He pointed out (I’ve said this all along and been laughed at by so many people) that you can not only get covid by standing too near an infected person but also by handling something they have handled!
Whaaaaaat are you winding us up?
I feel the same. No live teaching at all. One 'check in' Teams call for a year 4 and nothing for year 7. They had apparently planned live teaching but it was pulled last minute for safeguarding reasons. Yet I hear of children in the same local authority receiving live lessons. I have politely questioned this with the school but told that's what they have been told to do.I am really concerned about the standard of online learning being delivered. My daughter had one hour of live teaching this week and it consisted of a scavenger hunt. A scavenger hunt
I've never wiped down my shopping or quarantined my post but I do religiously wash my hands after handling anything. I'm constantly wiping door handles though
Oh my god, that’s outrageous. My son was set a scavenger hunt for one of his home learning tasks. He’s five, so it’s to be expected!
Well death shouldn't be 'sugar-coated' - it is the end. No-one is gonna jump off the bed shouting 'fooled ya'. A lot of younger people have no idea what death actually means. Years ago it was normal to have aging relatives die at home and be laid out. Now younger people just seem to think it is like a cartoon or a violent on-line game where they can sign off, come back tomorrow and the same people will be there to kill again. Of course, most young people don't even listen to the broadcasts so why should it be anything but factual and, yes, brutal if it makes people think more about their actions.I might be alone in this but does anyone else find the way Whitty tries to talk about the deaths sometimes, he tries to sound as serious a possible and fails and makes it sound so blunt
‘Obviously ... errrrr.. some people die’
Wow don’t sugar coat it hun
I wipe stuff or quarantine it for peace of mind but for things like getting my wheelie bin back in etc, it’s straight in to wash hands as the bin men and women have touched so many bins and they *could* have covid on them....I constantly have to remind my partner and dad to wash their hands after things like that or after touching post!
It was a joke.
I'm not really sure what you're getting at that there? I'd argue most young people know what death is. You're alive and then you're not. We're not thick?
Reminds me of this GIF:
Think you misunderstood my post. If anything I meant the way he made it come across so blunt took away the seriousness for me as it was so unfeeling
I completely agree with this in general...when my son was little I used to say things to him like, you must never lean out of your bedroom window because if you fall you will die and you will never see me again! It would make him get what I was saying more rather than me just saying “you’ll get hurt”
I had mine on 30th dec and obviously got smashed new years eve before any research about that came out lolHas anyone had the vaccine and then avoided alcohol for a few days like some articles suggested you should? , dying for a glass of wine tonight
My boyfriend thought I was going cray cray when I started doing this earlier last year, so I stopped. I'm going to start again!
Honestly I get so much piss taking or eye rolling for doing it! But the truth is you can (I know the risk is lower) catch it this way and so I feel I’m protecting myself and my son by doing it (I’m immune suppressed and shielded in the first lockdown and been extremely careful ever since)
I would argue that they are fully aware that death in real life is different thing and they probably just don't think about death that much because who does? I don't spend my life thinking about people dying.
