When will this shit end?

[zahidf]

Us perspective 

 

[squirrelarmy]

20 hours ago, Andre91 said:

Is that primary or secondary? 

Reception/Early years primary. 

[Crazyfool01]

9 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

I’ve just received the register of students coming into school tomorrow. I am streaming three lessons tomorrow and the numbers for students that are going to physically be in the classrooms for those lessons are: 

Year 7 - 1 student 

Year 11 - 2 students 

Year 10 - 1 student 

I know I’ve said it to death but ALL STAFF. All staff being told to come in. 

I teach English so, as a core subject, I will have the maximum numbers in my class (as all students obviously have to do my subject). Some of my colleagues in my department have 0 students for some of their classes tomorrow. 
 

An utter shambles. A reckless shambles. 
 

*edit* Wednesday, I only stream last period. Friday, I only stream first period. Yet I (and my whole department) will be expected to go into school. Talk about needless numbers of people being in. 

hopefully with discussions people might see sense and the numbers cut back to what is actually needed ... its quite fluid at the moment so things may change ... fingers crossed .... at the moment my friends daughter is being asked to attend her Primary school as normal .... in Somerset 

[Crazyfool01]

Todays numbers .... fingers crossed that we are peaking with infections now 

 

[Guest]

54.9k cases on a Sunday is grim. 

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, Ozanne said:

54.9k cases on a Sunday is grim. 

absolutely but last 5 days have been levelling off around that mark .... hopefully its the start of improving signs .... trying to take the positives out of this .... 

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

6 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

.... trying to take the positives out of this .... 

Unfortunately, there's another 54,990 of them. And I'm not convinced that we've seen the peak

[MEGABOWL]

2 hours ago, steviewevie said:

yeah, and bigger picture is just leads to more people being infected, as it seems that new variant is spreading more amongst children.

Not according to This article . It’s spreading evenly across age groups.

 

[Guest]

10 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

absolutely but last 5 days have been levelling off around that mark .... hopefully its the start of improving signs .... trying to take the positives out of this .... 

Sorry to say this but I don’t think we’ve seen the peak, yesterday was the highest on record and it’s been a bank holiday weekend. We’re just starting to see Christmas mixing now too. 

[ace56blaa]

Apparently Keir has read my message and is now calling for a national lockdown to be implemented in 24 hours

[zahidf]

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged Boris Johnson to bring in new national Covid restrictions within the next 24 hours, rather than hint that he will do so soon.

Starmer told reporters: “The virus is clearly out of control. And there’s no good the Prime Minister hinting that further restrictions are coming into place in a week, or two or three.

“That delay has been the source of so many problems. So, I say bring in those restrictions now, national restrictions, within the next 24 hours. That has to be the first step towards controlling the virus.”

[Crazyfool01]

im gonna keep looking for the positives  

[Guest]

Yeah Starmer has called for a national lockdown. He’s right, we need it. 

[Euphoricape]

http://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-national-lockdown-must-be-imposed-within-24-hours-says-labour-leader-12178438

[Zoo Music Girl]

39 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

I’ve just received the register of students coming into school tomorrow. I am streaming three lessons tomorrow and the numbers for students that are going to physically be in the classrooms for those lessons are: 

Year 7 - 1 student 

Year 11 - 2 students 

Year 10 - 1 student 

I know I’ve said it to death but ALL STAFF. All staff being told to come in. 

I teach English so, as a core subject, I will have the maximum numbers in my class (as all students obviously have to do my subject). Some of my colleagues in my department have 0 students for some of their classes tomorrow. 
 

An utter shambles. A reckless shambles. 
 

*edit* Wednesday, I only stream last period. Friday, I only stream first period. Yet I (and my whole department) will be expected to go into school. Talk about needless numbers of people being in. 

This is crazy. I hope they reconsider.

[MEGABOWL]

2 hours ago, efcfanwirral said:

 

To be honest everything they add on like curfews is completely unenforceable in most areas. In a town where there are one or two police I'm sure it's easy to sneak out. 

We don't even enforce anything now - so its going to spread because lots of people just dont care. I know of plenty who are just living their lives like normal, seeing whoever they want etc. 

Lockdown was always going to suffer from the law of diminishing returns. At peak of Compliance in April they were estimating 91%, having originally forecast 75%. That was never going to last, even without Cummings/Ferrier et al that would naturally drop. 
 

It isn’t just people being selfish either. Tolerance for these things varies as does the other end of the seesaw, personal fear of the Virus. Some will find their mental well-being deteriorating. Others will be emotionally unable to keep away from Family. For many people as soon as their own Health is threatened, that’s a higher priority than any notion of the Greater Good.

As for enforcement, that’s impossible. Without turning into some kind of China-style Authoritarian nightmare anyway. Even the Stasi in East Germany couldn’t stop people going round to others houses. 

[MEGABOWL]

41 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

I’ve just received the register of students coming into school tomorrow. I am streaming three lessons tomorrow and the numbers for students that are going to physically be in the classrooms for those lessons are: 

Year 7 - 1 student 

Year 11 - 2 students 

Year 10 - 1 student 

I know I’ve said it to death but ALL STAFF. All staff being told to come in. 

I teach English so, as a core subject, I will have the maximum numbers in my class (as all students obviously have to do my subject). Some of my colleagues in my department have 0 students for some of their classes tomorrow. 
 

An utter shambles. A reckless shambles. 
 

*edit* Wednesday, I only stream last period. Friday, I only stream first period. Yet I (and my whole department) will be expected to go into school. Talk about needless numbers of people being in. 

That is jaw droppingly stupid

[MEGABOWL]

2 minutes ago, Euphoricape said:

http://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-national-lockdown-must-be-imposed-within-24-hours-says-labour-leader-12178438

Except of course, now Johnson won’t....

[tigger123]

3 minutes ago, Ozanne said:

Yeah Starmer has called for a national lockdown. He’s right, we need it. 

He's right, but a couple of weeks late unfortunately

[MEGABOWL]

2 hours ago, Billy Corgan's Ego said:

 

Can only mean Schools. There’s nothing else to shut up here and everyone is legally required not to leave their Council Area.

[jannybruck]

Starmer should know by saying that now, that Boris won't do anything of the sort because it makes him look like he's conceding – and conceding to something called for by Labour.

[Fuzzy Afro]

When someone like me who fundamentally disagrees with lockdowns thinks one is needed, then it’s absolutely needed. Starmer is spot on here. Let’s go back to the March rules.

 

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, Fuzzy Afro said:

When someone like me who fundamentally disagrees with lockdowns thinks one is needed, then it’s absolutely needed. Starmer is spot on here. Let’s go back to the March rules.

 

everyone i know is calling for it ... 

[Guest]

13 minutes ago, jannybruck said:

Starmer should know by saying that now, that Boris won't do anything of the sort because it makes him look like he's conceding – and conceding to something called for by Labour.

Then that’s a problem Boris will have to deal with whether it’s now or the effects of that down the line. 

[Fuzzy Afro]

5 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

everyone i know is calling for it ... 

I don’t think there’s anyone on this thread who fundamentally opposes the principle of lockdowns more than me, and I’m calling for it.