Two years is 24 months?

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It seems for weeks now some posters refer to restrictions first brought in in March last year as going on for two years. Even now, that's almost half a year out. I don't think I've seen this the other way round (i.e. restrictions first brought in a year ago).

People tend to exaggerate though .

If you look at the early threads on this board before testing etc a lot of people were convinced they had already had COVID ,some saying they thought the had prior to jan2020 ,I bet most didn't they probably just had a nasty non COVID virus ,but they convinced themselves they had it earlier .

For many people, 2 years worth of events will have been disrupted. People will have lost 2 summer holidays. There’s been two start of schools, two lots of exams disrupted. Many people will have had two birthdays during lockdown, not been able to see their mum on two lots of Mother’s Day. Many people will decide what they’re doing about Christmas work dos now, and it’ll be two years since they’ve had a Christmas do.

I manage an annual project at work and twice I’ve had to put something about delivering within Covid guidelines. My friend was newly pregnant just before lockdown and I wasn’t able to meet her little one until she was 11 months old (this was in the summer), so easy to think thats 18 months and that was 6 months ago. I last saw family in Dec 2019-early Feb 2020 and so for the sake of 5 weeks, it’s 2 years since I’ve seen them.

I call it 2 years because my kids have had 2 academic years affected by school lockdowns. If it happens this academic year it will be their third.

I agree, op. It's self pitying and inaccurate.

I keep saying two years, when I know it's not two years, I keep thinking alone the lines of just all 2020 and 2021,, bit silly,

@Tillysfad

I agree, op. It's self pitying and inaccurate.

How is it self pitying? My son is now in year 9. The last full year he had in school was year 6. That's makes 2 academic years where he spent a full term in each of those years away from the building and learning in terms of academic years it is 2 years.

The first report out of Wuhan were in early January. And it's almost November. I think a few months leeway is fine to round up to two years, not that I have but it wouldn't make me roll my eyes.

Genuinely, WHO CARES?

@Tillysfad

I agree, op. It's self pitying and inaccurate.

It just makes me think of the jokes doing the rounds a few months into the first lockdown saying things like “because of the ban on households meeting I’ve not had sex for 740 days” or whatever.

Similarly - “I haven’t seen my parents for x years because of Covid!” - no. Some of it was because of Covid yes but if it’s been longer than that it’s because you/ they didn’t want to, because they live too far away, because no one bothered, because any of a million reasons.

I get the point on academic years although it still stands that two years a go children were in school with no concept of bubbles, isolating if they had a cough, zoom parents evening etc.

Yeah people really do exaggerate. I saw someone comment on here the other day about us entering our "third year of the Covid pandemic...3 years!" and I was like 🤔...it's not even been two years yet. Also saw lots of people during early summer this year saying they were sick of restrictions and they weren't going to comply with them anymore because they'd been doing it for 2 years already! People are so OTT.

CuckooCall. For school kids and teens this is their 3rd year of schools being effected. Teachers and staff still have to isolate due to covid, some schools still have to send classes home due to not enough teachers. Maybe not 2 years for you but in the school environment this is the start of the third effected covid year.

Space and time are being bent!

My dc are in consecutive school years and all 3 of them have had/are having a crappy year 6 significantly affected by Covid.

I don't understand why people feel the need to be so pedantic about exact timescales - even if it has only been 19 months or whatever, it feels like flipping ages and everyone is fed up.

Much like how last year people were bleating on about kids having missed six month’s worth of school by September. Given the summer holidays, Easter and half term, they’d missed nothing like six months.

@RachC2021

Much like how last year people were bleating on about kids having missed six month’s worth of school by September. Given the summer holidays, Easter and half term, they’d missed nothing like six months.

Secondary 2019 they missed April to July. 2020 January to after easter. You are right it's more than 6 months.

Also don't forget children needed to isolate for 10 days due to having covid or bubbles bursting in schools. This happend multiple tomes to some kids. A huge majority of kids missed alot more than 6 months.

You missed “last year”. And no they didn’t miss more than six months then. They didn’t even miss six months.

Yes restrictions were brought in 19 months go. Anyone saying 2 years of restrictions is inaccurate.

@CuckooCall totally agree!
For others commenting, this post wasn't about how many school years have been affected. The poster specifically talks about people saying restrictions have gone on for 2 years which is wrong.

[quote Pinkfluffyunicornsandrainbows]@CuckooCall totally agree!
For others commenting, this post wasn't about how many school years have been affected. The poster specifically talks about people saying restrictions have gone on for 2 years which is wrong.[/quote]
I mentioned the time off school purely as another example of when many people, including BBC News, were exaggerating the time involved. Probably the same people doing both.

I have 6 children, they missed about 13 weeks of school during the first closure from March 23rd till mid July when they would have finished for the summer holidays. During the second closure beginning January 4th they missed 8 weeks, so 22 weeks in total. 5 months in total for both lockdowns. I think some people may have been thinking from March till September they had almost 6 months away from school, it was not 6 months of school missed though.

@RachC2021
My last message 👆🏻 was agreeing with you about schools. I just forgot to tag you 🤦🏼‍♀️

[quote Pinkfluffyunicornsandrainbows]@RachC2021
My last message 👆🏻 was agreeing with you about schools. I just forgot to tag you 🤦🏼‍♀️[/quote]
Haha, that’s OK. It is a relief to see someone else that understands they hadn’t missed six months by September 2020. My TV very nearly ended up broken it was winding me up so much. (Yes, I did learn to stop watching for a while until they moved in to another subject.)

How many months would a child have to attend school, within the usual school hours and bearing in mind the usual term time holidays, would a child have to attend school for to claw back 22 weeks of in-class teaching?