Do you think there will be a 2 week national lockdown over oct half term

[Lardlizard]

As I want to make some plans but I’m unsure what’s happening

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As I want to make some plans but I’m unsure what’s happening

If you make any plans, I would make them in this country, as travelling abroad at the moment is very uncertain, and could change in an instance re quarantine/ self isolation,

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I didn’t know there was a briefing tonight ? Are these briefings still happening on a regular basis ?

The briefing tonight is Patrick valance and Chris whitty

I'm thinking they will tag a week of home learning onto the weeks half term to form a kind of circuit break 😡
I bloody hope not though as I've already got a child home learning as her school bubble burst 😫

I could see that happening, yes. My SIL is a teacher and referenced to this at the weekend. I'm not sure if the school actually knows anything or if they're also just preparing for a potential announcement. I'm guessing it's probably the latter.

I imagine schools will get an email at 11pm on the friday a week before half term to implement something by the monday morning.....🙄

1/4 of the country is in a local lockdown though. And that might be about to go up.

Maybe it will, but that's not a good reason to lock down the remaining 3/4! Lockdown is horrendously damaging for the economy, for healthcare, for jobs, for people's mental and physical health. I'm glad that the govt, for all its missteps, appears to have learned at least that one lesson. Lockdown must be the very last resort.

Why is there a briefing today? Are they trying to prepare us for something?

I’ve missed the briefing was on the phone 🙈🙈🙈

You didn't miss much, Witty and Vallance with their power point - next slide please - trying to cut through the conspiracy theories and telling people to be good. Further restrictions will be necessary if we don't turn things around but we are not yet at the point where cases are doubling every four days. Wash your hands, keep your space and kiss your ass goodbye - something like that.

Thank you Baked Potato

Tattie holidays (or half term down your way) starts for some in Scotland on Monday and spans over local authorities over most of October. Will be interested to see how that would work

I'm hoping not as I'm supposed to be visiting Scotland to drive the NC500 trail.
It is all booked on late cancellation if necessary through, having previously had to cancel going to the Caribbean in October due to all this.

I'll be fed up to have to spend my half term stuck inside after working through my previous half terms and Easter, and parts of the summer.

Schools definitely haven't been told anything at all. Also, if anything like during the last lockdown we will hear the same time as the general public and actually not get the guidelines til about the night before.

Besides I'm an infant school. We are likely to remain open regardless this time round.

I'm not sure the economy, especially in hospitality and travel, could cope with more lockdown. Imagine how much money is being planned to spend over October half term, especially this years when lots of people pushed their earlier holidays backwards and are hoping to just get away for a bit.

I know how much we will be spending if we get to go away. Multiply that by all the households who are intending on going - that's a lot of refunds a d lost income for some businesses.

Fucking Just stay at home and utilise your nearest parks.

Do you work or have a business that is in the travel or hospitality sector?
Are those businesses really that selfish for wanting people to spend money so they don't go bust and have to make a ton of staff unemployed?

How Scotland does it is Holyrood's problem, nor Westminster's

My guess is a ban on inter-regional travel, with exhortations to support your local tourist spots. Plus ban on mixing households

And there's still time to decree a 2week half term on unified dates for the whole of England

Even if they don’t do a formal ‘2 week circuit break’ lockdown like has been leaked, I can’t imagine people will be encouraged to go out and about during the week off, so doubt it’ll be much good for the economy anyway.

Will people really be flocking to the cinema/soft play/museums/activity centres/restaurants?!

My guess is a ban on inter-regional travel, with exhortations to support your local tourist spots Yes, I saw an ad campaign in the last couple of days to holiday in the UK (was it on during GBBO?).
Presumably funded at some point in the financial trail by the government?

Moving out of a tourist area if you don't like tourists?
not always easy re housing and jobs.

Yeah, but we've already established that it's fine to expect people to do things that would cost loads of jobs: the poster talking about staying away from tourist areas clearly doesn't give a shit about all the people who'd be out of work if that happened. So if they don't have to take that into consideration, neither do those of us telling them to sod off elsewhere if they don't like it.

English school half terms tend to be consecutive, so I should think a 2 week circuit break is feasible. My old school has raised it, current school has not, but I’m unsurprised, the organisation is awful.

It is worrying though that Cornwall is now a medium-risk area - none of the surrounding counties are so it is not a regional spread.
The category is the third worst on the map (mid-brown).
I suspect that one explanation is the holidaymakers and the gradual exponential spread over the last few weeks.

Cornwall has had a lot of visitors since early July and people are still making the trip here, albeit most are being very sensible. Fingers crossed that it's only a hiccup.

Nottinghamshire (not Nottingham City) have got a 2 week Oct half term anyway (we moved to a 5 week summer holiday last year) - 19th to 30th. But as otherwise mentioned, half terms not standardised across counties. Derbyshire are regularly out of sync with us.

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It is worrying though that Cornwall is now a medium-risk area - none of the surrounding counties are so it is not a regional spread. The category is the third worst on the map (mid-brown). I suspect that one explanation is the holidaymakers and the gradual exponential spread over the last few weeks.

I'm in Cornwall and the big rise in cases is partly attributable to a big food factory in Redruth where 170 workers have tested positive. In the community generally cases are low and there are still a lot of tourists here. I'm of the welcoming to tourists bent - my livelihood depends on them, so they can come, be respectful, socially distance and play by the rules and that's fine with me.

OK - glad to hear there is another explanation for Cornwall.
Bit like when Herefordshire was in the top 5 at one point - but all the cases were in one single vegetable farm! That was easily controlled and didn't spread because all the farm workers were quarantined.

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How Scotland does it is Holyrood's problem, nor Westminster's

It's a thread about the UK. 🙄

@XingMing

Cornwall has had a lot of visitors since early July and people are still making the trip here, albeit most are being very sensible. Fingers crossed that it's only a hiccup.

It's due to a processing plant and all cases in the same place not due to tourists. They should isolate the employees and then problem controlled again