Does anyone think hospitality will re-open on the 3rd?

[Viv0321]

Does anyone think hospitality will re-open on the 3rd?

Statistical one weekly trip for food wouldn't work for loads of people. I don't have a car so I have to go 2 or 3 times a week as I can't carry much and not everyone can afford taxis.

Yes, good idea to open the pubs and clubs just in time for Christmas party season. Brits are so well known for their restraint and good sense when on a festive night out, so that’ll all work out grand.

Both DC are management in a pub/restaurant. They went in today to put up all the Christmas decorations.

Schools can’t open in summer

Teachers are paid for x amount of weeks

Even if schools close to majority they’d have to stay open for key workers or online learning so they’d be no staff to run summer school

Never gonna happen

So few cases where we live , hopefully they will do tier system in England from 2 Dec

Bizarre to go in and put up Christmas decorations , will be sad to next go in January 6 and take them down if that's what happens !

I don’t support lockdown btw, this is how I think they will do things, not how I think they should.

Are you an expert then? Do you have a better idea?

@GerardWay123

Both DC are management in a pub/restaurant. They went in today to put up all the Christmas decorations.

I’ve got everything crossed for them and the industry.

I imagine schools are going to close early and everything else is going to open up to allow some money to go into them. Or at least I bloody hope so.

I was desperate for schools to stay open previously but now I see we need a balance between everything or else there really is going to be nothing left

I doubt it

My son's small school has had no cases that I know of and no bubble closures.
If schools close and restaurants open I will need someone to look after my child when I'm at work.
I want schools and hospitality open.
Wishful thinking I know.

How will shutting schools work alongside the governments insistence that GCSE’s will definitely go ahead? My year 11 child says they’ve only covered 2/3 of the content of some subjects so far. Usually they’ve covered it all by the start of January.

I am of course presuming that the planned delay to exams of 3 weeks, won’t quite make up for the many months missed last year, and since due to repeated isolations since September.

Well all I can say is that I'm glad you're not PM @statisticalsense

Open nightclubs for three days?! But keep all kids (many of whom are in schools with 0 cases) off school for 6 weeks?! Two entire weeks of being barred for leaving your house for exercise?!?!

I think restaurants and sit down meal pubs should open but the Range and the like should be ordered to shut, they have cashed in enough.

Why is the range always singled out on MN?
Why is it worse than other shops?

if schools are open i need the Range to be open so I can buy all the tat I need.

FFS it's been widely reported that many children have regressed from being off school for the first lockdown. My son and many of his friends mental health was terrible. Not being at school increases the risk to already vulnerable children.

And yes, working at home with the children at home was horrendous for all of us. DH both work in jobs that need concentration and are busy, DS needed help with home learning every day, I was working silly hours trying to keep it all together.

IMO closing the schools would have a detrimental effect on the economy as many people have to take time off for childcare, unpaid in some case. I know people at work who had to do this but we couldn't take the financial hit.

Lemonade, schools that went on line managed to get ahead of the curriculum. So there shouldn't be any problem unless it is subjects that are too practical...

"Lemonade, schools that went on line managed to get ahead of the curriculum. So there shouldn't be any problem unless it is subjects that are too practical..."
Our school didnt go online.
My child had next to nothing from his school during first lock down not even one phonecall.
If schools close and go online and restaurants open I wont be there to support my child's education because I'll be at work in a restaurant.

Why is the range always singled out on MN?
Why is it worse than other shops?

I'd never heard of The Range until it kept being mentioned on MN. I've still never seen one!

God, I hope so.

Taking weeks from the summer holiday won’t get past the unions and what then happens when three weeks from jan get moved to July, another week in Feb, when that half term gets extended and rebranded, another 3 from an extended Easter holiday “circuit breaker”.

Then the May half term, an extra week, and you end up with 5 extra teaching weeks in July/aug that would then need its own 2 week Half term “circuit break”

I hope so. Too many businesses and jobs have been screwed already. There are thriving businesses being wiped off the map.

Can’t see the schools closing tbh- government seem very keen to keep them open at all costs
Parents would have to stay off work to look after them

This virus can not be contained whilst schools, colleges and universities are open.

If Boris and the country are happy to accept that and accept what the consequences will be then by all means keep educational settings open.

@blue25

Possibly. I think they’ll close the schools until January and move to online learning.

The problem is going to be January though after all the Christmas get togethers.