Chickens Against Dementors!

[psychomath]

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Anyway have fun everyone, I'm off to sit in the park now that it's allowed.

@GoldenOmber basically the gist of the school guidance is kind of an extension of the "bubble" idea from my reading of it - keep them in a fixed bubble of 15+ the same adult throughout their time within school for easier contact tracing if anything does occur. Bubble group playtime, bubble group mealtime, staggered end and start of days so they only come into contact with this 15 as an acceptance (and it actually states in the guidance they know that the youngsters are going to be shit at it) of the limitations of social distancing within the infant age group. They are actually very coherent, well thought out, understanding of the circumstances of the average infant classroom, guidelines.

Of course according to the internet you have 14 kids and then the Grim Reaper and the Horsemen of the Apocalypse working as TAs in the class. Children enter each day via a portal to the bowels of hell

On that video of Danish schools...well this is the model our schools will follow as well with the children in bubbles..

"Primary schools in England could reopen from 1 June - and the safety approach closely follows Denmark's example, where schools opened last month. This assumes that social distancing will be unreliable with young children, so instead children stay in small groups all day, in "protective bubbles"."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-52550470

Anyway maybe just for an idea of what to expect

Sorry X posted, yes... well maybe with time the schools will adapt a bit hopefully. Fingers crossed

*Today we have pre-ordered our fish and chips from the van and will be taking our camping chairs, some cold beer, cutlery and our own salt and vinegar to sit and eat them in the supermarket car park.

Rock and Roll grin*

Sounds fun, enjoy! Hey at least things which used to be everyday seem a bit special now we can do them again.

There will be no social distancing of children in our school. Each group of 15 will have the same staff every day. Each group has their own timetable for drop off, playtime, lunch and going home etc.

We are currently planning lots of PSHE type stuff for the children returning and have stayed to ask the children what projects we could do.

Quite interesting to see that out of the parents who have responded to far, around 70% are sending their children in.

We have ordered from our dodgy looking burger delivery guy - his burgers are amazing, thick wodge of bacon and cheese, huge burger, brioche bun he makes from scratch and then an epic salted caramel doughnut. Not a carpark drop off through your window this time, doorstep distanced delivery.

Neighbour saw my family in our back garden - not a word was said. Arsehole on the other side will be muttering about us but we won't clap tonight (especially if it's for the fucking teaching unions) so he can be pissed off about that in a couple of hours anyway)

Just seen a news report that said the ONS estimates that 0.27% have the virus.

Makes the 'we're all going to die' dementors look a bit daft.

But they don't care about statistics...

My father was an HCP. He’d be heartbroken by what’s going on. I think the generation who signed up for that work understanding that they might be exposed to highly infectious disease has, well, died!

My dad was a GP. I remember talking with him about the possibility of nuclear war (it was a tense time) and him saying he'd die, because "What sort of a doctor would I be if I hid away and didn't help people?"

He was shit father, but a good doctor. It was cancer that got him.

What the... 🤨

It will be interesting to know how many have got it as a whole.

Yes our school MAT told us in bold that the children won't be able to social distance as well.

and their priorities are wellbeing and health as well as list of other things

Enjoy your burger and ignore the neighbours Domina. That reminds me might try the fish and chips delivery I hear it is really busy so need to order in advance.

We’ll be having burgers tomorrow. The pub down the road who make absolutely epic homemade burgers are doing delivery now, the first week they started the burgers were so popular they sold out in a couple of hours.

LilacTree please please go and hug your mum. I’m giving you permission, if anyone gives you grief tell them to talk to me ‘cos I said you could.

ThatLibraryMiss that’s exactly what my dad would say.

I think, years later, there might be some questions about why GPs didn’t do home visits to assess and give anti virals and possibly prophylactic antibiotics instead of patients being left till they needed hospital admission.

I started a thread about mum needing help with cleaning etc and the dementors were all over it.

If I do go, and mum gets covid, my sister will blame me but she doesn’t like mum anyway 🤷🏻‍♀️

Mum has been anxious about covid but if she’s now allowed to hire a cleaner - I was doing all that before - then she’ll have to hire me.

In terms of schools, I do think some of the teachers could lose jobs to online learning but I suppose they would say I was dementing in another way.

@Orangeblossom78

Thank you. I expect we will see - gasp- other people too.

We can have the food delivered to the car window if we want, but I think we will throw caution to the wind and actually approach the hatch.

You can normally take the food to the local bar and eat it there to save it getting cold on the drive home, but sadly the bars are still not allowed to open.

Xpost Bark

Thank you!

I lost my job in hospitality and I look at the dementors and I think, do they really not want bars and restaurants, because social distancing in those will mean they are the preserve of the wealthy only.

@LilacTree1 and @ThatLibraryMiss my dad too. Terrible father, but never a second thought about his personal safety when it came to work.

Just seen a news report that said the ONS estimates that 0.27% have the virus.

I was going to ask if anyone had seen this. Hopefully by looking at the number of people who die between one and three weeks from now they'll be able to get a better estimate of the actual fatality rate, and we'll stop seeing as much nonsense about how only a third of people who go into hospital with covid come out again.

I met up with a friend today for a walk, it was impossible for us to stay 2m apart at all times and we didn't even attempt it with the kids. It did all of us the world of good and we have plans to do it next week too.

We saw plenty of people out and nobody batted an eyelid, all we got were smiles and someone commented on them having fun. There was no leaping away from us like we were lepers, we all just kept to a sensible passing distance as we walked past one another.

I don't care what anyone says, I'm not locking us away anymore, we need to see people and live our lives instead of the miserable existence that we've been living in for weeks. It's really not healthy for the majority to be so isolated.

There’s been a fair few dementors claiming to be HCPs
Yes dad saw terrible things in ICU

but for us, it meant we knew bad things would happen. It was normal for him to shower right after work. We were always taught to wash hands regularly.

He would hate the NHS clapping. He’d have a fit at nurses saying “I didn’t sign up to deal with infectious disease” (which I’ve seen on here,). Do what now?

When he was last in hospital, The nurses were lovely. One reason - of many - that I’m now wary of doctors and scientists is that the doctors were a bit...well frankly it was a bit Gray’s Anatomy. He had an MDT because his situation was complicated and I swear some of them were just hoping to keep him alive as a corpse propped up in a bed because it would make their figures look a bit better. We were lucky that the oldest one saw the reality and got him a hospice place.

I would have gone through the complaints procedure but mum didn’t want to.

It’s weird - five years ago I’d have said I have a lot of respect for doctors and scientists.

Well we went to the beach today (horror!). Before any dementors hunt me down it was a rural beach not that far from where we live (at least being local we know all the quiet spots - I like the sea but find our nearest seaside towns deeply depressing so we're experts on non-town beaches). The beach has a car park & camping ground attached. The latter'd obviously closed but the farmer who owns it had kindly reopened the car park (small charge & an honesty box) and...AMAZINGLY ENOUGH everyone just spread out well & enjoyed the acres of sand & it was really nice & normal?

We have the title of the next thread, right? The Despicable Anti-Dementors.

I've just been in the park and it looks like multi-household groups are starting to meet up so people are doing their own risk assessments.

The motorway hum's back, which is one thing I didn't miss.

I just ordered fish and chips for all of us to get delivered to the flat this evening, how exciting! No faffing about cooking ben chips for me!

we had a picnic in the park at lunchtime as well, quite a few families out which was nice to see. chasing toddlers around and on bikes

saw two police on bikes getting their daily exercise too and a couple with a wailing baby looking pale- think they were glad to get out