Changes to lockdown from Monday?

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I know this is pure speculation, but any predictions about changes from next Monday?

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-06/johnson-says-some-changes-to-u-k-lockdown-likely-from-monday

I work for government in an intel role so this email sent to me is classified.

Sharon is that you?

Distanced Walker.

Why ‘definitely?’

everything that comes out of any government department is "classified". There are four classifications: Official, Official-Sensitive, Secret, and Top Secret.

Are there really files marked Secret?

Do people walk around with paper in cardboard folders and say “Here are the Secret files.”?

Only a local newspaper, but Somersetlive are reporting a five phase return. Under phase 2, year 6 will return to help with the transition to secondary) grammar. The rest of it makes sense to me in terms of timing, but we will see

Gutted that the plans for Monday I’m reading in the press still mean you can’t mix households. They need to consider people who are completely alone right now! If they mix with someone else completely alone I can’t see the risk ☹️

ifonly4 so are sky news. 5 phase plan they've reported.
Nicola Sturgeon talking bubbles again!! I do not want a social bubble, but then again depending how you read it if your high of contracting the virus you can't be in one, I'm high risk because I'm a key worker, or do they mean high risk of becoming very ill? My mum told me yesterday it's the former

4th of July for opening of creches & nurseries (and I assume childminders)!!!
My employer has asked me if I can come into the office from end of May.
The answer is no if I don't have any childcare.
In a team where everyone has stay at home partners or parents caring for their children I am going to start feeling at a real disadvantage.

Paws could very well work for the government. It seems to me that part of this governments strategy is small leaks on social media / press which gives them time to assess public opinion. It was very clear to me that schools were going to shut of the Friday the Wednesday of the week prior. So I took my children out of school then. Likewise the furlough scheme was very easy to predict.

@fishfingersandtrashtv how did you hear about nurseries? I work in a nursery and assumed it would be 1st of June! X

I don't see how leaving schools till last is practical. If it's true then women as a group are highly likely to be shafted. Just as DV rates are rising with lockdown, a raft of women will be made dependent on their husband's income or have to claim benefits as single parents when they didn't before. It is highly likely to affect women disproportionately. NSPCC current guidance recommends children aren't left alone until they are 13, that's two years into secondary. Mine are 10 and 12 and left for short periods but I would not feel comfortable leaving them for a whole working day and they would hate it.

If this does turn out to be true I for one will be kicking up a fuss with my MP.

That said, the Head of my 10yo's school is implying she thinks the primaries will return at least for some years this term.... I hope she is right. My Y7 being off isn't too disruptive to my work but working with the Y6 is hopeless.

This thread is nuts. If Paws really works for the government / is a civil servant he/she has zero integrity and needs to read the civil service code. They’d have signed the official secrets act and would not be risking their job and showing a lack of integrity like this. Criminal behaviour.

Also dreading the social bubble idea. Not because I can't choose, but because it will show me that I dont have any close friends. Everyone always has another 3 or 4 people above me.

Same here.

My family live 2 hrs away too.
It's going to make many people feel like shit.

ILs, who live 10 miles away, favour DH's two sisters, so we won't be part of any bubble.

We all know she doesn't work for the government .
I could've said all that is just speculation the same as all of us .

@middle you presumably have at least the company of an adult with your DH. The bubble type ideas are for lonely people to ease the terrible isolation of being without adult company for months on end.

Whatever the plans are the governments leaks to the press with talk of everything easing from Monday are irresponsible and very dangerous. People will see this as a green light to 'get back to normal' this weekend. We still have more daily cases now than we did at the beginning of lockdown. This is an absolute shitshow.

That’s just because we are testing more so we are testing people who are likely only having mild infections eg keyworkers

It seems almost definite that social movement will be restricted Sunday so I got one will now go out more as will many others

It’s 3 days and seems completely pointless give it’s a long bank holiday

The "plan" that Paws posted was sent by a friend to me at 6 17 pm yesterday via What's App

All those not wanting a social bubble - don’t be in one then ??

I will certainly fall in depression if schools dont reopen till September.
Clearly young lives dont matter to the government.

^I will certainly fall in depression if schools dont reopen till September.
Clearly young lives dont matter to the government.^

Young lives and women. Women and children have been well and truly shafted in all of this.

Somehow I've ended up wfh with two fed up kids. It's affecting them and it's affecting my job. I'm lucky that my employer are understanding.

Many women will lose their jobs.

I feel my children and I have been disproportionately impacted compared to the risk posed to us.

We may be allowed to meet people in very small groups in outside spaces and some more shops and work places will be allowed to re open but it doesn’t seem likely that the 1-2 metre social distancing will be lifted for a long time.

Don’t think travel outside your own area all be lifted yet either. Our county police have issued a statement today saying our county is closed to visitors so do not come here this weekend or next week.

I'd really be interested in what the plans are for pubs/cafés etc, social distancing is not really a doable or sustainable business model for these establishments.

Yes there is fake news going via what’s app, as is common.

It does look like paws got it then pretended she had it officially and started posting it.

We will find out Sunday but it’s pretty much guaranteed not to be what she has posted.