What COVID restrictions are heading our way?

[Happylittlethoughts]

Nivola not best pleased today, and rightly do . Any ideas on what the,restrictions will be? I know schools are being warned at LA level to prep for blended learning .
A 2 week limitation?

Pubs shutting early?

I suspect all household interactions will be banned from Monday and pubs and restaurants will be shut.

Not really proportionate imo when we have only 5 in ICU and cases low outside Glasgow and Lanarkshire.

It should be localised lockdowns. We barely have any cases here. I am so fed up. Fil is ill, mil is struggling (and having blackouts with memory loss due to the stress) and my own mum is losing the will to live.

I'm furious at the way she speaks to us and leaves us hanging like that, with a threat she hasn't even fully clarified hanging over us.

Hope it's not blended learning! I could understand if there would be more restrictions coming to the central belt. Cases in Lothian are rising so it's probably fair if we also get the no mixing restrictions already in place in the West.

Maybe early restaurant and pub closures and a rollback closing gyms, museums and things like that? I mean most of Edinburgh leisure is still shut or barely open.

Bugs me that she has said this weekend is the deciding factor, pretty sure anyone testing over the weekend and early next week will already have the virus so to say this weekend will make or break a decision is ridiculous

Well she fucked up when she didn’t close the pubs in Glasgow (for purely political reasons). So now the whole of Scotland will be punished. Thanks a bunch Nicola.

Nooo not blended learning, dd went to college today for her induction and that's blended learning, I don't want ds here too trying to learn!

I guess it will be pub curfews and not going in anyone's house.

@Whymustyoubringinthebirds

The decision has absolutely already been made ready to announce on Monday imo. I suspect she wants to impose a full U.K.-wide lockdown but Johnson is reluctant.

She will announce on Monday that bars and restaurants will be shut and household mixing banned imo. Of course with the threat of further measures if we’re not all good little boys and girls.

Can’t wait for all the job losses that will cause. Fun times.

I know everyone has their own concerns and issues, but wondered whether anyone could give their tuppence on mine.....?

My DS is due to restart second year uni in the south of England in two weeks. I have close family an hour or two away from his uni. I'm stressing there will be some lock down in the meantime and he won't be able to travel from Grampian to Oxford. Would it be wise to encourage him to go early and stay with family in the interim?

I'm mentally prepared that he may not even be back at Xmas due to travel restrictions. This is all so Sh**! 😢

Yes there should have been tighter restrictions previously in Glasgow. I am expecting restaurants to go to takeaway service only and no going in to each other’s houses. Or perhaps no mixing households at all. Do we think there will be a limit on how far we can travel?

My DS is due to restart second year uni in the south of England in two weeks. I have close family an hour or two away from his uni. I'm stressing there will be some lock down in the meantime and he won't be able to travel from Grampian to Oxford. Would it be wise to encourage him to go early and stay with family in the interim?

I think I'd be tempted personally.

Aurea I expect any travel restrictions will have an education exemption ?

I think a move to blended learning now would be preferable to a total school closure later on ?

Thanks!
I guess NS would give some warning to any lockdown?

@Aurea if I had the option I’d be calling up those relatives - for the sake of two weeks it’s a good insurance policy. You might be fine but...

You’d hope there would be warning but there hasn’t been much of it up til now and there is a feeling of panic setting in again.

The cases in Scotland surrond the Glasgow / Dumbarton area.

NS went in all guns blazing in her treatment of Aberdeen.
Nobidy allowed in/out of the city except for work/care.
5 mile travel ban except work/care.
Pubs/ restaurants closed.
Nobody allowed in others houses.
Exercise entitlement reduced.

N.S has sat and watched the gradual spread in the S.W. She need to lock those areas down.

A national lockdown is unfair. We've followed the rules. Schools are doing well and cases are low. We do not need , or deserve further restrictions

I think extra measures are being considered for England also. Maybe they're waiting to see what happens over weekend and if it's bad we'll follow whatever happens down south. Who knows, stuff seems to happen short notice...

@Happylittlethoughts can I ask how you know schools are being told of possible blended learning?

@Torvean32 yes but I don't know of anyone who was stopped or challenged with regard to the 5 mile limit. I did travel in to the city during that time for work but never saw any police on the roads

Fluffy, I work in schools. Though we are in the West but it was implied all LAs should.

I'm a a teacher too and hadn't heard this so was curious.

I feel incredibly sorry for our young people who are about to have their education and work disrupted again in the name of a virus from which they are at no risk.

St Andrews University has now told all students to ‘remain in their rooms’- I’m sure this will be wonderful for the mental health of 18 year olds who have just moved across the country away from their parents for the first time.

www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-54209452