So I can't go to sports day but ....

[tonystarksrighthand]

10,000 different crowds at Royal Ascot can go ahead each day and crowds of football fans can gather.

When will people wake up and realise this is all UTTER bollox.

Even if you've had the 2 vaccines you can still pass Covid on and catch Covid - what's the point in having it, still having to wear masks and social distance.

I was totally compliant up until this shit.

Fuck off am I doing it anymore.

@tonystarksrighthand

So who collects the info about the negative LFTs?
Who checks the list to make sure everyone who arrives is on the list?
Who stays on the gate for latecomers and to check no one else comes?

Schools are hugely short of staff at the moment. Those people saying prep schools with tons of land can do it so why can't everyone are incredibly naive about the reality of life in school at the moment.

[quote yeahdarling]@tonystarksrighthand

So who collects the info about the negative LFTs?
Who checks the list to make sure everyone who arrives is on the list?
Who stays on the gate for latecomers and to check no one else comes?

Schools are hugely short of staff at the moment. Those people saying prep schools with tons of land can do it so why can't everyone are incredibly naive about the reality of life in school at the moment. [/quote]
Agree with this, it would be really hard for our school to do it but the reason I’m angry isn’t because of the schools decision, it’s more that the reopening of things on 17th June was delayed which has impacted so many things. I don’t think it was necessary given the effectiveness of the vaccines and low death rates and has resulted in disappointment for kids, parents, businesses, everyone really

My school is going ahead with it!

I am sure some schools will be able to. But depending on finance/staffing etc lots won't.

It’s the school not wanting to do it. Our Ds’s private school with similar land is running a year 3-8 sports day with families invited to bring a picnic.

Honestly have no idea why they’re preventing people from watching sports day at all. It’s outdoors, we all know the transmission risk outside is very low. Most schools have enough space to provide distance between parents and we could all wear masks if they really insisted. I genuinely don’t know why they have made this decision. Not to mention the fact most of us have been vaccinated now, it isn’t like it’s March 2020 and we’re all hiding away terrified.

My DS is in year 6 so this is the last sports day for him and I can’t watch it, I also can’t watch his leavers assembly next month which is also always outdoors. So disappointing.

What concerns me is that the schools cancelling sports day…. The fact that these schools are run by individuals clearly unable (and / or unwilling) to correctly interpret government guidance.

If my child was at such a school, I think I’d be researching alternatives (and one of the questions I’d ask is… did you hold sports day?!)

Our school cancelled a similar event recently as the numbers began to climb.

The problem isn't it being outside, anyone can see that, it's the fucking uproar that would follow if there was subsequently a positive case that caused some or all of the school to close.

Ascot and Wembley won't have that kind of problem.

Schools are damned if the do. You had to see and hear the abuse our staff got last week when they needed to send a year group home.

@Florin

It’s the school not wanting to do it. Our Ds’s private school with similar land is running a year 3-8 sports day with families invited to bring a picnic.

It absolutely isn't that at all.

Some families might bring picnics. Which toilets do they then use?

What about the children who's families don't come? Who do they sit with?

Who checks that only families are coming in and not just randomers through an open gate?

Who ensures social distancing between families?

Why can people not see that schools are trying their best but sometimes due to staffing or legislation things cannot run?

@lljkk

...can we start to live alongside COVID. The virus is never going to go away. We are going to have to start to live with it.... done for a reason

So the plan is to require everyone attending sports day to do LFTs & PCRs, too? Is that what "living with covid" means ...until when? Forever?

Big Group Picnic outside in a random park = no PCR or LFT.

Big group Picnic outside at school Sports Day = lots of pCR & LFT?

No. Grossly oversimplifying it but the events are to gauge the increase in infections that result from increased contact and large crowds.

The idea being that if there aren't large increases in infection rates then it should mean more freedom can be allowed and if there are increases the scientists can work on identifying what it is about the events that causes the uptick and look for ways to mitigate that.

It's not to try out whether large scale testing is possible.