26/5/2020 0 Comments COVID-19 : Strange Days #4Here in the UK, the isolation rules have been eased and things seem to be to be calming. That said, there is much frustration with the current situation, and many questions need clarification. In schools, Reception, Year One and Year Six classes (that is Primary School first timers and First Years, together with the last year of Primary) will be first to go back at some time from 1 June. That is all good, but we have heard that some schools are due to go back on 8 June and that school days will be staggered somehow to aid social-distancing.
Your Starter for 10 : Just how do you keep 4 and 5 year olds 2 metres apart? Schools are due to advise parents "over the next few days" of the details. Work is less organised. Jenny is going to be involved in a Zoom call later today to give her an insight into what her company and their clients are going to require. Like Jenny, I have been a Furloughed Worker since April 1. Although I have sorted out my position at Swisspost, any return details are vague - either 1 June or 1 July - I am waiting on firm advice from my management who are in touch with Canon about the re-opening dates for their offices. The Government Guidance is also a little "wishy-washy". Their progress in the Grand Plan to re-open the country is of necessity reliant on continued improvements. The hope is that social-distancing and vigilance on the citizen level will be maintained, so that first non-essential shops will open, then households and then public areas can be more freely visited. We can now drive to our favourite places and walk, sit and exercise to our heart's desire while keeping socially-distant. As long as we don't stay there overnight. The debate regarding whether elderly parents can be seen together or individually while maintaining a 2 metre distance rages. In my view, if they have been isolating together in a different household for the duration, the argument is null and void. Still, I am not an expert. Unlike Senior Advisor Dominic Cummings, who according to Government Sources did the right thing as a parent by driving the 250 miles from London to Durham in defiance of all the advice while he and his wife were in Self-Isolation feeling too unwell and in defiance of all advice that to look after their children themselves and got the Grandparents to provide childcare. And then drove back to London to isolate and work. Before returning to collect the children a few days later. More news and updates later... Watch this space and please #StaySafe
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8/5/2020 0 Comments COVID-19 : Strange Days #3While the COVID-19 death toll gets seemingly forever higher, it seems to be a bit previous to talk about easing the lockdown and discussing just how the easing will be staged. I worry that too much positive promotion will lead to isolation complacency, which will in turn lead to upturns in deaths. At the same time, as is the case with most people I have spoken to (furloughed workers, those still working, those who are retired and those self-isolating), we are all essentially bored and need this to drift back towards whatever normality is. School children are bored, parents trying to home school are frustrated, those of us in the middle of property moves are worried, staff working in what should really be empty offices are asking why they need to be there, but EVERYONE is wondering when will these weird times end. Any celebration is muted, and even treated with a little lethargy. As I have written previously, birthdays are very subdued and today - 8 May 2020 - is a Bank Holiday to mark the 75th Anniversary of the Allied Victory in Europe in 1945. A little bunting and a few flags have been put out, but I cannot feel any enthusiasm for the day. Anyhow, we shall see what the PM and his advisors suggest over the next few days and weeks.
I hope that any measures are hardline enough to keep us sheltered from this pandemic. #StaySafe Dear Reader, you owe it to yourself and your loved ones. |
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