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How can they still say nothing?

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Purplegurple · 29/12/2021 19:07

So numbers today over 183,000. How can BoJo and his cronies still be making no statement? No clear guidance, nothing. I'm not wanting lockdown or anything but can't believe they're so quiet over all this.

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BrightYellowDaffodil · 29/12/2021 23:01

@noblegiraffe

It's not so much an announcement, I need, Marsha, rather, a plan.

If you can happily live without one, then I guess lucky you.

And what sort of plan do you want?

Or maybe we just need to learn to live our lives without someone micro-managing it for us.

MarshaBradyo · 29/12/2021 23:02

[quote herecomesthsun]@MarshaBradyo

  1. Well some people, fortunately, do care about education and how it is organised and
  1. if you don't care less, why are you posting inanities on here at this time of night?[/quote]
You misunderstood- I couldn’t care less if people say they want something different to me.

I see no reason to say you must want an announcement or not.

Just let people post and answer how they feel.

Without trying to make people feel as you do.

chocolateisavegetable · 29/12/2021 23:03

@2022newyear

Yeh just get in with normal life now It's just a cold, very old or unwell people always die or colds or the flu, we just didn't know the numbers. Nothing to see here

Re-open schools to stop mothers and childrens wellbeing being badly impacted

Teachers get colds all the time. Those that are unwell should maybe wfh and do planning or something else until it blows over by end of jan

No big deal

What country are you in where the schools are closed out of interest?
rrhuth · 29/12/2021 23:03

@2022newyear

Yeh just get in with normal life now It's just a cold, very old or unwell people always die or colds or the flu, we just didn't know the numbers. Nothing to see here

Re-open schools to stop mothers and childrens wellbeing being badly impacted

Teachers get colds all the time. Those that are unwell should maybe wfh and do planning or something else until it blows over by end of jan

No big deal

'No big deal'

I'll have some of whatever you're smoking!

MarshaBradyo · 29/12/2021 23:03

@noblegiraffe

Yes, I know, Marsha, you listen to the radio. Others are living it.
Snort.

Yes we have a protective shield here and it stops delta and omicron. Lucky us.

Stop focussing on me. You might feel less stressed.

noblegiraffe · 29/12/2021 23:06

And what sort of plan do you want?

Well, I'd like to know how many extra supply teachers have signed up following the emergency call-out, for example, and what the back-up plan is to keep schools open in the event of a severe staff shortage.

I'd like an update to the DfE school guidelines in the light of omicron's much increased transmissibility.

I'd like to know the plan for the roll-out of the second vaccine in schools.

I'd like to know what will happen to exams if (when) there is significant further disruption to education.

Because, you know, the government has a habit of landing all sorts of shit on schools at the very last minute and that is unacceptable.

AllTheUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken · 29/12/2021 23:07

@chocolateisavegetable. Schools are closed in the uk for Christmas. We’re waiting to find out if they’ll reopen fully next week.

herecomesthsun · 29/12/2021 23:08

We are expecting a lot of disruption in our secondary school next term.

It is quite likely will be some blended learning.

They have covid related long term sickness, and can't get supply teachers.

It is just how it is.

Not anxiety or panicking or anything like that, just the reality of where we are.

cantkeepawayforever · 29/12/2021 23:11
  • Yeh just get in with normal life now It's just a cold, very old or unwell people always die or colds or the flu, we just didn't know the numbers. Nothing to see here*

Um - yes, we do know how many die usually, and how far in excess if normal we are. The ONS publishes all of that in their reports regularly, complete with causes of death given on death certificates.

So to say that we usually don’t know the numbers - and hence that we are worrying about something that isn’t there - is demonstrably false.

Hercisback · 29/12/2021 23:16

. Those that are unwell should maybe wfh and do planning or something else until it blows over by end of jan

Why would anyone be WFH if they aren't well?

If I'm off sick with covid, I won't be working.

Hercisback · 29/12/2021 23:17

Re-open schools to stop mothers and childrens wellbeing being badly impacted
Are you in a time machine from 1950?

AllTheUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken · 29/12/2021 23:18

@Hercisback

Re-open schools to stop mothers and childrens wellbeing being badly impacted Are you in a time machine from 1950?
Domestic violence was left in the 1950’s? Great news!
Hercisback · 29/12/2021 23:20

Domestic violence was left in the 1950’s?

WTF.

The PP completely erased men from being parents and able to deal with their children's wellbeing.

Kennykenkencat · 29/12/2021 23:20

@Porcupineintherough

How can you be careful of who you mix with if you go to school, or work in a supermarket, or a hospital or drive a bus *@Kennykenkencat*?
Wear masks, take daily Covid tests.

Apart from the first lockdown I have worked very closely with people having daily Covid tests and wearing masks where possible along with everyone else I have worked with.

noblegiraffe · 29/12/2021 23:21

I have worked very closely with people having daily Covid tests

That seems like a luxury many people don’t have…

AllTheUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken · 29/12/2021 23:21

@Hercisback

Domestic violence was left in the 1950’s?

WTF.

The PP completely erased men from being parents and able to deal with their children's wellbeing.

That’s not how I interpreted it. I read it that vulnerable children were at more risk during lockdown. Women in abusive relationships were at more risk during lockdown.
noblegiraffe · 29/12/2021 23:23

Best make some effort to try to keep schools open then… what is the government doing about that?

Hercisback · 29/12/2021 23:24

I read it as only women are responsible for children.

Vulnerable children aren't brilliantly protected by a string of supply teachers who don't know the signs to look for. Safeguarding reports about vulnerable children aren't acted on as often as we'd like because of lack of funding for social services. That sector is on its knees too.

CallmeHendricks · 29/12/2021 23:27

I believe the government today ruled out cutting isolation to 5 days - and even the seven day figure is dependent upon 2 consecutive negative tests.
People seem to be disregarding this fact.

Mistressiggi · 29/12/2021 23:30

@noblegiraffe

Best make some effort to try to keep schools open then… what is the government doing about that?
I was chatting to someone last week who asked me if we'd all been given Hepa filters for the classroom - er, no. Not even ones that register poorly on the tiny amount of CO2 monitors we have been given.
AllTheUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken · 29/12/2021 23:31

I read it as only women are responsible for children.

Even if the did PP did mean this, it’s sadly accurate. There were plenty of statistics reporting that women were disproportionately impacted by the lockdown because they were having to juggle WFH with managing the children without much help from their male partners, or no partner.

LittleBearPad · 29/12/2021 23:33

@Hercisback

Domestic violence was left in the 1950’s?

WTF.

The PP completely erased men from being parents and able to deal with their children's wellbeing.

Women were disproportionately impacted by children being out of school. It’s been widely reported and has absolutely nothing to do with the 1950s.
Hercisback · 29/12/2021 23:36

Women were disproportionately affected, doesn't mean men weren't anywhere to be seen.
Perhaps I misinterpreted the PPs post.

Back to the thread, how are the government going to keep schools open?

LittleBearPad · 29/12/2021 23:39

@Hercisback

Women were disproportionately affected, doesn't mean men weren't anywhere to be seen. Perhaps I misinterpreted the PPs post.

Back to the thread, how are the government going to keep schools open?

Oh well as long as they were around somewhere Hmm
Hercisback · 29/12/2021 23:45

That's not what I meant, and you know it. I'm fed up with the narrative that it's only women that are responsible for children, newsflash, it isn't.

Still waiting for your ideas on schools staying open with no staff.