General Chat

Scotland has been put into total lockdown from midnight tonight.

This doesn't bode well - Boris is to address the nation at 8 pm!

I bet it's not a small one on a council estate though

:-D

I bl**dy wish :-|

Everyone to get a detached house under the Rule of Rollo.

Not enough safety data in relation to under 18’s.

It was confirmed earlier today through Matt Hancock that the Education Secretary will be making a statement regarding schools going back in January later today.

He said: "The Education Secretary will be setting out his proposals later today. Clearly, we want to protect education as much as possible."

It has since been confirmed that this announcement is due to come at 3:30pm, shortly after the tier review at 3pm.


From our local paper.

Looks like it might just be an announcement in Parliament after lunch.


May I be the first to say to. tier 2/3 people - welcome to my world!

Or it could young workers returning to their parents for Christmas.

Suffolk into Tier 4 - from 2, so skipped a tier.. Someone said it's all those coming from London to their Suffolk holiday homes. :-0

Gloucestershire has gone into Tier 3

Even before Covid some people didn't answer phones if they didn't know the number.

He'll faff about introducing Tier 4, I expect, when what is really needed is another complete lockdown. :-(

Another announcement due today. Is that the rest of the country going into Tier 4 or a complete lockdown?

In a few cases they closed the whole school down here but there was one than one child and/or teacher involved. One high school there were 13 cases at the same time but they didn't close down as they knew 100% they'd caught it at a party!

In theory there's no group sport other than training at a distance here right now BUT every morning my local outdoor rink has one or more teams turning up unofficially to play games...and they wonder why it spreads....

My 12 year old grandson's Secondary school closed before the government said they couldn't - there were too many cases for it to stay open.
His younger brother's Primary School has had many cases, but like JoyLouise said, only the children in the immediate vicinity were sent home.
The powers that be seem to forget about toilets, and how they can spread covid - or does someone go in and deep clean them after every child?

Well, up until this week he and the team he is in played football - brought to a sudden halt because the goalie caught covid.

Cricket training was on too, but obviously easier to distance there.

Sometimes he walks the couple of miles home from school on his own but his Mum has said that she doubts whether that would be the same if there are two or three of them walking together.

By the way, rsther surprisingly, when one child in his class caught covid, only the children in the immediate surrounding desks were sent home to isolate. He was about three desks away so he and the rest of the class still had to go to school.

This is fhe only instance I have heard of a class still having to attend school in these circumstances. It made me wonder whether there was anything in the guinea pig theory! In all other cases that I've heard of when one child has caught covid the whole class and the teacher had to isolate.

Ann...I agree...once they're out here they're playing on top of each other at the park too or on the ice rink.
JoyLouise I expect your Grandson friends are like kids everywhere...once let loose they act like I don't know...kids :-D

Sorry should have said Sylvia...yes Post-secondary 99% online in Ontario overall no big outbreaks there though in some towns there is with the kids in residence.
All our children from JK upwards can be taught online if they wish, High school is half and half or all online. As I said all have to wear masks inside all of the time except while eating lunch, though some 4 yr olds haven't quite got the hang of it some days :-)
We're just finishing a 28 days partial lockdown today and an official announcement to come later today but it looks like as of Boxing day we're in a full lockdown again like in the spring. In the whole of Ontario we're getting over 2000 cases a day now.
Oh well I'll still get out and about walking the dog that'll work off all the Christmas food....maybe.. :-D