Announcement tomorrow what are youre predictions?

[Amira19]

PM is due to make an announcement tomorrow what are youre predictions. I suspect larges area of the North moving from tier 3 to tier 4 and potentially tier 5 (closing schools) in London. Personally I think a full lockdown like March is required too many are mixing between the tiers and thats all those posting in social media.

Hopefully it’s anyone with the surname Grindah who is based in the North must go immediately to bed, pull the duvet over their heads and only come out when this shit show is over.

nobody is salivating, don't be ridiculous

I think it might be about putting tier 4 areas into tier 5, and tier 3 areas into tier 4.
Schools and uni’s close for another couple of weeks until they can figure out how to do mass testing properly.
What a fun time to be alive :-/

I think they will realise the folly of their ways and all hands on deck to administer the vaccine. Nightingale Centres to be used , with a quick turn around.

@wanderings I agree - mumsnetters love a 'full lockdown' not thinking of the consequences of the ecomony and mental health, etc.

They want to stay in and make sourdough

@justanotherneighinparadise

My prediction for nurseries and primaries is on the basis of needing the parents to be able to go to work still. You can’t have key worker children in schools if the teachers are providing live lessons for the kids at home. That only worked last time as they just completely ignored the kids at home and pretended they didn’t exist for three months.

Well we have been doing lessons at home and in class simultaneously all term to children who are self isolating. I don't have to be at home to deliver online lessons, I just do my lesson at school with a microphone and the children isolating listen in or access the lesson later when more convenient

@Remmy123 I think you mean SOME Mumsnetters...

Full lockdown. Nationwide.

Ideally it needs to be tougher than March and borders also need to be closed.

No travelling abroad for work purposes unless you work in specific fields (I’m talking life or death)

Wouldn’t surprise me if all schools closed too.

They had said they wanted all schools to remain open but that’s already changed to primary schools and year 11 and 13 so wouldn’t be a massive surprise but would cause major issues for my workplace (we are key workers)

www.tes.com/news/exclusive-new-school-opening-delay-agreed-ministers

Someone has probably already shared this but thought I would add it incase it’s been missed.

It will be every where tier 4. Schools will be staying open for all and tell us all not to mix at new year. It will finish with next year will get better and brexit is done and it is all good (which obvs we all know is bullshit).

Look at Mumsnet practically drooling and salivating over lockdown, lockdown, lockdown, army patrolling the streets, ruined futures for their children, tier 5, schools closed for months and months.

Or look at the current infection figures - over 40,000 a day and higher than in the Spring - and decide what to do.

• Can the NHS continue to cope?
• Can the vaccine be rolled out at the rate of 2 million injections a week (and who is going to give the vaccinations, given that the NHS staff are already fully occupied)?
• Do the scientists believe that the pandemic is under control?
• Does the Health Minister think that the virus is under control?
• Is the UK's approach to the pandemic proving better at controlling the virus than the hard lockdowns being used in other countries?
• Would 100,000 Covid deaths by Easter be acceptable?

If the answer to any of these questions is 'No' then the government has to act.

If the answer to most or all of these questions is 'No' then the government and the country is already in deeper shit than they (and a large section of the population) realise.

Well we have been doing lessons at home and in class simultaneously all term to children who are self isolating. I don't have to be at home to deliver online lessons, I just do my lesson at school with a microphone and the children isolating listen in or access the lesson later when more convenient

I’m pleased some schools have managed to do this. Unfortunately my children’s school seem incapable of delivering even the most basic education to those who have been self isolating or whose bubble burst last term. So I assume my children will just be ignored again.

If we go into tier 5 and can't leave the house I won't comply I need to walk for my mental health !!!! Even if around the block

Look at Mumsnet practically drooling and salivating over lockdown, lockdown, lockdown, army patrolling the streets, ruined futures for their children, tier 5, schools closed for months and months.

Apart from a few clearly sarcastic posts, I don’t see this. Anyone drooling or salivating excessively is probably unwell, though happily these are not symptoms of Covid-19, as far as I know.

Schools closed in current tier 4 areas fir at least two weeks.

@bornatXmastobequiet

Look at Mumsnet practically drooling and salivating over lockdown, lockdown, lockdown, army patrolling the streets, ruined futures for their children, tier 5, schools closed for months and months.

Apart from a few clearly sarcastic posts, I don’t see this. Anyone drooling or salivating excessively is probably unwell, though happily these are not symptoms of Covid-19, as far as I know.

Really? Becayse it looks to me like some folks are relishing the idea.

As usual

Really? No.

Does anyone know what time the announcement will be made?

You literally only have to look at the papers to see what it will be - they leak everything 24 hours before to gauge response and prewarn people.

If it’s not exactly as shown here, I’ll eat my hat.

Terrified at the prospect of our twins’ specialist school closing, and if they do close schools fully then they will have to change the law on EHCPs again. The impact on disabled children is truly disturbing - all the bluster last time about children with EHCPs being able to attend was all crap last time, since they couldn’t actually put in the support needed to enable attendance. I don’t know what we will do to be honest.

Oops, missed this off

Did you mean to include a link @SinkGirl? Not being sarcastic just can’t see one!

Oops sorry can see now

I don’t think anyone is looking forward to a full lockdown. DH works at a University that has handled the situation well but the students have complied. The University that I used to work at and still have many friends that work there also put a decent plan in place. The students had massive parties that security had to break up on more than one occasion and there was a lot of non compliance. My friend was called a nazi for trying to make a group adhere to the rules at one point.

Caramel81 the two nameless universities mentioned in my post have both had testing on campus for a couple of months.

I have friends who have complied 100% I also have friends who haven’t. My sister has spent most of the time in tier 1 I have another who is in Liverpool. Local tiers are really the best way but they seem to cause resentment and confusion plus lots of rule bending to suit. So whatever happens I think a National countrywide tier whatever they call it is preferable.

We’ll all go up a tier I reckon

What ever it is, I wont be shocked. The could announce alien invasion and I would have the energy for shock.

What will.be, will be..cant control any of it so I try to not get upset