It’s progress though and they’re closer to opening, even if (when) the guidance is adjusted again.
It’s good to focus on the positives at the moment. Well done to the Sqn staff.
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Was that really essential travel?
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Someone needs to go to the sqn to run the taps each week so if done as part of that.
Volunteering is an exemption
Edit to change “Boat” to “Go To” thanks to @steve679 for pointing it out, bloody autocorrect!
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Wait till some copper doesn’t take it as ‘essential travel’ 
Can you run the taps to avoid legionellas and conduct a security check from home?
I’m yet to see any enforcement locally at all
Just tell them you’ve arranged a group hair cut for all your staff… I’m sure it’ll be fine.
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Well if you consider 31 of your staff being given £200 fines by other members of your staff to be “fine”
I just thought that story was very funny… what were they thinking?
My mates in schools think after Easter at the earliest. They said early March is a nonsense start date, just get going and then it’s Easter, which is more disruptive. If the govt say early March, it’s little difference to starting after ½ term.
At work we reckon that there’s little point in starting doing many things until we can go out without masks and needing any form of social distancing. Even for the few that are open, going to shops etc is a nuisance with masks on. At work we only wear masks in corridors and communal rooms, except offices unless you want to.
The hair cut saga was the 2nd “woopsie” - what will be next for the wonderful Met…? 
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Think it’s quite a sensible move actually get the ‘super spreaders’ back together for a couple of weeks and then get a 2 week fire break to assess the impact it’s having on the spread of the virus and allow to move forward rather than wait until after Easter and then have unions and the press saying it’s spreading too fast shut everything again.
Surely the latter would be much more disruptive.
Secondary won’t open before Easter and even then in a limited capacity. I can see us having to provide a negative test or proof of vaccine.
I doubt it’s even the 2nd one, it’s just the 2nd one that the press have reported.
I suspect it’s not just the Met that’s having these incidents of people not thinking but that someone in the Met SLT has taken a Policy decision to be open about these things when they are happening. a) it prevents the press from running a “gotcha” article when it leaks and b) it prevents the public from having a view of 1 rule for us and 1 rule for everyone else.
After all the press are bound to do the annual FOI about how many Police Officers have Criminal Convictions from 20 years ago story, why give them more ammunition?
I’m glad you didn’t say a year 
I would love to see if someone had the big do-dahs to go with an open policy / media release. Certainly not a prevalent attitude.
Even more fun & quicker access (although Cambs were running a year out of date, I prompted their Business Manager - they still are waaay behind!), go look at the Misconduct Outcomes / Force Disclosure Reports on the respective Police authority websites (not easy to find in some cases though). There really are some eye-openers!
The Mets are all out there on their website and are generally shared via Twitter with a link to the page.
The one that makes me laugh is every year they do an FOI to reveal how many Police Officers have convictions etc, they don’t point out that in almost all cases they had these and declared them when they joined. It’s always written like it’s a big shock, except the same journalist wrote an identical article last year!
Well off topic but their list of “what ifs” seems to cover most circumstances - although if I’ve read it correctly, a single hit for one Class B would get through.
Not the cleverest wearing the uniform here…
I don’t get the ‘superspreader’ label given to kids.
If this was the case, where have the hundreds of thousands or millions of parents as cases been since last March?
I’m fairly certain that they don’t test for that while shoving an XL cotton bud up your nose.
Daft question, as I’ve been away from teams for so long.
The new breakout rooms facility. What’s the rules with staff/O18 supervision?
Is it two for the whole meeting, or do you need cover in each room?