but.............. I thought they were getting two tests a day!!!
There was a piece on the Today programme that I complained about. It was supposed to be news but didn't seem to have had any deeper research behind why Stockholm ICU is jam packed and inferring it is because of Sweden's non lockdown policy. I agree that the Beeb tries to be impartial but mainly by stringently having a spokesperson from each side rather than by employing people with a diversity of opinion on identity politics, green politics, Brexit and therefore some diversity in its editorial tone .
Independent schools can decide if they want to teach online only or remain open.
That's interesting. I also suspect parents don't want their kids unable to fly too given all the overseas students that there are at Eton.
It is by those of us who have it.
ON principle that they should never ever have their education taken away from them again? It was wrong in March and it is still wrong now but I know that others see them as plague carrying granny killers etc. rather than future tax paying citizens who deserve better than the deal they've had recently..
better to lose some education than infect vulnerable people, even if they dont know the ones they have spread it to. People managed in wartime etc, its only for a relatively short time, which would be shorter if proper lockdown was allowed.
Not so much granny killers as teacher infectors. Let's worry about those who also pay taxes right now too.
Look if anyone here can show me stats showing teachers are getting any more ill from this than any other section of society please do.
More ill, maybe not. But how do you keep schools open with teachers and pupils at home self isolating?
Why would teachers have to get more ill than any other sections of society in order to qualify for safe working conditions? Doesn't make sense.
Err they did and they didn't get more ill. No signal. Nothing even through the height of the pandemic.
The data hasn't been published but it follows if the highest infection rates in society are at school, then teachers are getting more ill than other front line workers. They certainly are not wanting to publish the numbers. I think Germany closing its schools shows it's more concerned about its citizens than populist ideas our Government has about not closing schools at all costs.
