I think playgrounds will be opening after tomorrow's announcement

[ssd]

Yay at last for the little ones

I really hope so. Just that little bit of normality would make such a difference to my son.

Does anyone know when the announcement is today?

Usually 12.30.

Sorry kids, no playgrounds yet, 29th June, as clearly another ten days makes a massive difference....but from tomorrow you can have people to stay overnight and play golf if you’ve been shielding. 🤔

What a disappointing announcement today
Businesses being hung out to dry
Lots of job losses is inevitable
Don't often swear but FUCk

Yep, near;y finished week 1 of my summer holidays and nothing in it to mean that i'll be able to do anything much more than I can now. :(

I am so disappointed with this announcement. Many business are still not going to be able up. Our economy is struggling, we need to open businesses up.

She is killing the economy now. No reason at all why shops could not open on Monday.

I think she is loving the opportunity to retain control!

@SkyscraperStreets completely agree. Ive so angry right now.

*im sorry

I'm certainly not a Tory supporter, but I do think going on about Dominic Cummings in reply to Carlaw's question about the economy just shows she hasn't a clue.

Anything to do with the fact that shopping centres (and many hospitality outlets) are UK retailers or owners and the furlough payments are pan-UK funded from Westminster...what could possibly be the connection or point that SG are trying to make there?🤔

Urgh🤬

Yes, lots of deflection to Jackson Carlow’s points today.
(Pleasing to hear him get in the point about rolling out the changes two weeks after BJ...noticed NS was rattled by that)

I'm sorry but I'm missing something here.. she's announced shielding people can go out and visit and non cohabiting couples can stay over again, all shops and playgrounds and all shops not in malls open from 29th June and pretty sure we will have tourists and pubs back on 15th July. I'm not seeing the negatives. Yet again Mumsnet is full of anti SNP sentiment that doesn't represent people's actual feelings. As for the school reopening I think it's utterly ridiculous - we are doing the same as Northern Ireland and Italy and England has made an absolute mess of it.

Cautious is fine by me.

Glad we can use other people's toilets.

But disappointed the extended family bubble thing only applies to single grandparents and not 2 grandparents living together. We would love to see grandparents normally. That would make the biggest difference to us

The issue is @upstar that the circulation of the virus has been substantially suppressed yet still they are not allowing shops to open, they have no plan at all for schools reopening and the economy is going down the toilet.

This idea that the economy is totally separate from health is nonsense- job losses and hardship themselves cause health conditions.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and mine is not based on anti nationalist sympathies
I speak to lots of businesses in my job and most are on their knees
Another week/or the like could be the difference between survival or otherwise
Have on client on already asking for redundancy advice
Obviously totally different for people in public sect

Absolutely- there will be a wave of stores closing permanently over the next few weeks. Many would have been hanging by a thread expecting to open on Monday but now they won't even be allowed to open on June 29th unless they have an outdoor entrance!

Sturgeon's delay will fuse thousands of job losses- which have health consequences themselves.

She has got this badly wrong. There was a time for extreme caution and lockdown, but that has passed. Now is the time to allow adults to act sensibly and turn her attention to the dying Scottish economy and failing Scottish school. This has become a personal power trip for her. But this is the woman who said in 2016 that independence was more important than the economy!!

Yet again Mumsnet is full of anti SNP sentiment that doesn't represent people's actual feelings.

Well I think you will find that we are actual people too

I don't give any excuse for being anti SNP, and finding some people here who feel free to speak their mind makes a change from all the SNP shite all over social media by people who need to try thinking and looking outside their echo chamber.

One moaning yesterday becasue one of the "negative" questions to Swinney was posted by a known Tory - oh fuck me, are we sure that all SNP supporters are not only on board with everything and are absolutely sticking to the guidelines as well? I think not...

This has been completely mishandled and the NHS should have been up and running back to at least some semblance of normal by now. Still barely nothing happening - the death fall out from the lack of NHS service will be a lot higher than that from Covid.

@SkyscraperStreets there is a plan in place for schools as I'm sure you're aware but it's obviously one you don't like. It's a week to the summer holidays in most of Scotland and criticism of the planning for reopening is putting unmanageable pressure on schools.
As for the reopening of shops and businesses we are 4 weeks maximum behind England. We were 3-4 weeks behind London in terms of the pandemic so this makes sense.

Tourism is going to be the worst hit business sector and that is a global problem not caused by Nicola Sturgeon. Perhaps the 14 day quarantine could be lifted by the UK government? Then we could have all the overseas visitors who contribute most of the income back.

The problem is that the whole "adult conversation" stuff was a sound bite. They don't want people making their own decisions and a lot of this drag out is also all about appeasing folk who have had a taste of having their area all to themselves and don't want other people visiting now regardless of covid. People with foreign accents being abused for being foreign just in case they might have traveled even though they've lived in the area for years. Fuck me.

Don't even get me started on the disgraceful situation in the schools

I am an SNP voter and I'm fucked off with what's just been announced and the utter shit show about schools and blended learning

Everything Wax said, with bells on