ADs and their very long lists!

[LivinLaVidaLoki]

We were up to 999 posts so thought we needed a new thread!

I am very much an AD but also a teacher. We do exist! Teaching is increbidly exhausting and in term time I don't go anywhere else apart from school except on Saturdays. But everything I did on a Saturday is now closed so now I really don't go anywhere! I'm lucky dh can work from home and do the shopping. I've had Covid and had no symptoms apart from losing taste and smell. Definitely picked it up from school but that doesn't mean I want schools closed. Quite the reverse. I want this nightmare over a mainly mild illness to go away.

Yep, you sound like a lot of the teachers I know ValancyRedfern.

I'm sure most teachers are of the same mindset, it's the ones that aren't that are the most vocal unfortunately!

@Pleasedontdothat Sorry for your loss

The least dementory people I know are teachers, frontline NHS staff and supermarket workers and the worst are those who can easily work from home or are retired. Odd.

Has anyone noticed how the news headlines are doom and gloom again today after the excitement over the Oxford vaccine. It’s like mental torture - build a bit of hope and then destroy it again.

@ValancyRedfern

I am very much an AD but also a teacher. We do exist! Teaching is increbidly exhausting and in term time I don't go anywhere else apart from school except on Saturdays. But everything I did on a Saturday is now closed so now I really don't go anywhere! I'm lucky dh can work from home and do the shopping. I've had Covid and had no symptoms apart from losing taste and smell. Definitely picked it up from school but that doesn't mean I want schools closed. Quite the reverse. I want this nightmare over a mainly mild illness to go away.

I am a TA and like you I go to work and nowhere else not even the supermarket as we get deliveries. I am waiting for a test result as lost taste and smell on Xmas Eve, if it’s positive I most definitely got it from school. My isolation will end midnight Sunday just in time to go back to school Monday (primary). Can I ask his long was it before your smell and taste returned? I am finding it really frustrating.

There were a lot of thank fuck that teŕm is over posts from my multitide of teacher friends on fb, and anger over the government's latest last minute shennanigans at the end of term. Generally they're pretty quiet in the absence of gettibg together with mates over a few bevies

Just had another look at our hospital data.

We are currently at 602 occupancy. Its the lowest its been since May/June. In July onwards it fluctuated between 750 and 850 and started to come down beginning of October. Its just starting to creep back up. Note, creep. Not shoot up. So why does our hospitals weekly update always focus on "we've got x amount of covid patients in this week, an increase of x, so be careful or we are fucked" paraphrasing obviously.

Also "the majority of the infections and the vast majority of people in hospital are over 60" could that be because we are a seaside town with a millionty hundred care homes (there are 4 within a 10 minute walk of my home).

Which is why I get frustrated that we don't know where the infections are. If the infections are out in the community that's a higher risk than if the 12 cases we recorded yesterday (yes, 12) were in care homes or the hospital.

Just seen a news article that brits at a fancy Swiss ski resort have legged it back to the UK rather than face a mandatory covid quarantine.

Something tells me if they were families on a summer sun jolly to tenerife, there'd be a lot more media coverage and outrage......

@AcornAutumn I agree with you, but it infuriates me that we don't have an explicit exemption. Not everyone would be as happy to just go for it as my mum is.

@cassgate

Also a TA (primary) and AD... tested positive for Covid first week in Nov... luckily only mildly ill and recovered quickly, as were most of those adults ill... kids barely ill at all and none longer than a day or two...I see no reason for school not to open after break but here in Scotland that's already been extended so my teens will be at home whilst I'm at work... still have almost no sense of smell and taste only marginally better... tending to stick to eating stuff I usually do as I know how it tastes if that makes sense...

PS Also would say I've only gone between work, home and supermarket for quite some time now!

An investigation into an earlier outbreak at out local hospital found 31 deaths due to hospital acquired COVID19.
That's roughly 1/6 of the deaths for the entire county.
We are seaside and nursing home area too.
The locals were complaining about day trippers "flocking" from the Midlands, trailing their contagion. It was nothing to do with it!

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Just seen a news article that brits at a fancy Swiss ski resort have legged it back to the UK rather than face a mandatory covid quarantine.

Something tells me if they were families on a summer sun jolly to tenerife, there'd be a lot more media coverage and outrage......

From what my kids have told me, and children at school have let slip, there are a fair few school families in Dubai, Tenerife and elsewhere.... not entirely sure I blame them, wish I was a bit more rebellious myself.one thing this has taught me is that I'm a rule follower (not Roolz mind), even when I don't see the point of them...

Oh lord I've started a thread over there..maybe I should get it deleted before anyone reads it....

@GrrrrrrArghhhhh I absolutely don't blame them for going. What annoys me is the difference in reporting and reaction between an upmarket ski resort and a family sun holiday in the canaries or wherever this year.

[quote LivinLaVidaLoki]@GrrrrrrArghhhhh I absolutely don't blame them for going. What annoys me is the difference in reporting and reaction between an upmarket ski resort and a family sun holiday in the canaries or wherever this year.[/quote]
Yes, absolutely!

Hospital occupancy rates here.

That's interesting @SufferingFromLongLockdown is that the original or the latest? Would be interesting to see both.

I another who's realised they are a rule follower (not rulz!) - but then I've always been a "drive at 30 even when it's 2am and the roads are empty" type.

@LivinLaVidaLoki

That's interesting *@SufferingFromLongLockdown* is that the original or the latest? Would be interesting to see both.

It was shared by Tim Spector ( Zoe app) along with a graph that goes up to 28th December.

They are wetting their knickers in anticipation of a tier 5. They are scum.

@DominaShantotto

They are wetting their knickers in anticipation of a tier 5. They are scum.

Just read the tier 5 thread. Just wow

@DominaShantotto

They are wetting their knickers in anticipation of a tier 5. They are scum.

I've been thinking about this and I think the effect of adding tiers is likely to cause people in tier 3 and 2 areas to relax a bit more as they're not now the worst.

I think there is a real divide starting to become more obvious as threads I see like the tier 5 one have a number of posters that take the piss out of the 'strict lockdown' suggestions.

I think more and more people are seeing the stupidity in some of the proposed extra rules suggested by those shouting for lockdowns.

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Just seen a news article that brits at a fancy Swiss ski resort have legged it back to the UK rather than face a mandatory covid quarantine.

Something tells me if they were families on a summer sun jolly to tenerife, there'd be a lot more media coverage and outrage......

It was the ski resorts that kicked it all off last time. I wonder where they went, Italian, French ski resorts??