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Originally Posted by adzii_nufc
Following on. Would the ban on mass gatherings include public and/or University libraries? There's generally a peak of 2000 people in the University library. I also happen to work at said University, with the current move of all education to online lecturing I'm thinking I'm about to be shot twice. 
They allowed students to leave and return to their parents homes yesterday but that wasn't feasible for many, international students in particular with a pretty big Asian student population in the North-East Uni's. They're generally gathering in the libraries and SU locations. They haven't been stopped from trying to travel home but there's a fear if they do manage it then they'll be stopped returning. |
where I’m studying has cancelled all classes until further notice but the library is open and staff are expected to go in to work to deliver courses via the VLE as far as possible. They have said they think this will flatten out library demand, and it will a bit because you won’t get people arriving by the hundred on the hour when lectures finish, but there have been plenty of classless days recently during lecturer trade union strikes and frankly it made little difference to the overall number of people in the building during the middle of the day. It just made the numbers rise and fall more steadily.