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Surely that is the nannies job.

Get mistaken as one too.

My toddler's stronger than me too.

I know you were joking but if they shut nurseries then I guess the nursery fees could be spent on nannies/childminders, with added danger pay?

You reckon the nurseries would reimburse the fees?

(My experience of them a few years ago suggests that they wouldn't)

Don't understand this argument, heard it for a few days now. Why would people suddenly get bored or not believe the seriousness?

I don't think they would but if they stayed shut beyond the next payment, I wouldn't pay if I hadn't been paid myself.

Dear Mr Holiday,

We are unable to guarantee your a place in the nursery after the current shutdown without overdue payments having been received...

This is all hypothetical, and I don't want to make it look like I'm singling out the parent scenario over all others, it's applicable to many scenarios.

If you're forced to stay at home and your work choose to not pay you, or force you onto SSP, how many of your outgoing commitments can you afford to keep honouring? I definitely can't afford nursery if I've not been paid, and I'd be reluctant to pay if it was closed so I was paying for a service I wasn't receiving.

I can definitely see that happening, I'd hate for it to happen, but at least it's just nursery.

If you've got a job that can't be done from home and you have to stay at home and you don't get paid, how are you going to afford rent or mortgage?

We've been having this discussion at home.
#freelancelife right?

If your work involves you going into people's offices....
We thought "what could we do here?"
If we didn't pay nursery, enrichment for kids. Then they might lose their places when / if the world returns. It would be better to let the organisation cancel, rather than us preemptively cancel because we need to save funds because....

Where do you even start with people sharing stuff like this on social media?

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Why would people suddenly get bored or not believe the seriousness?

Going around telling people to wash their hand more often somehow sound like an advice to be given to fight the common cold.

Sound like the “yeah but the Y2K bug didn’t happen tho” crowd.

Human behaviour innit. If everyone is told to stay in their homes now, in a week's time there would still only be a few hundred cases. Many people would take from this that it was all an overreaction and start going about their lives as normal again. Spreading fast would start again. Government says - no really, stay at home. Public - but it didn't have any effect before. etc.

There's also a cost implication as nursery is not a 1:1 adult / child ratio, whereas nannies could well be.

I'd assume that childminders with multiple kids would be subject to the same restrictions as nurseries and couldn't operate.

Point the here, https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ China has 16,000 cases and falling.

I know Boris Johnson is an absolute twat but his press conference last week with the CMO and CSA was surprisingly good. The Guardian said it wasn't very reassuring, but Whitty explains well why they don't want to shut everything down too early otherwise the public will get fatigued, and the tactic to attempt to delay the peak until summer.

Things have moved along a lot in a week but I think it still stands and based on conversations my wife has had with David Spiegelhalter and some members of the RSS, reading between the lines, the mood seems to be that we're going to end up doing what Italy did, just not yet

As I've said before if I'm confined in a two bed flat with my wife, daughter and dog for two weeks it certainly won't be a 3% mortality rate.

the nursery fees could be spent

LOLoftheweek

When the vaccine comes, who’s paying for it? The NHS? How much is that going to cost

Probably less than the economic disruption we’ve had so far

I'm seeing things suggesting that Matt Hancock is making a statement tonight, and that a lock down of London (whatever that means) may be imposed from Sunday.

https://twitter.com/chedwardes/status/1237743707430027264?s=20

Many are having to sit on their beds to do work and conference calls as the prime spots (kitchen table or lounge) have already been taken by their housemates.

Same thing I'm facing, living with 2 teachers the whole WFH thing could get very interesting...

Dominic Raab trending on twitter as he coughs into his bare hands from the front bench today. We're all so fucked.

I'm off to Cornwall tomorrow for a memorial service, coming back to London on Sunday eve. Hope we're allowed back in.

Trump has proclaimed himself as the saviour of the US people

He does that for everything.