Where's The Uk Exit Strategy?

[diddlydo]

France and Spain have announced detailed plans for their phased ending of lockdown. Although the UK is a little bit behind them in terms of the Covid crisis, the British public deserve to be given some sort of hope of the return to the "new normal".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52459030

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52459034

[diddlydo]

Thank you NJ!

[NickorWan]

Reading New Judge’s post makes me even more convinced that lockdown is the right measure. We don’t know enough about the virus and it could be far worse than we imagined, which for a lot of us was already pretty bad.

[jim360]

I suspect that was the opposite effect of what NJ intended :P

And yet, it shouldn't have been. It seems clear to me that if you know a virus is dangerous, but don't know for certain how dangerous it is, then what else do you expect governments to do but err on the side of caution? What we have seen for certain is a remarkable increase in weekly death rate, replicated in countries across the world. The risk is most prominent amongst the over-60s and those with other health conditions but it is still a concern: you can hardly treat people who were otherwise expected to live for some time yet as "expendable".

[vulcan42]

\\ there are say 15 kids in a classroom rather than 30.//
You do realise that only having 15 children in a classroom that the other 15 still have to be taught. Does this mean that you would double the amount of teachers or would you have the existing staff work twice as long?

[rowanwitch]

I would love it if garden centres and craft shops reopened so more people could keep themselves amused.

Our local bus service has gone from 6-8 mins to every half hour, this means they are far more crowded than they would otherwise be. They also have to turn away mums with pushchairs because they already have the allowed number on board. Better to run a more frequent service so social distancing is easier

round here getting to a supermarket without a car means a bus or a minimum 30 .minutes walk for a less mobile person not really doable due to the number of steep hills, and there are a lot of people who are already on low incomes they can't afford the local shops.

[fiction-factory]

Most classrooms I teach in are the size of my lounge. If social distancing is to be followed you could probably not get more than half a dozen in there. Maybe 10 in the largest classrooms.
But the plan I'm sure is for phased return- only certain years in on certain days, and classes to be spread out across the available rooms. I'm sure some parents will still keep their children away so that will keep attendance down too.
An equally big challenge is school buses

[fiction-factory]

^ that was in response to Vulcan's post, and the post Vulcan referred to, about class sizes

[vulcan42]

fiction-factory, thank you for your reply, but if the children are scattered in smaller numbers throughout the school, somebody still has to teach them, the more classes the more teachers required. Or am I missing something?

[fiction-factory]

Just an illustration, Vulcan:

Normal situation
900 pupils, 30 teachers, 30 rooms (30 pupils + 1 teacher per room)

Scaled down return situation on any one day:
300 pupils, 30 teachers, 30 rooms (10 pupils + 1 teacher per room)