@Sooverthis1
Yes, schools started back two weeks ago , my point was that in the UK schools were kept open for key worker children and children with sn, here not. Also I think in the UK you opened up schools in 2020 in June, again we didn't and shut down earlier. In total it's been almost 8 months of school closures and non of my kids had a single online lesson. This is not the schools fault , it's a pandemic but we have had a very, very strict lockdown in comparison to other countries. Look at France! I'd happily live with a curfew, we effectively have one. And not being able to go further than 5km..
How is it not the schools fault that your kids have not had a single online lesson? My primary school child has a lesson a day along with extra yoga classes twice a week and my secondary school child has lessons from 9-4 everyday. I would say it is very much your schools fault.
Everybody is fed up, the 5km restriction is very tiring, I haven't seen outside of my small town this year nor have my kids but this is supposed to be changing at the start of April and all school children back after Easter.
From what I have read it would seem to be a week until they expect to have the data they are looking for to ensure that they feel safe going ahead with AZ and the amount of AZ vaccs that we have as far as I am aware are not that large in the whole scheme of things anyway. So I would imagine that they would be able to stick those in arms pretty quickly if they decide it is safe to do so.
I think the turning point for Ireland will be the j&j vaccine, we have 2 million of them ordered and considering they are 1 shot vaccines that is a whole heap of the population.
The vaccination roll out has been incredibly slow though and people are frustrated. Who knew we had so many health care workers and people in care homes that it has taken 2 months just to fully vaccinate them?