Tiers on my pillow

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As requested.

Happy to help with home es queries about English up to AH level.

We have worked through tier 4 in construction in Glasgow . Wish my company was more like yours .

[quote WouldBeGood]@NotAnActualSheep I wouldn’t like to be a politician. But I’m good at making big decisions as part of my job, no popularity needed, just decisions based on evidence.[/quote]
Yes. To be fair, if I did have to do it, I would have a big decision tree and a spreadsheet and indicators and thresholds. And I would stick to my system. So one step up from the SG, granted.

@WaxOnFeckOff

Yes *@NotAnActualSheep*, his flat only has the two of them, they never moved anyone into the 3rd bedroom and suspect they won't now. He got all his partying out in the first semester in 2019 and he's genuinely just snuggled in his wee love nest. When they were allowed, they were meeting up with one other couple occasionally but otherwise have been getting shopping delivered and the occasional take-away and working their way through Netflix and doing their on-line Uni stuff.

Sounds like that can't really be much safer - Good set up!

Enough to make you want to head for the border @Y0uCann0tBeSer10us - I can't seriously see how anyone can get anything much done work wise during the waking hours of under 5s.

I've tried - maybe for an hour at the end of the day while they watch tv.

Any viral infection can cause longer term health issues in a number of the infected, we just don't normally hear about it. I don't think i've seen anything that suggests this is happened in any greater numbers or more severely than with other viruses, it's just being talked about more and more people are looking out for it. I also suspect that some of it is down to other things such as perimenopause, depression etc.

I'm definitely not saying it isn't a thing and that some people are suffering with it, just that it's not unique to covid and that there are other reasons that people could be feeling very tired and achy and having brain fog.

Being under pretty much constant restriction doesn't help either.

Sounds like that can't really be much safer - Good set up!

Yes, they've been lucky but it was a calculated risk, they booked private halls in a 3 bed flat and asked to share, taking the risk that they'd have a 3rd random but hoping that they wouldn't get anyone and that's proven to be the case so far. Third bedroom is locked but means the wee livingroom/kitchen and bathroom are just between the two of them and they have their own bedrooms to study in but suspect the (single) beds get shared...

@Y0uCann0tBeSer10us

Boris just confirming stay at home order for England too. Schools shut, but one critical difference to Scotland - nurseries open to all. I wish we'd had that recognition that looking after toddlers while working from home is just asking too much. Not for us, we're lucky to qualify for a place, but lots of other parents are absolutely on their knees with it.

This ^

I have a 3 yo who made WFH near impossible last time. If our nurseries were open it would have allowed me to actually get some work done plus get some home schooling done with my eldest. No chance of that now.

Absolutely @anon444877. Home schooling while working full time is a challenge, but add a curious toddler into the mix and no work or learning can take place. I'm frankly staggered the Scottish government doesn't recognise the level of additional stress that one measure alone puts on working parents.

It's endangering the well being of a lot of under 5s and younger primary aged kids to expect parents to try imho. I stopped trying to wfh with kids at home because it was just too bad for the kids.

Did you see Boris says first 4 groups will have had first dose of vaccine by mid feb - did anyone get the comparative detail for Scotland?

Did you see Boris says first 4 groups will have had first dose of vaccine by mid feb

This is exactly the thing we should be getting told (and actually getting done, of course). It would make everything seem much less grim.

Sympathies to those with under 5s. I can't imagine lockdown under those circumstances. I remember trying to work with a sick toddler. It was impossible, and that was without him running at full speed, and happy to slump in front of cbeebies for longer than 3 milliseconds.

@WaxOnFeckOff
Our son went back to Uni tonight - before the lockdown. We didn’t want him to, but he was desperate to get back. He’s had covid, we were clear with him about how it was going to be, and that once lockdown starts we can’t bring him home.
I have no idea if this is the right thing to do - but he really didn’t want to stay at home.

@NotAnActualSheep

Did you see Boris says first 4 groups will have had first dose of vaccine by mid feb

This is exactly the thing we should be getting told (and actually getting done, of course). It would make everything seem much less grim.

Sympathies to those with under 5s. I can't imagine lockdown under those circumstances. I remember trying to work with a sick toddler. It was impossible, and that was without him running at full speed, and happy to slump in front of cbeebies for longer than 3 milliseconds.

Yes to that

I have a 3 yo who made WFH near impossible last time. If our nurseries were open it would have allowed me to actually get some work done plus get some home schooling done with my eldest. No chance of that now.

That's exactly how I feel. Once again I think the big issue is SG leaders have no kid and no real understanding that they need constant interaction. Boris on the other hand has 6, 4 of whom were quite close in age.

I think there are a few in the same boat @ThatsNotYourPassword.

I think in the main most of them have been pretty sensible and they need to make their own way and try to enjoy a bit of their youth/spend time arguing politics amongst themselves rather than with me.

I had mine whinging about the multi millions of jeff bezos but wasn't happy when I mentioned he's happy to keep buying from him. :o

This is what NS said re our vaccine roll out in the coming months.

Over 50s and vulnerable Scots to receive vaccine by May
It is hoped the most vulnerable Scots and those over the age of 50 will have had their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by May, Nicola Sturgeon said.
More than 2.5 million people, the First Minister said, will receive either the AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccine by the end of the spring.
She said: “Our current expectation, based on assumptions about supply and the new advice on doses being administered up to 12 weeks apart, rather than three, is that by early May everyone over 50, and people under 50 with specific underlying conditions, will have received at least the first dose of vaccine.”
The First Minister also said that one million people will be vaccinated by the end of January.

Awww he sounds well loved up @WaxOnFeckOff, I'd let him go. He sounds a sensible lad.

However my take is that given 1m by month end January then 1.5m by May, when in actual fact she will say, oh look how good I am we’ve done more than anticipated. Wonderful planning by us.
Just in time for elections.
Yes I’m cynical.
I really don’t care as long as the vaccine gets out and quickly.

@WaxOnFeckOff
I know! If he was here - he’d be in a terrible mood for weeks!
I’d rather he was bored with friends and other students than here with me. He’s been pretty sensible. I think it’s the best decision out of a difficult situation. Hope you get your DS back too.

Has anyone noticed that what has been said today about restrictions becomes LAW at midnight in Scotland? Last time it was all guidelines but this time it’s actually law, and that seems to have missed most poeple’s radar.
I’m so fucking pissed off at this shitshow, and the sleekit way in which the Scottish government are misusing their emergency powers

If Boris can do it by mid February, why is it taking us til may? Is he just doing his usual "Britain is the best country in the world"?

@Bikingbear

I have a 3 yo who made WFH near impossible last time. If our nurseries were open it would have allowed me to actually get some work done plus get some home schooling done with my eldest. No chance of that now.

That's exactly how I feel. Once again I think the big issue is SG leaders have no kid and no real understanding that they need constant interaction. Boris on the other hand has 6, 4 of whom were quite close in age.

Pissing myself laughing at the idea that Boris actively parents any of his children, even the ones he does acknowledge the existence of.

@Coquohvan

This is what NS said re our vaccine roll out in the coming months.

Over 50s and vulnerable Scots to receive vaccine by May
It is hoped the most vulnerable Scots and those over the age of 50 will have had their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by May, Nicola Sturgeon said.
More than 2.5 million people, the First Minister said, will receive either the AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccine by the end of the spring.
She said: “Our current expectation, based on assumptions about supply and the new advice on doses being administered up to 12 weeks apart, rather than three, is that by early May everyone over 50, and people under 50 with specific underlying conditions, will have received at least the first dose of vaccine.”
The First Minister also said that one million people will be vaccinated by the end of January.

1 million by end of January that must be around 20% of the population? That's really going some.

Thanks folks, I suspect he won't be the only one heading back under the radar but done sensibly....and yes, totally loved up. They've survived over a year and that includes many months when they couldn't see each other and many months where they've only seen each other, in a small flat - baptism of fire! lol

@Tomorrowisanewday

If Boris can do it by mid February, why is it taking us til may? Is he just doing his usual "Britain is the best country in the world"?

At least it’s hope

@WaxOnFeckOff

Any viral infection can cause longer term health issues in a number of the infected, we just don't normally hear about it. I don't think i've seen anything that suggests this is happened in any greater numbers or more severely than with other viruses, it's just being talked about more and more people are looking out for it. I also suspect that some of it is down to other things such as perimenopause, depression etc.

I'm definitely not saying it isn't a thing and that some people are suffering with it, just that it's not unique to covid and that there are other reasons that people could be feeling very tired and achy and having brain fog.

Being under pretty much constant restriction doesn't help either.

I'm hoping one of the good things to come out of all this is some more research into and understanding of post-viral syndromes. I know they can be debilitating, and sufferers often get fobbed off by GPs, and eventually some wooly diagnosis like CFS. I don't doubt long covid at all, but I'm not sure how it is distinct from long- other-viruses, and how much is a distinct "illness" and how much is a slow natural recovery from the effects of the virus. So I understand "permanent lung inflammation" may actually just be the lungs recovering from the virus' effects, and it will go eventually, just not in the timescale we have known about covid (a year or so). And yes, it could be exacerbating other things. I got huge brain fog out of the blue a few years ago (lots of fog, not a fog of my huge brain, to be clear...) and it was just hormonal/ peri, but had it happened now I would totally wonder if I had had asymptomatic covid.