@BenCooper86 Yet they massively did fail to follow any of the rules?

@tophatandtails What rules Gary, what rules?

@BenCooper86 @BenPBradshaw They weren’t being safe while doing it though... that’s the problem here.

@TomMacpherson88 @BenPBradshaw How can you be safe when you're housed in a block with hundreds of other young people from around the country - using the same enclosed corridors, the same laundry facilities - with or without the partying, it was always going to happen.

@BenCooper86 @BenPBradshaw We’re they told to gather in large groups and party NO selfish young people

@Roderick_Wall @BenPBradshaw They were told to go back and live in halls with 100's of other young people from around the country - walking through the same enclosed corridors, using the same laundry facilities - what did you think would happen? 🙄

@BenCooper86 Turns out you can't triangulate epidemiology.

@BenCooper86 @stackee Pretty sure Johnson inferred people who follow the rules the government lays down are basically "foreign" (possibly Italian) and unpatriotic and that Brits love freedom so much they'll do the opposite of whatever the government says. So yeah... they will blame them... madly.

@BenCooper86 True; think student me would’ve been more cautious as am natural worrier, but at that age you still feel a bit like a kid and defer to the ‘experts’.

@BenCooper86 @BenPBradshaw Scapegoats..... Cummings plan: Create confusion (commom sense not clear advice, absent ministers) Help it spread Blame public Absolve govt

@BenCooper86 @BenPBradshaw Young people were told they were unlikely to suffer harm.