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SBT

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,346
clint van damme said:
vaccination program under way so we're getting there though I don't think things will get back to normal for a long time, I think masks are here to stay for a start.
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Only 25 million people are expected to get the vaccine next year, so I wouldn't get too excited just yet.

Rapid testing, masks and therapeutic treatments are the key to controlling this, and always have been. But we've all become so fixated with the vaccine that we've been lulled into thinking the pandemic is almost over.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,347
Terry Gibson's perm said:
Why children need teaching the home schooling is a farce. The weather is traditionally worse in January so if they are off we don’t lose even more days for snow days.
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I worked flipping hard to provide remote learning for my students and would do so again if asked. Basically eliminating my holiday is a spit in my face
 

SkyBlueDom26

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,348
I think next year is a write off too, this is so fucked up
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,349
wingy said:
Would you do your best to address the points I'm questioning recently here BSB?
How does 1000 become 70% of hundreds of thousands of case's to the previous one ?
Accross the same 3 month period.
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Not sure I understand the question sorry, Wingy? If the new strain arises in the last few months and is more infectious it will still take time to blow up into a large number of cases.
 

clint van damme

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,350
SBT said:
Only 25 million people are expected to get the vaccine next year, so I wouldn't get too excited just yet.

Rapid testing, masks and therapeutic treatments are the key to controlling this, and always have been. But we've all become so fixated with the vaccine that we've been lulled into thinking the pandemic is almost over.
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I'm not thinking for one minute it's over but 25 million people is over a third of the population and should cover a large swathe of the vulnerable.
As I said I don't think will be back to normal for a long time but we should start to move out of the current restrictions. I still expect to see masks and social distancing for a good while yet.
 
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Houchens Head

Fairly well known member from Malvern
  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,351
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,352
Houchens Head said:
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Thing is this isn't even a joke
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,353
Brighton Sky Blue said:
I worked flipping hard to provide remote learning for my students and would do so again if asked. Basically eliminating my holiday is a spit in my face
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Lucky you having a holiday in the first place
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,354
Nick said:
Lucky you having a holiday in the first place
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Right but during term time I'm basically just working, eating, sleeping and shitting, not in any particular order
 

Houchens Head

Fairly well known member from Malvern
  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,355
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,356
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Right but during term time I'm basically just working, eating, sleeping and shitting, not in any particular order
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It's all I've done since the original lockdown regardless of term time.


Baffled about people jetting off on holiday during it all.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,357
Houchens Head said:
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They're sat too close without masks, 5 more years m'lord
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,358
Brighton Sky Blue said:
I worked flipping hard to provide remote learning for my students and would do so again if asked. Basically eliminating my holiday is a spit in my face
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Why is it eliminated it’s moved to a time of the year that is more suitable for the masses and for the good of all these people that keep saying close the schools. It’s give and take
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,359
Nick said:
It's all I've done since the original lockdown


Baffled about people jetting off on holiday during it all.
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You haven't still had to go in though, right?
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,360
Terry Gibson's perm said:
Why is it eliminated it’s moved to a time of the year that is more suitable for the masses and for the good of all these people that keep saying close the schools. It’s give and take
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What do you then do to exams? Why are you assuming we're all shit at providing a remote education?
 

covmark

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,361
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Right but during term time I'm basically just working, eating, sleeping and shitting, not in any particular order
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Tbf that's what I have been doing all week every week. Same as many others.

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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,362
covmark said:
Tbf that's what I have been doing all week every week. Same as many others.

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I get that, but my workload went through the roof with remote learning and has done again since the return when FYI I still haven't been able to teach close to normally. Aside from those in the health service it's probably been one of the most intensive jobs this year
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,363
Brighton Sky Blue said:
You haven't still had to go in though, right?
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Erm, yes. Including a few night shifts and weekends.
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,364
Brighton Sky Blue said:
What do you then do to exams? Why are you assuming we're all shit at providing a remote education?
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If I could send you the home schooling we received I would, but if it took an hour to produce I would be amazed and it was mainly produced by the teaching assistants and this from a school that is in the top two in Nuneaton.

I have three children of different ages and different abilities to try to teach as well as having to work full time nights.

Maybe it will improve as the head has disappeared from the school.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,365
Nick said:
Erm, yes. Including a few night shifts and weekends.
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My mistake, sorry I wasn't sure. You must admit though there aren't many professions that have been put under this much strain
 

shmmeee

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,366
Saw something that said you only need a few million vaccinated to prevent something like 75% of deaths. I don’t think we’ll have to get anything like everyone vaccinated before we are back to normal.
 
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covmark

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,367
Brighton Sky Blue said:
I get that, but my workload went through the roof with remote learning and has done again since the return when FYI I still haven't been able to teach close to normally. Aside from those in the health service it's probably been one of the most intensive jobs this year
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I understand that. It's a shit situation all round. We're all doing things within our jobs that we'd rather not be doing, and add in to the mix that we can't do all the enjoyable things in life. It makes life really tough.

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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,368
Terry Gibson's perm said:
If I could send you the home schooling we received I would, but if it took an hour to produce I would be amazed and it was mainly produced by the teaching assistants and this from a school that is in the top two in Nuneaton.

I have three children of different ages and different abilities to try to teach as well as having to work full time nights.

Maybe it will improve as the head has disappeared from the school.
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Don't tar us all with the same brush then and keep in mind how schools were asked to flip this around with virtually no notice. This time around I am sure it would be done better everywhere.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,369
Brighton Sky Blue said:
My mistake, sorry I wasn't sure. You must admit though there aren't many professions that have been put under this much strain
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I agree a lot are strained and teachers too.

Others are silently under a lot of pressure. I've only got Christmas Day off, I'll be back in on Monday.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,370
covmark said:
I understand that. It's a shit situation all round. We're all doing things within our jobs that we'd rather not be doing, and add in to the mix that we can't do all the enjoyable things in life. It makes life really tough.

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My argument has long been that being in school but not able to teach properly defeats the whole point of being in there. I am just in a foul mood this evening to be honest
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,371
Nick said:
I agree a lot are strained and teachers too.

Others are silently under a lot of pressure. I've only got Christmas Day off, I'll be back in on Monday.
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Sorry it just grates me to hear remote learning dismissed when I was putting in pretty much all hours of the day I wasn't asleep into it for months.
 

Ian1779

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,372
Terry Gibson's perm said:
Close the schools for four weeks and then cut the summer holidays to two weeks.
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Why? We’ll be expected to deliver online learning...
 

Ian1779

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,373
wingy said:
It's the unicorn Variant.
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From the land of Eternia...
 

chiefdave

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,374
shmmeee said:
Saw something that said you only need a few million vaccinated to prevent something like 75% of deaths. I don’t think we’ll have to get anything like everyone vaccinated before we are back to normal.
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Our approach has never been to minimise the number of cases, its been not to overwhelm the NHS. So once you've got the groups that make up the vast majority of hospitalisations vaccinated then you can start opening things back up.

If we can get anywhere close to the rate of vaccination the government is claiming we can that will be in time for the summer, when going by last year, things will ease off anyway.

But it certainly won't be back to normal overnight.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,375
chiefdave said:
Our approach has never been to minimise the number of cases, its been not to overwhelm the NHS. So once you've got the groups that make up the vast majority of hospitalisations vaccinated then you can start opening things back up.

If we can get anywhere close to the rate of vaccination the government is claiming we can that will be in time for the summer, when going by last year, things will ease off anyway.

But it certainly won't be back to normal overnight.
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I believe Van Tam said that with the key groups vaccinated you drop 99% of the hospitalisations. In which case when that is done let me shake someone's hand
 
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SkyBlueDom26

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,376
The amount of fuck ups how can anyone be certain we’ll get lots of people vaccinated....it will be problem after problem

useless cunts
 
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Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,377
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Sorry it just grates me to hear remote learning dismissed when I was putting in pretty much all hours of the day I wasn't asleep into it for months.
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I can only comment on what I saw and it was honestly laughable and when the kids sat down to do it they could do the whole weeks work in about an hour. Like I said the head has gone and the new temporary head is younger and fresher so it may improve.
 
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Nick

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,378
In the first lockdown, my daughter was done by 1 every day at the latest.

In fairness, there was no time to prepare really. Wasn't that fussed.
 

Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,379
I am a massive critic of this hopeless government but they have started this vaccine work quite well, although as I have said before not sure my old housebound nan who is ninety is going to help the herd much
 
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chiefdave

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  • Dec 19, 2020
  • #37,380
Nick said:
I agree a lot are strained and teachers too.

Others are silently under a lot of pressure. I've only got Christmas Day off, I'll be back in on Monday.
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Same here. Although if we're lucky and its quiet on Christmas Eve we get to leave an hour early. Of course it won't be quiet as we've got rid of so many staff, blaming it on covid, those of us left are now swamped with work. Still at least I'm one of the lucky ones that still has a job.

Covid has really highlighted how fucked my work life balance is, especially when I've working from home and can't blame having no time on being stuck in commuter traffic every day.
 
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