Circuit breaker Scotlandn

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www.thesun.co.uk/news/12855670/coronavirus-scotland-lockdown-sturgeon-circuit-breaker/

It's really happening according to the Sun. Do you think its worth it? Will England follow during their half term?

Be interesting to see if it happens. I read somewhere that for the more you delay lockdown the longer you have to be in lockdown.

I'm sure it is worth it, and presumably earlier is better than later.

Assume England will dither for another month. The increasing cases are worrying in England, yesterday's cases were far more than double the same day a week ago.

It would only be worth it if people did what they were told, but I afraid that some won’t adhere to it. Being stuck indoors for 2 weeks late October isn’t going to be great, but to be honest where I live in the South, people are just going shopping, dropping children off at school and working. There’s hardly anybody out at night, very few cars. We’ve got a couple more weeks until half term in England, but everyone I know is preparing for a 2 week total lockdown.

I think it’s a good idea. Even if it cuts cases by a third that is a good start. I wouldn’t mind 2 weeks at home over half term, as long as schools went back after.
If this means cases reduce, I’m all for it.

Surely if England do it they will need to do it before furlough ends? Or won’t it matter if people are still allowed to go to work? In the article about the Scottish circuit breaker it says that they want to do it while furlough is still running which I guess is so hospitality can claim it if they can’t open. If England dither then surely we will miss this.

Probably be the week before half term and then half term. God knows what happens when cases rise thereafter - we’ll go straight back to where we are now by, what, mid December?

It ‘apparently’ starts this Friday even though it hasn’t been directly confirmed yet. Which means it will cover the 2 weeks my DC are off but my concern is will it just be 2 weeks? I have a cottage booked to visit my sister in Aberdeen, I have had nothing from them to say it won’t be going ahead etc

So what is 2 weeks of staying at hone going to achieve that 12 weeks of staying at home didnt 🤔

12 weeks staying at home did reduce infection levels right down. Cases were very low over the summer.... they are now doubling weekly from the look of it.

Infections have rocketed up again after 12 weeks staying at home.

I ask again, what will 2 weeks staying at home achieve that 2 weeks didnt?

*12 weeks didn't

What about those of us who are already in our October holidays? Will our children get to go back after 2 weeks off or will they miss another week of education whilst we are left trying to find childcare or WFH with them there?

The North west has been in local lockdown since july 31st. Rates continue to rise. It's almost as if lockdown isnt effective.

What good would this do?

I can’t see how it will work. Some schools are already on holiday. We are for example. This week and next. Do we go back or do we have to have another week off. Much clarity is needed. That said this is just rumor and not confirmed.

I’m not clicking that link but if Scotland do announce they are then I’m sure England will follow as some point, it’s a matter of when I guess.

I live in rural Aberdeenshire - between us and Moray we have low case levels . 14 per 100k in the last 7 days, Moray has even less.

Similar picture for Perth and some of the islands and I presume much of the highlands ... given that highland council covers a vast area - chances are the cases are highly concentrated to one or two particular places and there’s not much community spread elsewhere at all.

To be told yet again that further restrictions are coming - because of case levels rising in the central belt - is so, so frustrating .

I worry as well what another forced shutdown for all hospitality, hairdressers, shops etc will do and how many will actually be able to reopen .

She can fuck right off!

England will only follow suit if it works, which it won't.

The SNP are enjoying creating a huge amount of fear in the population and then they swoop in as the saviours and the polls go up. It's all nonsense.

I know no one who has died of Covid, I know three people who have committed or attempted suicide, and one who had cancer treatment put off for so long that it's almost certainly now terminal.

Hiding from a virus will not be effective long term.

My kids only get 1 week in October as it is. They can fuck right off with their circuit breaker crap

This is madness. You cannot run a country and an economy based on school terms. The bulk of the population don’t have kids or any interest in their term dates. But of course two weeks will become two months at least.

This woman needs taking down. Let’s hope this is one place where the PM doesn’t follow what she’s done.

@permanentlyfedup I can’t see her making all business close again, it’ll be travel restrictions and pubs and bars. I’m in a rural area We also have low cases.

What is this obsession with closing pubs and bars, when it seems they aren’t anywhere close to being the main problem for spreading?

So 2 weeks will "buy a month" and then what happens at the end of the month, another 2 weeks to buy another month?

Unless they know something that we don't as to the vaccine in 6weeks time, all I can see is a continuous cycle.

Thanks teachers for going back a week early in August, working in less than ideal and certainly NOT "covid secure" conditions for the last term, and working crazy hours to adapt your teaching so that you can do the best you can whilst trying to keep your classroom and yourself safe.

Your reward? 2 weeks lockdown for your holidays.

I am by nature someone who follows rules, and I've done just that since March. I'm done now though and I know a number of colleagues who feel the same. I have to attend face to face meetings with 20+ colleagues but I can't pop in to a friend for a coffee or now even (by the sounds of things) meet up with them outside the home? Forget it.

We are already into the first week of school holidays, so we will be out of sync with the circuit breaker unless the school will have 3 weeks off!

The dentist better not close again, ds is booked in to get a tooth out next week for his orthodontic treatment, it was already cancelled at the start of lockdown...do you think it's wrong to pull a tooth out your teenagers mouth yourself??