Coronavirus (COVID-19)

[mizfit]

A pressure group made up of parents who advocated in the summer for schools to return full-time with no blended learning that has now morphed into a group full of anti-science sceptics who believe that children are immune to Covid and are not transmitters so can't pass it on to adults.

Was this not the group that Jack McConnell was involved with back when blended learning was the default?

[Gordon EF]

6 minutes ago, ayrmad said:

Just use the old tables to see how many 82 year old we had  30 years ago and follow that on every year to workout average age. not precise but it will give an idea from the past. 

 

Average life expectancy for women at 65 between 2017-19 was 21.1 years, taking them up to 86.1 years. No way life expectancy at 82 jumps to 13 years.

[topcat(The most tip top)]

f**k Christmas the Tories and the SFA

I admire your sentiments even if question your priorities

[ICTChris]

One reason why I bet the SG are reluctant to close schools is that it would be localised. You can’t justify shutting schools in the Highlands but could easily in Glasgow. This would cause problems for the exams as they are national. If Glasgow schools shut for three weeks, will they make that back up? If it was longer, which is clearly a possibility, how do you deal with that?

The obvious answer is to cancel exams again but that’s apparently not an option, unless the SG do a u turn as they did on exam results and school openings.

[D.A.F.C]

Could the schools not cut the summer holidays down to two weeks and extend the Xmas holidays to six weeks?

[mizfit]

One reason why I bet the SG are reluctant to close schools is that it would be localised. You can’t justify shutting schools in the Highlands but could easily in Glasgow. This would cause problems for the exams as they are national. If Glasgow schools shut for three weeks, will they make that back up? If it was longer, which is clearly a possibility, how do you deal with that?

The obvious answer is to cancel exams again but that’s apparently not an option, unless the SG do a u turn as they did on exam results and school openings.

The solution here is to give every child an A next year.

[Wee Bully]

Vicky has a heart warming faith in the essential goodness and protocol abiding nature of humanity, and Santa probably. It would be cruel to disabuse him of this.

I’ve got to be honest, for once (and I say this with a sense of surprise) VT is bang on.

 

The story laid out by NBB never happened. He may have been told it, but it never happened.

[Todd_is_God]

9 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

One reason why I bet the SG are reluctant to close schools is that it would be localised. You can’t justify shutting schools in the Highlands but could easily in Glasgow. This would cause problems for the exams as they are national. If Glasgow schools shut for three weeks, will they make that back up? If it was longer, which is clearly a possibility, how do you deal with that?

The obvious answer is to cancel exams again but that’s apparently not an option, unless the SG do a u turn as they did on exam results and school openings.

You can, however, justify blended learning in specific areas, which would allow the course content to be delivered. These plans were ready to go in June.

The real reason the SG are reluctant to close schools is that the effect on the prevelance would be dramatic enough to shatter their previous claims that A they were safe, and B that the weeks of previous restrictions were frivilous.

Edited November 18, 2020 by Todd_is_God

[Gordon EF]

2 minutes ago, mizfit said:

 

 

The solution here is to give every child an A next year.

 

 

So just get teachers to assign grades again?

[ICTChris]

The EIS Facebook page is an absolute cluster the now. Because it's public anyone can post. It's full of folk from that UsForThem group pretending to be teachers in schools with zero cases then going back to their own Facebook group with screenshotted comments.

[Guest]

Here we go again -

More than 400 self-isolate after Covid outbreak at school

Ten pupils and six staff members have tested positive at Auchmuty High School in Glenrothes.
https://news.stv.tv/east-central/more-than-400-self-isolate-after-covid-outbreak-at-school?top
More than 400 pupils are self-isolating following an outbreak of coronavirus at a school in Fife.
Ten pupils and six staff members have tested positive for the virus at Auchmuty High School in Glenrothes.
The figures were confirmed in a video update by head teacher Alan Pithie, who confirmed school attendance currently stands at “around about 50%”.
Mr Pithie said in a statement on Tuesday: “At the moment the basic figures are that we have ten pupils who have tested positive and six staff members.
“The outcome of that is that 13 staff in total are either positive or having to self-isolate and over 400 pupils are also self-isolating at the present time.
“I would say that currently the school attendance is around 50% at the present time.
“This sounds an incredible horrendous picture and it is, this is an incredibly difficult situation to be going through.
“However, there are emerging facts that make it a slightly brighter picture.
“The really encouraging sign is that we haven’t actually had any more positive cases for the beginning of this week.
“And those pupils who tested positive last week were already self-isolating.”
Fife is currently in level three of the five-tier Covid alert system, where it has been placed since Friday.
 
Herd immunity in schools?

Fake news we all know Covid is scared of schools, children are also immune to Covid and can't pass it to adults even if they do somehow catch it.

[Replays]

I’d be happier if the government said I didn’t have to see my family over Christmas tbf.

[Bert Raccoon]

So under new travel restrictions it's still fine to fly to another country but you're not allowed to travel to the airport? Deary me.

https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/travel-glasgow-airport-holidays-not-19300527

[Billy Jean King]

I take it folk don't realise the majority of Scottish exams for next year have already been cancelled. Nat5 was abandoned weeks ago only higher exams (and the few advanced highers) will go ahead (for now)

[vikingTON]

40 minutes ago, Tutankhamen said:

Have you tried getting a child minder recently?

If teachers don't want to look after wee Johnny and Jeanette 6 hours a day then find another job.

If parents didn't want to look after their disease-riddled sprogs then they shouldn't have chosen to have them in the first place. 

[ICTChris]

FM just said that while the risk isn’t zero it outweighs the risks of having children out of school for a prolonged period of time.

[Distant Doonhamer]

Predictably Edinburgh's Christmas street market has been binned for this year.
Christmas wasn't saved here.

Every cloud ....

[NotThePars]

We’ve just had our key worker letters emailed over. They’ve tried to cushion the blow by saying “you are one of the select few critical to keeping our operations running.” I can see in the address box that they’ve sent it to all staff.

[effeffsee_the2nd]

New coronavirus laws on travel ‘send clear signal to public’

Measures will prevent people in level three and four from going outside of their local authority for non-essential journeys.
Scotland’s deputy first minister said it is “very, very unlikely” people will be stopped by police under new coronavirus travel restrictions but the new measures will send a “clear signal” to the public.
The new legally enforceable measures will prevent people in level three and four of Scotland’s five-tier system from going outside of their local authority area for non-essential journeys from Friday.
John Swinney said those caught breaching the travel restrictions could be given a fixed penalty notice.
He stressed people travelling between council areas for essential journeys – such as a hospital appointment – will not have to show paperwork to support this if they are stopped.
Swinney told BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland programme: “If an individual happened to be stopped by the police, which I think is a very, very unlikely circumstance, on their way to a hospital, if they were to explain to a police officer they were going to hospital for a critical appointment that would be an end of the matter.
“They don’t have to have paperwork to substantiate that.”
He added he does “not envisage those circumstances happening”.
Instead, Swinney said the guidance on travel is being put into law so “we give a very clear signal to members of the public of the importance that is attached to not leaving level three or level four areas in which people live”.
He added: “That signal is basically to say to people that the law requires individuals not to do that unless there are good reasons and particular exemptions for that to be the case.
“And that again comes back to the core point that we have got to minimise human interaction.”
His comments come after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced on Tuesday that 11 council areas are to be placed under level four restrictions from Friday – forcing hospitality, non-essential retail, gyms, hairdressers and other businesses to close.
This will be applied in the Glasgow City Council area, as well as Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, Stirling and West Lothian.
Residents in the City of Edinburgh Council area along with Angus, Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, Dundee, Fife and Perth and Kinross will also be subject to the travel restrictions in level three.

So really it’s just an official “ please dinnae dae it “ only those who blatantly, obviously & take the piss could be prosecuted.
We have a trade membership at Costco which we went to both the Edinburgh and glasgow stores during lockdown one, we can’t buy certain products locally, as far as I’m concerned we’re perfectly entitled to still do so

[Billy Jean King]

 As at 12 November, around 1.2% of total absences are due to pupils who had a
Covid-19 related sickness. This represents about 0.1% of all pupils. The recent rise
in overall number of COVID-related absences is largely due to an increase in the
number of pupils who are self-isolating.