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Tighter restrictions likely/possible-what could these include?

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FlatteredRhubardFool · 03/01/2021 12:45

I'm already in tier 4 and CEV so the only thing that I can think of is support bubbles not being allowed and primary schools closing. I've barely been out since February so I'm not aware of what is still open/available and therefore what could be taken away. Where can restrictions go from here?
I do think they closing schools would probably prevent the need for more restrictions but who knows. I've lost the plot with all this now.

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Thewiseoneincognito · 03/01/2021 14:49

Places like Selfridges and Harrods operating remotely? I’m constantly bombarded by their personal shoppers during lockdown, how is this even a thing? Surely they should be at home and not working? A Hermes handbag is not essential is it? 🤯 it’s very poor form and must be horrible for staff to still be in work.

StatisticalSense · 03/01/2021 15:03

*Close play areas
*Close places of Worship and remove charitable status from any that are seen to be breaking social distancing rules
*Close all schools
*Ban under 13s from shops and only allow people in alone
*End 'childcare' bubbles and limit 'support' bubbles to those actually living alone
*Close Garden Centres and speciality food shops (Bakeries, Butchers, Greengrocers, Sweet Shops, 'Health' shops (eg: Holland and Barratt)
*Ban kids sport

The reality is any extra measures need to disproportionately impact children because the existing ones disproportionately impact adults meaning there is little left that could be done that doesn't effect children that wouldn't have a greater impact on other things (for example closing take-aways would cause thousands of people to lose access to hot food as not everyone has the ability to cook at home).

Keepdistance · 03/01/2021 15:05

TempsPerdu- no i have 2.
Kids can do guides/scouts online. Mine have been.
Lots of kids dont give a crap about wearing masks - evidenced by every other country doing better than us. Here Something like 1/50 kids is infected and it grows every week. Its thousands /100k. Why are we shutting everything else leaving the door open????
The anti mask rubbish is going to have cost those same kids a fortune in gov debt. Lost others their relatives.

Keepdistance · 03/01/2021 15:17

And people to stay home with the other symptoms so
Sore throat
D&v
Etc etc.
Even if it's advice as in dont go shopping/pub/day out /see elderly with these.

lljkk · 03/01/2021 18:09

Ban under 13s from shops

How does that work when the kids are carers & do a lot of the family shopping? Confused

You'd never think MN was a discussion forum site for working mothers, given how keen people are to rip away childcare support & school as childcare.

I've been trying to work today with 16yo screeching obscenities at some first-person-shooter computer game, and 12yr old trying to break firewood with an axe (which beats first-person shooter games as ways to pass time, but causes whole house to vibrate).

Yet I consider myself very lucky compared to compelled-WFH mums of under 10s.

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