Corona Cohort: Statements Scripted, Grades Predicted

Good news @EssentiallyDisorganised, glad he’s on board!

I think this weekend has been a bit of a turning point for DS, he's been going along with the uni stuff fairly happily but a bit passively with me doing a lot of nudging, he engaged better with the WInchester Open Day yesterday than he has at others (his social skills are a bit hampered by his autism to be fair). Today he has finally set up his UCAS account, is busily saving favourites and reading the courser info on the websites properly, has drafted his PS and has finally more or less decided he's going for history rather than countryside studies. On the basis that he really likes both but history is likely to be less restricting in terms of careers afterwards. Although he is still hankering a bit after the Royal Agricultural Uni. We'll see.

@Monkey2001 🤣😂

If this fuel thing does continue all week I'll take DH's car. It's bigger than mine and currently on 600 miles till empty. Brighton is about 160. I'd rather take my own smaller car though. Our local shell garage has sold out 3 times in 2 days. BP is out, the gulf one is limiting people to £20 but it means they aren't running out. I'm sure it'll calm down.

Did a 100 mile round trip today for DS sport. We checked all garages as we went past as passenger needs petrol tomorrow. Only 1 garage completely closed with cones. Only 1 garage had queue back on to the road (not long). Passed at least 5 where looked like normal level of activity. I think the madness is now a lull as they can't buy more until they've used a fair bit.

@whatsnext2 thanks, we’ve gone round and round in circles with her on this, but she’s not academic despite being able, she’s a people person and she really doesn’t fancy an academic degree. I also think the professional training after a psychology degree is really competitive. She thinks she’d want to do OT in a mental health setting then train to be a high intensity therapist.

It will probably get me to Bournemouth and back next Sat but that's all, I drive a lot.

I had enough to have lasted today and tomorrow but I was in a town where its much cheaper than at home today and I normally fill up there (go there every Sun for football). It was crazy but luckily most of the cars were queueing from the opposite direction so we got in quite quickly.

I managed to fill up late on Friday night as I happened to be passing a petrol station to pick up ds. I felt a bit guilty as we had half a tank left but I had a lot of driving to do over the weekend.

I have enough til maybe Wednesday . I have to go out of my way to get petrol so that'll use petrol up just getting to a pump!

@Piggywaspushed yes the fuel thing is completely bonkers. Everywhere local sold out today. I have plenty but not enough to get to Sussex next weekend. I'm hoping the panic will have ended by then.

I got petrol tonight at a huge supermarket petrol station, it was quite an experience

It's like being in some very slow moving dystopian novel.

Now no one has any petrol no one will bother going to get tested/get vaccines....

Problem is the time it takes to get PCRs, there's no paid time off work for self-isolation unless you are positive yourself. DD did a PCR last week, did a postal one so she didn't have to miss any school (she was having it for close contact not symptoms) and it took 4 days. If she had tested positive DH and I would have had to carry on going to work. Although at my workplace we have agreed that if anyone has a household positive we will revert back to social distancing and masks, which we have stopped now.

I feel people in the household should isolate or pcr every other day. It's a bit silly letting them go to school/work.

This coming week is exam week for my DD. She missed the actual assessment week due to covid so now she has to catch up. The predictions for everyone come out in October. I think that would be quite late for anyone who is trying the meet the Oct deadline.

[quote icanbewhatiwant]@singingstones is it day 8 too? That's good if it is. [/quote]
Yes, I think I got that from the govt website. I had no idea what the rules are and the school said "ask the NHS" so had a bit of a scramble to work out what I should be doing with DS.

As I say, it worked out fine for us, but I agree it seems very odd, and if the rules were that close contacts should isolate, then DD might not have picked it up in the first place.

@singingstones is it day 8 too? That's good if it is.

@crazycrofter if wants to do psychotherapy the best route in my opinion would be psychology then clinical or counselling psychology postgraduate. So many different types of psychotherapy and many foundation courses covered in postgrad course eg Exeter does CAT in clinical. Much more employable.

I think loads at my schools aren't bothering. They probably do the LFTs as routine but not PCR.

I flagged a girl who was coughing all the time last week : the HOY decreed she was fine after sitting in a lesson for 10 minutes and declaring she didn't cough! She was then off on Friday... and now the girl who sits next to her has Covid...

Yes, the advice is for close contacts to PCR on day 2 and day 8. We also did LFTs every day at the start and then every 2 or 3 days. I was convinced DS would test positive but he didn't thankfully. Or at least not so far!

I just think if someone in the house has symptoms then gets a positive result a day later and the rest of the house take a test the day of results, which could only be day 3 for the first person then the rest of the family are unlikely to test positive so soon. Then they will go to work and school as normal when they could develop covid on day 5,6,7 etc. It would make sense to do a test a few days after the first positive test.