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?

Tbh if I was a new student I’d sack it off for a couple of years. I’d rather be miserable at my mums house than miserable, on my own, is a town/city I don’t know. Especially if fees are involved.

@Ecosse maybe they're at no (or little) risk but many of their family members are.

Truth be told I'd guess many schools are on the brink of closing purely because of staff absence and staff self isolating. I know we are. Headteacher with near enough a full teaching timetable today along with every member of SLT.

Basically we're knocking our respective pans in to keep them open but the coats are on a shoogly peg.

To answer the OP though:

No meeting with other households except for childcare
Restricted opening hours for all pubs and restaurants
No non essential travel
Soft plays etc might not get to open
Schools to stay open at this point

@sonicbook

Tbh I doubt students living in halls of residence will be interacting much with vulnerable family members.

My DM is 86 and she has absolutely no desire to stop her DGC’s education to protect her. She feels she has had her life and is quite happy to stay at home for the moment so that people can go to work, university and school.

Oh god. Please, please don’t close the schools. I can’t do it again while trying to hold down a full time heavy job. I can’t.

@Ecosse that's nice.

Sadly your own experience isn't exactly representative of society as a whole. Lots of teens have vulnerable parents or grandparents who live with them.

@RubyAberdeen they will not shut the schools unless it's a total emergency. My worry is more that individual schools will be forced to shut due to staff absence.

@sonicbook

I don’t think that’s quite true. The number of university students who will be living with vulnerable relatives will not be very large.

I didn't say university students I said teens

I agree @sonicbook I didn’t realise how many of my DD’s friends (they’re S4) have grandparents living with them until this year. Much more common than I’d thought.

It's very common. Also surprisingly common for their parents to be in their fifties with several comorbidities.

I quite agree we need some normality but this whole kids can't catch it vibe is bullshit. There has to be some acceptance that the world isn't normal now and there's no point pretending that it is.

I’ve assumed they will tie some changes in to the two week October school break we have coming up, so nobody can accuse them of intentionally shutting schools. If that’s a travel limit imposed on all of us, not just where cases are rising, good luck with getting the rest of us to comply.
I’ve had enough of the threats and end of the week ‘I telt them’ sessions as though we’ve been badly behaved at school.
The threatening communications and control mechanisms need to stop. I want to be treated like an adult, a grown up who can make my own risk assessment alongside washing my hands and protecting the vulnerable or elderly members of my family.

The October break is only 1 week in many parts of Scotland.

We are normally 1 week in October but having 2 this year since they went back a week early in August

I’ve completely lost track about what’s going on so it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s also my DC’s school. 😂

I do think it is unfair if we are all penalised, when numbers are low in rural areas. I know how fed up I and other people I know are at how ineptly this really has all being handled. There is no consistency and I would love to know what the 'science' actually is!

Pubs shutting early is a feature of the Geordie local lockdown, so I'm sure we will be seeing more of that.

And I think there might be a ban in intercity travel during the two weeks when various parts of the country have their half terms, to prevent the potentially germy spreading contagion

East Ren are only a week, so are Glasgow and the Lanarkshires.

I think the places with two weeks are actually the places with the lowest rates.

I think we're still just a week for October but need to check.

Presume shielding will be started again. We're supposed to see ILs in their garden this weekend. FIL is ill and I do worry whether we should but presume it will be ok if we watch distancing.

Edinburgh is one week also in October. We're stopping a week early in June though.

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 this is a good idea

I think we are definitely looking at further restrictions
Will do so much damage,hope it's worth it

I really hope that they differentiate between different regions. Stupid not to.

Two weeks here in fife. I’m so fed up of this now. Working in the NHS and so many people are seriously worried about all the non Covid patients who weren’t seen over lockdown and the knock on effects for years to come. It’s worrying.

She needs to crackdown on the "hotspots" of Glasgow etc.

Why should the rest of the country suffer because some folk in those areas have been queuing up to get into Wetherspoons, having house parties etc ?

She needs to get tough as fuck on those areas and stop people going in and out of those areas.

Given how Glaswegians couldn't stay the fuck out of the loch Lomonds National Park during proper lockdown she needs to get the army do bloody road blocks this time before the rest of us are infected.