Coronavirus (2021) thread

[xgorton]

Not sure where people are getting this two weeks figure from? Most schools aren’t breaking up for Easter until April 1st/2nd as far as I’m aware, which is four weeks from March 8th.

Good Friday is 2nd of April.

 

[Ric]

Will all the teachers be vaccinated before the kids go back?

Unfortunately not. Personally I think they should be prioritised but doesn’t look like it’s going to happen.

 

[Ric]

Good Friday is 2nd of April.

Apologies, my mistake. 1st April then. Still effectively four weeks though.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

ahh. In that case. I take it back and blame Alan Harper’s tash !

Apologies. It’s 3.8 weeks of schooling before Easter.

In the grand scheme of things, I do feel that opening up for 19 days will set us back more than the kids would suffer.

I do understand it’s a tough decision and their are positives and negatives, but we’re nearly there.

One last effort to get beyond Easter and millions more vaccines will save countless lives.

 

[Ste1969]

I work as a Pastoral manager at a school and I can honestly say that it is highly unlikely that most of the staff will have had the vaccine before the opening of schools.

That is disappointing with schools opening soon, surely teachers are priority for vaccination.

 

[xgorton]

Apologies, my mistake. 1st April then. Still effectively four weeks though.

Wow different times,you only break up 1 day before Good Friday.

 

[Ric]

Wow different times,you only break up 1 day before Good Friday.

I think some schools are breaking up on 26th March, but most are finishing on 1st April.

 

[Tonster]

Apologies. It’s 3.8 weeks of schooling before Easter.

In the grand scheme of things, I do feel that opening up for 19 days will set us back more than the kids would suffer.

I do understand it’s a tough decision and their are positives and negatives, but we’re nearly there.

One last effort to get beyond Easter and millions more vaccines will save countless lives.

Difference is this time schools are operating around 50% capacity already. Teachers are in school teaching classes every day since January. Our school has 330 pupils, first lockdown there were 30 kids in, this time 176 are in. This isn’t untypical. So getting the rest in shouldn’t cause huge spikes like it did in September. Plus by Mar 8th we’ll have vaccines done for around 23 million (virtually every body over 60 and those at most risk).

 

[Ste1969]

Unfortunately not. Personally I think they should be prioritised but doesn’t look like it’s going to happen.

I don't have kids but surely it's a no brainer for the gov, to put families mind at rest that teachers are at least vaccinated.

After tomorrow's announcement dates etc, i can see a backlash in ref to teachers and maybe a week or so mad rush to give them vaccines.

 

[kippax123]

That is disappointing with schools opening soon, surely teachers are priority for vaccination.

I, for once have some sympathy with this government. I personally think besides the vaccine process this government have been very poor to say the least. But having a 28 year old son and most of his friends are now unemployed due to Covid , we have to start opening schools and businesses up as soon as possible . But do ANY of us trust that this is the right time ?