Despicable Anti Dementors

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What I don't get is what the dementors actually think will happen if lockdown carries on. So say we all do stay in until September - we start to slowly re open things as we're doing now and surely the exact same thing will happen? Cases will rise? Isn't that obvious?

I get the whole test track trace thing and yes that will be helpful if it works (and if people actually use the app!) And I'm hopeful that this will help somewhat...

I’m sending mine out walking the dog with individual friends. It’s a compromise. It’s her birthday in a months time, no idea if she can invite all four friends. Presumably if they go back to school (y6) then she can only fraternise with whichever kids have been randomly allocated to her class of 15.

I really dont see how any schools can dare to fine people for taking kids out of term for holidays now. How can they DARE argue that its deeply harmful to their education when they are calling for months of no school.

The hypocrisy blows my mind. A week off school= terrible.
5 months off school- totes fine!

Exactly Pertella

My kids would be happier at school with their friends even if they did have to stay in chalk boxes drawn on the ground.

Yes I've seen a lot of people calling for schools to stay closed until things can be totally normal again and nothing in the school environment is changed. So that's, what, 2022? Of course I don't want my kids going back into situations that are psychologically damaging for them (and by that I mean 'chalk boxes on the playground' not 'no cushions in the book corner'), but we can't reasonably keep them all off school for years.

You guys are gonna love this, made me laugh out loud just now.

@justasking11

Brilliant! its scarily accurate

I think having no contact with other children for months is a lot more psychologically damaging than chalk boxes on the ground.

justasking111

I love that video.

The problem with the debate around schools is that it has now become totally politicised with the Daily Mail tendency ranting on about cowardly teachers and Twitter and the Guardian accusing the government of trying to kill children and school staff. None of this is helpful. The govt got off on the wrong foot by not apparently talking to schools about opening in June before announcing it; the teachers’ union have done themselves no favours by appearing totally intransigent. As a school governor I get the feeling that schools around here are looking positively at ways of opening in June for those who want to use them.

I think mine would like the chalk boxes too . As long as they were given some chalk to personalise them!

Coronavirus lives on chalk for One Thousand YEARS

Mine would trip over the chalk lines but she is dyspraxia as fuck

Ah shit yes.
On that note, I was told yesterday that I’d be stupid to send mine back to school as coronavirus lives on surfaces for 5 days.
I replied saying if someone in the room actually had coronavirus (unlikely, as approx 1 in 400 people do and that number is lowering all the time), and if they coughed/sneezed on something, and if that particle of virus was one of the rare ones that survives for 5 days, and if my child then touched that exact same thing, and if my child then put that exact same part of their finger in their mouth/eyes then yes, there was a chance they could catch coronavirus. And if they caught coronavirus in that extremely unlikely scenario, there’s approximately a 99.997% they’d be absolutely fine.

I guess I am grey, in that I am in no hurry to visit a crowded pub, theatre, cinema, but I do want to see family members and friends.

I will be happy to carry on wearing gloves, washing shopping, social distancing, disinfecting things if that is what it takes to care for other citizens in Wales.

Somebody tried to tell me this morning that a "large proportion" of people who catch coronavirus die from it. I pointed out that millions of people have potentially had coronavirus with mild or no symptoms and therefore haven't been tested so won't be counted in the statistics.

I’ve never washed my shopping . Or wore gloves. Or disinfected anything. And I have at least 2 amazon deliveries a day which I don’t quarantine. Can’t tell if that makes me murderous or suicidal though!

I don't wash shopping. Or quarantine post. I don't see the point in all honestly.

Oh and as for only walking no cars, does Drakeford not realise many parts of Wales are extremely hilly, if you go down a 1 in 5 you have to come back up one. I know older folk who drive to flatter areas and then walk for a few miles with no trouble, hip and knee replacements this draconian measure is knocking that on the head.

OH is worried about our neighbour he is going a bit demented now about neighbours strimming, rotovating, and mowing all day. He had both knees replaced so physically cannot manage the hill from our house down or up.

I would like to see some thinking outside the box on this. Social distancing becomes much less necessary outdoors. Let's look at what can be done with that.
Forest schools and their expertise could be put to good use to make it a much more wholesome, nurturing environment than soulless classrooms and chalk marked boxes in playgrounds.

Yes the No Cars thing is so ableist.

As is taping up benches. Thankfully they didn't do that around here. Dreadful.

I don't know why schools are making posts showing how regimented and miserable they're going to make it. It feels like another version of 'doing lockdown right' and adopting the most Draconian interpretation of the guidelines to make things more miserable than they have to be. Something very odd has happened to the nation's psyche on the whole. It's for that reason I wouldn't send my kids.
It's a chance to express some creativity and find different solutions and I think there's be loads of options if they threw away the current school model and started with a clean sheet.

I don't want them to start with a clean sheet. I'm not up for revolution in the middle of an emergency.

I just want them to stop catastrophising and figure out how to make it work as quickly as possible.

And to factor the harm being done to children by months off school into their calculations of safety.

I wonder when we will get back to "normal" school. 30 kids in class 5 days a week. If children turn out to not be superspreaders or not likely to get unwell (yes yes dementors, Kawasaki disease, I hear you) is this possible this year? Next year?