Anti Dementors Picnic on the Beach

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Sock yarn..do it..why not

The school dementors are such a concern on a parenting site aren;t they spreading disinformation and hysteria

Much of what they are saying does not equate with the guidance form the gov either.

Sorry 122 in England. Just waiting for the dementors to tell me, 4 deaths are 4 too many. I swear if I fell off a bridge Drakeford would insist it was put down as a covid death.

I suspect it is not generally teachers spreading dementorish stories but union stalwarts. It is better press fodder for the media.

@SockYarn she certainly is. The care home situation is dire and is totally the fault of the government who told hospital to empty beds in preparation for covid patients and thus they were fired into care homes some of them unfortunattely taking covid in with them. There were patients from hospital still being sent to care homes about 3 weeks ago without swabbing as a nurse on my mums unit told me and that they had had to stop accepting them as 3 people had caught it from those people. They were also sending patients into care homes for a day or two until their care packages in their home where in place often to the distress of patients and relatives who had no idea they wouldn't being straight home again more transmission it's awful. By looking at daily infection figures and hospital admissions you can see that the community infection rate is declining and therefore the R rate here will too. Xxx

Are masks compulsory in Scotland?

Out tip reopened recently. You need a prebooked appointment. You can also only take a certain range of things and have to tell them before. Some moaning about not being able to get an appointment but from feedback all very well organised when there.

Are masks compulsory in Scotland?

No. Same advice as in England. Recommended in situations where you can't socially distance, such as supermarkets and public transport.

Thanks Sock

So are a lot of people in Scotland wearing them?

Nurse friend has just finished a run of night shifts in our local ICU. They have 1 patient! She's bored.

So are a lot of people in Scotland wearing them?

Definitely not the majority no, just a few here and there.

BBC news says the app is delayed

The school dementors are lying and saying private schools aren't going back (citing Eton) but I read they are in 1st June.

The outrage around here is now centring on the reopened tips. Queues of 4 hours to get in there

Ours in on an appointment system, works quite well. 20 cars per half hour slot. Done two good garden waste runs.

SockYarn I had a giggle at you on that thread asking who thought 2 was a huge number.

It's fucking ridiculous.

I'm genuinely worried about how we ever get released from captivity when so many people in society want us locked down until there is no risk.

There was always risk.

The logic of continued lockdown now is that it will last forever.

It's time to ease things.

Last week I was up for doing it gradually.

Now I will break it in whatever ways I can.

I do not consent to this any more.

Interesting message just in from the school re: our Y5s. It's encouraging parents to send them in if either parent is a key worker - not both. The school did want to get Y5 back in completely from 1 June for 11+ prep but weren't allowed. If there are enough children in their usual class teacher will teach them every day, rather than just supervising work. I'm assuming they aren't expecting more than 15 (out of 22). That would be fab - almost normality resumed, for my very sensitive and anxious child.

The unions demands sound mad and dementor-ish. New piece in the Times just now

They are demand 2m distancing for all pupils even early years

It asks members to go through a 20-page checklist with their school, saying it will only be safe to go back when every answer is “yes”.

It also said there would be limited teaching possible when pupils do return. “It will not be safe to mark children’s books during this period,” it says. It asks teachers to check “clear instruction be given that no marking should take place”.

One primary head in Dorset said the checklist filled her with despair and could scupper her plans to reopen to the three priority year groups on June 1.

“I was doing OK today before I read this. Felt like I had my team beside me, things planned and in control. Now, I feel sick,” she said.

This is a private school, btw, so bollocks are they not going back. All the prep schools round here are.

Jumping on here, not sure what it is but hoping it's along my lines. My family haven't been distancing from one another so I popped to see them all last week and it was AMAZING. I have a newborn but didn't take him. Partner against it all so had to pretend I was going to the shops. Whoopsie... my dad reckons it's all a conspiracy and the virus isn't as bad as they say. But shall soon see!

Been lurking a while on these threads, such a breath of fresh air! I'm gutted about the Scotland situation, although we're in England DH's sons and most of his family are there and we haven't seen any of them since the end of February. My DSS's (18 and 15) were desperate to come and stay for a change of scene and we worked out it was fairly safe as we've been pretty much sticking to the rules and they haven't left the flipping house. Nope - one call to the CV-19 hotline (according to their mum) and that was kiboshed as too risky. As soon as people started talking about things easing here and NS made it clear she was digging in her heels we figured we probably won't see them to the summer now. And don't even get me started on the inability to use common sense everywhere else................

I was in Aldi this morning and I'd say about 20% of people were wearing a mask. One lady was wearing it over her mouth but not her nose. No staff wearing masks, visors or gloves but they were all behind perspex screens.

Most masks I'm seeing are the fabric homemade type, not the surgical ones.

That's good news @MagdaS

Oh Magda, I'm delighted.

Jealous but every time I hear of a child getting their life back it gives me hope.

What the ever living fuck are the teaching unions at?

Not safe to mark work?

That is just obstructive bollocks.

I've always been a big supporter of trades unions, but that is just toxic.

How can they do this to children?

My husband hasn't seen any members of his family since his father's funeral just before lockdown (they are all in Scotland). Thank goodness for technology, but it ain't the same...

My niece is pregnant with her first child and hasn't seen her mum, my SIL since the funeral. I feel so, so sad for them both. The way things are going, the baby will be here by the time La Sturge relaxes her arse cheeks. Fuck her and the horse she rode in on.

I wear a fabric mask to the supermarket and on the bus just because I have terrible hay fever and I sneeze and cough the minute I am out and I felt I was gonna get lynched when I didn't. plus if I had covid and didn't know it would offer protection for other. See I'm not totally a murderer even though I have family over .
Honest to god that Scotland thread is like the Scottish independence debate all over except with an even more nastier tone to it.