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!

@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

Yup, he's gone through all his crayons now.

@PurplePi

Dear Schools

Don't fuck it up.

I hope you are joking and not implying it will be fault of schools and teachers if it does go tits up...

It'll be fine.

The vaccine uptake is better than they dared hope, look what success Israel, who are leading the world are having. That'll be us soon.

The end is in sight.

@TheDailyCarbunkle

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.

Ah there you are. I had hoped you might visit a thread I started a couple of days ago but I don't think you did. Things move very fast on this site and you might well have not been interested anyway.

May I ask you personally just how you think the NHS could be expected to cope with your attitude to this crisis that I have seen repeated on lots of other threads which seems to be that there should be no lockdown and we should just get on with it.

I asked on that thread whether you personally would have been prepared to stand at the doors of an overwhelmed hospital and tell the people waiting outside, seriously unwell and in need of care, to go away because the hospital is full and so there is no treatment possible. Effectively just telling them to go home and die there.

I realise this sounds a bit aggressive and that you are by no means the only person pushing this agenda but your name has just stuck with me.

I'm swinging between feeling hopeful and optimistic to thinking "I think we've heard this before..."
But hopefully the vaccines and new treatments will mena things are different this year. And so many jobs and businesses are literally hanging by a thread waiting to open again...