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To think we are heading for a full 2 week national half term lockdown

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Midlifelights · 04/10/2020 13:15

DS’s school ramping up the preparation to teach on MS teams & making sure they can all use it & have the tech in place.

Teachers indicating that it’s going to be half term plus another couple of weeks after.

Given the rising numbers, it’s seems more likely that’s what’s coming - and maybe even a full lockdown this time & not the half arsed one we had before.

Aibu? I am worried as my kids really hated it last time but with so many new cases, it just seems the likely path

OP posts:

ListeningQuietly · 04/10/2020 18:11

Normal activities including holidays and no lockdown.
So the theatres are allowed to re open at full capacity?
As are the cinemas?
and the museums?
and the restaurants?
So you just scrap social distancing for a week to allow a normal half term?

And what about the families with no money ?

Rosebel · 04/10/2020 18:12

I would guess schools are working desperately hard to get online learning in place now just incase. They don't have some magical knowledge about lockdown, they are preparing for if it does happen.
Too many jobs are seen as essential so lockdown won't work because they all have to go to work. Not quite sure why their lives are less important than others but there you go.
I don't understand why people said they didn't understand the rules last time either. They did change at times but were always pretty simple to understand.

CheeryAlmond · 04/10/2020 18:13

@wanderings

I'll believe it IF it happens, not WHEN. If he thinks we're prepared to have our businesses and livelihoods trashed AGAIN, Saint Boris is overestimating the patience and compliance that his taxpaying voters have for him; the brainwashing and fearmongering might have worked in March, but people are wising up. Saint Boris will need all the "peace and goodwill from all men" he can get over the Christmas period. Is he prepared to squander it now?

And I'm nervous about "two weeks". Saint Boris doesn't do well with time limits. Look at "We can turn this virus around in twelve weeks", and "normalish by Christmas".

And again:
Dominic Cummings
Danny Kruger
Non-compliant representatives of Her Majesty's Government.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

myrtilles · 04/10/2020 18:20

@ListeningQuietly

Normal activities including holidays and no lockdown. So the theatres are allowed to re open at full capacity? As are the cinemas? and the museums? and the restaurants? So you just scrap social distancing for a week to allow a normal half term?

And what about the families with no money ?

Normal activities within the current rules. Ie. social distancing etc.

CheeryAlmond · 04/10/2020 18:20

@Mariola321

I think it maybe because more ethnic in north and is comm9n to have three generation in one house. I see much less social distancing when I in Birmingham last week.

Are you honestly blaming this on ethnic minorities? I've seen you on a few threads spreading your sexist, racist drivel. Genuinely think you're only here to be inflammatory now.

Bxjd · 04/10/2020 18:22

People on benefits have been getting extra money since the last lockdown, I’m sure it was for 12 months they get something extra each time there paid.

Tootletum · 04/10/2020 18:24

Why is everyone so convinced lockdowns even work?

CountFosco · 04/10/2020 18:31

The October holidays in Scotland start on Friday so if there's going to be a national 'circuit breaker' then they'd better announce it soon.

HesterShaw1 · 04/10/2020 18:32

@Tootletum

Why is everyone so convinced lockdowns even work?

Not everyone is @Tootletum. Plenty of experts and scientists are not.

I think it's because it seems as though it is something concrete we can do to "defeat" the virus, even though actually there's nothing we can do except let it run its course with sensible and proportionate mitigating measures.

TheQueef · 04/10/2020 18:32

@Bxjd

People on benefits have been getting extra money since the last lockdown, I’m sure it was for 12 months they get something extra each time there paid.

Only people on UC get the extra whole £20 British pounds. Let's not start conflating that eh?

redvest · 04/10/2020 18:33

DS2 has a covid test booked for tomorrow as he is coughing up a storm and other DC now stuck at home isolating, as are we

its awful

Mumofsend · 04/10/2020 18:33

I rely on Income Support. I received no extra accept the meal vouchers

daisychain01 · 04/10/2020 18:35

@Midlifelights

As in, the last one the rules were unclear, it probably wasn’t strict enough- my friends in Spain couldn’t leave their house at all apart from shopping & medicine - no daily exercise etc. I really don’t want another one but the last one was exceptionally blurry in so many ways

I very much doubt they will stop people doing daily exercise, i.e. walking, running, cycling individually (not as a pack of people going out in a group). That would be counter productive and unenforceable. I bet the police wouldn't want to march individual walkers back to their home. Despite what people maintain about loss of civil liberties, we are not a police state.

HesterShaw1 · 04/10/2020 18:35

@redvest

DS2 has a covid test booked for tomorrow as he is coughing up a storm and other DC now stuck at home isolating, as are we

its awful

I hope he gets well soon @redvest

PilatesPeach · 04/10/2020 18:38

Not reasonable to do a 2 week national lockdown when some areas have very low rates of infection - big contrast between north & south overall (except London)

Aragog · 04/10/2020 18:39

and people were turned back if they could not prove why they were travelling

MIL, DH and BIL travelled quite a bit during the first couple of weeks or so of lockdown, on motorways and across towns. BIL was driving a long way too. All due to FIL ebeing ill in hospital, then a hospice and then to deal with the aftermath of his death and funeral. Not once were they ever stopped on any of their journeys.

in May/June my parents and other family members were doing similar due to my nan's illness in hospital and ultimate death inc dealing with the funeral, etc. Again, none were ever stopped or questioned on their travels.

Its simply not the case that all movement was restricted.

ListeningQuietly · 04/10/2020 18:40

myrtilles
The theatres are shut because they cannot open with social distancing.
The concerts and ballet and opera are shut
The cinemas are closing for good next week
The nightclubs have been shut since March
The museums are on their last legs
as are the Zoos and theme parks
many pubs and restaurants are dying with the 10pm curfew

Furlough ends in 28 days
tens of thousands of people are going to be made redundant next week

there is no normal for Half term.
Shocking that anybody thinks there could be.

ListeningQuietly · 04/10/2020 18:42

Aragog
I was on the motorway right through lockdown
and I was never stopped

but its a lie to say people were leaving the country and returning
as the flights and ferries and trains were not running

Drogonssmile · 04/10/2020 18:48

Will the schools stay open for key workers though or will I have to take DS to the hospital where I work with me? I have no more leave to take. He has one week half term which I have arranged for. If it's two weeks I'm fucked.

ilovesooty · 04/10/2020 18:49

@LakieLady

how do you actually know that is where transmisson is happening

Given the complete failure to get an effective testing system in place, along with comprehensive tracking and tracing, we have no fucking clue where transmission is happening, unless it's a workplace cluster like Leicester or the Norfolk turkey plant.

And don't forget the people lying to circumvent the track and trace procedures. Whatever its shortcomings it hasn't a hope in hell of working with so many people around who are so unapologetically irresponsible.

middleager · 04/10/2020 18:49

The schools I work with in a high risk area are not planning for a 2 week lockdown.

If there is though, then maybe we can go out as a family. We're currently avoiding any non essential activities due to Test & Trace. DC2 has already missed 2 weeks of y10 this term due to a positive case in class.

We will go to Showcase Cinema (not closed), for a meal, and an attraction, things I miss because we cannot go currently. 14 days would afford us this if we went at the very start of any rumoured fortnight.

Ghostlyglow · 04/10/2020 18:49

I think it's likely, but I really hope it doesn't happen.

herecomesthsun · 04/10/2020 19:01

@PilatesPeach

Not reasonable to do a 2 week national lockdown when some areas have very low rates of infection - big contrast between north & south overall (except London)

In Italy, when they selectively locked down the North, loads of people from the North "escaped" to the South. They took the infection rates with them. Would you want that?

m0therofdragons · 04/10/2020 19:01

Dtds primary began teaching ms teams on the first day back in September so they had a better plan in place just in case.

I keep hearing a 2 week lockdown might happen but hard to accept where I live as cases continue to be low. Even in the peak we’ve had minimal deaths. If it happens again then dc will go to school as I don’t think dc can take any more homeschooling while working from home and he is a key worker and so am I in the hospital. We decided not to send dc last time but I think if it comes to that then dh and my jobs will be extremely full on so we’d use school option.

emmcan · 04/10/2020 19:02

Alexander has to cover up his failings and another pair of little mittens, yes another pair, so more restrictions on the way.
But full restrictions won't happen.
There just isn't the will, the science, the police.

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