20togo
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So he was right and the schools are to shut. Well done Cat.
So in the interest of fairness will Cat come on here and acknowledge and congratulate the PM for coming to the right decision.
Schools are safe?
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So in the interest of fairness will Cat come on here and acknowledge and congratulate the PM for coming to the right decision.
Levi501
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Ah, but in his address to the Nation this evening, he managed to waffle that even up to the last minute they were trying to avoid school closures, hours before er, closing them down. If it wasn’t so serious it would be laughable. Dearie me.
20togo
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Seems you and Cat are reluctant to return to this thread and address my previous post..
1966_and_all_that
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It strikes me that people who want to dislike trades unions will say bad things about them irrespective of the situation. The teaching unions are there to look after their members. As Johnson (belatedly) admitted tonight, it's wrong that schools should be open with the probability that children will become vectors for transmission of the disease. There is nothing here with which to confect a dislike of the unions, beyond an irrational dislike of them as a concept.
Tangerinemoss
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Was reading an interesting article today, must find the link for it. It appears that COVID rates in teachers can be up to 333% higher than other adults in the same council areas.
This is no surprise to anyone with half a brain, even on Sunday Boris was talking about only the risk to kids, not those who work in schools, and those to whom the asymptomatic and symptomatic kids spread COVID. I read another twitter unroll claiming that some of the early work on kids was flawed because it regarded the first person in a family to be the prime, and tested children afterwards, missing the points that it might have been the child who was the vector. There is not enough detail for me to critique it, but it has the ring of Occam about it.
Absolutely the right thing to have done, and I would say well done Boris but for 2 things. Firstly, the day before he said it was safe, and secondly he ridiculed Keir Starmer for suggesting the same thing a few days ago.
This is no surprise to anyone with half a brain, even on Sunday Boris was talking about only the risk to kids, not those who work in schools, and those to whom the asymptomatic and symptomatic kids spread COVID. I read another twitter unroll claiming that some of the early work on kids was flawed because it regarded the first person in a family to be the prime, and tested children afterwards, missing the points that it might have been the child who was the vector. There is not enough detail for me to critique it, but it has the ring of Occam about it.
Absolutely the right thing to have done, and I would say well done Boris but for 2 things. Firstly, the day before he said it was safe, and secondly he ridiculed Keir Starmer for suggesting the same thing a few days ago.
Wizaard
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Why can't you see that it was the ONLY decision he could make but as always he left it far too late. The DFE were briefing yesterday morning that schools would remain open and exams would take place. It's not congratulations he needs, but a lesson in how to learn from failure. This exact same pattern happens time and time again
It's not even policy on the hoof, it's being forced into decisions he doesnt want to make, then giving that go ahead way too late. He'll turn round in the next week or so and blame teachers for a lack of preparedness.
1966_and_all_that
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John Crace in yesterday's Guardian: To predict Government policy, listen to Boris then wait for the opposite.
Wizaard
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How mental has the policy been when my daughter, who's a teacher, can be in a room full of kids from 30 different households, none of whom can be deemed to be 'safe', but can't go and see her sister's newborn child.