And this morning I had a pint of milk 'taken' from my doorstep by a school aged lad who appeared to have turned up at the school at the end of our road, only to find it closed.
I watched him on my driveway putting something in his backpack and there was only one pint where there had been two five minutes ago. ... he denied it of course but looked sheepish ... but if school was closed and his parents were at work it's probably all he was going to get ... he was aged probably around 11 ish.
This is a really nice and safe neighbourhood, sought-after detatched housing etc, tree-lined roads, near the golf club, a Waitrose supermarket etc ... I'd have said it was the safest place in Norwich, and Norwich is pretty safe compared with a lot of the UK, but this pandemic is affecting different people in different ways ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Absolutely Punkdoc, my daughter has 6 children to look after in her home, they are not vaccinating childminders and teachers till the very last I think. My son reckons he’ll get his in June! You’d think with what he has it would be sooner and a key worker at that!
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Can I ask how it works with kids? OK, so the teachers and TAs get vaccinated - that attempts to safeguard them, but don't the kids still act as a pool and potentially take the virus back into their home environment and ,even if they are asymptomatic, potentially still spread the virus?
It's a nightmare for any Gov isn't it? My problem with this gov though is their appearance (to me) of not being entirely honest - schools and Christmas are the glaringly obvious (again to me) 'lying by omission' incidents. Their 'bigging up' of 'stuff' and doing the Trump'ish bit of trying to gain kudos for what science has done was/is bad enough. I dread to think what the outlook would be like now without the vaccines on the horizon.
It will be interesting to see how this all gets buried under a 'years long' inquiry after it all quiets down. But by then our goldfish memories will have forgotten the awful effect of what happened, and just like all other such enquiries from Iraq and WOMD to Grenfell - it all becomes blurred and no one's problem.
Can I ask how it works with kids? OK, so the teachers and TAs get vaccinated - that attempts to safeguard them, but don't the kids still act as a pool and potentially take the virus back into their home environment and ,even if they are asymptomatic, potentially still spread the virus?
Surely that’s the idea of vaccines, if the adults are vaccinated it won’t matter if the children bring it home. Most children will get over it quickly. Or, am I missing something here?
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Apparently 16 year olds and under won't have the vaccine, unless have a critical illness. Well that's what we've read on the vaccine website. Could be completely different 🤷🏻♀️
That's works if all adults are vaccinated, not just the teachers and TAs or else the parents and siblings at home mix and continue to spread the virus outside the home environment. So until the vaccine is rolled out completely, schools (IMO) appear to just act as pools of the virus - hence the question.
@Lyn@punkdoc - my sister’s NHS trust/hospitals have been vaccinating London Ambulance staff. She is front line involved in running the vaccination clinics from 7am until 10pm to ensure that all healthcare personnel get a look in. Maybe your paramedic acquaintance could get advice on where to go for a vaccine through a similar route.
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I watched him on my driveway putting something in his backpack and there was only one pint where there had been two five minutes ago. ... he denied it of course but looked sheepish ... but if school was closed and his parents were at work it's probably all he was going to get ... he was aged probably around 11 ish.
This is a really nice and safe neighbourhood, sought-after detatched housing etc, tree-lined roads, near the golf club, a Waitrose supermarket etc ... I'd have said it was the safest place in Norwich, and Norwich is pretty safe compared with a lot of the UK, but this pandemic is affecting different people in different ways ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Para-medics should be at the front of the line, plus if we want teachers to be in school, so should they.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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My son reckons he’ll get his in June! You’d think with what he has it would be sooner and a key worker at that!
Or, am I missing something here?
Well that's what we've read on the vaccine website. Could be completely different 🤷🏻♀️