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Pretty much nail on head. It has been said a million times by hundreds of experts. The virus is mostly transmitted in enclosed environments and much much less outside when it is warm and dry. That is why they are so worried about the winter.
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Santa's Secret Grotto took a pounding last year because of the child-molestation lobby. This year the poor chap will be sitting alone out in the car-park with his elves at a distance and the queue even longer because of the sleigh length between the families.
Will he still smell of beer?
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The recent opening of schools seems to have proven that kids are not super spreaders. It would appear that that title should go to young adults as evidenced by the problems in uni's. I fear what will happen if / when they are released at Christmas.
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I hear, though, that quite a lot of teachers are having to isolate as a probable result of contact with infected/carrying children. Maybe it's too soon to know what, if any, role children are playing in the spread of the virus.
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If you worked in schools it would be pretty obvious they are, if not super, spreaders. You have whole bubbles or classes being sent home due to five or six cases from that class alone, usually one then after a few days more cases and the only common factor is that class, not from home. Then parents will get infected after that. All starting with one case in one class. A lot teachers being infected from only school.
Fortunately the bubble system appears to be working as others outside it are not infected.
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closed environments like schools?
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Well, that’s something good - bubble system. The whole school system must feel it’s under threat I suspect.
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+1 there ED
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SIL teaches English in a large (1500+ kids) secondary on the south side of Glasgow, they have had only one case amongst the kids, no teachers infected as yet. Seems it has not spread amongst the pupils either.a
It is a fairly "up-market" area, so maybe the kids are more policed by the parents?
SIL is a worrier when it comes to health, so we have made him a good supply of washable masks. He seems to be coping so far!
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It does appear to work in terms of keeping cases to one class or bubble and not spreading it to the class next door or the year group next 'floor' but at a cost in terms of education.
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Given that the bulk of the higher echelons of the military are isolating in the US, will we see an opportunistic invasion by Russia?
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Ditto for 1 of my daughters in a school in Sutton, but unlike your SIL's school my daughters is not so good, but have met on occasion some of her 6th form children and i was surprised just how serious they are taking covid-19, it is a very forward thinking school, or so they say, with very large classrooms of maybe 100 pupils in 1 room with 4 teachers in attendance, they have had zero cases, but in my gdaughters school in East Grinstead which is much smaller and a bit more up market they have had 2 cases, they are using the bubble approach which seems to have worked as no spread of the virus within the school.
We have decided not to get together at half term due to the present increase in infections as a whole, and as my OH is a carer for her 93 year old mum, but we will survive, lots of zooming will be taking place.
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well i would have thought you would rule out visiting Scotland, North of Birmingham , Wales and now possibly Cornwall during the half term holidays in your caravan as most are now under a lock down of some sorts
,and i think one of the more interesting topics just now is what is being called "long covid" i.e. 1 in 5 who suffer from the effects of corvid now appear to have ongoing long term effects in a variety of areas of the body
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It’s been mooted for quite a while brue that there would be more limitations come in to place in England around the October half term period. Reading the news today, along with possibly more hospitality closures (pubs, eateries), not sleeping away from home is being considered. Quite what that means, in terms of holidays, touring, second home ownership, remains unclear at the moment.
It’s going to be a real shame for those organisations that have put a great deal of thought and effort into trying to make visits as safe as possible.
On a personal note, we are still away here. Kept very much to ourselves, only a couple of quick pops into a supermarket to get fresh milk etc.... Been in one shop fully masked and gloved, wandered around one NT garden, so it’s been a strange holiday, change of scenery has been spirit raising, the cottage has been a delight.
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I thought the same during some of the weather we had when away but at least we had a break. I find it hard to have to mask up everywhere, strange sort of holidays for those who manage totake a break. Looks like local travel restrictions are coming back again for some.
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We intend touring while ever we can, once home from here. Not far from home, but somewhere different to do a bit of walking, cycling. We live on edge of an urban environment, so it’s safer for us to exercise away from home. Too many schools, nurseries, pubs, eateries, enraged drivers close to home.
Although we still have loads planned at home to keep us busy, and cycle cave up in attic will be a Winter refuge. We won’t get bored😁
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