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The year 11's at school today, I cannot image how screwed up/conflicted/confused and generally worried they are feeling. No idea how they will be graded or how this will effect their lives, the only structure and security many of them have ever known just immediately ending. The reactions have polarised between numb shock, depression and rage.

We will be adapting the online learning platforms we use for our homework. At best though, it's going to keep the children treading water, the ones who don't feel engaged with the curriculum they will not bother. I am a GCSE and KS3 Science teacher. There is talk of using the grades from their mock exams, but frankly.... Not a scooby.

Actually feeling heartbroken that I won't be seeing my classes for god knows how long. Online learning will not be a substitute, from any perspective you look at it.

Schools are struggling. In my department 3 teachers are off in isolation, about to lose one who is pregnant. The headteacher is appraising the viability of remaining open on a day by day basis But, take the schools away.... there will be further issues. Society does need to function.

Setting teaching cover work is actually keeping me very occupied. So no need to bury myself in Netflix yet.

No. I'm self isolating until Friday due to developing a cough. I'm currently setting cover work for my classes. The school is struggling with staff isolating/absence, there are not enough cover teachers to go around so they are having to piece together schedules with whichever staff are available. Wanted to see how many children were absent but my registers have already been reallocated from our admin system so cannot see. There are no plans to close, our head is following government advice and we will react accordingly. Contingency measures are being made for online learning when the closures come, whether they will work is another matter entirely. It will be just as reliant on parents ensuring their children are sticking to the schedule as it would be on the children themselves (who, let's face it, will treat it as a holiday. Enforcing any kind of discipline from afar will be impossible.)

Schools are basically germ factories, all those young people with immature immune systems in one place. Schools are a massive risk vector.

Settling in with my 13 month old and wife. It's going to be awful, we are already climbing the walls.

Quite. Playing party politics right now is just about the must vulgar thing that could happen. Quite rightly, science is leading the way. To equate the the rights and wrongs of the scientific route with the politics is simply madness.

Feeling some Mass Effect influence in ST: Picard. Those visions of impending synth related apocalypse.

I think that reducing the spread is not the strategy..... In Boris' press conference he did say there was a need to build immunity. Without a vaccine there's only one way to do that. It's the cold/flu. You can't absolutely stop it spreading.... That is impossible. But, without containment it will continue to spread uncontrollably, especially when 99% of people who probably have it would have been thinking, 'oh great, just another winter bug.'

So, wife and child display symptoms. I feel fine, but I work in a school. So, how do I find out definitively if I or they have this thing? - I can't can I. So, do I risk passing this onto the children?

Poor Skates, think they will set a record...... Yet it'll end up behind closed doors/postponed.

Or qualify for Europe.

Had to go, that's just awful.

Sorry to read this. I hope you are well now. Master.... There are no words.

I have willingly taken longer routes and more expensive alternatives to avoid Ryanair previously. They are a horrible, joyless organisation. Almost dehumanising.

Dreadful news for the area. This will impact not just jobs in FLybe itself but all the support services at the airports such as Southampton, which I do fear for. Fingers crossed the routes are quickly taken over.

Or the media team cat sat on the keyboard. On the subject of football, one appalling challenge there.

Without going into too much detail, a combination of upheaval in personal life and toxic professional environment put me in a very bad place. During a doctor's visit the doctor asked if there was anything else..... And I ended up having something of a mini breakdown there and then. Immediately signed off work for two weeks and prescription for Citalopram written. Reading above your description of panic attacks, I had that occur once or twice at work. Thankfully a junior colleague who was as much a friend as someone working for me could cover for me at those points, but in an open plan office it was very difficult to maintain a resilient veneer. I think the immediate prescription was an over-reaction. Therapy alone would have been enough, a chance to go through how I was feeling rather then the drug based numbness that began. Things were really not right when I watched us beat Leicester 3-0 three years ago and felt..... Nothing. It was good to see us win, but there was no joy, no reaction.... Nothing. My housemate at the time saw how massively the medication had changed me. I stayed on the pills for 6 months. The tablets had stripped away so much that I considered me, it was existence, not living. Come the June, I stopped. Just went cold turkey. It was horrible, digestive issues as an effect of this and awful feelings of conflicting and nonsensical thoughts came on really strongly for a week. (So, more time off work.) Then, after this the migraines began. Never had them before until two weeks after I came off the pills. The warning starry 'aura' effect came first, then blindness in my left eye, then an inability to comprehend written text or talk. Frankly, I thought I was having a stroke. Bloody terrifying. Thankfully, after a night's sleep I would feel more tired then usual and mentally drained but otherwise normal. These would just happen spontaneously at first, then only after exercise. Thankfully, it's been 12 months since i've had one... Hopefully whatever caused that has now resolved itself. Nothing comes close to the feeling of helplessness when you are driving along and notice the 'stars' beginning. After about a month of ditching the drugs, I did start to 'feel' again. Never again do I want to go through something like those 6 months, I personally needed a chance to vent, not have my emotions and by extension, my sense of self removed.

The problem with mental health is that it requires a more bespoke approach then just a prescription. You need the therapy side of things for that to happen, that's where the bottleneck in resources occurs. I've had my own experience with this kind of thing....... Crab Lungs, going cold turkey from Citalopram. Nasty. I detest that drug.

Ings on the bench.

So many empty seats at Brighton for a derby game.

How many times do they need to appoint him as such?

Waiting for mentions of stopped clocks being right twice a day. A mixture of poor coaching and management has masked the ability of many of our signings over the last 3 years. That's not to say they are all redeemable (Elyounoussi)