people's fault who are doing mostly everything right!

Cummings isn't that that young?

navigat61330103 Of course he’ll make the figures up to fit the agenda. More and more are waking up to the biggest hoax ever.

For all you people who have flouted the distancing rules by thinking it’s gone away, it’s your fault the second wave is upon us.

Stop blaming young People for god sake! It was your decision to let the Kids go to school and People from home Office to centre.

First one to kill the government gets a hi-5

Load of rollocks

Let's let 2500 people go to doncaster races yesterday though 😘😘

Young people have ignored all the Covid restrictions since day 1. They'll continue to ignore them but they'll be paying for this for the rest of their lives... Not older people. I'm sure they'll remember 2020 as the best summer of their lives... :)

right because we’re the ones that broke the rules by listening to the government and saying that we had to go back to school , work and having ‘eat out to help out’ schemes but apparently it’s our fault

I guess they didn't think about this when they told kids to return to school. The fact is that not every kid can travel is a car and a lot use public transport. 30-40 kids all crammed into a bus? Yeah that's real bright

It’s the flu, moron

somehow, old people not wearing masks properly - or at all - and never using sanitiser has nothing to do with it? they’re the only people i ever see who appear to be actively trying to catch and spread it. Young people aren’t scapegoats for blame

Tired of my generation being blamed for this situation worsening, when its the government's u turns and incompetence that got us here. What happened to 'eat out to help out' which saw crowds packed into pubs and restaurants, and schools opening with no fucking ppe?

Time out. More people die every day from cancer. This is now a huge 1st world political problem fueled by a money hungry media. Tiny % of populations dying and more media exposure than genocide in China for example. Why not find out how it started and stop it happening again?

Targeting young people while the old people make the rules. They act like the older generation don't have social gatherings or friends! Has Matt forgotten that the gov literally told the nation to leave their houses, gather with friends and eat out to help out

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The young people who were all told to go to restaurants and tester the economy! Booo to you

Tell this to me RE lessons luv x

Eat out to help out blame young people. boris- go to the pub but don't go to the pub unless you want to go to the pub but only if you can't go to the pub blame young people. Dominic Cummings eye test blame young people.

OKAY BUT ITS NEVER THE YOUNGER PEOPLE WHO OBJECT WHEN I ASK THEM TO POLITELEY WEAR A FACE MASK AT WORK. ITS ALWAYS THE FUCKING OLDER GENERATION SO DONT COME AT THE YOUNGER GEN WHEN YOUVE LITERALLY MADE US GO BACK TO WORK FOR THE EAT OUT SCHEME

Its the sending us into school which have no social distancing within a whole year group creating a bubble with over 300 kids and no mandatory masks in corridors then blaming a minority who meet up out of school for me 💅🌟🤗

YOU TOLD US TO EAT OUT WTHH

So we shouldn’t eat out to help out? This government is a joke

You lot sent us back to school Tf you putting all on us for, don’t forget you encouraged us to eat out to help out and wanted us to get back in the gym (where to exercise on some equipment you need a spotter)

Nonce alert

Why bother if we don’t die from something else Covid-19 will do it

the simple fact is, it’s the governments fault. Again, their indecisiveness on covid 19 has fucked everything up, schools reopening, eat out to help out, gyms, pubs were all given the green light by the gov and now young people are getting the blame? Absolute joke

But not for the St Leger at Doncaster Racecourse, apparently, MattHancock

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Fucking clueless

Young people. Yep👍🏼 not our health secretary or anyone like that

Amazing. Blame young people constantly when it's also young people that are suffering most from mental health issues from all this. But its okay knock them back down again. Bunch of wankers.

LOL

When all else fails blame the yoot.

I love how the UK goes into more of a lockdown for a couple of cm of snow than a global pandemic that has affected millions

Guess I’ll stop going to work? Bellend

'Young people' in Bolton, Oldham, Leicester, Bradford etc.

🥴🥴 second wave agenda

Blame it on the young people whilst you also send them out to school

Yet “young people” don’t have to wear masks? and at statistically proven to spread the virus at a faster rate? the government haven’t got a bloody clue

You were encouraging the people to eat half prices in public areas. You got even idea what day it is?

Could Can you not read the number of cases a day being announced on your channel?

Eat out to help out?

WishWash government guidelines cause second spike. There we go.

Basing a new restriction on 7 day ‘averages’ Is this right

Mask wearing has worked well then !

Who's fault is it today using the Johnson government random Blame Generator?

Go back to school it's fine. Go to restaurants it's all good. Wait... It's coming back?! Who could've foreseen this outcome!?

😂 🤦‍♂️

Just quoting politicians is not news, it’s PR.

I mean you can't blame 'young people' when more than enough 'older people' don't give a F, and the government don't want to enforce anything strict enough to actually work, haven't seen any fines been given out for not wearing masks in the store I work at 🙄

what an easy scapegoat! what do you get when you bundle thousands of teenagers into little rooms to work collaboratively? just admit you've fucked it and stop trying to find someone else to blame

We saw this 'blame it on the young people' thing coming all the while the Tories were saying 'go eat out to help out'!

REALLY Come to Vietnam ... we will show you how it is done ...

Please ask the Minister why he expects young people to do the right thing when their brains aren't full developed? Car insurers don't.

BorisJohnson so why open schools again?

MattHancock you're gambling with your soul.

As a nation we were encouraged to “eat out to help out” last month. Now you’re blaming young people for a spike...there is going to be a “spike” as more people are tested...with them reliable tests you’re using 🤣🤣🤣

Holding Government officials' accountable for their irresponsibility 👎 Unclear lockdown rules 👎 Areas lacking testing facilities 👎 Blaming young people who didn't vote Tory as they're trying to eat out to help out/ work out to help out/ they're starting a new academic year 👍

Yep, It's definitely young people that are refusing to wear masks in my shop not the self important 40 year olds that either think that they are above the rules or that the entire thing is a conspiracy to take away our freedoms... definitely couldn't be the middle aged folk...

Of course they're going to blame the citizens rather than admit their own breathtaking feckless incompetence

Young people 😂 says the government who lifted restrictions and then openly encourage people to ‘eat out to help out’ and go back to work so that ‘pret’ doesn’t loose out. Other countries laugh at the ‘lockdown’ we had in the first place. Ridiculous

So which is it? It is Eat Out To Help Out, get back to the high street, get back in the pubs and the office and the schools, and stay alert Or is it all our fault for eating out and going to the shops and going back to the pubs, offices, and schools?

22 and severely asthmatic so technically exempt from wearing a mask. I wear one to protect others. The people standing too close to me, coughing, not wearing masks etc? Usually much older than me. It's not just the young people.

I constantly see multiple middle aged/old people not wearing masks, or wearing them under their nose. I see only maybe one or two young people not wearing masks. stop demonising the younger generation and take responsibility.

Young people bad, wife bad

When the young people help save the economy and then get blamed for the second peak like sorry what

You're the one who told us to go back to work and school. DON'T blame it on us. This is on you.

You know it’s the young people definitely not people coming back from holiday no no ofc it wouldnt be that

same young people you’ve sent back to school? with bubbles of 160 kids & no social distancing? yes, well thought out torys, how can you blame us for something you’ve enforced ?

People. Full stop. Old people. Middle aged people. Young people. Government ministers. Government advisers... don’t follow social distancing rules.

You acc decided to send us to school, what did you expect ?

Didn't one of his colleagues drive 100 miles with his family during lockdown though

You sent them back to school you plank !!

Not it's young people's fault... I suppose all those middle ages wankers I saw sprawled out on my local beach and doing VE conga lines during what was a nationwide lockdown, we're following the rules to a tee... Absolute shambles this man

What an absolute knob. Quite possibly the worst government ever, no accountability for their mistakes whatsoever

Didn’t this guy already have to publicly apologise for breaking his own rules? 😂

Always the young. Never your generations fault is it?

how can it just young people? What do you expect when you let people go out again? There was always going to be another spike when your telling us to go out and socialise and visit restaurants to save the economy, What a joke.

the government better pick a struggle cause soon theyll run out of people to blame and have to blame themselves lol x

Yet encouraging people to go to school, bars, restaurants etc is ok? Don't blame young people, or older people for that matter. Just admit you weren't helping anyone and you only did it so the 'second spike'' bullshit agenda had some depth for the sheep.

Make a scapegoat out of a group of people who are largely students and probably wont vote for you anyway to distract from the fact this is totally your governments fault for enabling any lockdown breaches by not punishing Cummings' 60 mile 'eye test' (day trip on his wife's bday)

“We’ll force the kids to learn in an enclosed space with other kids during a pandemic” “Why are virus cases rising in young people? I just don’t understand!” - The Government.

Right. Okay.

maybe don’t have them go physically back to school just yet then, yeah :)

Imagine listening to anything that weasel has to say

stop blaming us, we’re being told 101 different things

Open everything as normal for crying out loud...stop fuckin about

Found your scapegoat have you. Age has nothing to do with stupidity.

But telling people to go to work because pret doesn't get enough money...

stop blaming the youth when the government is the one screwing us over

Cock by name cock by nature

Young people my arse

why tf we going back school when it’s even worse this don’t make any sense bro

All the boomers in here freaking out, I love it, don’t worry you’ll all die and we can relax finally ;)

u guys r forcing us to go to school tho

More blame game I see

“but let’s open schools anyway” 🙂

You open pubs and tell people to eat out then say its the publics fault, classic stitch up

Bellend him

NO SHIT. Fuck all of you for sending us back into areas where we physically CANNOT social distance. It is not the fault of the young folks who have to be in cramped classes and mix with 100s in a day, its the government for sending us in.

the same young people you’re sending back the school um who’s gonna tell em

We are in year group bubbles. No social distancing is required in that bubble and that’s from the government. We are all sat together as we have no other choice! A school in my area already has one COVID case after 4 days!

Should I still be eating out to help out then?

Ironic

Ah I see how it is. Blame young people again.

Good

Try going to a public school and social distancing 🤣🤣🤣🤣

You lot need to be clearer then cause all you’ve told our ages is wash your hands and go to school play your Sunday league carry on etc

sackcummings

Don’t really have any say in the matter the state schools are in

Blaming the younger generation now as they are always passing the buck. Who opened pubs and encouraged people to eat out? Who’s pushing to re-open offices etc? Pretty sure it wasn’t students. This government is totally inept.

The cheekiest government ever.. after encouraging people to eat our all August in crowded restaurants, encouraging us to get back to the office (on tubes, public transport etc) so we can keep Pret alive and all sort then you have the cheek to spill this?

Funny this because i’m 25 i stick to all the rules. I work with 6 people who are all 50 plus. They come into work coughing sneezing don’t wash hands. They tell me if i get it then i get it. a lot more people who are not in the “young people” category should be held countable.

Think you he forgot to mention the hundreds of older people not wearing masks properly that walk through my work on the daily. Never mind the ones who don’t wear them and not because of circumstances, because of choice.

You mean young people are working 'essential' jobs that keep us from being able to properly isolate? Wow. I couldn't have ever figured that out on my own. /S

‘Go back to school!’ ‘Go back to work!’ ‘Commute!’ ‘Eat out to help out!’ ‘Go back to uni!’ ‘Workers must return to offices!’ ‘It’s your job to save the economy!’ ... ‘It’s all your fault Covid cases are on the rise!’ ... MAKE👏IT👏MAKE👏SENSE👏

Ahhh, just blame the young people. 🙄 fuck off.

isn’t this the same government that literally is FORCING children and young adults to go back to school...what do they expect?

Hatt Mancock

Yet they allow schools to remain open. The incompetence would almost be funny if it weren’t so dangerous. When there’s a second spike it will be the fault of the government, no one else

I’m lucky to go into a 22 person bubble at college but others are going into 100-1000 person bubbles at schools. Kids going into the bubble on a bus, train or taxi. Many schools are closing because of outbreaks in them.

My school (in northern England) has 0 social distancing. We are packed together. NOTHING is different.

WHAT RULES? WE IN CLASSROOMS OF 20 KIDS W NO MASKS SITTING IN A CIRCLE

I thought the issue was all the boomers not wearing masks because they think it's the beginning of the 'new world order'. The racists not obeying the rules are the issue, not the children that have been sent back to school, where the masks rule is up to the school.

Why’d you open the schools again then? Or refuse to help with uni fees so that more of us are likely to be living in crowded spaces? What a complete and utter asswipe.

Bruh it's every age group

I love it, keep pushing the blame elsewhere instead of accepting responsibility for your parties terrible handling of the pandemic.

why r u sending us to school then

Could EAT OUT TO HELP OUT have anything to do with this rise in cases? ... lots of people with no masks on, all the breathing together indoors, on one specific day of the week? Takeaways not eligible. Had to be on a Monday. Eat out to spread it about, more like. secondwave

Go and eat out. Go back to work. Get back in the coffee shops. Stay away from each other. Make your minds up!

They've settled on which scapegoat to use then... secondwave

No shit Sherlock

So you want us to rebuild the economy, but not go out and spend money to rebuild the economy? Got it. I’ll save my money then 😊

Scaremongering bum boy wants his fuckin head booting in silly man

I’m sorry? They just spent a whole month encouraging people to go out together and eat? And you’re blaming young people? Everyone’s to blame, but mainly, this completely incompetent government

Damn you young people 😡😡

No social distancing or masks at my college today

Hey young people, go back to uni, go back to school, eat out to help out... ... ... ...omg look at all the young people with Covid, pesky young people

Feck off hancock - you know this is a bunch of crap to kill small private industry and 'unimporant people'. You need to be tried along with Boris, Nicola and all the other lying scheming gov self elected employees. And your health advisors need to be tried and put in gitmo too.

After opening pubs, schools, eateries, gyms etc etc but hey, the MP's haven't gone back, they're not that daft !

Can this guy just fuck off with that young people bullshit what is it with anyone over 40 trying to make anyone under ~25 look bad

Hang on two months or what ever ago in that heat wave. everyone was packing out the beaches up down the coast. That done fuck all. And now it’s young people 🤣

BuT wE aRe At ScHoOl?

Also does anyone know that the Simpsons predicted the similar Virus

Fuck off People are not dying and people are not getting Seriously ill

You really are an awful organisation.

From what I've seen, there are far more older people breaking the lockdown rules in Manchester than younger though?

close the bloody schools then

You're fing kidding? They've been forced into confined spaces with 30 plus other children all from other households, on the instruction of his Party, to then be sent home to their families - brothers, sisters, mums, dad's & grandparents. Will the Cons ever take responsibility!

Who do you think those essential workers are?

Let the youth prevail !

ava1011 lol read this thread - it’s not just us that disagrees hehe

It’s not just young people... it’s everyone! Ignorant people who believe this is still all not real... ok den 🥴

The same ‘young people’ that this party encouraged to use the pubs when they reopened & created busy hours/days using eat out to help out? The same ‘young people’ who went back to school this week? Do you understand why nobody knows what the fuck is going on

Stop blaming it on young people. In the past 6 months, i have never seen someone over the age of 40 wear a mask. There will be a spike because the incompetent government is sending young people back to colleges and schools when the danger is simply too high.

Why are you peddling this blame-game rhetoric on dehalf of government? It is they who are sending out differing messages and creating this increase in covid cases and deaths. Should you as the public broadcaster be holding them to account? At least challenge their lies and spin.

coming from same people sending children back to school and those who can work from home to go back to work. I agree with school but better process needed to be in place.

Ur all a bunch of cocks

MattHancock but you opened schools.......

You’ve made us go back. we didn’t have a choice. It’s near impossible to keep complete social distancing in schools, don’t blame us because none of you know what to do.

Stop blaming us for obeying your Govt of incompetent shysters & fools who demanding a return to work, schools, unis & public transport despite the blindingly obvious dangers. GovtOfCovidiots JohnsonGovtOut IncompetentShysters

Beg to differ when every middle aged person I’ve seen lately completely disregards the rules by wearing a face mask on their chin or covering their face with a top pulled up above there mouth!

the government imposed a fine, yet young people are blamed for going back to school

Yeah but please go out for dinner huddle up in the play ground as you drop off and pick up your kids it’s all good.

They won’t let us wear fucking masks it’s impossible to socially distance in school and it’s our fault

Listen you little MFs - The Little Mermaid needs to start filming. SO GET YALL SHIT TOGETHER LONDON.

Almost like the government are happy to throw the age group least likely to vote for them under the bus

Tories re-open schools. Then blame young people for not socially distancing.

Coming from the bloke who never followed social distancing rules and (apparently) got the virus himself

Who opened the schools and assured everyone that young people don't seem to spread it?

Newscasters have been mentioning that we will have a 2and wave for months now. I also remember a time when we had a eat out to help out scheme. Maybe I was dreaming during that period. The paradox of life. :)

Govt: 'Get back to work' *Cases Spike* Govt: 'This is clearly the fault of young people'

We still banging on about this 😴😴

MattHancock this you?

Eat Out to Help Out, opening of schools, and you're not looking at yourselves for this? Bollocks

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Oi mate u got a loisence fo that hug?

is sitting 4 to a desk in a classroom 'distancing' ? asking for School children, Parents, Grandparents, Students etc.

Eat out to help out, lol what did you lot expect. Is it helping now ?!

Get to fuck with your lies. We’ve been lied to through this whole pandemic.

Everyone needs to follow distancing rules

Always young people isn't it? Don't worry about the hordes of oldies barging around shops and pubs, not wearing masks. It's clearly all our fault :)

Hes killed all the pensioners off so theres only 'young people' left for him to blame.

ITS THE OLDER & ELDERLY WHO ARE WORST FOR IT - I’ve ONCE had a guy under 30 push past, I’ve had 3 over 60s try it & literally this past week 1 in 40s-50s because ‘I’m a nurse on my break so I can’t wait until you’ve been served’ 😑 if ONE area should know - let down whole sector

How about you don’t just decide that young people are the problem and take into account the older generation who call wearing masks a waste of time and don’t want to comply with the rules because they think they know better

Good luck

We trust you Matt Hancock 😂

They just wanna blame young people again! It's all they ever do. Never take the blame themselves, but pin it on us, as if it's our fault for half the shit /they/ decided to impose. Smdh

If there is ever a Covid-19 movie, Nicholas Cage should definitely get the role of Matt Hancock

I see more old people not adhering to the rules than young people

So why are children being forced to go back to school? It doesn't make no sense

Young people have an annoying habit of LIVING, don't they Matt? I bet you wish you could replace them all with robots.

Suppose I’ll just quit my very busy retail job where middle aged customers constantly get up in my face when asking a question then? Fucking tit

If a second spike is that serious and likely to happen then why the hell is everyone encouraged to go back to work and forced to travel in such crammed conditions 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦‍♀️

It’s not that we’re not following social distancing, the truth is WE CANT! Now everyone is back to work, the rush hour madness is how it was pre lockdown and I’ve been squashed between a number of strangers for the last week travelling on the tube system 🤷🏼‍♀️

Blame anyone but themself, like a real politican

weird how that happened right after the government directly encouraged people to go out and eat and to go to pubs and are sending us back to school ‘for the economy’ must be a coincidence

Not like we have jobs that we can't do from home, or that not all of us can drive and have to take public transport or the fact that we are still in education....

The schools must open!

This is no joke, is COVID-19 destroying common sense?

Kids aren't social distancing in schools. They can't because they don't have enough space to social distance. Mine have gone back to school and I knew that come September they'd all be thrown in together and we'd have to 'hope for the best'. It doesn't feel right!

What's he considering 'young'? I see people in their 30s, 40s and 50s not social distancing more than what I'd consider to be 'young people'.

Everyone’s blaming everyone else, it’s the government who messed this up. It’s not rocket science is it?

Mr Hancock. Simple request. Please signpost the scientific evidence to show the SARS Cov2 virus has been isolated and proved to exist to enable peer reviewed scrutiny. This will provide credibility to the PCR test being used to justify lockdown and mandatory mask wearing.

Most people under the age of 25 are called Dominic Cummings. They don't therefore have to follow the guidance as it doesn't apply to them (sic).

The people guilty of not taking the virus seriously are this government. They have botch everything that they have touched. Pure hypocrisy for them to urge others to take the virus seriously when the guidance is pathetic and far from world beating.

Make sure to ‘Eat and to help out’ but also go to work on a packed tube because pret might shut, but also wear a mask but also....its all the young peoples fault

All roads lead to Dominic Cummings. Don’t bother blame the public.

maffff Just the next strategy by the tories to shift the blame. Get a fucking grip.

*Sends people back to education and work*

The second wave is inevitable, with or without young people disobeying rules

Thought you said there would be a second wave after the BLM protests? Trying to point the finger because you’re incompetent.

Second? When was the first

So nothing to do with the government ending lockdown, reopening everything and sending kids back to school then? It's all just teenagers fault is it? Get the fuck out of here, bbcnews Stop reporting this shit as if it isn't scandalous.

is this a joke? is this a late april fools article? how dare you blame young people for a second spike when they're being forced back into school, having to work service jobs that can't be done from home to pay rent since no one can afford to own a home, using public (?/1)

Stupid nonce

It's more than just young people. I have seen maintenance workers and private contractors going into homes with no masks on, I even had on tell me to take my mask off because it was stupid. Five in they can visit multiple homes that alone is a risk of spreading the virus. 1/2

Once again we see the sheer 'blame everybody except me' incompetence of MattHancock. Young people have gone back to school & colleges- daily mass gatherings. Young people from around the world will be going back to our universities with NO testing. JohnsonMustGo COVID19

Aw so Dominic Cummings is suddenly a young person Yall cant blame everything on young people and immigrants. Middle aged politicians deserve their share of the blame too

we’re the ones being sent to school. if it’s gonna be an issue then just wait till everything’s blown down😹

nothing to do with young people not following social distancing its an appalling government with no proper plan and allowing children to return to school and universities instead of making provision for distance learning.

Good think no one legislated for kids to get back into overcrowded schools prematurely then.

The pandemics fake stop lying to people.

maybe stop trying to force them back into school already then

you mean like when he didnt live on tv in parliment? MattHancock sick of the blame being laid elsewhere, it starts with them.

So nothing to do with telling people to get onto packed trains, telling people to spend money in packed restaurants, the list goes on. But yeah it's our fault.

Isn't it weird how it's never our government's fault? No matter how many people suffer and die in whatever tragic circumstances they never seem to identify ways in which those in power might have contributed. Instead it's always the young, the foreign, the left ToryShambles

Unfair just to blame it on the young people whenever there are hundreds of people in bars not socially distancingIt’s everyone who’s breaking the rules and to just throw the blame on the young people it’s unfair Maybe people should stop going to beach’s as well in their hundreds

Young people aren’t dying from it though, it’s why current death rates are VERY low, let them get it, let them recover and build up resistance to it and we can all get on with our lives

Yeah but just send the kids back to school 👍🏻

Except that's bollocks...

Schools have been put in bubbles of their whole year (with no social distancing) and then siblings across years effectively mean the entire school is a bubble. But of course it’s all the young adults who aren’t even back at universities yet

It's not just young people though is it, most adults can be worse than the kids

They've been saying that young people aren't at risk for the last six months. I obviously realise they can still spread it but that has been the message.

So what was eat out to help out?

And where is the world beating track and trace .... where is it ? In bloody Germany that’s where certainly not here 😡

What a surprising thing to say right before universities start. It’s everyone’s fault but their own with these people.

Hypocrite

Eat out to help out they literally bribed young and old to go out now it’s wrong ..... unbelievable ,,,,

Blame anyone but yourself. The incompetence is astounding.

Go in to any pub and social distancing isn’t being followed the majority of people in pubs are 30+ don’t give us this bullshit

You people should wait till I’m back in uni loool

I don't see how you can blame young people when the government itself has been vague and unclear and making u turns at every decision. The national mood of caution has lifted by opening up pubs, holidays and encouraging people to eat out. People think normal life is back

If the government are happy to adopt an Australian-style immigration system why don’t they also adopt an Australian-style lockdown? Lock us down now, night time curfews and larger fines. Don’t wait this time.

They are only testing their eyesight. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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You guys have literally just bribed people to eat out... Always looking to blame someone else

I thought we were all supposed to go back to the office this week.

Cheeky bastards

Your masters at the BBC (TORY HQ) can own this. You wanted Herd Immunity when the science was strongly against it; and for many months when your gov didn't bother to activate a credible lockdown, we all knew that you were going to blame the general public for this. It's your mess

If he cares that much then he should close the schools again. stop blaming the kids

The BBC continuing to act as the PR branch of the Tory party

Fuck the BBC and fuck the government. The second wave will be caused by Tories reopening the shops to appease their donors, not by young people seeing their friends Shameful government mouthpiece pretending to be objective news. Cancel your TV Licence today.

Tyranny

How are they suppose to when their expected to go school and be I. The same classroom?

Blame game now is it. More like ukgov shit show

'Cases' from a PCR test that has been discredited, causes many false positives and is completely useless. Govt relying on this data to impose restrictions is extremely concerning. Figures on hospitalisations and deaths which are at near zero show the real picture.

the tiny little 4 year old kids starting school, new environment new teachers are expected to social distance? MattHancock is twiddle dum NHS NHSEngland Telegraph CNN Independent Conservatives SkyNews guardian ITV channel4

These useless fuckers are running out of people to blame

He really is a prat. How out of touch can you be?

don’t send us back to education with no social distancing then lmfao ..

One shitstorm after another... changing your minds every 5 minutes regarding rules. Total incompetence all round! Now let’s blame 17 years + because if we blame younger we’ll get destroyed for sending them all back to school ffs 😂 Bunch of useless Asshats!

If MattHancock knew kids carry the virus and may pass it on to family members then Why did you send them back to schools in classrooms of 25 plus? Fixed it for you

MattHancock this is on you!

How's being a government stenographer working out for you?

Now it's turning spiteful....

So stop allowing them to go back to uni.

OH NOW SCEOND WAVE!!! Oh F off and doo one the lot of you.. Fed up of trying to tell people about this media scare. Do what you want, lock yourself indoors forever, world wont miss any of you.

Tell them to get back to work. Tell them to go back to school and college. Tell them it’s all their fault.

So we're meant to go back to the office, kids are meant to go back to school, pubs are open, people are being encouraged to dine in at restaurants but it is our fault that the government never got level of covid down enough before giving in to demands by big businesses to reopen?

I agree with the minister.

Nothing at all to do with adult crackpots spreading mixed messages about 'secret government control', 'fear mongering campaigns' and congregating at anti-mask protests then MattHancock ? All of which have gone unchallanged. Primarily because they're all Tory voters.

And social distancing in schools doesnt seem to matter What sort of message is that

A second wave of the D614G variant, the one that is benign (and is rendered inactive in sunshine). WHO briefed on this in June. If we get a second wave it is because we didn't take advantage of the virus being severely weakened during summer.

Opens all pubs Opens all restaurants Opens all shops Opens all schools Tells us to go back to office...

Second wave has been coming for 5 months now Clinton is in court this month regarding those emails... cover that X

Watch them get all surprised when the cases go up

Young people....

If young people are not following the rules it's because i) the government allowed their close associates to break the rules (eg Johnson's SpAd, sister and dad), and ii)not much was done to prevent huge crowds gathering on beaches and in parks, etc. Any failure is on the govt.

Don't just blame the young i know about twenty pensioners from day one of covid19 said no one tells them they have to stay indoors and meet every week twice and still do and when ever it was raised no authority wanted to know the funny thing is hearing them blame kids 4 covid19

I will see Hancock swing

panicdemic propaganda Not the 'exponential' rise in testing, then

Always somebody else’s fault. Despicable Tories.

Matt Hancock also defended a misogynistic homophobe, if I catch COVID I will gladly spit in Hancock and Abbott’s mouths.

Is this the same young people you’re trying to send to school...

Bet to differ - not just young people. People of all ages- have you not been to any city centres or food shopping places. And those who are trying to follow rules finding it very difficult to do so when others don’t give a toss and aren’t. Round n round in circles

Young people aren’t trying to force office workers back.

First its young people being the best because they are at low risk and can go and get essentials for their family members at risk and now its young people are to blame? Blame the old farts who refuse to wear a mask, or the tarts who never went into lockdown and still met people

Putting it down to young people rather than elder incompetence. Wild.

My child has to take a public bus and a train to get to sixth form college. The train is jam packed. And that's before meeting her 'bubble' at school, made up of the entire year group. What are the implications for these kids being put in this situation? CountLongCovid

-sends 1 million students to uni

This is true

The goverment cant never male there mind up if the cases have gone up alot then show the count live on the news not just say shit

Oh whatever

Or school classrooms crammed, universities crammed, pubs crammed, restaurants crammed, shops crammed, public transport crammed and they want offices crammed.

Fkoff you prick

I see how you’re shifting the narrative. Biggest cop out for government incompetence. If we’re keeping it real, if the gov handled this better and faster, closed the boarders etc, we wouldn’t be having a second wave. It’s September... are you not ashamed?

This the same government who said it was our patriotic duty to go to the pub, that the commute is good for us, that we have to go back to the office. The same government who stopped the English daily briefings on how to keep safe in this pandemic?

So nothing to do with non existent leadership, billions wasted on dodgy PPE contracts, no proper quarantine, no working test, track and trace, lack of local testing! The incompetency just goes on and on but rather than admit their own failings let's just blame someone else!

He's not that bothered! If the young succumb, then when (not if!) National Health Insurance gets switched to Private his buddies will make a bomb from ongoing health insurance premiums when/if the kids manage to last until old! PLUS VAT!!

But you still won’t close the pubs!!

Its going to happen, yesterday seen high school children at lunchtime around supermarket with no masks and no social distancing.

MattHancock blaming everyone else for his failures again.

Our daughter has just restarted going to school ( Yr 9 ) and she tells me that there was no social distancing whatsoever - the teachers make them sit next to each other because of “ many children and no extra spaces “ secondwavecoming

Why are you blaming it on us when you sent us back to school when you knew the risks?

Shut the pubs and clubs .. drinking = social distancing out the window! Keep the kids in school if possible. Stop travel to and from Britain. Everything opened up too early.

Look into Matt Hancocks ties with Porton Biopharma. You’ll realise his decisions on this subject are utterly compromised. Get past the precensored posts of claim being debunked and you will find actual forms of him having 75%stake in the company.covid hoax.

Oh it's young people's fault now? I thought it was people at the beach, black lives matter campaigners, people returning from holiday. Its definitely not due to a lack of clarity and leadership

Ah yes pick the easy targets, Young people!

It’s all people, young & old. To many people are thinking it’s gone, it will not happen to me. The police should be more hands on & warning pubs , gatherings etc. Then local authorities have the power to close these places. Once this starts happening they’ll get the message

Is he referring to the young people that the government forced back to school or their parents would be fined? Or the young people that need to get back to their open plan office cells for the sake of Pret?

On the one hand this.....then obliging them to be crammed back into schools with the the other hand...

Why randomly blame 'young people'?

My elderly mother and her cronies are the worst social distancers I have seen. They either forget or don’t fear death anymore. Don’t know which it is. 🙄😎

And if MattHancock had listened to the WHO advice back in January. More grandmas would be alive today.

This from the man who literally did help to kill our grannies in carehomes, with inept PPE delivery and perverse policy of sending Covid sick patients back from hospital! Covid19UK

I thought it was explained to us that not following this government rules was a sign that you loved your family and had common sense.

Close the schools first that’s we’re it will come from more and what will a six year old child now rules

Mostly young people not sticking to the rules, but I’ve seen a few pensioners also not sticking to the rules ..why oh why are these people not being sensible .😡

I’ve started back at school and there is no room to socially distance. Credits to the school for splitting us up as best they can but even in sixth form there’s no room.

MattHancock It's getting boring being a young person and getting blamed for everything. How about we start blaming the people who are capable of wearing masks but chose not to; who are swarming pubs, beaches. Also the MP's who have failed us with their slow, shambolic guidance.

Stop looking for other people to blame other than the government who only thinks about M O N E Y

Good old political blackmail 🙄 so young people being free are suddenly killers not cardiovascular disease or cancer. Conveniently ignores the millions over 44 millions that have survive Covid no longer spread virus which ends spread of virus plus many more not recorded as cases

fuckin bolt hen

Cases does not correlate to dying. Covid data was proven inaccurate wrong anyway. Majority of people with high immunity have survive are not even susceptible to Covid like not susceptable to cold and are not in case numbers. People are being brain washed by politicians and bbc

The younger are in the total right to disregard the life of the older generation that screwed us so badly with climate change, debt, overpopulation, etc. We aren't going to dive into the worst recession in history just to safe some old fossils.

Sort out the young that’s the real problem

Also this government tells people to follow rules and members of themselves don't. They can't tell people what to do if some members won't follow the rules themselves. I'd follow the rules of scientists, health advisors but not this government.

What did they expect after hundreds were coming together in restaurants from the eat out to help out scheme

It's blaming young people when there's a mixture of people of all ages not taking it seriously. I know younger people as much as older taking it seriously too.

The conservatives wanting parents to send their kids back to schools. To reopen businesses, then there's the overpacked transport in which some can't avoid each other, or the Catch 22 some bosses will sack them for dock their much needed pay.

Lining up the blame!

Jerryfurmanto Young people are being told to observe social distancing whilst it’s ok for year bubbles of more than 180 15-16 year olds to spend the whole day together at school & then hop on a school bus which carries children of all years from two other schools! No wonder there’s confusion!

‘Eat out to help out’ ‘Support the Economy’ 😀

If he cared that much we’d still be in lockdown.

Second spike likely as BBC have acted as propaganda arm of the CONservative party - now inevitable happening quickly looking for anyone to blame except those that are responsible- the Tories!!!

In case you people don’t realize it the idea is to permanently keep you locked down in some form or another these people have great difficulty giving up their newfound power the idea is to control every facet of your life

What an absolute crock , and an insult to me and my adult sons . Who they gonna blame next

MattHancock you think it could also be caused by people who refuse to wear masks or the masses of people who went to eat fast food when you cut the prices don't blame the young people when we're the generation that are taking this seriously.

Are they the same young people who live in crowded shared housing and have customer facing jobs in areas like retail and hospitality? Those ones?

UK could see second spike if the government don't sort their shit out and provide leadership, discipline, consistency and competence.

Just the latest way to blame our generation hit by 2 recessions we re blameless for before even into our thirties, unaffordable housing etc

What a wanker trying to blame it on the younger generation 😂 couldnt organise a piss up in a brewery the tosser

So the hybrid learning plan schools had in place, that would have allowed some social distancing, is he now backing that?

Blaming anyone but themselves.

This is a war on youth, a war on culture and a war on society itself.

What a fucking melt !!!! it’s getting pathetic now.

I've honestly lost track of everyone that's been blamed now - scientists, nhs staff, PHE, care workers, protesters, beach visitors, students... Anyone but the Government, eh?

But ...

But doesn’t he want us to get back to work, schools and colleges?

MattHancock s words won't help. Need someone with influence who young people will look up to.

Hancock is...... a willy

Young people say “no” .......

Stop putting the blame on young people, all age groups are ignoring guidelines. Our own pm has set a pathetic example. Remember him boasting about shaking hands with covid patients? His girlfriend pregnant at the time? Have a go at him!!

This is quite dispicible messaging. Children are being sent back to school, without much high level planning or preparation as far as I can see. Some are already anxious. But if their nan dies the government and by extension the BBC will blame them.

Yeah cool young people not following the rules that's the problem. Definitely not that the rules currently in place in our schools are not enforced properly mostly due to space constraints and teachers, not because young people 'don't follow the rules' very cool BBC

Are you kidding me? 330 kids in a bubble 30 in a class on top of each other -NO SOCIAL distancing while the water drips from the window and the room is stuffy! Only country in Europe with covid issue and no masks in schools

Eat out to help out, go back to the office, support local businesses, use public transport. But can you please not breath or touch anything or step outside of your medical grade plastic bag, or see parents or friends. Please only mingle with strangers. What a load is shite !!!!

How about blaming yourselves you incompetent fools 🤡

Wancock opens up the country and the kids go wild. By October, their parents and grandparents will pay the price for naive but predictable consequences. Second wave will come, but Govt will no doubt massage the data and claim they are doing a splendid job.

That’s humorous, open up all the pubs and nightclubs and then blame them for not social distancing

..rules like standing 2 metres apart or .like driving across the country with two infected people to barnard Castle.....asking for a friend

Since when is nob jockey Cummings “young”?

if we could have a second spike then why reopen schools then

Like going to school?

It's always fun to watch when demographic is going to be blamed next! It's like a COVID bingo of blame at this stage when it solely lies at the the feet of the caller.

Too late MattHancock back for three days in an FE college. 16-19 year olds not distancing at all. Big groups outside, sharing food, cigarettes, hugging and play fighting. Constant reminders in the classrooms. Staff are getting very worried...

Oh but not Dominic Cummings. Ok hon

Here we go pass the buck again, if it’s not care workers , it NHS staff , or teachers now the kids . Maybe it’s the shit government who only think of themselves and there money gabbing mates.

No one is clear what the rules are now the government is advising everyone back to the office. Are there any restrictions still actively in place?

Right. We know the government think the public are fucking idiots. They don’t even hide it anymore. Why do the majority of the public not know they’re being treated like idiots? 🙂🙂🙂🙂

😂😂😂

actually social distancing is going very well - sincerely someone who NEEDS TO PASS HER FUCKING GCSES❤️

You mean you don’t want the young people getting together and talking about the complete scam you have implemented , once the penny drops with the people Matt you will be toast

So you say you want young people to social distance yet u open the theme parks Thorpe Park up 7 days a week where 1000s go to every day n cue in lines for up to 1-2 hours per ride with no distacing this is happening everyday 7 days week the biggest gathering in the uk? Zero Covid

500 deaths of cancer a day? Heart disease etc etc etc etc. Why is this virus such a priority covidisacon.

Nice to know when all said and done this government is blaming the young people for the second wave same young ones educations you conpletely destroyed with exam results thats right all their fault not this failure of a uk government always looking for a scape goat

What if I need to drive to Durham to test my vision

rambler808 Always the young people. Not like the government fucked everything up in the first place

Yeah cus there the ones to blame 😒 fuck is wrong with bbc atm. Also fuckthetories

Why keep shifting blame onto young people? Thought this situation was ‘bringing us together as a nation’?

Give it a rest now, this is getting very boring.

You don’t try and speak to them through their social media young people don’t watch the news or read the papers. Your messaging has been abysmal

and how are we supposed to follow said rules when we're cramped in corridors, sitting next to each other on buses and we can't stay home because we'll get in trouble for low attendance, with the possibility of fines might I add

Blame the children.

Bit late

People clearly aren't telling Matt Hancock to shut up nearly as often as they should.

No it’s because you don’t know how to do your job and are greedy.

Wonder if the useless track and trace system and lack of testing, and government messaging has anything to do with it? Probably not, blame young people.

If in doubt, blame young people, prick.

maybe if you didn't send them to school OR LIFTEN THE LOCKDOWN? now why is it on young people when this fucking government don't know what they're doing.

And yet he him self broke them, wot a joke

Is there anything the young people are not going to be blamed for these days? Suppose it’ll be our fault when Brexit becomes reality to and the country suffers. Always blaming others is a sign of weakness and incompetence

Ah yeah, this does look like it’s only the young people causing this issue

we’re seeing a spike because you’re incompetent, Matt

At this rate they'll soon run out of people to blame.

The number of new cases matters not! With a recovery rate in excess of 99.99%, the vast majority will have few, if any symptoms at all! This fear mongering bullshit must be stopped! Plandemic Agenda21 ID2020 Operationlockstep Quantumtattoo Coronavirus Covid19

The real question must be is the virus still as verulent as it was back at the start of the year?. Should we be as fearful of it now as we were back in March?

How will Hancock spin this? Maybe the UK ought to quarantine itself for 14 days!

Bloody kids insisting on going back to school with no distancing and in bubbles of 300+ eh? Oh wait, that was you.

You've sent them back to school!

But get back to the office, schools, pubs, restaurants, cinemas, shops, anywhere you can spend money

People in Southampton have been trying to book tests and are being sent to their nearest testing centre on the Isles of White ... being told “ it’s only 18 miles away “ what about the ferry journey in between ridiculous...

But they don't have to (because it's impossible) follow social distancing in the classroom?

No, surprise. As youngsters don't like being told what to do, or to take orders from people of Authority. That's why the police get attacked.

You have to think twice about public transportation even you cannot arrive on time Maintain social distancing is joke the buses are full and there is no empty seat The only person who is safe is the driver Then you know that this government has failed and They will fail again

How can young people socially distance in schools you weapon? Teachers will be to blame next for not socially distancing them in overcrowded classrooms I imagine

The rules need to be clear, doesn't matter how intelligent or rich some people are, they don't have any common sense! 10DowningStreet

Its appalling that MattHancock is scapegoating the young for his failures... where was his criticism of saintdom and stanleyjohnson etc. How does he think young people can socially distance at School etc. Covid19UK

RiceMandie If it’s not policed like other European countries then they are goin to take no notice 🤷‍♂️oh I forgot the government have cut the police force down to its bare bones 😡

....Says man who attended a cabinet meeting in a room with 49 other people.

Inadequate track and trace

No functioning app

MattHancock GavinWilliamson JWhittingdale educationgovuk You've forced them back to school where distancing is impossible when everyone to attends at once. Why won't you allow blended learning so the number of pupils in the school can be reduced?

Nice groundwork being set there, Matty.

SHUT SCHOOLS I DONT WANT TO BE THERE

Bit difficult when minimum wage is age discriminatory.

Ha! Young people breaking the rules. You sent them back to school. Now infections are spreading everywhere!

I'm sorry, is this a joke

MattHancock you'd better close the schools completely, Social distancing in schools is impossible and you know it. HerdImmunityIsMurder GTTO removethetorygovernment

Anyone with a cold will test positive in winter. We must resist another lockdown, they are intentionally destroying the economy to usher in The Great Reset. Masks are useless and they know it! plandemic

Young people. Most of cases are in pakistani community lets get it right

This country despises it's young

That horse has already well and truly bolted...

Ah yes. The Blame Game™

But... get back in the offices yeah. 😂🖕🏻

mattHancock I heard your Newsbeat interview and despite being told repeatedly that young people didn’t understand the guidelines, you repeatedly said that they did. And then repeatedly didn’t explain the guidelines.

Have there been any public service announcements?

It's happening in Canada with our rates. I know the fatigue of social distancing is high and I know how much it bugs me having to keep my social circle small even though my risk of dying from COVID19 is low but it's got to be done so we can get a handle on this virus. StaySafe

the hell. how are we supposed to social distance in an already packed school. Its MattHancock and his government that came up with the whole bubble idea, and they should be prosecuted not us young people

Bit tricky at school and uni.

tell him to close schools then x

Aaaahhhh of course the government blaming someone else again 😱 FFS

Government forces schools to reopen. Crams kids into classes. Then tells kids 'it will be your fault when you catch covid'. F*** you MattHancock you are both a blot on our landscape.

Back to blaming youngsters again...! Let’s be realistic, children/youngsters have been together all through the summer, there have been protests, riots, and this mythical second wave still hasn’t come.

You defended DC when he broke the lockdown laws to “test his eyesight” so don’t you dare now try and blame young people for your own incompetence! hypocrite trash

It’s not just young people!!! eyesighttest

Why blame young people? Most of the people in my local area who don’t wear masks or follow rules are the older generations.

Young people!!! Nowt to do with all the pissheads getting back down the boozer. Tories love pointing the finger at people who wont vote for them.

'UK could see second spike in Covid-19 cases if the Tories keep f*cking everything up, general public says.'

2/2 Or is it the young people who cannot afford to move out of their parent's home thus taking the virus back home ? And unless they live in a mansion they can't social distance there either !

Give it two weeks 🙄

Just cut out the foreplay and get Johnson to tweet for you.

What a brilliant way to drive a wedge between generations when the government should be trying to bring the country together.

1/2 Do you mean the young people who have been forced back to school with no social distancing because your government have done nothing for the last 6 months to enable this ? Or those young people in minimum wage jobs on the front line with no PPE ?

Went into town at w/end for 1st time & it was NOT young people who were the problem it was overwhelmingly the middle-aged who not only didn't bother with social distancing but felt it appropriate to ridicule me for wearing a mask. 3 separate instances in the space of 20 mins

It would be interesting to know if a third of all people using Eat Out To Help Out were between 20-29 yo. The gvmt shouldn’t encourage people to go out then try to shame people for doing exactly that!

These damn young people ignoring social distancing rules. Like when they're in school do you mean?

Old people* Your welcome bbc just reporting facts from my local area

Give it up. No one believes this nonsense anymore.

It’s not just young people.

Should make laws not rules or guidance when it comes to covid stupid people

Government: 'Go back to your lives, spend money' Also government: 'IT'S YOUR FAULT'

BBC you should bd ashamed. They're forcing us back yo work, forcing schools to open, universities, encouraging people to go to pubs and restaurants. This Is on them. They're encouraging this. Stop supporting their scapegoating

Get to absolute fuck, you rotton bellends.

cool so we're being blamed now how are we meant to socially distance in hallways under a metre wide & in tiny classrooms with a class of 30...?

So HanCOCK et al. encouraged people to go out to save the economy and now they’re blaming those same people for a rise in cases. Ok hypocrites 👍🏻

No shit sherlock

The front it must have taken to make this statement. The front it must have taken to type it up like it's a serious news story. Unbelievable

You keep changing your terms Secretary for Ill-Health.. Death rates - infections - second wave..spikes..! I'm guessing you haven't really got a clue what your talking about.. Or.. is Trump controlling you to awaken the British public to the cabal tyranny?

Do these pricks just spin a wheel at the start of the week to decide who they should assign blame to?

Young people! What about the BLM or XR protests! They are the bigger risk

Always throwing someone under the bus. It wouldn't be your relaxing of the rules would it? No it'll be the 'Young people' not following the guidelines

Thanks for letting us know who to blame in advance Mr. Hancock, as of course it’s not the responsibility of your catastrophe of a Government.

You are nothing but a state media org.

Fucking stupid statement. Idiot. I'm fairly sure it's ignorant people not wearing masks, ignorant people of ALL ages!!!

get rid of the bbc and salt the earth it stands on

The young people his government sent back to school, the young people his government just sent back to work or the young people who are off to university in a couple of weeks?

What about the lack of social distancing from politicians? What about older people in pubs? Oh, and there’s the middle-aged people leaning all over each other in supermarkets. Stop blaming and scapegoating young people!

Nothing to do with ineffectual lockdown, pushing schools back or demanding people travel into work again then

Blame the young when it’s policy that failed the Uk

Like the young people at school. Just passed a school playground with kids acting as normal - no social distancing. Etc

Maybe you could do some journalism rather than parroting the meaningless words of this government. Imagine how good our country could be if you bothered to do your jobs.

No shit Sherlock

Erm every person I have encountered that breaks rules has been around 50 years old so why don’t we stop blaming because you need someone to blame that isn’t your ignorant self “health secretary”.

Give the schools proper guidance about how to safely social distance in then because the current situation doesn't appear to work very well, you've just sent them all back to it and they are expected to teach full time with full classes AND make up for what's been missed

MattHancock 🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥

But you send the young people out to work and decide whether or not to shield the elderly what do you expect MattHancock 🤔😂

Peter Pandemic is responsible, although getting him to face his responsibilities is a Gordian knot of a problem.

Oh yes and I have 2 kids at the same school in 2 different bubbles! What happens when they get home? Oh look you just mixed hundreds of potential covid contacts! No wonder infection rates are spiking in schools 😡 TooSoonToOpenSchools

It's good to know that it'll be peoples misunderstanding of a vague and contradictory set of government regulations that'll cause a second wave, and not the catastrophic mishandling of the first one that will make us believe its anyone but you MattHancock

Why is it always the fault of “young people”? Ever since I can remember my generation has been blamed for pretty much everything. Global warming? Young people. Sink hole in Japan? Young people. Killer virus from China? Young people. It’s not “young people” that run the country..?

32!! Yes 32 children in my kids primary school class sitting 2 to a table, all squashed into a small classroom room for hours per day. You can’t socially distance like that. Still the gov are forcing parents to send their kids in. MattHancock is a prize idiot.

Get it sorted then....Get on the front foot now instead of always being one step behind.!!! 😷😷

Open the country in the middle of a pandemic, then blame the people when their mish-mashed 'guidance' isnt followed. Go out, don't go out, 2 meters or 1.5 meters, wear a mask, don't wear a mask, use our broken track/track, stay alert to an invisible virus! What a shambles. 😳

ToryLiars trying to lay the blame elsewhere again

If young people were following social distancing rules they wouldn’t be in fucking school right now.

BBCYoungReport Come on BBC, you're better than this.

But keep going to the pub, right? 🤡

Let's be honest, because we know it goes against everything you guys stand for. The spikes have been predominantly in bame communities. (This is called being Observant and not racist for stating facts, before the woke leftards pipe up) 🙄

Remember that time all those hundreds of thousands of young people from Illegal Raves and Protests up and down the Country caused a HUGE SPIKE in CVD NO ? ..., me neither. Stop spreading Absolute BullCrap !

Do shoves them all into classrooms, clever

BBC should be renamed to STS... Spouting Tory Shite. You are no longer unbiased but just a branch for the Tory lies.

Why why you silent on ALL the protests for SaveOurChildren SaveTheChildren all over the UK including the ones outside your main headquarters? And not to mention you deleting 10000s of comments from Facebook?

Matt Hancock has been incompetent from the moment he took the post. Sadly Boris runs the government the same way Trump runs the WH. As long as ministers tow the line they keep their jobs and others are blamed. It will be a winter of discontent and ministerial blundering

Also, stats might show that majority of cases of coronavirus are now amongst young people, but it doesn't mean they caught it from other young people. Anybody can spread it.

No one is social distancing anymore. Plus, I work in retail & I can tell you, it's not the young people not wearing masks!

Bore off MSM scaremongering. This man is a 🤡

... and put them all in the schools with no distancing?

Young people blamed when encouraged by government to go shopping, go to the pub, go to work, go on holiday, return to education, etc. Plus, government reluctantly brought in wearing face covering, but reduced 2m rule to 1m to help shops, pubs, etc. Typical Tory blame game.

Oh come on. No one believes a word that comes out of his mouth, and you lot need to stop scaremongering and do some decent reporting of the facts

Follow the rules like Dominic Cummings did!

nicolawitch I didn’t think I could hate anyone more than Blair and then along comes Hancock

It’s not just young people I’ve seen lots of the older generations not wearing masks and not social distancing!!! You

'UK could see Christmas together if the young and healthy get mild doses or asymptomatic and create the herd immunity' Or 'UK government &/or BBC investigating cases vs positive tests on PCR tests' Or 'BBC start questioning the data' Take your pick...

Yeah blame young people. Not the middle aged morons who refuse to wear masks or the government for forcing everyone back to offices and into schools.

What 2nd spike, we havent got passed the 1st, just under 3k yesterday Matt, isn't what I'd call... on the ball

nicolawitch Mp's not following rules did that spark the first wave?. Did millions going on seaside holidays around UK over summer cause a second wave?. Did numerous riots/demos by blm antifa cause a second spike. Just scaremongering as government seek to extend covid act (power grab).

Like VE Day 🤪🤪🤪

UCU attacks Matt Hancock's suggestion that university students could be behind second Covid wave

Well you’ve told young people to stop working from home and go back on trains and buses, where social distancing is not possible. The message has essentially been ‘It’s time to stop being selfish and take a bit of a risk for the economy’ - now you’re annoyed they’ve done that?

Hilarious- after insisting we all eat out to help out. Shysters

then why was it ok to cram them back into crowed schools, what an utter knob MattHancock is. StayHomeSaveLives

Fuck off! Most young people in my area are following social distancing rules. It’s older people that don’t

They can’t social distance. They’ve been stuck in a “bubble” with 100s of other kids.

Could see that coming months ago!!!

Have you bothered to ask him why the infection rate seems to be increasing quite rapidly again?

This is why people don't pay their TV licence.

The government that has been urging people back to work blames *checks notes* young people.

Schools are mad atm, kids all over the show. It's not working.

As young people are immortal nothing bad can happen to them. If smoking, drugs and unprotected sex cannot affect them...why in the whole world would they care about a severe cold. And...screw the old farts.

If the governments on this planet don't give us our rights back, then they are going find out what a second wave really is. It's us. WeAreTheSecondWave The people are getting very, very tired of this.😠 🚫 NoNewNormal 🔥😷BurnYourMask 😎 FlattenTheFear NoLifeWithoutRisk

Second spike with next to zero deaths. And the problem is?

People have been going to pubs for 2 months now... where is this pile of bodies? This entire thing is hysteria.

You're such lickspittles. Quote: 'And a school in Suffolk has closed after five members of teaching staff tested positive' How about : 'Government abandoning virus rules risks 'second wave'. Much better.

I've more than followed regs since March, bc the logical response to an incompetent government pursuing herd immunity is to go above and beyond the official advice. Aside from the one drive to check my eyesight back in April, I've barely even gone anywhere. Yet I'm to blame.

Boring !!! Its all a lie to control us !! How about the police start arresting the Extinction Rebellion Bellends !! That's should give you something to report

MattHancock I’m not sure what reality you live in but a case, a hospital admission and a death are not one of the same. You’re being found out as a shyster

Tories: 'Eat out! Go to the restaurant! Go back into offices! Commute on buses and trains! Go to school! Go to Pret! Go to the pub!' (outbreak happens) Tories: 'There's been an outbreak. Why won't the young social distance?'

But it’s fine to do this in Schools.....

Yeah those damn young people....

Wasn’t it the young who said we was messing up things for them well this is what happens when you leave things to the young

“Go back to work!” “No more furlough!” “Eat out to help out!” “Go to the pub!” “We’re reopening the schools!” [a short while later] “This is YOUR fault idiots, how dare you do what we told/forced you to do”

You have to laugh. Matt Hancock tells people that its important to socially distance to stop people from getting the virus. When he didn't do that himself and neither did Boris or the chief medical officer. Talk about, do as I say and not as I do. Utter hypocrisy, Matty.

So the youngsters who have all gone back to school are really dangerous and selfish but the adults who dont go back to work are also selfish as they are destroying the economy by working from home?

panicdemic propaganda

Stop blaming the young people. They dont know what the bloody hell to believe with the rubbish guidance. I don't think anyone knows exactly what the guidance even is

Ppl have no idea how much we DON'T want to be contending with covid over winter- on top of the usual winter issues. But hey ho... twitter armchair clinical mouthpieces know best..

Tory arseholes passing the blame yet again. 10 years they've done this shit.

I wish they would just sack him

Same Health secretary also wants you to go out to eat and get back to the office. No conflicting advice there at all.

'GET BACK INTO YOUR OFFICES AND STOP KILLING PEOPLE!'

This government are trolling us, but it's not funny. It's deadly. ToryGenocide Covid19

So should I stay in or go out? Mixed messaging here

By gong back to school , university ffs

Funny in the end hurd mentality is what will be the end all to get back to normal. The young understand it better then the politicians playing politics with peoples lives.

Blame blame blame. The only thing this gov is good at.

Preemptively putting the blame for his incompetence on others. Useless coward.

Meanwhile...stabbings and shootings continue....

It middle aged white men that cause the problems. Stop bullying young people

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By forcing people to work and schools, marvellous idea, you have learnt nothing, are incompetent and a very dangerous idiot

Your headline should be 'Health Secretary switches blame to young people in the same week that the government forced schools to reopen.'

Nothing to do with the bumbling idiots incompetent handling of this whole crisis. Always playing the blame card. MattHancock interview this morning was embarrassing/cringeworthy

It is funny how you frame things Matt Hancock says as objective truth within your headlines. A health correspondent might ask, how young people are supposed to social distance *and* go back to the office at the same time?

BBC the government propaganda tool.

By spike you mean reclassification of the annual winter flu bug 🤷‍♂️

Fuck these liars, and fuck you for promoting their lies.

Blaming the public for the second wave? It’s down to you the government and media for the very poor handling of the covid pandemic. You both have to look at yourself in this pandemic and make much needed changes

No shit?

What a load of BOLLOCKS Still waiting for the 1stWave never mind the '2ndWave'

How much did the B & M Gates foundation pay BBC action trust again?

He hopes

there will always be people who will not follow social distancing rules

If you dont want the young people to go to the clubs then WHY are they open

Its not just the young not following rules. Its people of all ages. I'm in pharmacy and the amount of people coming in with masks as a chin warmer or not covering noses is ridiculous. Majority being 30-60 years of age. Same in supermarkets and also no distancing either

How can young people at schools social distance? The schools aren’t any bigger and do not have the function or space to allow class rooms of up to 30-35 children in one room to social distance themselves in line with government advice!!!

How are they supposed to follow social distancing when they’re forced to be squeezed together inside classrooms with no air circulation, which is official government policy for the sake of the Holy Markets?

Can't we just say that some people are Covidiots and others are not without singling out specific age groups etc? I'm in the 20-29 group, me and my friends have followed restrictions to the letter as I'm sure many others have too...

Do the daily news briefings again to reinforce the situation

your're gay.

Here we go again, HandCOCK is preparing to blame school children on the second wave of the Plandemic ! Nothing in commerce happens by accident...EVERYTHING IS ORCHESTRATED !

So you're telling me that social distancing helps slow the spread?

Just young people then, fucking tosser

How dare the government try an shift the blame onto the youth of the nation when it is their fault for: failing to act quickly, giving poor/contradictory guidance, failing to enforce the sensible in any substantial manner and screwing over the NHS How FUCKING dare you

Didn't Mr Hancock catch it from or pass it to a number of his work colleagues and subsequently was pictured putting an arm around one indoors? I could be mistaken

Don’t suppose it has anything to do with people being forced back to offices too quickly instead of being allowed to continue working hard at home and keep transport less crowded for others, or children being forced back to schools full time where social distancing is impossible.

And yet you are begging people to get back to work? But nah its young people who will cause it.

But young adults are crammed into classrooms without masks or any need for/possibility of social distancing?

I'd like to know what the number of cases needs to reach before this government will implement measures to ensure the health of people going forward?

Second wave is already here

Yet schools and colleges are allowed open with 30 in a class?

Government: Eat Out to Help Out Young people: *eat out* Government: I can't believe you've done this.

No, it’s due to the boomers wearing masks under their noses x

Blame game

Easy to blame people when the government has failed, with no idea of what to do. The old chestnut of blame the people!

Thank you BBC for this uncritical parroting of a government line in the same week they are demanding people return to offices.

So we're being actively encouraged to go back to workplaces, send kids to school, 'eat out to help out', but the rise in cases is specifically because young people aren't following the rules. I know MattHancock has got to prepare his scapegoat but this take is ridiculous.

It's time the government and police get tough on these younger idots flouting social distancing rules there going to cause a second lockdown

Well what do you expect. You made gatherings 30 people of course young people would take advantage of that rule. Not like they ever payed attention to social distancing in the first place. Your words mean nothing hancock. Take some action. Spineless fool

The only problem here is kids don’t understand and think they won’t catch it... don’t make them choose and make face masks mandatory in corridors etc.

Hmmmm 🤔

Another Hancock deflection blaming teenagers, who is NEXT? he and his other members of the Johnson boys club are totally incompetent at running the country both with Covid and Brexit

Government who do we blame this week let’s pick on 18-25 year olds seems they have blamed everyone who’s going to be next?

So these test kits from 2017 2018 ?

Not so much the virus rate as the requirement for hospitalization numbers. A high percentage may test positive but suffer little more than flu symptoms.

Interesting the the Infection rate is going up since people started to wear masks, All you see is people messing trying to breathe with them on. So people are touching there mouths. So answer is to stop wearing face covers. It’s time to be normal

Not made clear that friends meeting up in pubs should still socially distance. Young people seem to think that as long as they stay with their group of mates that’s ok. Clearer messaging required, unless this is what was wanted all along of course

To be fair, we went to a local, rural pub at the weekend as it was nice weather and we knew we could sit out, there were 30+ adult males in lycra on their mountain bikes with an average age of 50+, elbow to elbow

But but you said get the kids back to school as there isn’t a problem and every one back to work 🤔

Be kids nxt 😡😡

Oh look. It’s a new day & another ‘blame someone else’ day from the Tory government. Just waiting for Bill Murray to turn up like from Groundhog Day.

Yep let's blame the younger people! They had great role models, has anyone seen Cummings lately or has he popped to Barbados for a blood test?

imagine blaming young people just because they aren’t stupid enough to vote conservative

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A second wave - which is now occurring - is NOT the fault of the young, but that of our Govt which: a) ended lockdown too soon & too quickly before the first wave of coronavirus spread had been controlled; b) issued confusing &, in places, incoherent advice on social /2

stop blaming young people. young people are distancing and wearing masks. everywhere i go it’s the elderly and middle aged people ignoring the rules

My daughter has Covid symptoms has received a home test with these instructions go OUT & post the test once done 2 miles away...covidtestUK

The “second wave” will be normal flu season but we will be forced to call it covid 19

Always someone else to blame other than the actions you and your government have taken.

Mr. Hancock, you're meant to be the adult in the room. Behave like it.

Bigger fines would solve this problem, £300 for non wearing of masks £3000 for illegal social gatherings to each person their! This would solve it overnight

Yeah ...... no cares wot mat the **** Hancock ses anymore .. second wave , second wave ... my foot

Wouldn't surprise me. Mask wearing needs to be better enforced on transport and in shops. And people need to follow distancing

Cheeky idiot my kid was off school and proper social distancing was done he went back Friday today he’s got temp and can’t breath you idiot please get off

We could be invaded by aliens tomorrow. In the same way we could have all died of ignorance back in the early 1980s. We won’t be abd we didn’t.

Maybe look at what’s happening to other countries? We followed with the first wave. Yet it’s so hard for them to see we’ll follow for the second. But the young people are to blame 🤦🏼‍♂️

How can young people follow social distance at school there isn't any do you not realise some of these kids go home to vulnerable parents and grandparents

Well make that age group isolate then instead of making older people do it, who mostly abide by the rules. All holidays worldwide should have been cancelled until the year end, and the pubs not doing social distancing should be closed.

Not just young people, look at commuters in London and family’s on the beaches

It's funny how the government has gone very quiet about closing down pubs/restaurants so they can reopen schools

Is that a second spike of cases or hospitalisations? Really matters that we tell the difference

Why is this news? Doesn’t everyone already know SlowNewsDay

blame bastards like urself matt instead of just young people

Not the man who caught covid in the office telling me to go back to the office blaming young people

DefundTheBBC

Should have dealt with it like Sweden. No sign of a second wave there.

Ahh the classic Tory position - blame everyone else instead of taking responsibility

You lot opened the pubs , but must admit where we are no sign of social distancing in any shape or form. But you shouldn’t point the finger at all younger end.

No MattHancock the second spike will be because you and you're inept colleagues have forced children back into schools and are trying to force companies to bring everyone back into offices. The day we all see a full Commons perhaps the people will consider doing what you ask.

This is a depressing article, especially the comments. 99.8% survive this virus, therapeutics are available and the NHS was never overwhelmed. What else is required before you stop the scaremongering? [hint, we know].

How exactly are young people packet in a classroom going to follow the rules? How? How?

We could be hit by an asteroid, why does he take such joy in looking at the bleak side of everything. Prophet of Doom. PeterPandemic

To be fair every time I go into a supermarket, it is generally the young (not all), but the young not wearing face masks!

Doncaster will be next letting in crowds at the grand st ledger this week people getting pissed in the town centre before racing and after racing and a belly full at the races no social distancing disaster on the cards

The vast majority I would say of those walking through the shopping centre where I work who are not wearing masks are actually young people. They have heard over and over that if they get it it won’t be too bad for them. They are oblivious.

You mean like that time you broke social distancing in Parliament MattHancock?

So what? This virus has a 99%+ survival rate. It’s time all restrictions are lifted and we get back to our lives. Enough is enough

Let’s send them all back to school then! Great idea ffs! 😡🙄

yes it's all young peoples fault! how terribly predictable to apportion blame. this is getting old. every government goes through a phase of scapegoat. now for BBC's article in 2 weeks' time 'young people's behavior not linked to a rise in cases'

What a clown.

But get back to city centre offices, yeah DominicRaab?

Blame blame blame.

What utter crap! I live in an area that has a higher population of elderly! The youngsters are doing well at social distancing, and wearing masks! It’s actually the elderly! That are causing problems, no social distancing, arrogant in shops! Filling up restaurants! Life as normal

Bollocks. Observe the 'wave' of deaths and hospital admissions!

I take this very seriously, if young people do not follow social distancing rules THERE WILL be a coronavirus secondwave Which is why we have sent all the children back to school

Yep told you this is all the young peoples fault! They really are running out of people to blame. Any suggestions for them as to what parts of society they have missed? The Carmelite nuns they seem to have got off lightly. Should they be warned about incoming blame?

Yawwwwwen. Spike in deaths? We all know young people are not at risk of fatality. So they catch a cold. Big deal

The young in 1940 V the entitled snowflake generation of today. We’d all be speaking German with this generation

It's not just young people who don't know how to social distance,.

This is not true. Young people and “social distancing” is not the answer, mandatory wearing masks in closed public spaces is the answer. BBC, please invite me to explain what should be done but hasn’t since Cummings scandal. I’m fed up of incompetence of the UK Government.

Laughing our socks at you. You are appalling with your lazy lazy reporting. Defund the BBC.

Are they following the Trump model of dealing with Covid19?

The government insists my sons to go back to school. They spend all day in a classroom with 30 other students. There’s not enough space to socially distance and they are not to wear masks. This is why it is spreading again, because of government school guidelines.

Is Pret okay?

It’s not just young people. There are people of all ages who seem to think the guidelines do not apply to them.

Says a man responsible for killing thousands of care home residents 🙈🙈🙈

What do you mean 'could' 😂😂

Are some caused by people’s failure to quarantine ? Who checks?

Young people can't socially distance because they've been forced back into school where social distancing is impossible. They won't be the ones to blame, Hancock, Johnson et al will be

You lead by example. Your example is not to sack Cummings for breaking the rules and you cram 30 conservatives into a small room. Unfortunately your incompetence in leadership is the problem, you caused the wrong behaviours. Hypocrite

Matt Hancock hasn't got a fucking clue what he is chatting shit about! Their's NO 2ND WAVE!!! & COVID-19 ISN'T DEADLY!!! GET A GRIP YOU OPH!

'A symptomless positive swab is not a case. Never, in recorded history, has this been true. ,,now we have an almost unquestioned acceptance that a positive swab represents a case of COVID. This is then in all the news channels as if it were gospel.'

Strange that the BBC don't show that the percentage of 'cases' remains incredibly low. Do they want to keep us panicked for no reason? Or have they been instructed to?

Only thing certain in life is death! Get on with life and forget about this rubbish... Its boring, I'm here for a good time not a long time

Latest scapegoats identified - young people

I see all the anti government under 50 follower people are out in force today!

The second spike is here already with 3k infected yesterday. What are you talking about?

Don’t just put all the blame on younger people. I’ve seen plenty of others not following rules 🙄

It is mostly the younger generation breaking the rules, from what I've witnessed anyway - not sure of the actual data. Make no mistake though a large number of the older generation are also breaking the rules, it's not all on young people.

Stop encouraging them with free food vouchers! Stop encouraging them to go to the pubs then! Stop encouraging them full stop!!!

SussexBylines What, in schools?

Casedemic Cases do not mean sick people. A case is a person with anti-bodies. The PCR test identifies this and most people have them. The test cannot identify a virus, nor can it measure viral load which is the determinant of the level of sickness!.

THEN MAKE MASKS COMPULSORY IN SCHOOLS. As it is IMPOSSIBLE to socially distance.

100s of people on black lives matter march fine. Kids in a classroom dangerous pmsl

What about advisors to the PM 🤔

as if older people are following social distancing in pubs.

Cases does not necessarily mean sick people. Or hospitalisations. Or deaths.

This entirely incompetent and inept Tory govt risks a second wave u mean .. It’s almost like they don’t want ANY votes next election

tell that to the people who opened schools again... oh wait that was the Government 😂

but how many deaths a day? more probs die in car crashes then in covid

the government didn’t think that through haha the age demographic that is least likely to vote for them in the next election the government have put all the blame on if there’s another spike, do you want any voters in the next election 😂😭

The only constant with this virus story is the the generational failings in our education system. Clearly evident in the stupidity and ignorance displayed in the comments.

No more lockdowns!Its ruining peoples lives!If we lockdown again.More businesses will close, jobs lost, homes lost!We should be aloud to decide on whether we want to take the risk on a virus with a very high survival rate!Shield the vulnerable and let the rest of us carry on!

The Death Minister

Only 7 cases in schools and 2.5 today young people will distant now

And you tell that to the young people of today and they won’t believe you.

Why is obsessed with there being a second wave and pumping out the worst possible outcome?

night MattHancock you and GavinWilliamson have just packed them into classrooms of 30+ where social distancing is impossible which the Unions told you all months ago. The second wave is on you alone. Do not dare blame children or school staff for your incompetence.

No we wont be goodbye

Scaremongering -second spike should be seen by now as pubs and other public places have been open for weeks

i think you will find it was dominic cummings

Thank you BBC for explaining for the Government how it's all our fault ...

Been saying this for 3 months

AilsaJanePod So it won’t be the protests all over the country then 🙄🤷‍♀️ let’s face it they should be banned in these times

More tests = more 'CASES'. More 'CASES' = more 'INFECTIONS'. More 'INFECTIONS' = more FEAR. More FEAR = You will lose your FREEDOM.

Blame, blame, blame. Your government says it's safe to go back to school, university, work, etc. It obviously isn't.

Young people this week is it? Nothing to do with RishiSunak encouraging us to pile into every café, restaurant and pub we see for the last month? No visiting our families round here but going to a pub full of shouting drunks and swapping sweat and slobber at the gym is fine 👍

Always looking to blame people 🙄

What if they need to check their eyesight by travelling to a castle 🏰 near Durham?

doctor_dev88 your fault when there's a 2nd lockdown!

So you are blaming the kids now whatever next 😡

Stop blaming young people. More than anything i see boomers being stupid and not wearing masks.

Is it any wonder when people are queuing for pubs like this?!

The kids say there is limited distancing in schools and none in the classroom

Is it what his pharma investments advisers told him to say?! Spike of PCR tests showing dead viruses or parts of viruses or similar coronaviruses doesn't mean cases. science scicomm

Don't just blame the young. Went to a large DIY store yesterday. Pretty much everyone had a mask on, but I reckon a quarter of them were dick noses, so the masks were pretty much pointless.

stop shifting the blame on whatever demographic suits you best and start taking responsibility for your negligence.

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Are these the young people you sent back to schools? How do you expect people to follow rules when they are not consistent?

And schools...

Well I’m off the gym now and out for some food later which the government said is all good .

why don't you bed-wetters do some research on why the number of cases are being exaggerated. What are the 7 day rolling averages for Flu and Pneumonia cases ?

Picking on tbe kids now!

So it's young people's fault now is it. Surely can't be long before he comes out with the dog eat it.

The government says, 'Go out enjoy yourself and have fun,' knowing the police have already said, 'drunk people can't socially distance.' They can't blame young people for doing what they invite. Simple solution - close all pubs and bars and financially help these owners.

/ Do U not think Matt Hancock that informing Holiday Makers in Spain ! That they had to get back to the U.K before 0400 on a certain day to avoid being Quarantined! That being so Government consider those before 0400 were free of infections ! Those after we’re likely 2b infected!

Working in offices, going to school, eat out help out, not wearing a mask are all leading to a second 🔐 down. The government will always put the economy first.

We shall continue to falsify numbers if you continue to reject tyranny and live your life .I'm a c.nt and really need to be put out of my misery i can't stand the human race. signed MattHancock Plandemic

How can young people be blamed when these MPs are the worst offenders who believe the rules are for everyone else except them!

Tell me.... is Cummings considered part of the younger generation? You remember when he did it? How we all laughed? Asking for a friend 🤦‍♀️🤬💔

Using young people as a scapegoat. The only reason there’s a spike is because of this Government.

In my area of London, only the bank queue has managed social distancing, with a staff member coming out to tell people. Nobody of any age is doing it anymore anywhere else.

Young people are to blame (they don’t vote Tory)

...shouldn’t this read ...if colleagues... ?!

We are dealing with the impossible, C-19 is here to stay. I mean who has been provided cash following a sale but not washed the money or hands? Just one example of many I could provide 🤷‍♂️

COULD & IF .... Its not even a story

I think you might be a tad late on this....It’s happening,big time!!

cases can go up as much as you like as long as deaths continue to fall.

Not *just* young people though is it...!!

My son is off sick after 2 DAYS back at school!! My suggestion for you MattHancock is to put a mirror at the foot of your bed so you can wake up to yourself!

Only young people?

Distancing, mask and sanitisers help, but without track and trace program to make use of the test results, we can never control the pandemic and therefore economy will continue to suffer. Lockdown bought us time, but we did sod all with the time we bought and paid dearly for.

If you think local school spikes are bad. Wait until the distance travelling university students, move around the country. 🙄

Self testing for Covid-19 Pour a measure of Gin, vodka or rum into a glass and see if you can smell it. Drink it and if you can taste it, it's reasonable to assume you are currently free of the virus. I tested myself 5 times last night and was thankfully virus free each time.

We will see a 2nd wave due to government and no lockdown due to government

Cummings started the relaxation of rules and mindsets.

It's simple - more cases being found because of more testing. They're asymptomatic and the death rate is almost down to nothing. Give it up mate. Stop the scaremongering and let us get on with our lives.

Yep and the numerous pensioners I saw this morning in the coffee shop not bothering to wear face masks, use hand gel or log into the track and trace website.

Well they've been ordered back to school, college and work so good luck with that.

Governments fault for herding the young people ......

Government ineptitude has nothing to do with a potential second spike ? I can remember the first wave debacle how about you Mr Hancock ?

Oi! Why aren’t you reporting on the Proposed Changes to the UK Human Medicine Regulations? The Govs plan to use UNLICENSED VACCINES! Here’s the highlights. coronavirus UKGovernment I DO NOT CONSENT! JCVI

I think it is unfair to only blame young people. Everybody with masks under their nose/none at all that I have seen have been the elderly or Karen's.

2nd wave is a myth, media have been claiming the 2nd wave started in July. Yet more Fake News

Yep time to pass the blame on... young people studying now ..

Yeah blame the young people MattHancock , always the easy target. Nothing to do with our government handling the COVID19 crisis abysmally compared to the rest of the world.

Nah, not having that matty boy. It’s the governments responsibility. Do something about it

Clue-less he has no idea Wait until next week when schools have close due to a SPIKE Mr Hancock

The blame game has started already. So is it now a more sensible idea for people to keep working from home, keep their children away from school 🚸 temporarily with online learning now ln place, keep away from public transport and the city centres as much as possible?

This man is a complete and utter fool.

Needs to be addressed. Maybe a campaign specifically aimed at younger people?

Open the schools

I thought people going to the beaches were going to cause a 2nd wave? Or was it the pubs opening or the schools.. Ive lost track

“Young people” try most bloody people.

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It’s already a second spike but worryingly you haven’t noticed......as per spike one

For once, I tend to agree with him, but as always, this amazing revelation is, as always way too late. There is already Covid -19 in our local schools.

Put the blame on someone or something else. Typical Tory. NeverTrustATory

night 1/3 of new cases in young people.....which means 2/3rds weren't but yeah young people's fault

Plan is in place

Oh shut up.

Spot on

You spelt 'gammons' wrong.

No shit Hancock 😳

It's obvious!The countries like Spain/France where people knowingly or unknowingly breaking the rules, COVID19 reappears. On the other hand countries like Norway,Netherlands and even Italy where people behave sensibly with neo-normal,Covid_19 has been curbed substantially

What has Matt Hancock got to say about the Prime Minister and Tory MPs ignoring the rules ? Fifty Tory MPs did crowd into a committee meeting room which had been designated for no more than thirty after all.

Young peoples fault now!, how about MPs in small room, or MPS still shaking hands? Do as I say not as I do

🤣🤣🤣🤣 BBC please give it up. You won't be around much longer DefundTheBBC

90% of the people I see not wearing masks in shops and public are 40+, most of the people not caring about social distancing in pubs like Wetherspoons are 40+, most COVID conspiracists are 40+, stop blaming the youth to avoid blaming the average Tory voter.

Went to a restaurant/bar on Saturday nite, all good until around 10pm when drink consumption kicked in. Young team hugging, high fiving, wandering round pub and congregating around the bar. They are not listening because they don’t want to

No one has been following social distancing since the first let up back in June! The virus isn’t a problem. Stop moaning, get rid of all restrictions and let’s go back to normal life. Covid19 has shown how quick people are to loose all sense of reality over a 99.9% survival rate

night Scaremongering still i see ! ..Corona cold lockdown madness. Lockdown is The Worst decision in political history & will lead to thousands of deaths & millions unemployed! All Pushed by a left MSM!

I blame the older generation and their couldn’t care less attitude.

Not sure people are clear what the rules are anymore with constant changes and u-turns from your incompetent government MattHancock. You're the ones in charge but when things go wrong it's not your fault? Do you or do you not have control of the situation?

Never happen didn't have a surge after all the demos ,the ve day celebrations or after the beaches,been found out now

How can you be social and distant at the same time You can’t be hot and cold at the same time DEVINE LOVE CAST OUT EVERYTHING UNLIKE ITSELF... 💞🙏💞

What % of the young people tested positive might not actually be carriers of live virus that the PCR test is picking up? It is time to speak lauder about the problems and ask questions!

Of course it's the youth..... not the bumbling morons in charge or the covidiots that think Masks are stupid.

If young people don’t take care they will murder there family listen fools 👍❤️😃😱😱😱😱😱

Matt Hancock obviously doesn't know that space is at a premium in schools and social distancing is impossible in close quarters.

They can’t social distance at school and on the school bus!

Don't try and blame Joe public, you have opened to much

Attempted distraction from inadequate test, trace & isolate, lack of an app, poor communication, opacity, no zero covid policy & a muddled & reckless approach to loosening lockdown. But it's fooling no-one. MattHancock, BorisJohnson: it's all yours.

My goodness, it cannot be? Somebody call the ghostbusters or something.

Next up on the tory wheel of blame... Young people! Shameless

And yet he backed somones breaking the rules and set that very example

The young people got to work too!

Please tell this to your schools.

Also don’t forget to go back into the office mate! That’s vital to the economy

Second wave guaranteed because people are now out and about, half of people I see aren’t bothering to social distance any more because ‘they bored of it’. Plus all the schools have just gone back. Bubbles or no bubbles people are interacting again so virus cases will shoot up.

That's total nonsense, most people follow the rules. You can't bring yourselves to say, infection rates rise even though most people follow the rules. If you did it would show that you are all wrong and always have been. Your trying to rig a game, that's already been played.

Don’t forget the third spike...let alone the fourth spike. Come on Conservatives and get a grip.

DominicCummings , Durham , fill your boots kids.

They just need to chant ‘Black Lives Matter’ for 3 minutes 3 times per day, after meals. The virus will then be unable to infect them. Doctors need to be prescribing this wonder cure. If we all did it we would have mob immunity and the virus would be gone in no time.

Why not bring in a curfew... done it in Australia. That will stop stupid and selfish young people!!!

Hey Mancock I can send you pics of the fucking hoardes of 40s-50s that are. in my local pubs every weekend not social distancing or wearing masks iyw?

Just drove past 100-200 kids on their way to school, all huddled together in what was probably their usual groups, with no thought at all to social distancing (two or three wearing a mask). This in the Norfolk town where There was a recent outbreak at a chicken processing factory

Then do something about it . And resign

The government never had control of the virus in the first place. Lockdown was to late, easing of it was to early, and the test and trace is a shambles. There is no control now, seeing an increase in infections is inevitable and its obvious its going to get worse. Total shambles.

Tests lead to cases. cases are NOT INFECTIONS & TESTS are NOT COVID SPECIFIC. THEY PICK UP OLD CORONAVIRUSES FROM COLDS FLU & FLU VACCINES. & RECOVERED. THEY ARE NOT COVID INFECTIONS. WAKE UP TO THE FRAUD PEOPLE ZeroCovid FRAUD

youngers dont run the government you do

Wonder how bad flu will be this year. Probably not bad as everything will be recorded as Covid regardless lol

Ah yes. Blame the kids.

Is this applicable for Greenwood & Foden?

More blame shifting from wee Mancock MattHancock

The UK will see a second spike when the government call the flu season the second wave 🤦‍♂️ time to stop all this shit now and blaming others. aslong as there is money going into the economy the virus dont seem to matter in those places.

Stop all the holiday flights it’s being brought in from Europe again.

Flu season will be when the second wave hits.

Government propaganda DefundTheBBC

What happened to the “young people aren’t affected” message? Could it be that...hear me out...young people SPREAD the virus?

My siblings went back to school today. Nice. This sounds like a recipe for disaster tbh.

This incompetent gov expects the public to ‘follow the rules’. While a significant proportion will, there is a section of society that do not think that any rules apply to them. The only options are - either enforce the rules or take away the opportunities to break them, or both.

the second wave is not a fact

You mean like certain government members do?

You can’t have it both ways. If it’s safe to go commute to an office then it’s safe to do all of the things you’re scapegoating “young people” for. But it isn’t safe to go to an office is it? So no one should be.

Oh p*ss off Hancock, if it weren’t for your incompetence we wouldn’t be in this situation of a possible second peak. Shifting the blame

Staff in store should ware either a face covering or face shield, doing this will set examples to customers

Are these the same young people that him and his government have just forced back into school in their droves? 🤔

Even though the ONS stated this.

Remember MattHancock it all started with Dominic Cummings breaking the rules and not facing any consequences. Don't blame young people when the the leadership like BorisJohnson do not lead!

But they don’t practice social distancing in school. “Bubbles” of 200 to 300 pupils? No minimum distance between them? It’s a shambles like everything else the Tories lay their hands on.

What an idiot istg you've opened schools, 90% of kids going to school wont social distance will they, THEY'RE kids, schools dont seem to be enforcing it and teens really can let emotions get the best of them and break distancing and gather in groups MAKE IT MAKE SENSE

liar

What nonsense! What we will see is a another winter flu season and many will suffer because of the impact on their immune systems from incessant sanitising, lockdowns, masks and social distancing.

Yes the virus(COVID-19 )which there is still no 100% positive test to say you have it! Yet the local councils and government are closing places of work based on a flawed testing system or and most importantly minimum hospitalisations from COVID-19! Let’s continue project fear!

Oh but “ we should all get back in the office ... “ 👏🏾

Sorry . Any article that contains the words 'Matt Hancock says' screams incoherent, scaremongering BS to me. Just like the rest of your content!

It's about time you forced the doctors to open their surgeries. If shops can work behind screens so can doctors. Just a excuse to hide in an office behind a phone. Don't want to do the job stop their pay.

From what I’ve seen he’s bang on.

Matt Handcuff.

Second wave following as predicted from EatOutToHelpOut and it's safe to go back to school and the office message. This government seems to shirk responsibility the way they shirk tax.

But yet you are sending them back to school? Mmm

'A third of all cases in England last week were people aged between 20 and 29.' Does anyone know where that stat came from? I'm interested to see the case dispersal across other age ranges, but the article doesn't link to (or even identify) a source for this.

Would this include getting on crowed commuter trains and public transport.

If you took any notice of some of the tin foil hat wearing gonks on this platform you'd realise that EVERYTHING is fake news, covid isn't real, 5G causes cancer or is reading your thoughts, a vaccine is for mind control and a host of other twat based bollock theories. Go figure..

They are checking their eye sight mate.

I must be imagining all the middle aged people with no masks on then

Yeah young people! Stop going to school!

Young people in the United States do not care and are killing people . This generation z a majority won’t become a solution with the general public and should just close all bar and restaurants to pick up only

Also tories: Kids should go to school & mingle like a mf

But also 'go back to the office so you can get lunch in Pret and don't forget to eat out to help out'. What a clown.

NHS Migrants Working class Homeless BLM Teenagers All groups the govt. has pointed to and said 'if there's a second wave, it's their fault'. The one group they haven't blamed yet? Middle-aged, middle class gammons. The very ones who vote for them and also refuse to wear masks.

This pathetic excuse for a man shouldn't be near a public office.

VE Day, Durdle Door, BLM Protests, summer bbqs What do all those have in common? All were heralded as the bringing of the second wave. None did. Now the actual govt are blaming the children of the country. There won’t be a second wave

The Tories are the men who won't be blamed for nothing.

Maybe the whole “Let’s get back to normal” message is unhelpful then.

Isn't this the man who 'accidentally' touched colleagues in the commons, because he 'hadn't seen them for a while'. As for Dominic Cummings ... Leading by example... not Let's encourage young people of course, but let's remember, plenty of older people flout the guidance too

Some young people don't seem to care as they have not experienced it in their families

YOUNG PEOPLE?! Not those people going to Working mens clubs causing little spikes in areas of county Durham!

‘But go to school anyway, kids.....’

Tories: Re-open schools BoJo: You’ll be fined if you don’t go Covid: Happy days Hancock: All young peoples fault

Everyone saw this coming with Boris’ “go to work don’t go to work“ speech back in lockdown. Intentionally vague and confusing so they can shift the blame later down the line on the public. Don’t let this shit show of a government full you, they’re out of their depth.

The young aren’t entirely to blame, it might have something to do with the push to get everyone in restaurants/offices/high streets despite there still being cause for concern.

Second wave 😂😂😂 Just wait 2 weeks 🤣🤣🤣 Pull the other one.

We could see a second spike in Parliament if MP's keep ignoring rules.

It is a bit difficult to follow the rules when they are not consistent, our own government and advisors don't follow them and they change every five minutes.

Another divide and conquer strategy. Pit young against old today is it? I can hardly believe Hancock is still in post. What do they have to do that will galvanise the public into doing anything at all to stop these people destroying our U.K.?

False statement. Covid-19 is un-testable, because it has never been isolated.

Maybe reopening schools wasn't the best idea.

Don't blame the young. Blame the government that you are part of and your inability to lead by example.

Blamed the doctors Blamed the scientists Blamed the elderly Now blaming the young? Who next Shamcock? Nothing to do with the incompetence of the government

But you can’t catch at it at Pret . Or in any other of those places we said you could go to . You only catch it if you are Northern , poor , a Labour voter or a Remainer or a raver . Or if you have to use public transport . Back to work now

Boris is too weak. He is a hopeless leader.

Liverpool has announced big increase today.. Think second wave is starting...

Could might maybe ?

it's not the governments fault, it's young peoples, gotcha.

weasel.

What and adults aren’t 🤣🤣🤣 everybody is ignoring most rules my college is shit at it

MattHancock are you running out of people to blame

He has no baseline data to suggest this is actually happening as the Gov weren't testing this age group at the height of the pandemic. Add this to his department requiring high Ct rates and the false deaths and false hospitalisations just shows that the data is flawed.

Hancock is a liability and should be sacked... sadly there is no one else left to do his job because Johnson sacked all the halfway competent types, and even they were shit houses.

‘but anyway, back to schools and the office with the lot of you, proles’

Everything someone else’s fault apparently the British government aren’t accountable for anything!!

How much did the World Bank pay him to say that?

Stop using young people as scapegoats!! Get us back to some sort of normality!

They stopped listening once Cummings went on his trip .

No panic. Everyone has stuck so well to the rules so far 👀

This comes from Matt Hancock, a member of the same government who ignored their own COVID rules. The incompetence of this lot is infuriating.

Schools, offices, tube trains, der.

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