agreed.Independent Sage this week is on schools. 10% of the student population out of schools due to covid. Lots of good suggestions of how to improve things without shutting schools that will never happen because of our criminal government.
There was plenty of suggestion about how to keep schools open more safely to avoid the social fallout caused by closing them. But the government will not even acknowledge the issues because then they'd have to act, they are deliberately concealing the evidence.I was just coming here to post that beeb story ...
agreed.
this gov't is too much "in hock" to the business world, which needs people working to keep their profits up, people can't work if they have to look after their sprogs, ergo keep the schools open.
a problem with that approach is that older children are also catching covid ...
Was it really?Independent Sage this week is on schools. 10% of the student population out of schools due to covid. Lots of good suggestions of how to improve things without shutting schools that will never happen because of our criminal government.
A problem with that approach is that, like adults, children of all ages can catch and spread SARS-CoV-2. A small number of children develop COVID-19 (risk of developing serious disease/dying typically dropping with age; for deaths between/across sub-15 y.o. age cohorts the difference is close to negligible).a problem with that approach is that older children are also catching covid ...
A 'major incident' has been declared within the critical care unit at the Royal Stoke as more seriously-ill coronavirus patients are being transferred to hospitals across the West Midlands.
The critical care unit has seen its alert level increased from three to four as the Royal Stoke University Hospital last night had 38 Covid-19 patients on ventilators.
They were among 322 coronavirus patients currently in beds across the Royal Stoke and Stafford's County Hospital - and there are only seven ventilators left.
Now Royal Stoke bosses have reached an agreement with NHS trusts in Birmingham and Coventry and Warwickshire to transfer some of their critically-ill patients to hospitals in the West Midlands.
I honestly wonder whether a lot of MPs believe in the future at all. If there was a hurricane warning they'd be wandering around outside saying "well it's not even breezy, can't go boarding things up, what about the economy eh?"
I mean I know the Cabinet's attitude is frequently that the consequences of what you do don't matter as long as you can spin your way out of them when the time comes. But I wonder whether this has gone on so long that there's a basic conceptual problem now.
"The tiers we had in place before the lockdown had not suppressed [Covid] sufficiently: they were neither strong enough to reduce social contact sufficiently, nor applied widely enough to contain the virus's spread," he wrote.
He added that, across the UK, about 16,000 beds are filled with Covid-19 patients, compared to a peak in April of almost 20,000 and a low of 740 on 11 September.
"When the country is facing such a national crisis, the truth is that all of us who have been elected to Parliament, not just ministers, must take responsibility for difficult decisions," he said.
Fucking cunts
Doesn't anyone wear masks in London?
There'll be plenty of anti mask nutters there but it's an anti lockdown march and there'll be plenty who are okay with masks but not other restrictions too. In my experience masks aren't widely worn outdoors nor are they required to be.Not when they are marching against wearing them.
There were people crossing through the march and obviously not on it who didnt have masks on.Not when they are marching against wearing them.
Compulsory here if you cant socially distance on the streetsThere'll be plenty of anti mask nutters there but it's an anti lockdown march and there'll be plenty who are okay with masks but not other restrictions too. In my experience masks aren't widely worn outdoors nor are they required to be.
Maybe this needs it's own thread. An uncontrolled bird flu pandemic would be a civilisation ending event, luckily it doesn't transmit efficiently between humans really.Oh great, swans are dying all over the place, because of an outbreak of bird flu in the UK.
Poultry farms are being locked down.
Just fuck off 2020.
Bird flu: Swan deaths in UK investigated for link to European outbreak - reports
Some dying swans were found spinning in circles and bleeding from the nostrils, according to a report.news.sky.com
Not here except indoors in certain circumstances, and even then, not really. I mean technically the guidance is to distance at all times, but you are actually required by law to wear masks in shops too and loads of people don't and nothing happens to them.Compulsory here if you cant socially distance on the streets
In Brixton lots of the staff don't, even in the major retailers.Not here except indoors in certain circumstances, and even then, not really. I mean technically the guidance is to distance at all times, but you are actually required by law to wear masks in shops too and loads of people don't and nothing happens to them.
Staff are exempt from the law anyway, it's just customers.In Brixton lots of the staff don't, even in the major retailers.
Not here except indoors in certain circumstances, and even then, not really. I mean technically the guidance is to distance at all times, but you are actually required by law to wear masks in shops too and loads of people don't and nothing happens to them.
Staff are exempt from the law anyway, it's just customers.
I am pretty sure that they still are. Either that or literally every shop here, including the big chains, is breaking the law constantly.No they are not, that changed well before lockdown 2.
Bad news all round ..Oh great, swans are dying all over the place, because of an outbreak of bird flu in the UK.
Poultry farms are being locked down.
Just fuck off 2020.
Bird flu: Swan deaths in UK investigated for link to European outbreak - reports
Some dying swans were found spinning in circles and bleeding from the nostrils, according to a report.news.sky.com
I am pretty sure that they still are. Either that or literally every shop here, including the big chains, is breaking the law constantly.
This is the point where you cite the actual law. I could well not be up to date.Well you are wrong, and yes they are breaking the law.
Again, around here shop staff are wearing masks, unless behind plastic screens on the tills, and even then some are.
Not here except indoors in certain circumstances, and even then, not really. I mean technically the guidance is to distance at all times, but you are actually required by law to wear masks in shops too and loads of people don't and nothing happens to them.