There won't be any further tightening of restrictions and schools stand a chance of going back mid Feb

[Number37]

Just that really - I think there's a chance with the case numbers dropping that there won't be further restrictions imposed and there's quite possibly a chance of schools returning on some basis mid Feb.

Trying to think positive today!

@FusionChefGeoff

You don't need a source if you open your post with "I think..."

God, some people

I’ll happily finish that sentence for you: God some people...just fucking love the perpetual doom and gloom that COVID-19 allows them to wallow in and are not fully satisfied until the mental health and optimism of others has been completely destroyed. Fucking Dementors.

@InterfectoremVulpes

todays cases? ominously quiet

Todays reported cases were released earlier

what were they? not updated on worldometer yet

I would love it this was the case but as it’s only a 5 week half term I think they’ll wait until Easter 😭

Cases have dropped 20% in my area over the last 7 day reported period

just seen on another thread some data is delayed, thought my comp wasn't working, keep refreshing worldometer.

48682 cases reported today, yet to see what dates these cases relate to.

@MrsShelton

just seen on another thread some data is delayed, thought my comp wasn't working, keep refreshing worldometer.

48 682 cases according to worldometer death figures haven't been released due to an issue processing the deaths data

@TheCap come over to the positivity thread - PP posted the link to it above!!

[quote Number37]@TheCap come over to the positivity thread - PP posted the link to it above!![/quote]
Thank you - I will do! I categorically refuse to let this lockdown, WFH and homeschooling situation get the better of me like it did in the Spring. Positivity is all we have

I’ll happily finish that sentence for you: God some people...just fucking love the perpetual doom and gloom that COVID-19 allows them to wallow in and are not fully satisfied until the mental health and optimism of others has been completely destroyed. Fucking Dementors

Some people have just seen mistakes being made time after time in opening things up and sticking heads in the sand while the cases go up and don't want yet another repeat of it. No one loves it, they should be allowed to state what seems like the bleeding obvious by now without being insulted.

[quote NotAnotherUserNumber]I think this might make that harder:

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/14/regulator-refuses-to-approve-mass-covid-testing-schools-in-england[/quote]
Thanks be that this concern has been raised! I don't know why but I really thought the dfe would have got the regulatory sign off first before announcing these grand ridiculous plans.

For the Op!

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/15/covid-infections-may-have-peaked-in-parts-of-england-experts-say

I hope not we need tougher restrictions and schools closed until Easter.

We will be really stupid if schools start going back fully in mid-Feb. The numbers have only gone down so rapidly because schools are partially closed, unlike the autumn 'lockdown' when small children were still taking asymptomatic COVID back to their families.

If we open up too soon we will eventually have to do this all over again, for goodness sake, let's take it slowly, wait until Easter when we have so many more people vaccinated and do it properly this time.

So people whose mental health copes better with realism and data than with wishful thinking followed by disappointment are dementors now? Oookay.

My god I hope you are right OP with every fibre of my being

Where I am the numbers are still rising, I hope that improves soon.

Falling more evidently here tg. SE London

Figures mean Mid arch is your VERY BEST scenario.

Liverpool cases yet to peak. That means hospitals there don't peak until first week of Feb (at earliest).

The idea the schools can reopen a week after this is stuff for fantacists.

We entered level 5 covid alert because of the situations in hospitals.

The vaccinations don't start making a difference until they also start to be 'baked in' to a reduction in the number of cases. Whilst cases still remain very high there is a problem.

I think it will be a piecemeal approach of areas coming out at different times to others based on some arbitrary number they have set.

@Quartz2208

I think it will be a piecemeal approach of areas coming out at different times to others based on some arbitrary number they have set.

We already have an established tier system that would enable this. We've already seen patterns of waves move across the country with different areas following the same pattern with a time lag. There isn't a reason to hold back the whole country at a time while the last regions stabilise. Beyond schools, we're not in a substantially different position now to tier 4 and tiers 4 and 3 can be used to control interractions winding down to tiers 2 and 1 as respiritory illness rates naturally fall in the spring.

I bloody well hope that my DCs can go back to school ASAP, none of us thrive with homeschooling, plus I have an EHCP application in the pipeline that has already been impacted by 5.5 months without contact with school, and the sooner we can get that in place to deal with y6/7 transition , the better. I'm not setting my heart on Feb half term, currently just limping towards longer afternoons to make life a bit less crap. The government were reluctant to shut schools and the political will is not to have a reapeat of another wasted school year. Pushing towards Easter and the anniversary of schools shutting on 20th March is the kind of symbolic timing that I think the government would rather avoid seeing a repeat of.

@30not13

Source? No didn't think so ...

🙄🤐

You don’t need a source for an opinion?

I think it will be Easter, but I'm fairly certain it will be Easter and that everything else will get back to normal fairly quickly after that, with the most vulnerable vaccinated. Which feels quite positive to me.

Cases have dropped 20% in my area over the last 7 day reported period

London or South East?

Cases are on the up around me (North West) - just like last time it seems that lockdown will be over before ALL our rates are at some kind of minimum level that has never been decided on. The result of that was the north ended up in the shit with schools and school staff dropping like flies with rates that in some areas were well above what was considered concerning in December for London and the south east.

Northern lives less valuable than southern ones. Again.

@Watchingbehindmyhands

Cases have dropped 20% in my area over the last 7 day reported period

London or South East?

Cases are on the up around me (North West) - just like last time it seems that lockdown will be over before ALL our rates are at some kind of minimum level that has never been decided on. The result of that was the north ended up in the shit with schools and school staff dropping like flies with rates that in some areas were well above what was considered concerning in December for London and the south east.

Northern lives less valuable than southern ones. Again.

Thats definitely my fear too.

It also doesn't help when people are stupid. We had to send one of our EYFS key worker children home the other day because they were showing symptoms. Mum later very blasé told her that she herself (the mum) had been coughing for the last 2 weeks but her work (a supermarket) had said she didn't need to go for a test or to self isolate so obviously this was okay....

This is what our EYFS staff have to put up with and they cannot wear PPE and who honestly thinks they're going to be socially distancing with 3 year olds?

And people wonder why school staff get 'hysterical' over their safety.