UK Covid death toll

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Some interesting stuff in this presser from Vallance and Whitty.

If cases continue to rise as they are, we could have almost 50,000 cases on 13th October.

Cases going up in all age groups, not just the 'young'.

Four ways to stop the increase... reducing individual risk, ensuring people are self-isolating, break unnecessary links between households (whatever that is) and development of a vaccine.

Not sure how you can break that link - if you have a child in school then you have a link, even if it is by a roundabout way, to every household that also has a child in the the same class, if not the entire school. Schools round here seem to have no plan for separating parents at school gates, and there are already classes and schools being closed down, and yet we cannot deny the young generation the right to an education.

Tough choices to be made

Don’t know where you’re area is but around me all the schools, Primary and Secondary, have staggered start and finish times. At the primaries the parents are asked to wait over the road from the school gates so they can see their child coming out and then go and meet them. Rather than have them mingling in a near crush waiting for their child. The pavements, certainly at the two primaries nearest me, have the pavements marked out with 2m cones to encourage distancing.
At the Secondary I am associated with, all forms are retained in their form rooms for every lesson and the subject teachers go to them lugging trolleys full of resources behind them. This also means no ‘setting’ at present which makes lesson planning and differentiation difficult. The site is completely all one way with copious sanitising stations dotted around and inside every entrance and masks must be worn in all corridors. I don’t think the schools around here can do much more. 
I am due to go in Wednesday to interact with year 13s. My other half is a bit apprehensive. Good job I haven’t told her one of them tested positive last week but only his small ‘bubble’ have been kept away. 
There are some tough choices to be made but sounds as though schools will stay open whatever.