Fears For Tiers

[Bytheloch]

Thread #567 Still here, getting through each day one 2M step away at a time. November into December 2020 here we go...

@Bytheloch

Cheers to 6pm, T4 is officially open 🥂

Cheers. Let's get this shit done.

Regardless she was saying there's little evidence of surface transmission, and the quarantine length limits access for children who we also have a duty of care to.

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Sorry not seeing how the quarantine of books is limiting access to children - there is usually a pretty decent selection ?

It would limit access even more if staff refused to work.

Quarantining books is just ridiculous

I think the quarantine is a minor issue compared to the fact that in lots of places libraries are sadly closed. I'd be happy with click and collect if it was local.

library closed here. Have spent a fortune on Books2Door, Lowplex books and Books4people (which I suspect are all the same company) on books for DS .... now at stage of doing informal swapsies with other parents - we post books through his friends letterboxes and await some surprises back

Of course length of quarantine affects availability of books, my local library is great but I wouldn't say the selection has extensive.

I agree that all staff need to feel safe, I wonder about feeling safe vs where the real risk is, mind you we don't have decent data for teacher risk so how would we measure library staff risk...

So it will continue to drop, will they use it an excuse to say tier 4 is working and keep us there? hmm never thought I'd miss tier 3

@Christmasbiscuit God, I hope not. But you just know if cases rise then it’s all our fault for going to Troon and licking things in non-essential shops and having massive fucking imaginary house parties, and if they fall it’s all Nicola’s doing because she is literally Jesus. Fuck them to fuck.

You can access some children's books online with your library card. The selection is limited but it's free.

@AgentCooper I reckon you’ve nailed their strategy

Does anyone think we will be freed on the 11th??

Its 6pm on 11th so realistically the 12th. Then probably back into level 3

I think Christmas would be much “safer” if they opened hospitality properly.

I’m really scared this is going to go on and on

No everybody can afford books even charity books as they are so expensive now in the charity shops.

Quarantine books. Total madness

🍷🍷🍷🍷to tier 4’s.

Go well into the darkness

On the library front our ours tell me that they have books stacked all over because there are so few borrowed currently compared to normal and in addition there are few books in transit because we can only borrow a book that is held by the library we collect from.

We seem to have to fight to keep our libraries every year & now they can argue that people aren’t using them much

Second hand books are horribly expensive just now & I have a house full of bookworms.

I’ve had fun looking up the council map to check which of our usual walks are still legal

Feeling bad for everyone who is losing their swimming pools etc for the next few weeks 🥃

@littlbrowndog

No everybody can afford books even charity books as they are so expensive now in the charity shops.

Quarantine books. Total madness

Charity shops are closed now too!!!

That’s cos you are bad raspberry. And the rest of the tier 4’s.

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You can stay indoors and stare at the walls as you have done Netflix amazon prime.

So it’s the one show on repeat. For bad people

I confess to being Very Bad

I've given away stacks of books during lock down. piles of kids books too. If you have a local free/sharing FB page maybe ask? I've been glad to get rid to be honest.

A book swap box was organised outside a takeaway cafe here last time

Yeah I gave up on libraries as most are shut in Edinburgh. So just swapping books with other mums and I got kindle unlimited for my books