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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