Scunnered .... *insert tier pun

[dancemom]

New thread, couldn't think of a title 🙈

aw, I was hoping for Yes Tier I Can Boogie (While Still Maintaining Baseline Public Health Measures).

Thanks @dancemom

Sorry @GoldenOmber I was under pressure with 2 messages remaining.... feel free to make a new thread

No it’s not a criticism! Thank you for the new thread dancemom

Ha! Thanks dancemom! Placemarking, while I go to collect the Child (fully masked, even though outside... I'm not a footballer or anything you know...)

I see Patrick Harvie asked about lateral flow testing replacing isolation for close contacts and then went off on one about how it would guarantee nasty new variants everywhere.

Really can’t tell any more if I’m fed up with the Greens because the pandemic has made me grumpy with everything or whether they just are being a bit useless around this. What’s your actual plan then, Patrick? Whole school classes home isolating next year too?

Just marking my place. What a fucking shit show.

Scunnered just about covers it.

Patrick Harvie is an absolute walloper.

I work in higher education.

I still have no idea how a return to work will look come September.

Will all students (and staff) be able to return?

Will we all have masks?

Will DD have to wear masks in August in school?

My FTC ends in November. I don't see a point in returning before then to be honest.

@GoldenOmber

aw, I was hoping for Yes Tier I Can Boogie (While Still Maintaining Baseline Public Health Measures).

Me too, looks like there'll be plenty more of these threads

Surely this will be the last thread this time!

Our P7 class isolating due to a positive case.

They'll all be missing their class trip tomorrow.

Fuck sake

That's pants @SoMuchForSummerLove

I have my second jag tonight. DH has his on Friday.

On the one hand I'm delighted that she's dropped the nonsense about zero covid. Her mate Devi must be gutted. And is now talking in much more reasonable terms about living with it.

On the other, I am not delighted in the slightest that she's still banging on about children wearing masks in schools. All the faux "I know how hard it is" bollocks when all she does is wear her wee tartan mask to walk along the corridor and takes it off as soon as she sits down.

It is. I feel like it's everywhere now, in the school, in my workplace. It's fucking depressing. Things felt much more hopeful about a month ago! Can't understand why we're SO much worse than everywhere else in the UK.

@SoMuchForSummerLove

Our P7 class isolating due to a positive case.

They'll all be missing their class trip tomorrow.

Fuck sake

Aw no! What a shame 😢

@SoMuchForSummerLove

It is. I feel like it's everywhere now, in the school, in my workplace. It's fucking depressing. Things felt much more hopeful about a month ago! Can't understand why we're SO much worse than everywhere else in the UK.

Because we have lower general immunity to start with due to "successful elimination" last year. Which means that there are more people available to infect

Well now there's something to look forward to then @Scottishskifun

Surely better to be higher numbers of infection now when more people are vaccinated and less likelihood of serious illness or death, because is that now what "living with Covid" means? We need to be prepared that we are going to get Covid but just hope that we aren't badly affected? Does still give me quite a lot of the fear but know many disagree.

LOVE the new thread name @dancemom. Scunnered might be one of my top ten words.

Thanks @dancemom, nicely summed up, I think!

Thanks @ResilienceWanker. They can shove any guidance up their SNP sporrans.

Oh no, @SoMuchForSummerLove 🥲

And yes, I was just thinking about us being worse than the rest.

I thank Devi and NS and the zero Covid pish. And a desire to be Jacinda 😂

@SoMuchForSummerLove

Well now there's something to look forward to then *@Scottishskifun*

Haha well I've already had it so currently have a high immunity level coupled with a dose of vaccine.

@RaspberryCoulis couldn't agree more that it's good they have backtracked changed stance on elimination/max suppression strategy and actually listening to the wider scientific community not just devi who said it wasn't possible like many on this forum also stated at the time!

Well - the thing is, it's possible now to not aim for mass suppression, whereas it really wasn't while so much of the older population was still unvaccinated. Of course the strategy changes in response to the changing situation. I don't really see it as backtracking, more just evolving in the face of changing data.