Ah, a thread of sanity in an ocean of MN madness.
Please allow me to join.
I work in a school (TA) and I've been in every week since lockdown with key worker kids, I'll go back when our school opens (although it will be very limited). It's my job, I miss it, I miss the students.
I understand both sides of the argument and respect views. The thing is, sending students back is optional, so why can't posters on other threads please do what they want, and stop trying to bully others into agreeing with them? Live and let live, I say.
I social distance, I follow the rules, but I've applied my common sense from day one, and didn't need Bozzy to tell me too a week ago. My adult DD has been using my garden from the start, as she lives in a flat, and lives a few minutes away. I talk to her from the required distance, and don't need anyone from government or Jennie Harries or JVT to grant me permission. My adult son fixed my elderly father's computer for him - it was dropped off outside, fixed by son, returned by son to parent's house and other than a wipe with anti bac, it was fine. My parents needed the computer to be able to contact the outside world as their both in their 80s and apart from short local walks have little outside interaction.
I so agree with Dowser's earlier posts - I'm in my late 50s, I remember childhood diseases and taking risks was part of life. I don't want the government to wrap me up in cotton wool - I find it patronising. Some people want to be spoon fed and cossetted but that isn't living in my book, it's just existing.