Coronavirus

[PINKIE]

My Mum got lucky as she had her hip replacement (finally) done last week . Now as a brand new dedicated orthapedic unit probably stay operating longer than still in a general hospital .
Also means she is fairly housebound so a lockdown won't make much difference

My old dear had that done a couple of years ago, but as an emergency case when she fell and broke her hip. Which was right in the latter stages of my old man's dementia so she couldn't look after him. Horrendous time that looking back.

 

[Treble]

Year 9 at daughter's school all sent home yesterday after a confirmed case ... like the kid won't have also come into contact with the other year groups ...

... no more than 6 in a class next? Or some other seemingly random 'safety' number... getting a bit like a Monty Python sketch

It's really hard for schools and tbf they're doing the best they can. In school if year groups are being isolated then they won't have come into contact with other year groups. I bet all corridor timings and assemblies, lunchtimes, outdoor activities will be segregated and cleaners will be in sanitising everything between use for every year group. Of course the moment they get out the school gates for home time that all goes to pot! But there's only so much schools can do.

Here's the fun bit though. That year 9 isolate for 2 weeks, some of the kids will not have been infected, so they go back to school, a week later another year 9 tests positive the whole year group will be off again! Fun times.

 

[Spurlock]

It's really hard for schools and tbf they're doing the best they can. In school if year groups are being isolated then they won't have come into contact with other year groups. I bet all corridor timings and assemblies, lunchtimes, outdoor activities will be segregated and cleaners will be in sanitising everything between use for every year group. Of course the moment they get out the school gates for home time that all goes to pot! But there's only so much schools can do.

Here's the fun bit though. That year 9 isolate for 2 weeks, some of the kids will not have been infected, so they go back to school, a week later another year 9 tests positive the whole year group will be off again! Fun times.

it doesn’t really work

can try all the methods people want but at the end of the day the kids are mixing

like you said there’s only so much a school can do but that doesn’t mean it’s good enough

interesting Guinea pigs do our children make

 

[Treble]

it doesn’t really work

can try all the methods people want but at the end of the day the kids are mixing

like you said there’s only so much a school can do but that doesn’t mean it’s good enough

interesting Guinea pigs do our children make

It works while they're in school and that's all you can ask of them.

The schools can't do any more than they are.

 

[Spurlock]

It works while they're in school and that's all you can ask of them.

The schools can't do any more than they are.

yeh but u can’t ignore the fact that everyone does disperse at home time and the risks can return on a daily basis.

The schools might be doing a lot...but it’s not working enough

you can’t isolate school from the other half of a kid’s day...that’s a reality which will cause issues so maybe kids have been sent back too soon

 

[AstroFox]

What a load of ****ing morons running this country

I can only think they want us all to get it and if you die you're unlucky.

Well, they did let slip the actual plan right at the start - 'herd immunity', which is basically your 2nd sentence.

 

[Treble]

yeh but u can’t ignore the fact that everyone does disperse at home time and the risks can return on a daily basis.

The schools might be doing a lot...but it’s not working enough

you can’t isolate school from the other half of a kid’s day...that’s a reality which will cause issues so maybe kids have been sent back too soon

Yeh but you can't hold the schools accountable for what children do outside of schools. What about parents taking some responsibility? You've probably seen the morons who hang about in clusters having a chinwag outside with their kids in tow. Go home ffs!

Agree about whether kids should be back at school but that's not their decision. If they argue against it they get called lefty cowards. Damned if you do damned if you don't.

 

[Spurlock]

Yeh but you can't hold the schools accountable for what children do outside of schools. What about parents taking some responsibility? You've probably seen the morons who hang about in clusters having a chinwag outside with their kids in tow. Go home ffs!

Agree about whether kids should be back at school but that's not their decision. If they argue against it they get called lefty cowards. Damned if you do damned if you don't.

yeh I don’t hold the schools accountable...I’m saying it’s not working so maybe it’s happening too soon

yeh...I was shocked when young un returned after the holidays...like you say..parents talkin ****e, no distancing, no masks. I couldn’t understand why when schools opened during summer, it was single file, one parent etc etc...what’s changed? As much as schools can’t do more...I think on an individual level they can. My kids school should still have a single file policy.

it gets on my nerves..winds me up every time I’ve taken him because he feels like the guinea pig so some saggy ****s can catch up on their gossip.

 

[Archers Road]

yeh I don’t hold the schools accountable...I’m saying it’s not working so maybe it’s happening too soon

yeh...I was shocked when young un returned after the holidays...like you say..parents talkin ****e, no distancing, no masks. I couldn’t understand why when schools opened during summer, it was single file, one parent etc etc...what’s changed? As much as schools can’t do more...I think on an individual level they can. My kids school should still have a single file policy.

it gets on my nerves..winds me up every time I’ve taken him because he feels like the guinea pig so some saggy ****s can catch up on their gossip.

Would you rather be wasn't at school? Or would that be even worse? Kids need to be at school don't they?

 

[Spurlock]

Would you rather be wasn't at school? Or would that be even worse? Kids need to be at school don't they?

Im glad my lad went to school

he needed it, a change of scenery, meeting friends..instead of being indoors for months on end, during the lockdown.

No doubt they are sanitising furniture and equipment but the no distance, no mask mixing outside. I dont like it...what’s the ****ing point of having a one way system(like they have) but no restrictions for waiting parents

However I also believe that a 5 year old can’t understand what’s going on so I would appreciate it if the teachers grew a set of balls and stuck up for my lad by telling the parents that they have to wear masks, single file etc etc(they managed to demand that not long back.

That is on the school and in the bigger picture, on the govt for not being clear and direct enough

 

[Tobes]

What an unholy ****ing mess.

Infection rates have doubled around here in a week, as they have in many areas, and if left unabated will rise exponentially as they did back in March.

We need to keep a sense of perspective though, as back then they were only testing those presenting at hospital, so the 3,000 a day then, was estimated at a huge multiple of that number in reality. Now, due to testing being widely available the same 3,000 doesn’t have equivalence.

 

[Commachio]

What an unholy ****ing mess.

Infection rates have doubled around here in a week, as they have in many areas, and if left unabated will rise exponentially as they did back in March.

We need to keep a sense of perspective though, as back then they were only testing those presenting at hospital, so the 3,000 a day then, was estimated at a huge multiple of that number in reality. Now, due to testing being widely available the same 3,000 doesn’t have equivalence.

Will it be kept to local lockdowns, or can you see another full lockdown on the horizon?

 

[Tobes]

Will it be kept to local lockdowns, or can you see another full lockdown on the horizon?

I think they’ll restrict it to partial local lockdowns mate. I can’t see anyway they’ll revert back to the National lockdown, I don’t think many would observe it even if they did. As I said the other day, many seem to have just written **** on the entire issue.

 

[Commachio]

I think they’ll restrict it to partial local lockdowns mate. I can’t see anyway they’ll revert back to the National lockdown, I don’t think many would observe it even if they did. As I said the other day, many seem to have just written **** on the entire issue.

Oh well, guess it's more months of doing **** all.

 

[Commachio]

Ambulance workers in the UK have been subjected to hundreds of violent attacks during the coronavirus pandemic including an increase in sexual assaults, new figures have revealed.

A Sky News investigation found more than 1,600 physical assaults against ambulance staff were recorded between January and July as the country battled the COVID-19 crisis - the equivalent of more than seven attacks every day.


At least 149 sexual assaults on ambulance workers have taken place so far this year, as well as a rise in vandal attacks on ambulances and more than 2,000 verbal abuse incidents against crews, according to data released under the Freedom of Information Act.

Many of the incidents involved weapons including firearms, knives, baseball bats, razor blades and a stun gun, ambulance trusts revealed.


In July, paramedics Deena Evans and Michael Hipgrave were seriously injured after being stabbed during a callout to a home in Wolverhampton.

 

[FosseFilberto]

This is how daft it gets from Monday... I can book a table for me, the missus, my 3 girls and their boyfriends at an Indian restaurant that is about a 10 minute walk away, but 2 of them can't then come home...

 

[Commachio]

This is how daft it gets from Monday... I can book a table for me, the missus, my 3 girls and their boyfriends at an Indian restaurant that is about a 10 minute walk away, but 2 of them can't then come home...

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[Tobes]

This is how daft it gets from Monday... I can book a table for me, the missus, my 3 girls and their boyfriends at an Indian restaurant that is about a 10 minute walk away, but 2 of them can't then come home...

You can’t though. The limit of 6 applies inside and out.

So you can book a table for 6 in amongst a restaurant full of people or stand with up to 5 mates in a packed pub.....but no more than 6 in any one party.

Bonkers.

 

[Commachio]

You can’t though. The limit of 6 applies inside and out.

So you can book a table for 6 in amongst a restaurant full of people or stand with up to 5 mates in a packed pub.....but no more than 6 in any one party.

Bonkers.

It's random numbers time.

 

[Commachio]

NHS staff who risked their lives during the coronavirus pandemic are demanding a pay rise and threatening strikes despite warnings of a second wave.

Nurses and other healthcare workers are demanding a 15% pay rise to reflect the contributions they made and to make up for "years of pay erosion".


Hundreds marched through central London on Saturday following a two-minute silence to remember the 640 healthcare workers who died with COVID-19.

Dressed in scrubs smeared in fake blood, they waved placards that read "blood on their hands", "stop clapping, start paying" and "priceless but penniless".