Coronavirus (Covid-19) Discussion
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Same here… Schools are re-opening but in a limited way... Shops are re-opening... No bars or restaurants though... And we're allowed to have a group of four people we can meet, it always has to be the same four...
Shops are re-opening on Monday which, very co-incidentally, is when my next week of vacation starts... Guess what I'll be doing?.. Fuck all... I ain't going out... Eagerly awaiting Lockdown 2.0...
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As keyworkers, our son has gone to primary school throughout this. He is 5 and most of the 20+ children attending his school are under 7. Herding cats, that's pretty much what the teachers have been doing! There haven't been any covid cases among the pupils, teachers, other school staff, parents and carers, or their families reported at any stage.
I've yet to be informed of anyone I know in my personal spere having tested positive. A cousin was very unwell and isolated at home with his family, but the NHS wouldn't test him, so we won't know for sure.
Have many of you been able to venture further from your homes than local shops etc? I have to drive around the Borough that I work in, which veers from high level deprivation, to multimillion pound houses, and I can tell you that uniquivicollay a large number of people haven't been social distancing for some time. People gathering in parks, at the seafront, house parties etc.
Oh well, at least today in the UK we are celebrating how good we are at letting the Russians and Americans win wars for us. Our street has a party later today. Bunting and G&T at the ready folks…
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The French gov has split the country in green and red zones. Green zones are coming out of confinement this Monday, with staggered school reopening. We're in the Paris suburbs, so a red zone and there's no school reopening planned till June. The silver lining is that red-zone schools will be able to learn from the example of the others.
France is not served by its very centralized education system here. The schools administrations are used to executing precisely the directives from the central administration and there's no tradition of trying and experimenting. Now they are being asked to reopen but crucially they are not being given a step-by-step book of how to do so. It's going to be, shall we say, interesting.
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Oh well, at least today in the UK we are celebrating how good we are at letting the Russians and Americans win wars for us.
I think that most people would agree that wars are not good things, so celebrating the end of something bad is surely no bad thing.
I'm personally happy to raise a glass of something to the many people of many nations who played a part in bringing that particular global stupidity to an end.
I'll probably also raise a glass of something at the end of the current pandemic.
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We will definitely be joining our street party. I was just mindful that as an international forum, some members if not all, will have had loved ones on all sides of VE day.
My grandad never celebrated. He lost all but one of his childhood friends dropping troops off on Gold and Omaha beaches. I'll be honouring him and his friends for sure.
I think at the end of covid-19 I'll actually stop raising a glass!
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Ah, one billion NOK a day, the Norway sovereign wealth fund! Looks like a well thought out plan. I wish we can get our ducks in a row as neatly (and quickly) in the Great White North :-X.
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Thanks for the explanation Neph.. most of those precautions are also included in the planning taking place here, as well as continuing the remote learning and probably making it a "permanent" part of the school curriculum.
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Thanks for the explanation Neph.. most of those precautions are also included in the planning taking place here, as well as continuing the remote learning and probably making it a "permanent" part of the school curriculum.
Yeah, after the announcement by the government yesterday, I have received the schools plan today. It is actually a very modest reopening.
Many classes (including most of mine), will be continue to be taught online. The major difference is I will be able to tutor small groups in person on demand and in accordance with my existing timetable.
While I’m pleased to have that opportunity, and am fortunate to live very close to my place of work, it is still going to be a PitA, and possibly not an improvement on the conditions of the last few months.
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australia has a 3 step plan to restart things. i shall not go into the details but it starts small from home gatherings being increased from 2 people, cafes, shops and restaurants and eventually to pubs, clubs and interstate travel by august they reckon. domestic borders are still shut and intenational travel doesn't seem to be anywhere soon for the time being..
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Oh well, at least today in the UK we are celebrating how good we are at letting the Russians and Americans win wars for us.
I think that most people would agree that wars are not good things, so celebrating the end of something bad is surely no bad thing.
I'm personally happy to raise a glass of something to the many people of many nations who played a part in bringing that particular global stupidity to an end.
I'll probably also raise a glass of something at the end of the current pandemic.
I think I've started raising one ahead of time.
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#welshfirstminister you have a devolved government, so go ahead Sir and steal the Westminster Primeminster's thunder
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I work as a school administrator in the small state of CT, right next NY and MA.
Schools are online for the rest of the year. We hope to start school in the building come late August/Sept, but we are making plans in case that's not possible. We are also making plans for a quick transition back to distance learning in case there is a second wave come Oct/Nov. The idea being we need to teach the little ones grades K-5 (4 year-olds to 12 year olds) how to use online tools with more independence than what we had going into this current situation. As well as what the role of the teacher is for these young ones when delivering/facilitating distance learning.
The silver lining is that we are having to figure out a blended learning model for little kids, which I think is a good step forward for our profession.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52584834
Sad news in the hip hop world. Really liked Ty's music, especially his early releases on Big Dada.
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All - I'm looking for good masks in Europe, preferably shaped for a normal face (you know, with a nose). I don't mind paying slightly premium prices. I'm planning a flight tp the US and I'd prefer something better than the light face masks I'm using in shops. Thanks.
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We are a fucking verminous species, seriously, what is wrong with some people (rhetorical - I didn't want to spiral off into a rant about socio_economics)…
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You should see the shit show in Dallas, Texas right now.
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All - I'm looking for good masks in Europe, preferably shaped for a normal face (you know, with a nose). I don't mind paying slightly premium prices. I'm planning a flight tp the US and I'd prefer something better than the light face masks I'm using in shops. Thanks.
My wife has a couple of the rectangular ones and it’s not much protection. You might as well wear a shemagh over your face. Much more comfortable. A shemagh might not have the tight weave of one of the cotton masks but at least it forms more of a seal
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Interesting read…..
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@Giles in my day to day work I am the lead practitioner for The Mental Capacity Act an Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. In a nutshell, that involves assessing whether adults with a mental impairment (or disorder) have the mental capacity required to make 'time specific' decisions… That involves us all being able to understand, retain, weigh and use, and communicate information necessary to make that decision.
There are then cases where I would need to assess that it is in a person's best interests to deprive a person of their liberty. Where it is necessary, the restrictions need to be the least restrictive of their liberty that are available... (bear with me!). You can imagine how much this process and the considerations that need to be given have changed recently! It's one of the reasons I've been so vocal in this thread, I am privy to info that isn't always shared with the general population.
I work with Barristers that sometimes sit in the Court of Appeal, or even the Supreme Court (the UK' highest Court). There is a widely held view here that the UK Government have not used the 'least restrictive' option to keep people safe, The Public Health Act could have been amended to achieve that (the context for this is what is afforded in domestic and European law in the UK, so drawing direct comparisons to other UK states is not always helpful. It can be, but not always). Its why there has been so much speculation that there are other agendas at play, not just public health.
It's a very interesting area to me, and though I generally sound like a beardy twat on this forum, I actually have quite a responsible job!... Hopefully some of the twatishness would be eroded if you ever met me, or not!
