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.

When I got the letter today it did make me think - surely schools must have known children would be coming back before the virus was completely eradicated? Did they not think they ought to start planning ahead of any announcements?

@GoldenOmber Christ knows. I really don't know what they'll do in September because covid will still exist and even if it's not spreading as much or whatever it will still be a risk. We might have a track and trace app but that won't stop asymptomatic people spreading it?

I really hope ds2 primary headteacher is pragmatic about reopening. I think he will be. Ds2 is year 4 so not in the group to go back soonest anyway.
DD is yr11 so presumably not going back to school. She's missing her friends and sad about missing all the 'end of year 11' stuff.
The kids are all ok (we're lucky to have nice house, garden etc). But they're just a bit flat some of the time, I really feel a move back to more normal will benefit everyone.
I think pp is right saying that FOMO is probably what will get people to change their views.

I am hoping the track and trace app calms people down a lot. Once people download it and aren't getting alerted 24/7 with "you have been in contact with covid! it's everywhere!" then the world outside might be less scary?

I think some HT's are in for a hell of a shock when the DoE starts throwing its weight around (if they needed to).

We know someone who is primary teacher, healthy in 20s, still lives at home with shielding parents (but house is massive and not a carer or anything) and so thinks they should be paid to stay at home indefinitely...

other key workers (including nhs staff) still have duty to go work even if someone in household is shielding, lots have isolated within the family home or have moved out to protect their family.

I just don’t see why teachers would be different or why their living arrangements become their employers/students problem? Especially as a lot of young adults live at home for longer these days to try to save for a deposit, is this another tranche of people who apparently can’t leave the house (along with shielders, self isolators, the workers with no job to go to and the parents stuck at home with children?) It’s going to be difficult to restart anything under these circumstances.

Yes perhaps @GoldenOmber I'd not thought of it like that.

We've had 276 cases here out of a population of 210,000!

Re: stupid teachers on fb they are untouchable, what parent is going to call them out on their doomesday idiocy when their children attends the school. So they blithely think they are right because of all the noddies giving them likes.

Someone passed our theatre today now a nightingale, took a picture of 18 staff in scrubs outside photo shoot for the press. The thing is there is not and never has been a patient in there. Because it backs onto a petrol station they are not allowed oxygen, could be a helluva bang if that goes wrong. So for now it is an empty white elephant. So why were 18 nhs staff in scrubs made to take part in this farce.

@Orangeblossom78

Oh yes to the chips... I thought it was just us that seem to be chomping through bags of the things. Which reminds me, I need to add them to my next Tesco order (again).

Erm..... who are the other rebels btw? Is it the ones who were doing things to their flaps?

@Orangeblossom78 I'm eating all sorts of rubbish I never normally eat- pastry things, processed meat, fried stuff.. it's weird.

Lol, chips! Since I've been not able to do the shopping our food supplies have become noticeably less "healthy". I'm no healthy eating freak, but DH does not seem to see any need to buy fruit and vegetables!

I'm feeling a bit down tonight. It's partly due to some hard-core dementoring from my school mum "friends", partly grim chemo side effects, partly feeling like I might never get any better and I can't even see any of my family and friends (except DH and DC, of course!) because of "new normal". I can't be the mum I want to be for my kids and they're not having the life I want them to have. I feel very down.

Any anti-dementoring patrons vibes you can send my way would be very gratefully received

I have out on 4lbs of isolation weight after losing 11lbs for my wedding which is now not happening until next year.

I have had to stop buying snacks and have purposely only bought stuff that Ds and dp like and I don't! I don't want to have to lose another stone next year

surely schools must have known children would be coming back before the virus was completely eradicated? Did they not think they ought to start planning ahead of any announcements?

Seriously. I've just been imagining how this would play out in the private sector... You know you're going to have to resume a certain suspended service, a general time period that it may need to resume is talked about for several weeks, it's pre-circulated that an announcement of X restart date will almost certainly be made on Y date a week beforehand. And then on Y date you flop about like a landed fish all "we haven't been given any warning! We haven't had a chance to plan!"

You'd have your arse fucking handed to you, and rightly so.

Oh @Jourdain11 I'm so sorry you feel like that. I don't really know what to say

Can you mute the friends for now?

Hope you start feeling better soon

@Jourdain11 hey, all this is bad enough without being proper ill. 💐I'm feeling like a bad mother as I've managed to end up divorced and so my boy is alone and stuck with me. But I don't think he thinks that and yours won't either! You sound great and really funny. You'll get through this and we will protect you from the Dementors.

Chicken in (get it)
Make sure you answer those school surveys. My head wants to go for it but worried that everyone will think they are ‘trying to kill the children’

I am in the eat too much phase of lockdown. It's good fun. Eating all sorts of things I don't normally (inc. grannies of course).

Chick in!

Chips are so easy aren't they, I stick some frozen peas and carrots with them to make me feel better about 'having some veg'. need to vary things a bit though

We used to sit nicely at the table too, then do homework and baths...get up early..

now we all veg in front of the TV watching things like Star Trek and lie in like a student flat. My teen is like the one upthread as well, am trying to encourage them to shower when they start smelling

at least not having to deal with things like school uniform and kits is good I suppose. Clubs. We used to have a before school computer club at 8am for primary, not missing that

Chocolate hobnobs
Porridge
Hot chocolate and marshmallows

all come to mind.. we made a rocky road the other day too

Never thought I’d agree with this guy

twitter.com/dcakraemer/status/1260559825265704966

That's demented in the extreme @TrustTheGeneGenie. Presumably they've been open for key workers' DC.

I want chips now

Mark my words guys, FOMO will be the dementor's kryptonite. Expecto Pafomo

YES! I think this too. You just agree with them that they should stay in for the next 2 years whilst you will go back to normal and watch as their faces drop! its genius

Hi, could I join this thread please! It’s an island of sanity in a crazy world....
I have a few teacher friends (Not from my school) and I’ve actually been really surprised by how up in arms they are about it all. Apparently Boris is trying to get herd immunity and using our kids as guinea pigs.....

Now I’m only a lowly lunchtime supervisor but I’ve been going in to help look after key worker kids and as a member of staff I’ve still been sent our MAT proposed guidelines for reopening. This was over a week ago! Before the govt guidelines came out and I have to say they actually bear a striking resemblance to what the govt is saying which I have found very reassuring. My friends who are all primary teachers are going on about social distancing and how it won’t happen.... the guidelines say it won’t happen for primary kids! And I quite agree with the pp who said why on Earth haven’t schools already got plans for reopening. The 1st June date has been hanging around for weeks. As I say our MAT has already produced quite a comprehensive plan. Nuts.