This doesn’t make cheerful reading:
Thing is it’s self fulfilling , especially with such a shopping based economy. People lose their jobs, so they buy less, so more people get laid off…
While I would hesitate to describe it as a shopping based economy, it is apt. It also explains why austerity was such (i) a stupid idea and (ii) an unmitigated disaster.
Silence!
We’ve had enough of experts around here.
Cheeky Twunt! Who are you calling an expert then? I, like most of my peers, am still learning the basics.
based on that I know few people who haven’t managed to leave primary school yet
Another U-turn
Good.
No fucker was going to sign up to Cummings + Cambridge Analytica siphoning all their tasty data off into the cloud.
The Apple / Google model isn’t perfect, but it cuts those crooks out of the loop.
Loads of lovely nhs/medical data for our American best friends …
They’re operating under more stringent and enforceable GDPR regs. And most importantly, the system works.
it works to a point and is better than our shit but it isnt fault free.
There was fun on the primary school mums WhatsApp group this morning because a bunch of them (not us) met up yesterday with kids mingling freely then one of the dads that works in a hub school developed symptoms last night and is getting tested
“…but it’s ok because they were asymptomatic and anyway it’s probably best if we all get it so…”
My wife considered pointing out that the virus might not have come from the hub school, but might have actually come from the free mingling and gone into the school…
This Government consultant / contract racket seems most appealing. Take their money, hand over an oven ready failure and repeat.
My grey-haired old mother developed a temperature on Tuesday afternoon. I ordered her a test straightaway which was delivered yesterday. Test done at 9pm last night as per the instructions. It is due to be picked up by the courier today.
Typically, she is now feeling better!
That is really disappointing. The schools are trying really hard with the bubbles etc.
Everyone has essentially fractured into cliques depending on attitude to distancing.
- adults distancing + children distancing
- adults distancing, children not distancing
- no one distancing
….and everyone is doing “their own research” without the training to interpret it properly- cherry picking whatever suits what they want to do
It seems like cliques 2 and 3 are the same ones that are seeing grandparents without any distancing
I was speaking to a friend on Monday night who was saying she saw a huge cavalcade of police motorbikes and riot vans shooting over the forth bridge. Apparently a mass brawl broke out in Glenrothes between a bunch of adults who weren’t social distancing and allowing their children to mix freely, and another group who were angry about this. We are not quite at this stage in my area.
We are in a pretty affluent area with a well educated demographic. I wonder whether we are seeing a wave of burnout as people that have been trying to work full time and homeschool reach breaking point. I suspect a lot of the people that are claiming to do 16 hours of work/childcare shifts to allow both parents to do full hours are bullshitting, but the ones that aren’t lying must be close to cracking by now. I think a lot of the complaints about school plans are essentially just people wailing “I can’t cope, I can’t cope, I can’t cope”
It made me double check last night that the guidance is still that children should distance
It makes us feel like paranoid, over-cautious freaks that are denying our children socialising with their friends
We have a two year old- it’s fucking pointless seeing grandparents and trying to distance, it would just be unbelievably traumatic for him (and everyone else)- so we continue not to see them and are made to feel like we’re being cunts
I don’t feel particularly concerned for our own safety- even with the “our generations polio” concerns - but everyone else behaviour makes me even less comfortable about seeing grandparents
In Scotland people can now meet indoors, I guess this is the acid test. Is that still not allowed in England?
What’s frustrating is the ones who are breaking the rules will turn round eventually and say “I told you it was ok” without comprehending this was only down to the vast majority sticking to the rules.
You just have to do what’s best for your own family. My wife is struggling with her parents who tick nearly all of the high risk boxes but are fed up with staying in.
I hadn’t thought about the children mixing outside school but I can understand why other parents are very angry about it.
It really doesn’t seem like this is the case here. I appreciate that bias and mood (not great this week 
) is going to massively influence my impression of the situation, but I’m pretty confident at least that people who insist on children distancing are in the minority.
That might turn out to be fine- it’s an area where the data is less clear and maybe there is a seasonality effect overlaid on this, but like you say, if it turns out to be fine the arseholes will feel vindicated when they were really just lucky.