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Title: Some lockdown
Post by: STEMO on 23 November 2020, 07:42:50
Mrs rang me earlier to say that it took her 10 minutes to get on to the M1 at junction 36, it was rammed on all entry roads. Apparently, when we come out of 'lockdown' on December 2nd, some parts of the country will have to remain in tier 3, but pubs serving food can open till eleven, gyms can open and all shops. What's all that about?  ;D
Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: Rangie on 23 November 2020, 08:23:55
What's it all about indeed, total madness but I won't be visiting gyms pubs or shops, so let the cull of the brain dead begin.😃
Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: Varche on 23 November 2020, 10:23:27
Mrs rang me earlier to say that it took her 10 minutes to get on to the M1 at junction 36, it was rammed on all entry roads. Apparently, when we come out of 'lockdown' on December 2nd, some parts of the country will have to remain in tier 3, but pubs serving food can open till eleven, gyms can open and all shops. What's all that about?  ;D

Christmas? You know the time we celebrate Jesus, Magi and the like. Might also be to boost the economy...........
Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: Lizzie Zoom on 23 November 2020, 18:26:53
Mrs rang me earlier to say that it took her 10 minutes to get on to the M1 at junction 36, it was rammed on all entry roads. Apparently, when we come out of 'lockdown' on December 2nd, some parts of the country will have to remain in tier 3, but pubs serving food can open till eleven, gyms can open and all shops. What's all that about? ;D

What's it all about Alfie?  A great girl from Liverpool once asked that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glpIgnmKrZc       ;D ;D ;D ;)

But seriously, I do wonder about what is being done; what we are doing.   Today my daughter got a telephone call from her eldest son's special school stating that 2 members of staff and 4 children had been confirmed to have C-19.  Her son is actually at home after have a high temperature for half a day so he was sent home last week.

So this afternoon he went to be tested, with the result due over the next 72 hours.  But did his school or her youngest son's school recommend the family (and me as I am giving her support) should isolate / get tested?  Well no.  Just wait for the result apparently.  The boys father, who lives elsewhere but sees his son daily, also apparently does not need to isolate and can still go to work until the result is known.

This instruction from the schools does not make sense, so we are all now isolating until the result is known, as 119 gave her that advice but did not instruct us to get tested.

We are baffled why we should not be tested as the special school has the confirmed cases, that even one of their teachers did not know about as she was off duty so was told about it all be my daughter. The school indeed is staying open.  So do the authorities really know what advice to give and for the reasons for it?

I find this as confusing as the so called "lock down", which so many seem to be ignoring.  No wonder North Kent is becoming rampant with COVID cases!! ::) ::) :P
Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: Rangie on 23 November 2020, 18:42:52
You just know this Christmas madness is going to end badly, there is absolutely no improvement regarding the virus/numbers subsiding around the UK.
Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: STEMO on 23 November 2020, 19:42:28
Me and the wife discussed it last night. No decorations, no Christmas dinner....just no! I've hated it for years, this year she is starting to see just how false and shallow the whole thing is. My lad will be home but he only comes down for his pressie (at lunchtime, when he wakes up) and to raid the fridge. He doesn't like Christmas dinner either.
We will refuse to be christmassy but also refuse to be miserable. Long walk with dog, spot of lunch (buffet), another walk, more food, burp, fart, bed.
Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: ronnyd on 23 November 2020, 20:49:01
Me and the wife discussed it last night. No decorations, no Christmas dinner....just no! I've hated it for years, this year she is starting to see just how false and shallow the whole thing is. My lad will be home but he only comes down for his pressie (at lunchtime, when he wakes up) and to raid the fridge. He doesn't like Christmas dinner either.
We will refuse to be christmassy but also refuse to be miserable. Long walk with dog, spot of lunch (buffet), another walk, more food, burp, fart, bed.
Normal day then. ;)
Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: BazaJT on 23 November 2020, 20:58:00
One of my granddaughter s got a call from her daughters special school a couple of weeks ago to ask her to pick the child up and get her tested for Covid and if she tested positive they'd have to self isolate for a period of days.test result was back inside 24hrs and proved negative.
Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: ronnyd on 23 November 2020, 21:34:40
One of my granddaughter s got a call from her daughters special school a couple of weeks ago to ask her to pick the child up and get her tested for Covid and if she tested positive they'd have to self isolate for a period of days.test result was back inside 24hrs and proved negative.
So your'e a great granddad then Baza? Respect. 8)
Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: BazaJT on 24 November 2020, 08:28:03
Certainly am! I have four great grandkids so far :)
Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 24 November 2020, 10:01:44
Some of my lads year mates have been sent home due to a positive case.

Turns out the positive case sits next to him in Chemistry, yet the school seem to have forgotten the Chemistry group (the Physics class members who are sat close have been told to self isolate).

Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: Rangie on 24 November 2020, 10:08:55
Some of my lads year mates have been sent home due to a positive case.

Turns out the positive case sits next to him in Chemistry, yet the school seem to have forgotten the Chemistry group (the Physics class members who are sat close have been told to self isolate).
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The schools all seem to be doing different things in different areas it must be extremely difficult for them to cope with the situation at present.
Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 24 November 2020, 10:43:10
If you search the instructions to the schools its all reasonably straight forward, but its standard education system half a job  ;D
Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: STEMO on 24 November 2020, 11:30:54
Whenever there's a positive test, kids or teachers, public health england should be asked for advice. My wife is on first name terms with most of them, she speaks to them so often. They go away for half an hour and ring back with instructions. Simple.
Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: ronnyd on 24 November 2020, 17:22:33
Here's a thought. Now a vaccine rollout is imminent, shut the uni,s and schools until we've all been jabbed.
Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: STEMO on 24 November 2020, 17:30:19
608 new deaths today in the UK with Christmas on the way. Over one million new cases in America during the last month with Thanksgiving even closer. Since the announcement of a vaccine, people seem to think they're ok to disregard the dangers, but it's a long way from over.
Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: Rangie on 24 November 2020, 17:33:12
January & February I reckon the figures will go through the roof, with all this Christmas nonsense.
Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: STEMO on 24 November 2020, 17:33:48
I beg your pardon, that's one million cases in the last week in America.
Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: STEMO on 24 November 2020, 17:37:26
January & February I reckon the figures will go through the roof, with all this Christmas nonsense.
I agree, but the government seem determined to let people travel and mix over the holiday. The genie is out of the bottle and, even if they had second thoughts, folk won't take any notice. Even if cases start tapering off towards the Spring, the final tally will be huge.
Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 24 November 2020, 17:59:39
The genie was never in the bottle...

In the US, they've had enough of being lectured at by leftist Governers who are categorically not following their own instructions.

Gavin Newsom, to name but one...

https://youtu.be/Ox-X2Mfy5aY

He could almost be in a Little Britain sketch...

https://youtu.be/KKir3tFsTAM

And as for Cuomo kicking off because the police have said they won't be enforcing his rule of ten. They've enough to be doing without going door to door to see if all eleven people living in the same house are all wearing masks at dinner.

Here, there aren't enough police to do the everyday stuff, let alone trying to police religious holidays.

For the most part everyone (round here at least) wears a mask in shops etc and keeps a bit of space around them. It's not particularly complicated.
Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: STEMO on 24 November 2020, 18:20:05
As with most British people, I really couldn't care what happens in America. And as for you bringing politics into it, you're becoming a bore.
Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 24 November 2020, 18:29:44
The genie was never in the bottle...

There aren't enough police to do the everyday stuff, let alone trying to police religious holidays.

For the most part everyone (round here at least) wears a mask in shops etc and keeps a bit of space around them. It's not particularly complicated.
Betterer?
Title: Re: Some lockdown
Post by: STEMO on 24 November 2020, 19:24:25
The genie was never in the bottle...

There aren't enough police to do the everyday stuff, let alone trying to police religious holidays.

For the most part everyone (round here at least) wears a mask in shops etc and keeps a bit of space around them. It's not particularly complicated.
Betterer?
Yes, much.