November Lockdown: Mibbes Aye Mibbes Naw

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Thread 3!!!!

I don't see Boris sticking it out much beyond Brexit tbh.

On a more positive note school is saying children can now have PE inside and NHS dentistry is returning to full service model

I phoned my NHS dentist this morning and the receptionist said they were not doing any check ups and she didn't know whey they would be. She also didn't seem to have any idea what we could pay for privately with them.

Honestly, everything is turning to shit right in front of our eyes and there is nothing we can do about it.

The telegraph and Mail are gunning for him. Gove plot..?’

Well maybe some upside to covid afterall, if Boris goes! Fingers crossed for a trump sad face soon here!

My take on it is that they have fannied around so much with measures that make so little difference, we've all got so pissed off that we're not doing the big stuff.

Things like masks in shops - why, if we're told that an "exposure" is 15 minutes with someone, do you have to wear masks in the supermarket? Pointless and contradictory.

The real risks are visiting people in their houses without socially distancing, or picking up covid from the person in the next bed in hospital.

But because they've overloaded us with more and more and haven't dialled back on ANY of the requirements, people are just thinking bollocks to the lot of it and that if they want a few folk over for a drink on a Friday they will. Compliance is on the slide.

As for the masks in school - I know it's just anecdote, but 12 of my daughter's S4 friends were sent home last Monday after a boy they had sat in a class with the previous Thursday/Friday had tested positive. None of them have developed symptoms over the last 10 days and none of the families have either.

The Tories are utterly ruthless and make the scheming that goes on in the other parties look like child's play! May never had a chance, she was set up to fail. BoJo is on borrowed time

My ds is home isolating right now after contact with a case. He's only got 10 days as it took 4 days for the test/results so he had 4 of the days at school.

@RaspberryCoulis that’s perfectly put.

Because the measures don’t make logical sense the really useful ones will just be increasingly ignored.

The real risks are visiting people in their houses without socially distancing, or picking up covid from the person in the next bed in hospital.

Absolutely.

My friend is a nurse. Her children are on a constant rotation of being told to self-isolate a week late via school contacts. Meanwhile she just carries on going to work in the hospital as normal. Makes zero sense.

@RaspberryCoulis that's why Boris has had to lockdown England again. Basically pandering to everyone and their auntie with an agenda until no one has a clue what to do - guidance in Scotland is the model of clarity compared to the English tiers.
If the government would have just committed to extend furlough in September they would have been able to get a handle on this, what a mess. It is perfectly affordable https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/01/for-the-covid-19-economic-recovery-look-to-the-treasury-not-the-bank?CMP=ShareiOSAppp_Other
I think we will be tier 4 in lockdown soon as the messaging from Westminster is a shambles and NS will want to spend treasury money this month and save the Scottish Government support grants for January.

Even the IMF is telling the Uk to spend money
www.theguardian.com/business/2020/oct/29/boost-public-spending-to-tackle-covid-second-wave-imf-tells-uk

Perhaps clearer advice, certainly more of it so needs to be clearer, but more followed, more effective? We don't know that yet.
Doesn't feel like we are winning.

I have to go to hospital tomorrow for tests under sedation. I'm terrified of needles, have to go on my own, and who the hell knows what I'll pick up from the neighbouring bed.

Sorry to hear that @StatisticallyChallenged good luck for the tests. Hopefully they'll have good procedures in place now in light of the cancer ward outbreak

I'm glad the gyms are still open in Scotland (closed in England) and our local leisure centre is due to start kids classes again. After all the prep they've done, I hope they can.

Thanks @anon444877. It's an aerosol procedure (EUS) so hopefully they'll be well on top of the hygiene side

It's occurred to me before that hospitality settings, etc, should just ban teachers. We're in class, with hunners of kids, no PPE, very little distancing. If you want to keep your premises covid free, don't let the teachers in.

Yip wait for it! I saw a scary article saying there's been a big increase in seriously ill women being hospitalised due to having frontline jobs. Read to me as teachers but went back to find it again when I had peace to read it properly but couldn't find it again.

It’s just been confirmed as breaking news that furlough can be used in the future, UK wide, not just right now. So I think we will continue as we are in the tiers for now?

I think it's just the BJ said it during QT at the commons. Doesn't mean much as he hasn't a clue but we can only hope that now he's said it they 'll need to stick with it.

I think now she will delay it and see how the numbers go. Hopefully anyway and use it later in December if needed.

@Judystilldreamsofhorses

It’s just been confirmed as breaking news that furlough can be used in the future, UK wide, not just right now. So I think we will continue as we are in the tiers for now?

Phew! Yes Here's BJ saying that.... Fingers crossed that we can stay in the tiers for now on the basis of that.

Nope, Scotland Tory Office have confirmed that although BJ said what he did earlier, they're not planning to extend furlough beyond when the English lockdown's due to finish.

STUC finally realising we're not equal partners in the union.

@waitforitwaitforit “No football colours, no teachers” 😂😂