Lockdown for October half term

[Bellamybells]

I heard on my local radio station that worst case scenario this may be considered so that kids don't miss school. Has anyone heard much more about this idea?

Better than nothing. Really not looking forward to the mess that's coming.

Fingers crossed people stick to the rule of 5 or at least bloody limit their numbers again!

Also I can't find a source so wasn't sure if just hearsay?

I don't think we will get to October without a lockdown. The Tories are hoping we will get to October like they waited for lockdown for Easter to save money

What radio station??

Is the holiday in October not at slightly different times for different areas? It is where I am

Which station? The tories have handled this so badly, it's a car crash waiting to happen on an epic scale. But the media also don't help matters by spinning half truths and scaremongering people.

@tigger1001

Is the holiday in October not at slightly different times for different areas? It is where I am

They said might be two weeks to cover

How would that work? Businesses closed?

Would be a nightmare to fund

Lower socialisation maybe but hard to enforce

@Wannabangbang

Which station? The tories have handled this so badly, it's a car crash waiting to happen on an epic scale. But the media also don't help matters by spinning half truths and scaremongering people.

Radio Berkshire but I can't see if anywhere online!

I've always been planning for:
A) either the government's plan for schools magically works (ah! I did wish for it!)
B) or we get another lockdown by half term (and if so, I don’t believe for a second it would last only 2 weeks)

I'm an avid Radio Berkshire listener & haven't heard this. No secondary school sent year groups home yet as far as I know.

Tbh unless you've got a link its all hearsay ,more hearsay and rumours and scare mongering , i've watched the 6 o clock news and channel 4 news tonight and no mention

There isn't going to be another lockdown as the numpties in charge have FINALLY worked out that protecting the grey vote isn't worth ruining everyone else's lives over

Half term is a month away, by then the country will be overwhelmed with Covid cases if things continue as they are. What a god awful mess this is. I can’t see my child’s school staying open for another month.

If we did a lockdown down for 2/3 weeks it would probably be enough to get cases down to a level that track and trace and testing could cope with again as it would give the new labs time to open and catch up with the backlog.

If we wait until October half term there will be as many infections if not more than before the first lockdown and look how long that one had to be.

Sadly, the government can’t make good, quick decisions for a better long term outcome. They like to wait until everything has fallen apart and 1000 people a day are dying.

Sorry...typo... ‘if we did a lockdown NOW’

Yes it might be two weeks but our local holidays are two weeks and are different dates to the next local authority so lockdown to cover the school holidays here would need to be at least 3 weeks and would then cover non holiday time

It all feels like such a mess and not sure what the best solution is

Lockdown is a very blunt tool and its only effective once. We've already tried that, I doubt we'll be going there again in a hurry unless absolutely nothing else is effective.

Potential measures are

-no households mixing
-curfews
-hospitality sector closures (with industry specific furlough)
-half lockdown - but with all work and school to continue (unless your industry is prevented from operating)

The only reason why a lockdown (ie, don't leave your home except for exercise) would happen is if the health service is actually close to being overwhelmed. Surely its pretty unlikely that that will happen when we've had 6/8 months to prepare and have effective treatments etc? I don't think that the health service will be overwhelmed by October - if its going to happen it would be december/January.

We're on local lockdown in Birmingham with more than 50 schools with (sometimes multiple) cases. I doubt we'll make October, let alone half term, before our schools are running on empty.

There are some parts of the country where this isn't the case, where there are minimal cases and no schools impacted. There's such disparity, how can one size fit all?

@Southernsoftie76

Half term is a month away, by then the country will be overwhelmed with Covid cases if things continue as they are. What a god awful mess this is. I can’t see my child’s school staying open for another month.

My one child's secondary managed 7 days before he was sent back due to a case. The third in school. My other son's school reported its first case after 2 days, now there are several after 2 weeks. Never mind, they're only in GCSE years...

Lockdowns do not work for a week even New Zealand did seven! I would say if they shut at half term schools will not go back this academic year! But hey we’ll be got more than a lot of mumsnetters thought he should get so I will take six weeks over nothing! Learning to set expectations low here😂!

There won't be a national lockdown, but the local lockdowns will spread and multiply...

I don't think there will be an official 'lockdown' at half term.

However, I fully expect that schools will be closed, or at least, we will be on de facto Tier 3 - secondaries closed, primaries open in theory but closed due to lack of staff in practice - in the majority of the country by half term.

That will of itself create lockdown-like conditions because younger children being at home will mean that more parents wfh.

But hey we’ll be got more than a lot of mumsnetters thought he should get so I will take six weeks over nothing!

Yes, I am absolutely busting a gut with my class at the moment, on the assumption that this next few weeks is - if we make it through even those weeks - their main in person educational input this academic year.

And those of us with kids in GCSE years who got just 7 days and now a mixed bag of home learning, what do we do? I'd give anything for weeks, but it's rife in our city schools and so many not getting an education.