All Covid rules to be scrapped at end of the month!

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I can't wait to get back to normal but I would have liked schools to have calmed down abit. I know most children get it mildly but most my colleagues have been too ill to work. We are on our 2nd in some cases third infection now. I do love how all the people who don't work in school love telling us we are wrong.

@greenteafiend

Part of me feels like "A more gradual transition, maybe?" but then I think back to all those creepy little hints that Indie Sage kept dropping about how "wouldn't it be a marvellous idea to do restrictions each year to stop flu?" and I "get" the urge to push back strongly and stroppily.

To be fair though, it has been a gradual transition! It used to be 14 days! Then 10, 7, 5……

I think the government have also acknowledged that a very large proportion of people are either no longer testing or self isolating - even if positive

The costs of missing work or school are too high for many.

Or just the fact we’ve done 2 years of restrictions, had 3 jabs and now feel it’s time to live our lives as free citizens again, given the virus is now no more deadly than seasonal flu.

Yes.

The costs to society of the past two years' restrictions are huge. It is no longer justified imo.

@WinterGold

I think the government have also acknowledged that a very large proportion of people are either no longer testing or self isolating - even if positive - so removing restrictions will make little difference now.

Agreed

Interesting.

Wrong thread, surely?

@GirlInACountrySong

email from the school today saying clubs assemblies and face to face appointments all back to normal after half term

thank goodness!

That's great news! I hope others follow suit.

I’m very happy that the end is in sight (not the end of covid, we have to learn to live with it) but hopefully a return of sorts to pre 2020 life. I’m so looking forward to going to my favourite place in Spain this summer…
Whatever happened to certain posters that I must admit, contributed to my anxiety?
N&J for one? I could never work out if they were trolling or not.

After school interest clubs are back here and we’ve been invited in to school read with our children on world book day!! DS was amazed and so excited

[quote Fedupsotired]@HallieLA nope as everyone will be working still rather than being at home. I'm guessing it's one of the reasons that they are scrapping stuff so teachers crack on regardless [/quote]
@Fedupsotired

How? Ill people can't work. Ill teachers won't be at school. No teachers....schools close.

@HesterShaw1

Seems as though some people STILL don't understand what restrictions were for. It wasn't to prevent them or their children or their parents from being infected, no matter how vulnerable they are. It was an attempt to stop the NHS being swamped. And now that's not happening and it's clear that continuing restrictions will cause more health problems than they prevent, restrictions are being lifted. And that's not even taking into consideration the economic and social costs of continuing restrictions.

Yes, this!

It was an attempt to stop the NHS being swamped.

Exactly. Restrictions were in place in order to slow down and spread out the covid wave so that not everyone gets ill at the same time. Thankfully hospitals have been coping very well!

People need to understand that these restrictions come at a huge cost to society.

Right now, in order for my 5yo daughter to access her education we are required to perform a procedure on her which distresses her that much that in order to do so we would have to do what in any other circumstances would be classed as child abuse. Either that, or she misses 10 days of school a month (I understand people can be re-infected every month, plus other bugs that produce similar symptoms). I WFH, but really can’t do my job properly with her in the house, so not sure how that would go down with my employer.

Plus normal isolation of 5 days minimum every month for my husband who cannot WFH and would therefore be absent from work for 1 in every 4-5 weeks. Now imagine if every nurse, food worker, firefighter etc was out of work 1 in 4-5 weeks.

I am perfectly happy to test myself - I could shove those things up my nose all day - wear a mask or many of the other restrictions that merely caused me minor inconvenience, and definitely support staying away from social activities, WFH if you can if you have Covid, and definitely stay off work / school if unwell.

I am literally praying that the so called ending of isolation means that I am not faced with the dilemma of keeping my daughter locked up for 10 days a month, tying her to the bed whilst her father kneels on her arms and I force something up her nose (we have not, and will not, do this, but that is what it would take), or lying to her teacher’s face every time she gets a cough (at least once a month). Plus my husband having to work long hours to fit 4 weeks’ work into 3 (and there are people who would actually lose their jobs if they had to do this!).

All 3 of us would literally break.

Not sure if It been posted but fucking finally Sturgeon has said no more masks in class from 1st March! Still in corridors and bust areas but it's something!

@irispurple absolutely with you on testing kids.
I test before every time I go into work, I can handle it. What I can't handle is having to hold down my child while they scream and cry 'no please mummy, not again, please, I'll be good no please'
Fuck that. Of course am now expecting the usual berating of 'it's just a short few seconds/think of the children who have constant medical treatment/be grateful your child can attend school'....

The reason why so many are celebrating this is the same reason why the tories are in power. Sadly most people aren't very bright.

What would you do then @LibbyR79?

Delay removing restrictions until the spring /summer, when hopefully the NHS isn't feeling the strain so much. Also keep masks, they do help prevent spread and are hardly a huge inconvenience for most.

Countries with masks aren't really faring better than those without.

That maybe true, but I think every little helps and that wearing a mask is an easy thing to do.

@HallieLA at my school there was 1 teacher not working, all others called in remotely part of the day as they had no symptoms. The children are at home with no symptoms! It's ridiculous! If you are ill stay at home but out of the last few people I know who have had it they haven't had symptoms so they'll still have been teaching if they hadn't had to test.

@LibbyR79

Delay removing restrictions until the spring /summer, when hopefully the NHS isn't feeling the strain so much. Also keep masks, they do help prevent spread and are hardly a huge inconvenience for most.

To be fair they aren’t feeling the strain now really,

@LibbyR79 what do you do? I've been out tonight and there is a stark difference between my friends who have wfh the while time and those of us actually living with it and working with lots of covid around. Those of us in schools just want to crack on as we are seeing such little symptoms from positive cases, my wfh friends want to mask up and isolate forever

My closest friend is a nurse and says otherwise where she works. Not necessarily all under strain from covid, but under strain regardless and covid is adding to it. @fedupsotired I work in a school and myself and my family have been ill for the whole 10 days and have dragged ourselves back to work, despite feeling rubbish. Even my kids have not been themselves and have been exhausted since going back to school. I know I'm not that unusual as every other member of staff I've spoken to had felt ill enough to be off and were still recovering, despite being back at work.