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Boris...

  • should completely lock us down immediately and fook up all our Christmas'

    Votes: 3 12.5%

  • let the bodies stack high

    Votes: 13 54.2%

  • lock us down from the 29th to fook up Treble's plans

    Votes: 8 33.3%
  • Total voters
    24
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afcftw said:
Wife is out for her daily exercise going for a walk, has had a guy walk right next to her, she makes a comment about social distancing and he’s followed her up the road shouting abuse at her. In his 50s-ish apparently.

She thinks he’s gone into a supermarket but isn’t sure if he walked passed it.

To go out in my car with a spade to try and find and twat the **** or to let it go...decisions, decisions.
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Buy her bottle of whatever she likes and remind her that the world is full of her sorts and that the **** will try it on with the wrong person at some point.

Hope she (and you) are ok mate <cheers>
 
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remembercolinlee said:
Please don't take this as a dig but the Children's Commissioner raised this in a completely disengenuious msnner on Saturday which got me thinking.

Firstly, for clarity I work as a qualified HLTA in a school with kids for Social, Emotional and Mental Health issues.

The problem with the suggestions about the summer holidays being cancelled (suggested by the Children's Commissioner) or changed are many and varied.

1. Term time staff are actually only paid for approximately 46 weeks a year. Six weeks of the school holidays are actually unpaid. To endure staff get a pay check every month our pay is annualised so we do not get left without pay for 6 weeks.
It is a myth that we get 13 weeks paid holiday every year.

2. School staff have to book their holidays in the school holidays so most staff have already made plans.
So have many parents.
Obviously this is dependent on travel restrictions being lifted to allow prople to go on holiday.

3. We are actually still working.

a. Many schools are still open for key worker kids and have staff in on a shift basis.

b. Virtually all staff are working by preparing work online and marking it etc.
In my school staff are in touch with families 3 times a week, we have designed indivual activities and games for children to help keep them busy and entertained snd have sent out fun physical activities that can be done indoors for those who do not have gardens.
(As an example...I sorted out maths questions based around horses for one of our kids, forwarded a exercise plan and came up with a set of art and play activities for the kids to do with their families. )

c. We are also doing online training courses that are necessary (various child protection issues, Autism awareness training, mental health challenges etc.)
I have completed 5 courses in the 3 weeks my school has been shut.

d. Many staff are volunteers ... I have volunteered to work in local schools if they need addition support (due to experience and the need for a full DBS check school and play staff are needed to fulfill this role). I have also volunteered to support the families of our students and have been involved in making emergency intervention plans and I volunteer to speak to people in isolation who are struggling to cope as my mental health training is useful.

e. Many school staff have been self isolating due to exposure from families (before the lockdown) who then became sick. My school is tiny 30 staff...3 became ill and 5 others had to self isolate.

I raise all these points, not because I
think school staff are something special but because the children's commissioner has implied that we have been sitting with our feet up chilling when in fact like most people we have been working and supporting our communities.

To now claim we should work for free through the holidays is an insult...tbh it is as bad as staff at huge multinationals or premier league clubs furloughing staff and leaving them on 20% less wages.

I aint pissed with you by the Children's Commissioner and the politicians suggesting this can **** right off...apart from the staff ordered to isolate we all continued working in my school for almost 2 weeks after mainstream schools shut. We work with violent spitty kids who need physically removal to protect themselves snd others and we never hid from that so for these ****ers to imply we have had it easy is plain ****ishness of the highest order.

Sorry for this being so long but their isn't a short way to give a honest answer.
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Thank you for an informative and detailed answer to the questions I posed.

I'm aware teachers are still working flat out and it's much appreciated.

My son receives 6 lessons a day (term time) and he'll be back at his desk on Wednesday at 9am to continue with his lessons. The prospect of him doing that for the entire summer term to us as a family is not at all daunting. He's an only child, has good internet access and a recognised workspace which he's accustomed to using. Socially he can interact with his friends via xbox live and he gets plenty of exercise in the garden as required.

Obviously I'm concerend about the less fortunate ones but after reading your response I'd say it's people like you who should be deciding what's best and people like me should be supporting those decisions.
 
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FosseFilberto said:
They also seem rather reluctant to quote NHS staff death numbers. What I'd like to see is an honest update on NHS and Care Home staff deaths ... can't see that coming anytime soon because that would shatter any seasonal death spin ... we don't lose this many doctors, nurses and Care workers to conditions transferred from those being treated ... and that's the cold reality that they just can't spin away.
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The BBC have been quoting NHS staff deaths. It was 19 a couple days ago when I last seen it.
 
Jammy 07 said:
Thank you for an informative and detailed answer to the questions I posed.

I'm aware teachers are still working flat out and it's much appreciated.

My son receives 6 lessons a day (term time) and he'll be back at his desk on Wednesday at 9am to continue with his lessons. The prospect of him doing that for the entire summer term to us as a family is not at all daunting. He's an only child, has good internet access and a recognised workspace which he's accustomed to using. Socially he can interact with his friends via xbox live and he gets plenty of exercise in the garden as required.

Obviously I'm concerend about the less fortunate ones but after reading your response I'd say it's people like you who should be deciding what's best and people like me should be supporting those decisions.
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Tbh I think that many would be prepared to work for free for some of the holidays...I would... I do the job to help vulnerable kids and their families but the Children's Commissioner acted like an arrogant twat and gave thr impression we are sitting back and chilling.

I am very glad you didn't think I was digging at you. Best of luck to you and yours mate.
 
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Treble said:
Germany:
1,317,887 tests (almost 16,000 per million population)
128,000 cases confirmed (60,617 still active)
3037 deaths
today's increase in deaths 15

That really is some effort.
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Merkel has a background in science. Presumably she took the science of the pandemic seriously from the start.
 
Stan said:
Merkel has a background in science. Presumably she took the science of the pandemic seriously from the start.
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The most incredible thing about Merkel's backstory was her growing up in East Germany. She was offered an immediate fast track into her desired job if she agreed to spy on colleagues for Stasi. She didn't do it, but it's incredible. For every 40 workers in East Germany, 1 was working for the Stasi apparently.
 
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