If schools go back and IF the data goes badly, then what?

[freezingcoldsnow]

It sounds like the first chunk of opening is largely schools followed by watch and wait before anything else.

I really hope the data stays stable and the rest can follow but what if it doesn't? Then what?? Schools close to open everything else? Or nothing else opens?

It was a really optimistic speech and I'm feeling positive, I'd just like to know what the plan B is!

I'd be interested to know this too.

This is why scotland is staggering it.

But it also is my issue too. So we just keep kids off forever?

A Plan B? That would be novel.

@PastMyBestBeforeDate

A Plan B? That would be novel.

🤣 I know - sorry!

We all just stick our fingers in our ears REALLY hard, click our heels three times and say "There's no safe like school, there's no safe like school."

I guess everything else stays closed until the spread reduces?!

Plan B continue to watch and wait and continue with vaccination.

Now they’ve set dates do you really think they’ll change ?

@TheDrsDocMartens

Now they’ve set dates do you really think they’ll change ?

They said it’s the earliest they’ll open but I’m trying to be positive and hope it does all go to plan. Fingers crossed!

Plan B

I'll tell the jokes

I think the point is that everything else stays on hold. Step 2 won't happen until any rise above acceptable level has been brought down. And repeat for each further step

Keep everything else closed whilst trying to reduce the r rate with vaccines. Allow people to continue to homeschool if they want.

Consider vaccinating children?!

I dunno

It was a really optimistic speech and I'm feeling positive, I'd just like to know what the plan B is!

There isn't a Plan B, the fag packet that Johnson uses is now out of space.

My understanding is that step one continues until the data support step 2 and then each step needs a week's notice. So as schools are step one they remain open

I expect they'll do nothing for several weeks then when it's gone totally tits up they'll do something that would have been effective had they acted in a timely fashion but that will instead be too late for a good result and end up with several months back in lockdown with even more people so fucked off they no longer give a shit about it.

And Boris will wear a Churchill mask for his TV slot.

@Nellodee

We all just stick our fingers in our ears REALLY hard, click our heels three times and say "There's no safe like school, there's no safe like school."

😂 Tears of laughter and despair!

@PhilCornwall1

It was a really optimistic speech and I'm feeling positive, I'd just like to know what the plan B is!

There isn't a Plan B, the fag packet that Johnson uses is now out of space.

I've been critical of Johnson all the way through this but this actually seems a solidly sensible approach. The plan is like having flood doors between each step - the next door doesn't get opened until that current stage is in control. It's so much more sensible than the ludicrous lifting of lockdown in December which was a total free for all.

No idea but I hope they have a plan b. Now they’ve said dates for household mixing it will be really hard to backtrack on that as no one will listen. I’m certainly not going to stay away from my family any longer just to keep schools open!

@PastMyBestBeforeDate

A Plan B? That would be novel.

Plan Banks to slow down the opening of subsequent things I think.

That's literally it!

Sounds like they are going for cases don't matter if people aren't too ill, hospitalised or dying.

Which sounds good to me but it's concerning they haven't got halfway through group 6 yet so it'll be weeks before they are protected properly.

What will happen is that people will have to get some fucking sense and realise that running scared away from one single risk is idiotic, especially when you're running straight towards a cliff and controlling one risk by enormously increasing other risks, 'saving' some people while killing others is not solution. At some point, at some fucking point, people will have to accept that being 100% 'safe' from risk is not possible and that trying to avoid one risk by burning down the rest of your life is not sensible. We have to stop this nonsense, permanently. We just have to.

@snowballer

I think the point is that everything else stays on hold. Step 2 won't happen until any rise above acceptable level has been brought down. And repeat for each further step

I just wonder how long they can realistically do this for as the next step is effectively the opening up the economy step.

Will wait and see I guess!

he did say he expects cases to rise and it wont affect the different opening stages

only if deaths/serious hospitalisations are the issue which is how it should be

This is the third roadmap and we've also had the Nando scale

If it doesn't go well it will just quietly go in the bin with the rest of them

Dear Schools

Don't fuck it up.

@HauntedPencil

This is the third roadmap and we've also had the Nando scale

If it doesn't go well it will just quietly go in the bin with the rest of them

I do remember in the spring last year they said they would only move to the next step if 5 criteria could be met. I'm pretty sure they didn't meet all the criteria but opened anyway and the 5 "markers" were never spoken about again!