If/when the restrictions are lessened what will be first?

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I know we are nowhere near yet I just wondered what MNtters think.Personally I think it would be the schools that went back first and as I work in hospitality I doubt it is us.What does anyone else think?

Hannah, yes I’ll keep trying

Back, I live in a small flat so often forced to declutter things I’d rather keep. But I’m reading a lot of people regret decluttering as now there’s small things that could have been useful and they haven’t got them any more. They swallowed some advice about things “sparking joy”.

Furlough was a total own goal

We are going to have to be so careful we don't knacker our economy. Too long of this and we already have.

@flowerycurtain agreed. If they can get this peak down, I know the Chancellor said they would extend if needed after 3 months - I don’t think they will - or for very limited circumstances.

I'm in hospitality too and I think we will be the last back in. We will only be reopened when they are sure that we really got over the worst. I wouldnt be surprised if we are shut until September. Same with schools unless they change terms dates and open over the summer.

I suspect it will be businesses first, schools second, leisure absolutely last.

Re decluttering, my dad volunteered at a charity shop until they closed and he said that they will be refusing all donations initially as they cant be sure they wont be contaminated.

It never crossed my mind that they would have to do this. Such a waste :(

I would open take aways and other shops, with strict social distancing in place, so one in the take away at a time.

don't know enough about what other industry could open.

RE schools. They wouldn't have cancelled all GCSEs and A Levels if they were going to open in June! All teachers could've set revision tasks and completing coursework and they could have been sat with a slight delay. To cancel all of them suggests schools won't re open until September.

If you look at places like Hong Kong, then it’s production and work first. Their restaurants are open but not schools yet. That will be the last.

Furlough was also announced at the same time as the stay home & do not go out except for food, medicine, caring, exercising message so that for businesses who were allowed to stay open eg garages, no customers turned up because it wasn't one of those reasons and they felt they couldn't come. So even though businesses could stay open there's nothing to do!
Also staff are very uncomfortable being at work. I think if lockdown lasts 9 weeks til the end of May ( end of current furlough period) the country will be f*cked.

Take aways are open. Though a lot have chosen not to.
Schools won't go back before September

I could see the furlough extending but being more targeted at business ordered to close - so maybe restaurants, hospitality, childcare if still shut, that kind of thing. There might be more of a requirement on the companies to justify the furloughing.

The 3 week minimum is challenging too. Some companies have some work, but not enough to keep everyone going. Being able to get staff to do say 1 week on/1 week off (for example) would be fairer nd cause less issues for their staffing than having some at home full time on 80% and others working full time at 100%

I went by some restaurants on my walk today (I normally go to the park but was curious to see the High street).

Only one place was doing takeaway. I don’t know if the others chose to close from lack of business or if the conditions attached made it better for them to close. I know a lot of local people but no restaurants because I don’t eat out, so I have no way of guessing.

There used to be delivery drivers who would congregate outside our building chatting - we have a sort of yard where bikes can fit, but not cars. Haven’t seen any of them since lockdown.

I must be honest, I don’t miss the noise. Occasionally I have to open my window and ask them to be quiet - they seem sweet but don’t seem to realise how loud they are at midnight!

This thread is making me wonder, conditions were attractive for some? My work got cancelled two weeks before lockdown.

Presumably a lot of restaurants shut because offering takeaway would mean you’re open?

Sorry, I really know nothing about restaurants and takeaways.

Restaurants were allowed to do takeout but must around here have given up as they just weren't getting enough demand to keep going.

There are a few restaurants near me that offered take away up until recently then abruptly stopped. One very popilar one was appatently inundated and crazily busy, but without the alcohol revenue from the restaurant it wasn't profitable. Others said they couldn't maintain the 6 foot rule in their busy kitchen set ups!

My place is a food pub. We and several others tried take aways but in 2 days took less than £200, we were paying more in wages. A lot of pubs in the country found the same thing so it made most financial sense to shut.

We have a chinese takeaway in the village and they closed when it was costing them more in overheads and wasted food than they were taking.

I’ll be going straight to see my parents and give them a massive hug

They wouldn't have cancelled all GCSEs and A Levels if they were going to open in June

That makes no sense. They didn’t have a crystal ball. They didn’t know how long this would last, how it would play out and they clearly stated they didn’t wish what’s occured with nearly everyone shutting down and not just those requested.

They had to cancel the exams. They had no way of knowing what would be taught, how long this would last, or even what the papers could include, how they would hold exams, get them marked etc.

You write like they knew or something, they didn’t. It was the great unknown and still is to some extent.

They will open the schools when it’s safe to do so and to get folks back to work. The cancelling of exams was a step required at the time due to disrupted syllabus and no knowledge of how long this could last.

@Bluntness100 agreed. If they knew schools would not reopen to September why not announce that? People can then plan (as best as possible) accordingly. I agree with you they didn’t know. If they had closed schools saying,”we don’t know when they will open, you may do exams, you may not or they may be later” there would have been outage and chaos. Schools/parents and teachers would be saying how can they prepare knowing that?

Pyong I hope you can open soon.

The kitchen distancing thing seems most likely, especially in the small places we have here.

They've given some pretty strong indications on the schools - they said several times school closures would need to be for 13-16 weeks to be effective, and in Scotland they outright said that they might well not reopen before summer.

I wonder if there will be a way of evidencing those who have had a positive antibody test, and they will be allowed to mix more freely?

Dentists. Please let dentists work soon. I am in agony

Puzzled that was what Michael Gove was suggesting. Although people could of course transmit the disease on their hands etc.

Oh Sinister, I’m sorry. Have you got any Orajel?