Kirstie Allsopp is at it again

[peppapigisscottish]

She's tweeted (spelling.typos are hers):

I am NOT having a go at teachers, but how can we argue against schools going back when we’ve never even asked if teachers could infect kids with measles, mumps, meningitis etc.? Covid is NOT a denger to kids and is far less of a denger to teachers than many believe.

and yet this is her bio:

"All we can do at the moment is be kind, compassionate & sensible. When we can’t hug we shouldn’t judge."

What a riddy

A posh voice and absolute conviction in your own beliefs regardless of any knowledge, insight or intelligence is very this season.

Buzzfrightyears - you do realise that children are expected to remain in school or some other form of education until they are 18, I assume? Why are people so lazy when talking about schools and trying to argue that there is mounting evidence that “children” (age unspecified) play little role in spreading covid 19? Why not be honest about the age group you are actually talking about? And are nurses in paediatric wards working there without any extra PPE because of the low risk to them and the children? Or are schools just being asked to test out a theory with lots of exceptions by those who keep using this argument?

Whilst i don't agree with what she has written, please note she is dyslexic which may explain the spelling mistake. The parroting of her spelling mistake is not overly pleasant!

I quite like her. She's entitled to her opinion, even if it's clumsy and unnecessary.

The BBC News has just reported on the little baby's death, they said there were no known underlying conditions

I was a prolific poster back when Mumsnet was terribly new. It was all ‘ oh shit I have a baby, wtf’, it was a very lovely place then.

Kirsty isn’t horrid, never has been, she’s just a terribly privileged person who perhaps hasn’t had to live life (remember the Boden Muvvers).

If you are a public figure, your Twitter is part of your publicity and brand. In Allsopp's case, her brand is about making handmade things look pretty. It would make sense to have someone check your tweets if you know that the spelling is likely to detract from the message.

I really don’t get why seemingly intelligent people cannot see the bigger picture.

I agree with you about that but it's a little off topic. This thread is about Kirsty Allsopp.

@Walkaround a friend of mine who is a paediatric nurse doesn’t wear PPE on the ward. She told me it’s got nothing to do with risk and everything to do with trying to keep things as normal as possible for the patients. Not sure if that’s the case for all paediatric wards.

At what age are (some studies) suggesting children are low/no risk of Corona? Is it Primary, secondary, sixth form? Have actually numbers been put out there?

Send Kirsty Allsopp in to teach then. Full time teaching job in an inner city school.

Stupid arrogant prat.

@Lilybet1980 read an article today about a paediatric ward being closed down after a staff member tested positive, maybe they should be!

Buzzfrightyear, I don't claim to be an expert on the pandemic or health in general but I do know an awful lot about schools and how they tick. And I didn't need more than a tiny fraction of that knowledge to understand the difference between thirty children in close proximity to each other all day, mostly inside, five days a week and families strolling past each other outside at the zoo or popping in and out of a department store. I'm baffled you think the risks comparable. I would have thought anyone who ever went to school could see the difference, but no. There's no accounting for it.

Tootletum Thu 18-Jun-20 22:19:53
I quite like her. She's entitled to her opinion, even if it's clumsy and unnecessary.
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I like her too, very much. I don't know what the fuss is about what she said, I don't necessarily agree with her (apart from being kind), but I've seen exactly the same opinions from posters on here, over and over.

Some of the venom against Kirstie is unwarranted. She strikes me as an engaging, creative person with a fun and friendly personality if a bit schoolgirlish in manner. There's nothing pretentious or arrogant about her, she's herself. The chemistry between her and Phil Spencer makes a programme about buying and selling houses quite an interesting game.

I don't do twitter but have read tweets and people say what they think at the time. She is no different to anyone else in that and of course, education affects her as she has two children at school. If I still had a child at school I'd be in no hurry to get them back in the classroom, not just for their sakes but for the staff,. However that's me, loads of people on here would disagree, yet I doubt anyone would be so hateful towards me as they are towards Kirstie A. Nor would they make an issue out of my typos.

Know her IRL
Yes she is dyslexic.
Yes it is the gin.
Yes these are difficult times.

@Lynda07
Ditto.👍🏼

Nope, sorry packing your family off to your second home whilst at least one of the family have coronavirus, off to Devon where there is limited hospital space, no that’s just arrogant wanker behaviour.

From the Metro:
Kirstie Allsopp has hit back at online trolls demanding she ‘go back to London’ as she self-isolates amid the coronavirus outbreak in Devon at her family home. Speaking to Metro.co.uk, Kirstie insisted her family didn’t ‘flee’ to the countryside, she lives there, and they headed home after her husband’s diagnosis with Covid-19, before government implemented the self-isolation guidelines.
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Three months ago. She did nothing wrong. Actually I think she did the most sensible thing in the circumstances, I'm sure the air is better in Devon than in London and it is their home for goodness sake, not a pied a terre. No doubt she drove straight there with a lot of supplies and they all stayed at home.

ineedaholidaynow Thu 18-Jun-20 22:22:21
The BBC News has just reported on the little baby's death, they said there were no known underlying conditions
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That is heartbreaking.

I hadn’t realised she was a scientist.

Mumsnet would have been a very quiet place over the last 3 months if only medical or science personnel were allowed to give their view on Covid. Regardless of if you agree, she can give her opinion the same as the rest of us have been doing. And the 'posh' comments are just the usual inverted snobbery that for some reason is allowed on here. If she was 'working class' or had a 'common' accent and someone pointed it out to undermine her right to an opinion they'd be eviscerated on here, but slating her for being wealthy is fine apparently.

Kirstie Allsopp has hit back at online trolls demanding she ‘go back to London’ as she self-isolates amid the coronavirus outbreak in Devon at her family home. Speaking to Metro.co.uk, Kirstie insisted her family didn’t ‘flee’ to the countryside, she lives there, and they headed home after her husband’s diagnosis with Covid-19

I feel she’s being rather flexible with the truth. She lives in central London. Her kids go to school in central London. She’s talked about how they skateboard through central London to get to school every day. So they did not head home. They headed to their holiday cottage. Which if it was before lockdown was maybe within the rules. Though I think when her dh had a positive diagnosis was unfair on local residents.....if he’d deteriorated and needed ICU it takes a bed away from locals in an area where there aren’t many beds.

But she should at least be honest. And say they did what they wanted to do and aren’t that bothered what people think. That they went to a second property which they own.

The baby did not die of Covid. Maternal Covid-19 was a secondary factor.

Different baby I think.
This is a baby who died just this week in Sheffield children's hospital.
It was only published in the press yesterday I think, and there are no statements out yet stating Covid was a secondary factor.

@Samtsirch

Know her IRL Yes she is dyslexic. Yes it is the gin. Yes these are difficult times.

Yes it is the gin? Eh?

She is a very annoying woman without her ridiculous tweets.