Anti Dementors Picnic on the Beach

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"Coronavirus lockdown measures in Scotland could begin to be lifted from 28 May, Nicola Sturgeon has announced.

The first minister said this would mean people could meet someone from another household as long as social distancing is maintained.
More outdoor activities and sports like golf and fishing will also be allowed"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-52707747

Only ten days away...

I won’t be having a test, unless held done and forced
Can’t bear anything like that
My son has made good money while this has been going on ..he’s only been doing it a while and loves it.
They fight over him , the different branches of the care company
He’s laid back, full of fun and he’ll be a little ray of sunshine when he goes inTo one of the client houses...it’s a shame only the fellas get him, cos the women would like him too
He’s nice around women, so they’d feel quite safe
He’d get his lugs skelped if he wasn’t.
He’s going to uni in September to train to be a theatre nurse so he can fit the care in around his studies.

I’m sure everyone takes precautions, but if he can go into at least a dozen houses a day, doing personal care for clients, 5-6 days a week and be quite well ...well it does make me wonder about all of this social distancing stuff .
He’s right in the front line so to speak.

A peak of 4!

That is the square of a very big number (2).

This is so frightening.

I don’t have children so haven’t picked up on whether government are insisting on social distancing in schools or whether unions are saying it in order to make it impossible to open schools?

The guidance says (I could fish out the direct quote but I'm too tired) that they accept that infant children cannot be expected to socially distance so go down the hand washing, sensible choice of activities (so no play dough... toys you can disinfect instead) and this 15 child bubble approach instead. The guidance is actually very sensible, accepts different schools have different circumstances as to what they can do and is pretty damned measured. The one bit that was pretty unworkable was that they couldn't have kids in on a rota - so some classes one day etc... but the LEA have overruled that and said "make it as workable as you can" basically is the gist from what I get.

We're lucky in both the schools my kids are at that each classroom has toilets and external doors - so separating classes is fairly easy compared to the likes of older schools (I used to supply teach - I think I've seen every school layout possible over the years) and the classrooms are larger than the norm. I gather they're basically giving each class a different part of the playground as well - so no chalk jails!

Over 40% of care homes in Scotland now have the virus in them, that is quite a lot..

Glad my dad is in sheltered housing with his own flat at least...

You'd think the union's didn't give a shit about the welfare of children reading that.

Arseholes.

What are dementors?

Our boarding schools are not opening, logical really if you are not allowed to travel to Wales how would you get the children in anyway. Cannot see a labour government thinking private education travel is a necessity

Interestingly one of the schools is owned by the chinese, one of a few in the UK, many chinese students there who could not return home so the school became a kind of hotel. Bit of a panic because they were not licensed for this so had to get a licence pdq.

Interesting to read the mum's account of her children going back to school in Holland

@binkyblinky

Maybe go back and look at some of the previous threads (there are many)

Basically, it refers to the doom and gloom brigade who insist that we will all be in total lockdown until about 2025 and that we will never be able to see any of our families again....ever.

They believe that any miniscule breach of "the rules" (which are only defined by them and often bear no relation to reality/common sense) is akin to wilfully murdering people.

We are a somewhat more optimistic/realistic bunch here. Most of us can count too

Happy to be corrected on any/all of the above.

The thing about the unions and the mad new rules is here - it is the
National Education Union (NEU) which I haven't heard of before. I have heard of the NUT National Union of Teachers and the NASUWT though, not sure what they make of it.

Coronavirus: Unions say schools must stick to 2m distancing rule
Teachers must ask dozens of ‘safety’ questions
www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/coronavirus-unions-say-schools-must-stick-to-2m-distancing-rule-w6b39xkcx

One care home near us, every resident has got it 40, most of the staff too, they put in planning for a huge extension a few months ago, I wonder if that will be on hold now.

That is nearly half of care homes... how did Scotland get that so wrong...it is about double that of England I think

I've just read that Lego is now banned in schools because it's hard to clean? Why can't it be thrown in a bucket of Milton?

Are the people who think up these rules a bit dense?

You'd think the union's didn't give a shit about the welfare of children reading that.

I don't genuinely think they do (I was previously a fully paid up member of the teaching unions - I think I've tarted around them all over the course of the years). I don't think they genuinely care about teachers much either at times - I think they care about themselves.

There's the benefit of the doubt that some of the more inflammatory anti-school rhetoric may be becoming from union-plants or govt-plants to stir up discord but there are a lot of known MN personalities also jumping in on it too.

I've had ANOTHER COSTA! Normal tastes good.

The NUT doesn't exist now. It combined with another union I think (not sure which one) and they became the NEU.

Notwithstanding St Nicola, my very upstanding neighbours have family round for a visit in the garden.

I always have Miltons in, clean the toys regularly with different grand children visiting. I do wonder what will happen with indoor games centres which include, ropes, slides and ball pits.

TrustTheGeneGenie where have you read that about Lego?! Insanity.

@Orangeblossom78 apparently it's the fault of the Tory care home owners and absolutely nothing to do with the Scottish Government

I really don't know how anybody could remain a member of a union issuing diktats like that.

There is no way it is in the long, or even medium, term interests of teachers to be represented by that type of obstructive, intransigent messaging.

If I were a Tory Education Secretary I'd be rubbing my hands with glee at the sheer idiocy.

Mascotte right, so they didn't send patients home with the virus from hospitals then...hmm

Just read this in a Telegraph article:

*Government scientists now believe that the epidemic is largely confined to care homes and hospitals and there is very little community transmission at all.

“Nobody catches it by passing someone on the street,” said one Government expert. “That isn’t how you get it. This is now epidemic of care homes and hospitals.”*

I mean if that's true then wtf are we doing? The fact that people in care homes and hospitals are getting infected is obviously awful but we don't change that by keeping kids off school and stopping families from seeing each other.

@thesnoopdragon Thankyou. I had seen mentions of dementors and thought there was a HP revival going on ha ha!