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Bubblesdahling

Evening everyone, haven't been on tattle much today as we had a productive day. Took the Christmas decorations down, tip run, popped to the shops for essential bread and milk and my kids eat and drink like a plague of locusts. Husband treated us to fish and chips for lunch which was lovely.
Looks like there is a change for BTEC exams, although as per usual it's left up to interpretation eldest son has 3 exams in the next month, I'm just hoping they cancel these too
 
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Oohthedrama

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Just to make the UK feel better again.

the ROI have so far administered less than 10’000 vaccines,

very welcome
 
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Olive40

Why do sky news have to put a bigger downer on this year saying next winter we may need restrictions. Let us get through this winter fgs!
 
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Lilykins

Can I ask if anyone is a primary school teacher here and what you are doing about Remote learning and key workers? My husband is a primary school teacher and his head teacher is making ALL staff (probably about 30/40 adults) go in every day still, even though only key worker children in. They are being given kids from their class who are key workers so he has two kids.... I just feel it’s unnecessary when the guidelines say to stay at home and work from home where possible. There could be a rota very easily! I think at most his school will have 20-30 key worker children. I feel quite upset as I worry about him still catching the virus and bringing home when he so easily could be working from home? I know I’m ranting lol... and i might sound a bit of a Princess. But I just feel his head teacher is being so unreasonable?!
 
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Bitofthebubbly

What red tape? You can’t just pull a bunch of doctors and nurses out of retirement and let them loose. They’ll need retraining and stuff I’d imagine.
 
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SavvyBee

No but one more winter of those slight restrictions I don’t think would be the end of the world if we are allowed to go back to a say, tier 1-2 level of life.We can’t expect miracles at this stage so I would rather Whitty not over promise and be pleasantly surprised (i hope!).
 
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jazyblu

Bitofthebubbly said:
What red tape? You can’t just pull a bunch of doctors and nurses out of retirement and let them loose. They’ll need retraining and stuff I’d imagine.
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Why do people always try to label basic health and safety as red tape?!
Potential immunisers need to list and prove their qualifications and training in the are? Ahhh bloody red tape! Outrageous! They should just be picking people off the street to give the jab so we can administer 5 million doses a day!
 
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Platypusfattypus

I hope he's OK. We test every admission in our hospital, I'm surprised they are not doing the same esp given his symptoms
 
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monga

It’s just means they’ll never be an X date it’s something we’ll have to control as a society .. it’s a bitter pill but I’m glad they said they’re going to be more transparent, even though they left it this late in the game.
 
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Tublet83

Not a teacher but my daughters school is doing the same and keeping to the same bubbles/classes to minimise risk and mixing of staff
 
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birdiefly246

I agree. It's a hard balance to strike to be fair because some people prefer cold hard facts but others like a nice sugar coating. As painful as it was to hear we essentially have another year of this getting better and then potentially worse malarkey, I'd rather hear it and deal with it, but I can see why for others that's going to be a really downer and they'd rather no hear that!

I think the thing to hold onto is that it'll be different because we do have a vaccine. It's going to be slow process but we are in better position than we were!
 
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Platypusfattypus

We are still in a much better position then we were a year ago though. We have three vaccines, better treatment and better understanding of the condition. Don't lose sight of that.
 
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AllSeeingEye123

It isn't people off the street. It's professionally trained medical staff who are more than capable of coming out of retirement to volunteer at jabbing people.
 
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JLXRD

I feel really positive after hearing what Whitty said.

Feel like some people seem to have focused a lot on the fact he said we *may* need some restrictions next winter. He also said even if we did it would be nothing like what we have now.

No doubt the daily Mail headline tomorrow will read ‘STILL IN RESTRICTIONS NEXT WINTER’ and forget all the context though
 
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Gossip2211

I think restrictions like social distancing in terms of indoor places, masks and hand sanitising will stay a big thing for a while x that’s probably the type of thing he means.
Also I heard mention that London//south east cases may be beginning to level off??
 
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Bobbleowl90

I don’t want to wear masks next winter.

AllSeeingEye123 said:
It isn't people off the street. It's professionally trained medical staff who are more than capable of coming out of retirement to volunteer at jabbing people.
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And if absolutely anything went wrong at all, they’d be in the firing line for not completing the training.
 
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