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Looks like the plans are now leaked.

773 replies

pinkhappy · 21/02/2021 22:28

The Times seems to have leaked the plans now. I for one will be very happy if children's outdoor sport starts on March 8.

March 8:
Schools
Kids outdoor sport
Golf + Tennis

Early April:
🛍Non-essential retail
Outdoor pubs + restaurants

Mid April:
Gyms

May:
Cinemas + Theatre
Indoor pubs + restaurants

August:
Foreign holidays
Clubs

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chomalungma · 21/02/2021 22:54

I want to go to a pub and listen to live music with lots of people.

Sunshinegirl82 · 21/02/2021 22:54

@PinkFondantFancy

Same here, SE. No cases at all in DS1's school, in fact no confirmed cases in anyone I know at all in our area. In the local schools (6ish primaries and 2 secondaries) I'm aware of one bubble closing for two weeks otherwise all schools were open as normal for the full autumn term.

indemMUND · 21/02/2021 22:54

Schools with fines back in place? Single parent, uncontrolled asthma, no vaccine offered yet. One child. Walk 6 miles a day 5 days a week to do the school run. With new variants and extra transmission no way. Deal breaker. GP can't help. Where does that leave vulnerable parents?

RichardMarxisinnocent · 21/02/2021 22:54

[quote Eccle80]@RichardMarxisinnocent some of the other paper headlines suggest the stay local message will end on 29th March too[/quote]
Thank you, that would be great if so. I guess no indication of when we can stop social distancing from friends and family outside our households?

MsFogi · 21/02/2021 22:55

Good - as long as secondary schools go back I am happy.

Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum · 21/02/2021 22:55

@AllAroundTheWrekin

How are big state secondary schools going to be able to covid test all students on one day?
Our has already asked parents to use the local test centre a couple of days before school returns. Then email them the results. Any kids not done this way will be tested at school with parental consent.
RMRM · 21/02/2021 22:55

Ffs. I despair. All in at once with no changes will be a disaster. I don't want to send my children back into that. Also in the SE and had repeated isolations from September, gradually getting worse until the nightmare that was December here.

KeepWashingThoseHands · 21/02/2021 22:55

Agree on the hairdresser thing. I was well impressed the last time I went - 4 months ago Shock

MrsHamlet · 21/02/2021 22:55

@AllAroundTheWrekin

How are big state secondary schools going to be able to covid test all students on one day?
We're not.
OhYouBadBadKitten · 21/02/2021 22:55

It would be nice if they would mention universities.

Kapalika · 21/02/2021 22:56

I’m really surprised that schools opening aren’t staggered.

Givemeabreakpls · 21/02/2021 22:56

Hairdressers in May??? With booking systems, ppe etc already in place? I’d love to know what difference they made to the r rate last time 🙄 Is that being reported or is that an assumption for now?

WhenSheWasBad · 21/02/2021 22:56

No phased opening of schools.

Kids not vaccinated, parents mostly not vaccinated, school staff mostly not vaccinated. Honestly if you wanted to engineer a lovely big hike in Covid infections this is what you would do.

I really hope I’m wrong.

Firefliess · 21/02/2021 22:56

That could maybe be because you mainly know other people the same age as youv with children? If you look at the government coronavirus dashboard your can clearly see cases rising in November in all age groups and in particular in the over 60s. They're unlikely to have been catching it via schools. So the schools were part of the picture but only a part. Now that rates are lower and a third of adults are vaccinated, they'll hopefully stay lower.

Does anyone know whether sixth form colleges are included with schools?

AllAroundTheWrekin · 21/02/2021 22:57

One hour form time at the start of the school day during which each teacher shows the class how to do the swab test and oversees them doing it? Big schools have more teachers surely. Doesn't seem an insurmountable problem to me.

  1. Except the promised one hour zoom army training session hasn't materialised.
  1. PPE is used for lft which is disposed of afterwards so I think it might take a tad longer for each pupil.
  1. The teachers job is to teach,
BippityBoppityBop · 21/02/2021 22:57

@studychick81

What do you mean all in doesn't work? My dc went back in September and continued until xmas with no problems. I don't think the jan lockdown was caused by schools.
And many other children had disruption after disruption.

My own child had three periods of isolation and there's been kids in her class have six periods of isolations before the schools closed. And she's still anxious not knowing what's happening or how they're assessing GCSEs either.

Cherryberrypies · 21/02/2021 22:57

I might be incredibly naive but I truly believed this would be the last lockdown.

I don’t want to have to go back in one. I’m happy if we open up again but I don’t want all this go back to the office bullshit that started in summer. I think if you can and are happy to wfh should carry on for the foreseeable. We had a fair few cases in our office when we went back end of august early September last year and were all back home again by October.

MrsMiggins22 · 21/02/2021 22:58

Hairdressers are non essential in a bloody pandemic, that’s why they’re later! Just let it grow, cut it or pin it up...

PuzzledObserver · 21/02/2021 22:58

No mention of overnight stays that I can find. My mother is a 2-hour drive away - that’s a long day for a garden visit. We did it in July, which was the last time I saw her.

WalkingOnStarshine · 21/02/2021 22:58

This is shite. I thought we were nearly at the end of this and yet there's still months to go until I can go and visit my family? I'm done.

MrsHamlet · 21/02/2021 22:59

3. The teachers job is to teach,

This. If I'm in school I want to actually be with my exam classes not pissing about with unreliable tests.

beckett12 · 21/02/2021 22:59

Absolutely furious!
I want normality back as much as everyone else but to send all schools back at once and no phased return feels like all the hardwork of lockdown is just about to be undone!

Monkeytennis97 · 21/02/2021 22:59

@WhenSheWasBad

No phased opening of schools.

Kids not vaccinated, parents mostly not vaccinated, school staff mostly not vaccinated. Honestly if you wanted to engineer a lovely big hike in Covid infections this is what you would do.

I really hope I’m wrong.

This.
siestalady · 21/02/2021 23:00

@YardleyX

Why are people saying back in lockdown by Sept?!?

Have they not noticed the vaccines?

Quite!! MN is an odd place sometimes.

I think the plans look good. Although until I've actually dropped my kids at school on 8 March I won't be counting any chickens...!

Judystilldreamsofhorses · 21/02/2021 23:00

Completely agree re hairdressers. Predominantly run by and used by women (although mine is a man, and he owns the salon) so of no interest to the government - despite having spent £££ on becoming “covid secure”.