Are you going to send your kids back in when they reopen?

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Wondering if people will send them back.
As they think only 4-10% of population might have had it. And this peak was only 4w of school.
Im not shielding but isolating as much as possible because im
asthmatic.

I hope they say attendance isnt mandatory so people who need to/want to or are still WFH can keep them home if needed.

alloutoffucks your list of industries that won’t be affected is widely off the mark. The vast majority of them will be.

@Newgirls Hardly anyone needs to buy clothes in a 3 week period. I have bought no clothes. I will need to buy my kids new clothes for winter and myself a new winter coat and my DP was saying he could do with some new shirts.
Why would we buy them now? Yes of course clothing will go down. It will not go down by 90%.

You do realise people will buy less food also.........

@Newgirls agree on law. I’m at the Bar. 75 % of criminal sets are predicted to go under in 3 months (if they don’t get jury trials back up and running). 80 % of chambers in 12 months. HMCTS has shut half the court estate. Only a small minority of cases are happening virtually. Yes, once the courts are open, we are more recession proof then other occupations, but the question is if we can hold out till the courts get back to some normality, which is unlikely.

Yep mine will be going back. They need the structure, stimulation and social contact. If they had been eager to study at home I'd have carried on home educating, but it's been like trying to get chimps to do ballet!

Banks have even stopped new mortgage applications - they didn’t even do that in the 80s recession.

We will all be spending less and trying to save to protect against thai happening so lots of small businesses will suffer whether fitness, beauty, music lessons, dance classes, home improvements etc we need to get working as soon as we can and I hope that means as safely as possible

@HoffiCoffi13 Are you actually reading my posts? Every industry will feel some impact, but for some it will be minor. So people still need food and will still buy it. What will be affected is the luxury food providers and cheaper food providers will get more business.
With clothes those providing cheaper clothes will be fine. Primark will still probably be fine. Those that people upgrade to next level up will suffer.

I will have mixed thoughts on this depending on timing. I am due a baby next month and newborns are meant to be self isolated, so not sure how I would work it.

@alloutoffucks just to pick up on your comment about all medically vulnerable people being not out at work. That is totally incorrect. Vast amounts of people are in the vulnerable category and are out at work, this includes health care workers such as a close relative of mine. Should they stay at home to keep their kids out of school and not care for you and your relatives if you need healthcare? Th NHS and social care sector wouldn't function if all the vulnerable staff stayed at home.

The 90% is now for clothes retail. It’s been in the news. It might go up again but to what? 50%?

Yes I’m reading your posts , I don’t agree with them.

I'm in law too. Junior paralegal on a low wage. I think my job is safe short term but long term, who knows? Some people in our company working in RTA claims and property have been furloughed and we have been warned there will be more if this continues much longer.

Sorry to hear that strawberry - it’s what im hearing from lawyer pals x

@Newgirls Of course they have, we are in lock down. Lots of things are not happening that will happen once lock down ends. Primark will reopen.

I do get weary of the amount of catastrophising posts on MN. According to some in 6 months time we will be living in a disaster movie with widespread riots, looting, no benefits, so people literally starving on the street, and people half naked because they can't buy clothes any more. Sounds a bit like the kind of disaster movie my teenage son would write.

The truth is a lot more boring. Much higher unemployment, more misery.

allout as long as you and yours are all right to hell with anyone else.

That shines through in your posts.

You keep your kids off. But school will need to open and I hope they open as soon as safe to do so. I know there will still be risks but we can't live like this forever.

You may be vulnerable and need to take actions right for you, but not all of us are.

You will have the choice yet you seem so determined to take choice away from others.

Supermarket sales are up but obviously that’s because we aren’t buying Pret, eating out etc so jobs in food retail are great 👍

@MeadowHay Then I wonder if they are the key workers dying of the virus? Bloody tragic.

@alloutoffucks have you noticed this is the whole of Europe that will be in depression not just demographic area of the UK, when has the whole of Europe been in lockdown in your lifetime? You are the one who is in denial.

I am a SAHM so could easily keep the children at home with me, but I will be sending them back to school/preschool when they reopen.

We don't have anyone that's classified as vulnerable in our household so aren't at particular risk from the virus. I feel that my children's welfare and happiness is at greater risk from an extended time away from school without the educational and social opportunities that allow them to thrive. I imagine that keeping children isolated from the rest of the world would reduce the chance of them getting all sorts of infectious diseases and illnesses that could cause them some serious harm but we all decided pre-coronavirus that on balance the benefits derived from going to school and mixing with others outweighed this risk. The additional threat to my children posed by coronavirus doesn't (in my view) tip the balance towards long term lockdown and isolation.

I am not suggesting that the current lockdown isn't needed for wider society but I think it's important that we all keep some perspective regarding how dangerous coronavirus is for children with no underlying conditions. If the whole population responded in the same way to the virus as children seem to be able to then there would be no real panic and certainly no talk of lockdown or shutting schools.

Yes primark will open but next probably won’t. Primark sales will be down and jobs will go from there too.

It’s not fantasy, doom mongering etc it’s trying to explain to people what is happening - but it will become clear eventually to us all so I don’t need to keep boring on

If this carries on there will be huge unemployment like we have never seen in our lifetime, which may include your husband @alloutoffucks

if we’re still in Lockdown in 6 months time
Will the government allow the economy to collapse? Can the country survive six months?

We're at fewer than 11,000 deaths. Public Health England estimates that on average 17,000 people have died from the flu in England annually between 2014/15 and 2018/19. 2014/15 figures were over 28,000.

@Random18 I want what is best for everyone, not just the richest in society. What Boris has wanted all along is to safeguard the richest.

I know there are people who need two salaries, but a lot of people who say that could manage on one salary. We can pay the bills and feed us on one salary. No frills at all though.

But it's not just about the immediate short-term aspect of losing that second income. It's about the fact that when a person is out of the workforce for several years, it drastically affects their long-term employment prospects, making the family far more dependent upon the one remaining income. And then what happens if the sole breadwinner loses their job due to economic depression?

Alloutoffucks' posts are extremely naive.

We need to come out of lockdown sooner not later. Resources need to be directed towards helping the medically vulnerable to cocoon while everyone else starts getting back to normal.

We're at fewer than 11,000 deaths. Public Health England estimates that on average 17,000 people have died from the flu in England annually between 2014/15 and 2018/19. 2014/15 figures were over 28,000.

But its estimated there would be 500k without any intervention.