Bletchleyite
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Yeah, I'd have been in a right state if this was me aged 17. We say kids are resilient, and younger ones generally are, but late teens are about the least resilient time of most peoples' lives.
There is, but you could say that for NHS staff, supermarket workers, bus drivers...
This is where it is a bit like a war. People will have to, as a matter of duty to the greater good, put themselves at some level of risk to restart things, because the alternative is economic collapse, famine and many more deaths. It is just not possible to wait for a vaccine which may never come to reopen the economy - that could be a year, two years...
I actually feel quite frustrated that I'm a home working IT bod...I'd actually in a way rather be out there, before anyone says I'm being a hypocrite by stating the above. I am however doing some volunteering locally to square that circle.
COVID-19 and the lockdown effects on mental health.
One thing nobody who actually cared about people would do would be to just pick up "mental health" as a reason for wanting restrictions to be reduced. The fact is that healthcare for the causes of suicide are very poor in this country. Some people are able to access literally no support...
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I really feel for current sixth form students who've been faced with all this uncertainty through no fault of their own. Even under normal circumstances they're under a lot of stress (too much if you ask me, following linearisation of qualifications) to get the grades required for their university offer.
And now? They have no control over the predicted grades they'll be issued, no idea how universities will handle places for the next academic year (or even what state campuses will be in then) and no idea how teaching might be impacted.
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Yeah, I'd have been in a right state if this was me aged 17. We say kids are resilient, and younger ones generally are, but late teens are about the least resilient time of most peoples' lives.
It’s a very difficult circle to square, as one could quite justifiably be resentful about the schools / exams situation, but there’s a quite reasonable case to say we simply could not viably ask teachers to go to work in a potentially dangerous environment.
There is, but you could say that for NHS staff, supermarket workers, bus drivers...
This is where it is a bit like a war. People will have to, as a matter of duty to the greater good, put themselves at some level of risk to restart things, because the alternative is economic collapse, famine and many more deaths. It is just not possible to wait for a vaccine which may never come to reopen the economy - that could be a year, two years...
I actually feel quite frustrated that I'm a home working IT bod...I'd actually in a way rather be out there, before anyone says I'm being a hypocrite by stating the above. I am however doing some volunteering locally to square that circle.
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