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I’m in charge now.

97 replies

womanity · 25/01/2021 09:35

I’m

  • closing the borders instantly
  • vaccinating all school staff and all adults who live with school children.

You?

OP posts:
Chickychickydodah · 25/01/2021 11:59

I’m charging all the 400 people at that wedding last weekend 10k each and giving the money to the nhs.

Roff · 25/01/2021 12:00

and all adults who live with school children.

Why?

feelingquitehopeful · 25/01/2021 12:23

I am going to have every over seventy and vulnerable person vaccinated by half term. Then we are opening schools and colleges!
We are opening everything that can be done outside immediately sports, tennis, theme parks, etc. People can meet outside again. I am then proceeding with restaurants and limited numbers - ditto hotels.

I will not inflict this damaging lockdown on people any longer.

I will thank each and every person for sacrificing their lives for others.

MintyMabel · 25/01/2021 12:30

Implement mass testing with mandatory, paid for isolation for anyone who tests positive.

Making everyone work from home. Stricter policies in place to punish workplaces who were fine to work from home in March but now can't be bothered.

Yep. I'd do this too. Stop all this "I'm going to the office because I hate working form home" bullshit. Making it an employer's responsibility to make sure staff are working from home unless it is impossible to do the job from home.

secretrugbyfan · 25/01/2021 12:34

I'm making a law that gives everybody a number of human rights (the right to feel safe in your own home, the right to feel safe walking in public places, that kind of thing) but, the minute you infringe on someone's human rights, you lose all rights to your own.

That would stop all the lawbreakers being able to play the 'human rights' card.

For example, I've heard it reported today that the man found guilty of killing Lee Rigby is himself fighting for his life with Covid. With my law he wouldn't get medical treatment.

womanity · 25/01/2021 12:40

@Roff

and all adults who live with school children.

Why?

Because school children take it home to their families. School kids cannot socially distance. (In our school they’re not even trying.)

If you protect teachers/school staff and the people who live with kids, you can get children safely back into school.

OP posts:
WhydoesItAlwaysRainMe · 25/01/2021 13:13

"Make masks mandatory outside"
Wow some of these are ridiculous...I'm glad your not In can charge

WhydoesItAlwaysRainMe · 25/01/2021 13:14

@Lelophants

And yes masks mandatory outside so people stop and think a bit more before go out.

What?!? We are allowed outsideConfused

titchy · 25/01/2021 13:30

I'm making it a lot easier for people who have to isolate to not lose wages. Whether that's a flat £500 per person or some other scheme I don't yet know.

I'm also throwing a fuck ton of cash into disadvantaged kids, making sure they have suitable tech, decent free school meals etc and once they back at school some mechanism to ensure they can catch up on the huge amount of education they've missed.

I'm also throwing a fuck ton in cash to universities and colleges to help students who have struggled, and I'm giving a cash refund direct to all students for each year that's been fucked up.

Finally another fuck ton of cash for those who have lost their jobs to get them back to work.

I'll probably have to increase taxes and launch another national lottery to pay.

Frequentflier · 25/01/2021 16:01

@WhydoesItAlwaysRainMe

"Make masks mandatory outside" Wow some of these are ridiculous...I'm glad your not In can charge
This is the rule in every Asian country that has beaten it- including 1 billion Indians who manage to wear masks in very hot weather- and Sadiq Khan has suggested this for London. What's ridiculous is the death rate in one of the world's richest countries, and the numerous posts complaining about wearing masks even in a supermarket. It should at least be the rule in London and the big cities, iMO. Not if you are lucky enough to be living rurally .
Crampon · 25/01/2021 16:16

If they'd put a bunch of perimenopausal/menopausal women in charge we'd have been out of this months ago.

Shut borders
Massive fines for those breaking rules
Proper mental health care in place
Huge fines for employers forcing staff to break rules

50but17inside · 25/01/2021 16:24

I am :

Declaring that the supermarket click and collect drivers shall all wear masks. And all people collecting their shopping wear masks.

If you don’t think it’s an issue I suggest you drive to your local Sainsbury’s in the freezing dark night air and just sit there under the lights and watch the staff’s breath billowing in clouds through the open drivers’ car windows and then over the customers as they stand at their car boot waiting for the box of shopping.

110APiccadilly · 25/01/2021 16:50

@secretrugbyfan

I'm making a law that gives everybody a number of human rights (the right to feel safe in your own home, the right to feel safe walking in public places, that kind of thing) but, the minute you infringe on someone's human rights, you lose all rights to your own.

That would stop all the lawbreakers being able to play the 'human rights' card.

For example, I've heard it reported today that the man found guilty of killing Lee Rigby is himself fighting for his life with Covid. With my law he wouldn't get medical treatment.

How can you have a right to feel safe? I might feel safe and be in danger, or not feel safe but be in no danger at all. It's a feeling and that means it's as much about my mental state as about what's happening around me.

I might, for instance, not feel safe if I'm surrounded by people wearing masks, because I can't see their faces and so I don't know whether they're going to attack me. So then everyone wearing masks has infringed my right to feel safe, so they forfeit all their human rights.

Incidentally, human rights don't work like this, for very good reason. If they're not universal, they're not a protection.

BareGrylls · 25/01/2021 16:52

Close borders to all except UK Nationals returning.
Close all but food shops.
A proper support package for people who should be isolating and cannot afford to stop work keep it simple, a lump sum.
Huge fines for employers who don't allow people to self isolate. That includes schools.
Open schools with a rota - so fewer children in at a time, masks for over 8s and ventilation.

Frequentflier · 25/01/2021 16:54

@BareGrylls

Close borders to all except UK Nationals returning. Close all but food shops. A proper support package for people who should be isolating and cannot afford to stop work keep it simple, a lump sum. Huge fines for employers who don't allow people to self isolate. That includes schools. Open schools with a rota - so fewer children in at a time, masks for over 8s and ventilation.
How would you deal with people who work in the UK but are not nationals? Do you mean residents?
sadpapercourtesan · 25/01/2021 16:58

I'm using public money to reduce the debt burden on students, low income families and schools, rather than lining the pockets of my fatcat mates.

I'm mandating decent, fit-tested PPE for all customer-facing staff including in healthcare, education and retail

I'm taking a time machine back 12 months and forming a well-funded agency staffed by education experts and teachers, to organise a realistic and properly resourced national home-learning initiative that will serve all children, including the disadvantaged and those without access to tech

Yohoheaveho · 25/01/2021 17:54

If they're not universal, they're not a protection
exactly, the whole point of human rights is everyone gets them unconditionally
secretrugbyfan is describing some sort of 'eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth' /old testament way of doing things
I understand the impulse but these are impulses that we should examine and control!

ragged · 25/01/2021 18:11

There are More than 150,000 freight journeys crossing the land bridge =UK between the Republic of Ireland and Europe. GB can't just shut non-nationals out.

Norn has an open border with another country. Can't shut out the foreign nationals.

RichardMarxisinnocent · 25/01/2021 18:25

Yep. I'd do this too. Stop all this "I'm going to the office because I hate working form home" bullshit. Making it an employer's responsibility to make sure staff are working from home unless it is impossible to do the job from home.
My employer (an NHS hospital) already has a duty of care towards me and as such is happy for me to work in the office (in an office on my own) because wfh in lockdown 1 nearly broke me. If they forced me to work from home full time I would break and be utterly useless - pretty sure they prefer me not to break and to be able to do my job. I walk to work, wear a mask when anywhere other than in my office, and have a covid test every week. My employer is also happy for the majority of my very large department to be working from home and very much supports it.

RichardMarxisinnocent · 25/01/2021 18:28

Everyone with a risk over a certain level and those who live with them (risk level to be decided when I've talked to NHS chiefs about capacity, and looked at the stats for the country) will be supported to the hilt to stay safe - salary paid if required, shopping delivered, safe visiting pods with a clear barrier and a "clean" and "dirty" side arranged so they can see people. And anything else that they need, schooling for their children, etc, etc. Anyone working to care for them will be tested daily, and we will build up a bank of reserve carers to replace anyone testing positive that day.
But who will do the jobs of those people if they are unable to do their jobs from home?

110APiccadilly · 25/01/2021 20:16

But who will do the jobs of those people if they are unable to do their jobs from home?

I'm afraid there will be some slight disruption to some employers, who may have to find cover staff, as they would for, for example, maternity leave. Probably less disruption than the current situation though, for most.

fluffi · 25/01/2021 22:08

Big fines for employers that force staff work in offices when their jobs could be done at home, but they don't trust them / think they are slightly less productive etc. Extra fines if office found to be non-covid secure as well. Fine would be minimum £10k, possibly increasing with number of staff in office or a proportion of business turnover/profits, whichever way the fine is greater, so multi-million companies don't just think its a petty cash and ignore it. System backed up by a widely published helplines and websites so people can report anonymously.

Assuming we get down to infection/hospitalisation levels lower than Sept 2020, then schools reopen on a red/blue system, so classes / year groups etc split into 2 or 3 (in which case red, yellow, blue i guess Smile) so there are less children in a school at once and therefore social distancing is more feasible. Children would get some in person education and socialisation with their peers and hopefully teachers would feel and be safer. Children and staff would be less likely to catch/spread covid in the school and at home. Also let teachers wear masks if they want.

Would quarantine all non-essential travellers in hotels. Essential travellers would still be required to test negative before departure, on arrival plus retesting at 5, 10 and 14 days in UK and self isolate for 14 days (assuming they are in UK that long) but could quarantine at home or work instead of a hotel, but massive fines for breaking quarantine and forced hotel quarantine on all future trips even if for work. If you couldn't prove with evidence that your travel was essential, then have to quarantine in a hotel. Until community transmission was very low even with schools open at normal capacity, businesses open etc and majority of vaccinatable population receiving all doses of vaccine(s).

Flyonawalk · 25/01/2021 22:25

Shield the vulnerable
Open schools and universities
Remind the population that under-sixties have a higher death risk from flu
Encourage acceptance that small risks are the price of everything we do in life

tatutata · 25/01/2021 22:28

I'm leaving all the authoritarian arsheholes to sort their own judgy shit out and going to Sweden.

PrincessNutNuts · 25/01/2021 22:35

@Flyonawalk

Shield the vulnerable Open schools and universities Remind the population that under-sixties have a higher death risk from flu Encourage acceptance that small risks are the price of everything we do in life
30,000 British people dead of covid this month not enough for ya?
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