#LockdownVoices
"The fear and tension is all-pervasive... rather than schools protecting the children from it, in most cases they ramp it up..."
"We run a small but very successful school photography business that employs 2 people...
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"The fear and tension is all-pervasive... rather than schools protecting the children from it, in most cases they ramp it up..."
"We run a small but very successful school photography business that employs 2 people...
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"Our turnover normally is around 130k.
Due to the 2020 lockdown, our turnover for the year was less than 60k...
Fortunately we managed to operate at most of the schools during the Autumn to generate that 60k...
Due to the 2020 lockdown, our turnover for the year was less than 60k...
Fortunately we managed to operate at most of the schools during the Autumn to generate that 60k...
"We would usually expect to be going back into schools to photograph class groups from the start of April.
Our feeling this year is that we probably will not be allowed in again until the Autumn.
Another 40% turnover year for us...
Our feeling this year is that we probably will not be allowed in again until the Autumn.
Another 40% turnover year for us...
"Many other suppliers to schools will have been similarly impacted I’m sure.
Apart from the financial impact, the actual job of taking school photographs under the Covid regulations is not the happy carefree and joyous experience it was before March 2020...
Apart from the financial impact, the actual job of taking school photographs under the Covid regulations is not the happy carefree and joyous experience it was before March 2020...
"The children are corralled into place, sanitised incessantly, socially distanced + pretty much treated like cattle.
The fear and tension is all-pervasive + rather than schools protecting the children from that fear, in most cases (though not all +we applaud the exceptions)...
The fear and tension is all-pervasive + rather than schools protecting the children from that fear, in most cases (though not all +we applaud the exceptions)...
"...they ramp it up and make everything worse for them.
Signs around schools like ‘Waving is the new handshake’ certainly don’t help.
Parents are forced to muzzle up when gathering at the school entrance which further fans the flames of fear and anxiety...
Signs around schools like ‘Waving is the new handshake’ certainly don’t help.
Parents are forced to muzzle up when gathering at the school entrance which further fans the flames of fear and anxiety...
"Given the fact that in 2020, only a handful of people under the age of 20 died either of or with Covid-19, it makes absolutely no sense at all."
Just one story shared with us. We know there are so many more. #EnoughIsEnough
thesun.co.uk/news/13584329/…
Just one story shared with us. We know there are so many more. #EnoughIsEnough
thesun.co.uk/news/13584329/…
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