Schools

It’s about risk reduction not risk eradication ( which is impossible). And no, in times of pandemic, not all jobs are equally important

Many schools just don't have the staff to be safe. My local school has had a quarter of the pupils and staff off sick. They had to put three year groups of secondary pupils together to watch a film today. The teacher/student ratio exceeded safety regulations.

Thanks suzie. I've been dreading this scenario and am worried sick. I won't have enough income to pay my rent and bills, which is why I've been so angry about people complaining about haircuts, etc.

I don't see how this will work

Surely most people do important jobs

I'm also unsure as to why these children will continue to go to school.

You get one with the virus.

Infects the other children

They go home and infect the parents doing the front line jobs

I don't t think the government has thought this through

Does the school closure include nurseries?

I hope those children involved won't resent having to go to school and will see it as a treat not a punishment when their mates are at home playing on their computers. Teachers are pretty resourceful and creative but they will need to relax uniform rules, and allow the kids to choose activities etc. Quite a challenge all round.

grow so you’re another casualty - so sorry.

I think the link is what I said - deaths still increasing but that’s from cases identified a while ago . Rate of increase of new cases is slightly declining - ?

X posts - I’ll follow that link. Thanks

Sussex what seems to be happening in Italy is that the rate of increase of new cases is slowing down ( slowly) . However, the number of deaths is still increasing - this is because there is a time lag between getting the disease and dying of maybe upto a month. So roughly, you would expect to see numbers of deaths decrease a little while the % increase of cases starts to go down.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51952712 Just checked and sadly I had heard correctly!

A level and GCSE exams have been cancelled. I work as a private tutor, so I've just lost most of my income. :-(

I've just sent a text to SIL to say that I cannot possibly have them. Don't think he's chuffed.

Just mentioned elsewhere that children were careering around B&Q and their mother announcing she kept them out of school because of the corona virus. Just hoping they weren’t carriers super spreading the virus to the customers who were mainly pensioners at that time of day. Idiots abound!

MOST schools will close from Friday (3pm, or whatever time the children usually finish). Pupils who have a parent working for the NHS, police, delivery services (postal, shops, etc), or pupils with special educational or welfare needs will still go to school.

I deliver meals to a school where the pupils ALL have special needs, so that will still be open.

I would think that people who work in food supermarkets ought to be counted as keyworkers. Perhaps they are.

Is it Sussex I thought there were signs of decline? I’ll go and look it up - hope not

I'm not having my GC. It's very difficult but it really is a question of the bigger picture. Your life and the strain on the NHS.

Italy seems to be having a second wave so impossible to know when there will be an end.

On MN there is a saying ‘No is a complete sentence’ ?

whywhywhy say no, very sorry etc.etc.

GDC = GC

The CSA was very very clear at the press conference, do not ask GPs to look after the GDC.

Well no one can say when this will be over sadly - or if just when we think it is, there won’t be a second wave. I expect China is still holding its collective breath. It’s really momentous isn’t it?

I've just had a text from SIL to see if I'll have my two granddaughters 2 days per week, every week. But we're are both late 60's and supposed to be self isolating. What should we do?

Yes, exactly.
I didn't realise schools would shut for so long. I'm astounded.