Schools are in the community ! Where do you think that transmission came from ? Schools were rife with Covid last term and it was being brought home by kids to their families.
That’s fine but what about policemen, supermarket workers etc etc. The Government can’t take decisions in isolation. I agree that there is a strong argument for teachers, but with modeling predicting the re-opening of schools on March 8th will increase the R number to 1.6 (source: Sky News...
What happened next was schools were re-opened....
Scientists have explained the risk to the vaccination programme posed by mutations of the virus. As to the 3 weeks or 5 weeks that is a decision for scientists. I don’t have an opinion and I am not sure why anyone in Joe Public would have one.
The past few weeks the broadcast media has been full of pieces about children’s mental health and virtually nothing about the risks to teachers or families. The other day I saw a 5 year old on Sky TV discussing mental health and I realized the way things were going.
Thank goodness Keir Starmer and Labour are onboard. The Government can get this through without needing any of the ‘all that matters is the economy’ brigade.
I read an article this morning that may explain. Something to do with being in the midst of the vaccination programme with its impact on immune systems being a breeding ground for new variants. If we have to wait then it isn’t incompetence or malevolence. There will be a reason to do with...