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[LadyOfTheImprovisedBath]

New Thread. - Hello.

Blimey this is all a bit complicated but I made it!

Ibake I think it's more we're striving for balanced views and comments though maybe we don't always get the right answer and may get very confused along the way

I'm more with BubbleIsNotAFuckingVerb with masks than others on here and I'm not at all positive about what's going on with schools - bloody worried TBH.

Ooh I've just got a hair appointment for the weekend after rnext . I forgot to ask if I need to wear a mask, and he forgot to mention it. Sigh. I'll take one, I suppose.

Yes, schools is such a worry. I am well out the other side re schooling and yet it's one of the things that drew me to this group initially. It doesn't matter that my children are no longer in the primary or secondary education system, we should all be furious about what is going on. To go all Whitney, children are our future!

My son is back home from Chicago where he was a freshman having the time of his life on an athletics scholarship and we brought him home mid March when the uni closed. Goodness only knows when he is going to be allowed to travel, currently student visas are not on the allowed list. His lectures last term were all online and all I can say is I'm glad we weren't paying for those classes as they were less than impressive.

I am so bloody angry about it so can only even imagine what all of you are feeling with young ones. I've signed every petition going but feel very impotent.

Tried to quote a post on last thread and realised how behind I am!

@jrobhatch
I'm so sorry your surgery is so dementory. We had a few patients with high readings during the heatwave. The receptionist came running to tell me (nurse) and I said oh I'm sure it's the heat, just tell them to sit in the shade for a minute and I'll come and do a tympanic reading (ear one) - lo and behold, they were fine. To prove my point I took several colleagues temperature including a GP and they were all over the threshold on the forehead one too. Because it was really bloody hot!

I raised it at our nurse meeting this afternoon and said if a patient gets a high reading then please tell a nurse and we will come and do a tympanic to confirm, because the forehead ones aren't very accurate.

I'm infuriated that people are being turned away from essential health care by idiots!

@maxnormal I've got a South African relative here who was initially very smug about how well SA had handled lockdown but shes very quiet about it now. The stuff about the SA government deeming what clothing was essential was particularly bonkers.

The young adults are also our future.

Arguably the have missed more than anyone.

That's amazing to get to the US on a sports scholarship. Well done to your boy.

I raised it at our nurse meeting this afternoon and said if a patient gets a high reading then please tell a nurse and we will come and do a tympanic to confirm, because the forehead ones aren't very accurate.

Well done.

See a problem, sort it out. Use your expertise to help rather than hinder.

Nobody in pain should be sent home from the doctor because they are not on a hot day.

Have these people lost their capacity to reason?

Checking in. I am filling in my service level risk assessment for work. I am completing it like a good girl and I will be making sure it is implemented but I’m not half muttering FFS at some of the more ridiculous stuff.

If you are driving for work, in your own car, on your own, you should open the windows for ventilation. To protect yourself from you, I presume.

@MagdaS

Checking in. I am filling in my service level risk assessment for work. I am completing it like a good girl and I will be making sure it is implemented but I’m not half muttering FFS at some of the more ridiculous stuff.

If you are driving for work, in your own car, on your own, you should open the windows for ventilation. To protect yourself from you, I presume.

YOU CANT BE TOO CAREFUL

I did C.S.E maths not G.C.S.E as I said in my last post.

I failed proof reading as well.

@Willitneverend indeed, intrusive does not begin to cover it. There's a puritanical streak a mile wide in that society.
The cigarettes thing is a particlar farce. Everyone is still smoking, they are now paying over the odds, inhaling fuck knows what into their lungs and the government are getting no tax revenue from it. And they are hardly in a position to lose tax revenue at this point.

Their alcohol ban (fortunately they did now lift that) also included wine export abroad. Again more tax revenue gone, one of their major industries terribly damaged and tens of thousands of jobs lost.

I do get that SA has a huge problem with alcohol-based violence and it's attendent stresses on the healthcare system so I can see what the initial thinking behind a ban was but it's all been so badly thought through. Not to mention that there have now been a good couple of dozen deaths from bad homebrew.

And then there's the issue of the number of people murdered by the police for their own protection

My son is back home from Chicago where he was a freshman having the time of his life on an athletics scholarship and we brought him home mid March when the uni closed. Goodness only knows when he is going to be allowed to travel, currently student visas are not on the allowed list. His lectures last term were all online and all I can say is I'm glad we weren't paying for those classes as they were less than impressive.

I saw a BBC on-line article about overseas students will not be allowed to stay in the US this autumn if their universities have moved classes fully online, unless they switch to a course with in-person tuition.

I thought it was mad hugly inconvenient for students and takes no account of their circustances but long term damaging to their univeristy sector.

DH UK university is still arguging about what's happening in September. Though they've had more acceptance of places than unusal which apparently suprised their managers who expected fewer students and have cut external staff and frozen recruitment on that expectation leaving them short staffed.

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Checking in!

The latest from my DD's school about how they plan to open in September:

"with so many students on site social distancing is not the main shield we have against the virus. The main shield is socially responsible behaviour*

Ah, you used the equation!

@Allflightscancelled

The latest from my DD's school about how they plan to open in September:

"with so many students on site social distancing is not the main shield we have against the virus. The main shield is socially responsible behaviour*

Clear as mud then!

@Allflightscancelled

The latest from my DD's school about how they plan to open in September:

"with so many students on site social distancing is not the main shield we have against the virus. The main shield is socially responsible behaviour*

That's great.

It means washing your hands and staying at home if you feel unwell.

Suppressing viruses for 150 years.

@AnxiousElephant77

I understand that people think wearing masks is sanitary but I fiddled with mine so much in the hairdressers yesterday because it was so hot and claustrophobic that I’m absolutely certain it defeated the object.

This is why I'm not rushing to put myself into a mask-wearing situation. It's hard enough kerping my hands off my face anyway.

The local council run museum is open and looking quite normal. We'll have to pop along soon.

It doesn’t look like our August holiday is going to be cancelled and to be honest wearing a mask is my main concern. I understand you have to wear it upon arriving at the airport, to leaving the airport at your destination, which sounds unbearable to me.

I’m hoping I’m wrong about that.

@Orangeblossom78

What would the DC do with £250 vouchers...hmm trips out for pizza and the cinema perhaps?

Sorry, I wasn't planning on telling mine that they had been given any! All for me!

@AnxiousElephant77

It doesn’t look like our August holiday is going to be cancelled and to be honest wearing a mask is my main concern. I understand you have to wear it upon arriving at the airport, to leaving the airport at your destination, which sounds unbearable to me.

I’m hoping I’m wrong about that.

That’s the main reason I was glad our flights to Spain were cancelled. Just couldn’t bear the thought of mask wearing for all that time, while also wrestling a toddler and looking after a 6 and 4 year old (6 year old would have to wear a mask too).

Checking in!

Love love love the equation. I'm stretching my STEM muscles right now with my new course after being immersed in the social sciences for ages.

We've had a round of CV tests because we all caught a cold over the weekend and if God forbid my 5yo coughed in school all hell would break loose. So we had to keep him home for a day until his test result was in. All negative as expected and he went back today. School is being refreshingly nondementory though and just confirmed that they expect all aspects of normal, including school trips, to resume in September.

Is it OK if I admit that I like the Enjoy Summer Safely advert? There's that woman in the cheery yellow mask in it, but generally it seems to be refreshingly about having fun and not about Maintain Social Distancing And Masks!!! Unfortunately I am now going to have a residual grudge against Mark Strong's voice for the rest of his life.

Thank you @Nihiloxica, we are proud of him, he certainly doesn't get his athletic ability from me! That story re ICE and the US unis has only just broken whilst I was on the phone to a friend. Not sure what it means as his lectures were due to be online but obviously the bulk of DS's funding comes from the athletics element. I guess we now need to see what his specific uni says. Maybe the sports coaches will lean on one lecturer to do face to face and all the athletes choose that module for the autumn (I refuse to say fall) term? That's the beauty of the US system in that it is modular. DS told me that 2 of his friends at Tulsa tried to go back last weekend and were turned away at LHR and I guess now this story has broken it makes sense?

There is a small part of me that is a bit freaked about the US right now, not re Covid as he's young and fit but about civil unrest and the elections but I also realise I need to put my big girl pants on. I can't keep him locked up here when he's supposed to be having a huge adventure, breaking records and generally enjoying this amazing opportunity that he worked so hard for.