I heard Barclays Bank in Dunmow Essex got fined as police came in and checked lines which weren’t 2metres apart so nice to know Organizations are being checked.

What did people expect in an 8 minute speech? Seriously. 

It was an overview, an outline, nothing more and nothing less. The details will be fleshed out tomorrow as has been stated.

The people who need to return to work tomorrow will have been informed a while ago. Liaisons are ongoing between the government and affected businesses.

People who are confused by his address tonight are either nigh on braindead or wilfully ignorant.

We are all adults but it seems some people need their arses wiping for them and expect a personal itinerary of what they as an individual should be doing on a daily basis.

Was just chatting to a member of my family who is a school headteacher in the UK.

They've been trying to plan out how to re-open. She reckons no more than 6 kids per classroom if the 2m limit is to be enforceable. Staggered playtime and other measures. Difficulties with lunch hour and so on. They need to sort out how toilet hygiene and staff PPE will work. Some parents will refuse to send their kids anyway unless their safety is "absolutely guaranteed". A number of members of staff apparently very scared to come back. Plus the unions may be an issue. It sounds like a complete nightmare to be honest.

With so many kids separated into many classrooms, are there enough teacher's to go around?

Even Hodges isn't impressed. 

Edit: There will have to be a "relaunch" within a few days I now reckon.

We’ve been in lockdown a long time. What was announced tonight appears to be only a fractional loosening of the restrictions in place. There’s been a lot of time to prepare this statement. So there is no excuse for the utter chaos over what has and hasn’t just been announced.

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) May 10, 2020

Yes those are very good points I guess we would call it a full risk assessment of the associated risk ie how likely not likely  v very often or very little v outcomes what control measures can we implement to make it workable with acceptable risk.

I can't see how this can be right, as it implies an average of less than 1,600 per day. I know it's only England, and I'm guessing it's only Tier 1, but even then it seems too low.

Issues around public transport, a requirement to go to work for millions, and fear of losing ones job. 

Very possibly a recipe for worry, confusion and possibly getting R above 1.

Is Boris and his Cabinet going to man all the over ground & underground stations? Or patrol the buses?

Think about it.

Your comment above is one of the most wrong-headed Ive seen on here for a while, and a perfect example of blind faith leading to defective thinking.

That's another problem - you will need a lot of teachers and some of them can't or won't come in. She seemed to think it was very touch and go whether they had enough staff to actually re-open, even for a small subset of the kids.

So should I be going back to work tomorrow if I don’t have a car?

Not all of them

Disrespectful and uncalled for.

I agree.

Same problem; trying to think of how to run Breakfast and After School Club; how much hand soap and paper towels needed(we got through a month of these in the week before lock-down due to 7 handwashes a day); how to manage lunch indoors on rainy days- extra hygiene on classroom tables; whether school library is usable (++ handling); several staff now expressing issues with mental well-being; YR pupils who won't keep their fingers to themselves; staff who forget not to cough outwardly (aaagh!); and all the time, worrying about pupil well-being if govs decide to go for masks, staff well-being anyway, parents distancing at collection time (impossible), and all throughout, safeguarding those most vulnerable pupils if we spread out across a large site.

What do you want done about public transport? It is what it is, it's what happens when you choose a job so far from your home. 

On the one hand people want the economy to get back up and running but on the other hand want a miraculous risk free way of getting the labour force to these jobs. I'm sorry but it doesn't cut both ways. 

What more did you expect from him other to suggest walking or cycling (where possible) or using the car?

Homebase and local car wash now open are we gong to see more secret openings before then?

Maybe, you know, fewer people are actually dying than in your dear old Blighty where your Saint Winston De Pfeiffel Phallushead Cock has actual ultra violet light emanating from his engorged butthole.

If I usually get the bus to work 10 miles away and I don’t have a car, do you advise me to get the bus. Cos your Saintly Boris told me not to. Or was he wrong? You seem on top of this.

It’s not that easy to create an extra yrr, yr1, yr6 teacher. 

I'm also confused about the new case numbers. I have been seeing roughly 4k each day reported give or take, but this morning on the Marr show and another source which I can't remember suggested the rate was in fact somewhere between 18,000 to 20,000 every day!

For starters no one is saintly to me.

Secondly, why is everyone acting shocked. We all knew there would come a time where people had to go back to work. Some of the same people moaning about the economy being crippled are now moaning about people going back to work...can you see why this might rub me up the wrong way??

For what it's worth, I always advocated a complete lockdown of everything that possibly could be so that case numbers were low enough that we could completely reopen. But guess what? These same people said it was impossible.

So what exactly DO you want to see happen?

I think he is bending to pressure from the right wing of the Tory Party.  And whilst talking about putting health first, his actions put business ahead of health.

Just as Boris was pressured by the likes of the mendacious Cummings to follow herd immunity and keep the economy going, thinking (wrongly) that Britannia would steal a march on those over-reacting Europeans, until their Damascean conversion on Thursday 12 March; they are now trying to get business going in construction and manufacturing before PPE, track  and trace, and testing are anywhere near where they should be.

The net effect will tragically be the same - thousands, possibly tens of thousands more deaths as a direct result of a government decision based on money rather than health.  A balance needs to be struck, but the Tories have again got this terribly wrong.

Well I kind of agree. However, the same people moaning about reopening tonight are the same people who have been telling us how terrible lockdown is for mental health, and how many deaths there would be from a tanked economy. So I'm genuinely confused as to what would assuage these individuals?

I can only conclude from the contradictory nature of their postings, they just want to stick the boot into the government and are using the COVID pandemic as a proxy.

To them, if they can get enough people onboard the 'government is doing crap' train, they feel they can garner support for the opposition. That is all this boils down to beneath the veneer.

And our head will run it from home giving out orders with no risks 

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Same problem; trying to think of how to run Breakfast and After School Club; how much hand soap and paper towels needed(we got through a month of these in the week before lock-down due to 7 handwashes a day); how to manage lunch indoors on rainy days- extra hygiene on classroom tables; whether school library is usable (++ handling); several staff now expressing issues with mental well-being; YR pupils who won't keep their fingers to themselves; staff who forget not to cough outwardly (aaagh!); and all the time, worrying about pupil well-being if govs decide to go for masks, staff well-being anyway, parents distancing at collection time (impossible), and all throughout, safeguarding those most vulnerable pupils if we spread out across a large site.