If the weasel had been sacked and sent to prison for a week, it would have sent the right message and maybe some of the covidiots would have got the message
Really? You didn't find it slightly disingenuous that only a few weeks before, Boris was saying '...go and mix...go spread the virus around in up to 3 households...' and as a consequence of that, the implied '...go shop, go 'bustle'....' knowing that the new strain spreads easier? Now the effect is being seen, he has no option. But the option was there in early December to slow this down wasn't it?
What are the public supposed to believe? It was fine to mix over Christmas, but now you have to act as though you have the virus? The scientists were saying that before Christmas - but Boris didn't want to be seen as the Grinch as that epithet would have lasted til the next election. The man/party that stole Christmas was avoided, but deaths weren't.
Well yes - all the government decisions have been running too late behind the science, so last night was the first time I felt he was closer to acknowledging the seriousness.
Sorry @AuntyRach , the reaction of the Gov at times frustrates the hell out of me. I know they have had a hard time and I doubt any Gov would have fared much better, but certain decisions just can't be ignored or 'forgotten' so quickly.
Maybe I misjudge the population, but I think that once the Gov gives something the go-ahead, the population in general thinks it must then be ok/safe(r) to do those things. BUT Christmas gatherings weren't safe in anyway shape or form - the 'three household' thing was just damage limitation - nothing more.
And if I hear one more minister saying that schools are safe.... fine, kids don't appear to exhibit symptoms, but I think it's now widely acknowledged that it doesn't stop them shedding the virus if they contract it. So the school itself may be safe(r) for kids, but they act as virus pools - or have I got that wrong?
I wish Williamson et al would stop talking about schools as if they consist entirely of children ... there are many adults working in and visiting schools every day, teachers, teaching assistants, technicians, office staff, support staff, cooks and ‘canteen’ staff, playground supervisors, school nurses, bus drivers, taxi drivers, bus supervisors, crossing patrol persons etc etc etc ... these people all have families, some of whom may be extremely vulnerable themselves. It’s never been the case that just because children don’t seem to get Covid badly, it’s safe for schools to be open. Safe for whom?
I know there are difficulties and negative effects for children when schools are closed ... but there were negative effects on the children who were evacuated from cities and sent to live with unknown folk during WW2 ... but at least they weren’t being killed in bombing raids. Sometimes we have to prioritise and accept that life cannot always be perfect.
And to keep on justifying keeping schools open by saying, as they do, that some children are safer in schools than in their own homes with their families ... isn’t it appalling that in the fifth or sixth richest nation in the world this is a situation that we have been aware of and have been quite content to allow to continue ... until now? This is the government that withdrew funding from children’s centres and the SureStart scheme ... and it’s only now that they’re wringing their hands that children may be at risk ... nothing but crocodile tears. 😡
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My daughter was back to work yesterday with her child minding, one of her child’s parents is a paramedic, he can’t get a vaccine for love not money, it annoys me that they are vaccinating 100 year olds who are just sitting in care homes yet someone like him is at great risk, thus putting my daughter and her family at risk as well.
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Well said @Dovefromabove. For some reason no one gives a hoot about the school staff. Life has been impossible for them this year but they have been called lazy and difficult by the press. They have been ignored re PPE and vaccinations and the money promised to help them provide for vulnerable children simply hasn’t come through.
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I know there are difficulties and negative effects for children when schools are closed ... but there were negative effects on the children who were evacuated from cities and sent to live with unknown folk during WW2 ... but at least they weren’t being killed in bombing raids. Sometimes we have to prioritise and accept that life cannot always be perfect.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.