Second wave coming

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Yay.

Feels like the end of days to me

The 81 year old with COPD could be exempt

NEWS FLASH STOP PRESS ..............hair does not stop growing if you have COPD it still needs to be cut.

@AlaskaThunderfuckHiiiiiiiii My hairdresser is the same..............masks and visors.

@MadamHoooch

I really do think this is the end of society and of civilization. I am not exaggerating. It is the apocalypse

When can we expect the plague of locusts?

PinkMaroon didn’t we have that already? In India a few moths ago

Months

@notevenat20

Yes , schools are terrifying places to work just now. You are basically just throwing yourselves to the lions

I don't think this is reasonable. Schools are open all over the world and teachers have not been falling like flies.

Yes, but with smaller classes of max 15 children, in larger spaces with extra staff and money spent to enable this. UK schools are just business as usual with everyone packed in like sardines. Bubbles of 30 if you are lucky to 300+ all under the guise of being 'covid secure' when there is no such thing!

Please : it's not the end of us!
It's a horrible blib in history but we will come through it all.
It's not a bacterial infection. That's the one I'm dreading.

Time to introduce masks into schools if it isn't already too late.

If schools are to remain open they will need healthy teachers to run them.

... Radio 4 where Jim Al-Khalili was interviewing Sarah Gilbert who is heading up the vaccine and the testing. She's a bit brilliant.

Ain't that the truth!

@The80sweregreat

Please : it's not the end of us! It's a horrible blib in history but we will come through it all. It's not a bacterial infection. That's the one I'm dreading.

What’s that one?

I dread the virus that reverses age group risk. Then we would be seeing utter chaos

Bacterial infection may be a consequence of what we are doing to fight Covid19

I am determined to have a better time of it this time, we've done it before, we can do it again.

I have to say that I'm surprised that we didn't get a little further than 2 weeks into the school year, I thought we would at least make it to half term before things got really bad.

I'm going to take the opportunity to do all the cleaning/sorting/exercising I didn't do last time, it's going to be a long old winter.

@notevenat20

We have endured lockdown and a miserable summer and I really thought we were coming out on the other side, but this news has really made me despair for the first time in this saga - I cried miserably tonight, wondering when we will EVER get back to normal.

This lockdown won't be like the last one. Don't despair.

Me too mental health is through the roof you are not alone

The children in my (Year 3) class are ridiculously desperate to have a short lockdown again...for the pure and simple reason that they’ve heard from my previous class that our now 21 month old tends to gatecrash Zoom sessions in weird and wonderful ways.

Kids will find humour in any situation 😂

I think we can all agree that it has not been a well-run and managed shitstorm, but a shitstorm it has been. If you were vulnerable/at risk for the first wave, then you still are. So stock up on the essentials, and plan to live a quiet life this winter. Don't plan on a very active social life, just concentrate on the essential people. Buy some books for you, and your children just in case the schools have to be closed. Take lots of walks in the open air, and don't participate in crowd activity. Wear your f8cking masks and wash your hands.

I can handle it but I don’t want dc out of school, they are loving being back after huge break.

Yes, but with smaller classes of max 15 children, in larger spaces with extra staff and money spent to enable this.

That is not universally true. There are dozens of countries with similar or higher covid rates than us. They all have their schools open and the teachers are not getting ill. Don't forget that if you are under 50 you are extremely unlikely to die of covid even if you catch it. Teachers in the UK also retire young.

Sorry if it’s a stupid question but why would a bacterial pandemic be worse?

For the life of me can't understand why people thought there wouldn't be.

@notevenat20

Yes, but with smaller classes of max 15 children, in larger spaces with extra staff and money spent to enable this.

That is not universally true. There are dozens of countries with similar or higher covid rates than us. They all have their schools open and the teachers are not getting ill. Don't forget that if you are under 50 you are extremely unlikely to die of covid even if you catch it. Teachers in the UK also retire young.

Perhaps because those schools enforce social distancing and people wear masks. Our schools are overcrowded compared to everywhere else in Europe.

I'll be 50 this winter. I find this less reassuring than you might think. Teachers certainly do not retire at 50. I work in Alternative Provision. We are expected to stay fully open in every eventuality, including where mainstream schools would move to a rota. Our children do not socially distance, and they are prone to risky behaviour in and out of school. I'm glad we're fully open as they are safer at school, but I definitely am not.

Well, that's me ordering bread flour online to see us through. We get through a lot of the stuff. Tea and toast helps get us through most things I've found.

@Bercows

Well, that's me ordering bread flour online to see us through. We get through a lot of the stuff. Tea and toast helps get us through most things I've found.

Why? Why start this shit storm of stock piling again?

A bacterial infection would require antibiotics and they are not working as they should on normal bacterial infections due to overuse. Ebola nearly made it here once.
Luckily it was contained.
It's just something I think about but I'm not a doctor or anything. Maybe antibiotics would eradicate it?

If a new lockdown was just a couple of weeks then I'd cope no problem but I cannot see it would be that short. I will also cope better if we can leave our homes more than once a day for exercise so I can take my dog a couple of times and do a run. When we were only meant to leave once a day (for an hour in some people's opinion), I found that very tough.