So let's keep the schools shut. I don't see why it is deemed acceptable to place teachers at unnecessary risk when they can just as easily not reopen the schools.
I did wonder if we got to a certain point where it might be easier to play the last x games of a season out with no fans to avoid accusations of bias, seems we might be about to hit exactly that scenario (and in a potentially massive match)
I just cannot fathom why Johnson is so continually refusing to vaccinate teachers. Now that the priority groups are done it wouldn't be a major indentation in the figures to do them. Has he just backed himself into too much of a corner to come out of it?
I think a wait after school reopening makes absolute sense (to divert from majority opinion on here), as I mentioned previously I think this is the real big risk factor and if things can be maintained to a manageable level as a result of this then things after that can get speeded up as...
The school reopenings feels like the big potential banana skin, SAGE thinking this might push the R back up above 1 which could delay things. I think the two weeks after that really define how much of this actually goes ahead or whether it holds steady (or even reverses). If we get through that...
Which means that the younger generations, who have sacrificed the most of anyone to protect the elderly in this pandemic, will presumably continue to be locked out of society waiting for a jab because they're last on the list?