"Waiting for the situation to get worse is no way to handle an emergency" World Health Organisation says?

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So, any thoughts on this at all, given that the situation in schools and colleges is a total sxxtshow at the moment, in particular for teachers and pupils and ultimately families.

Why is our government ignoring the advice of this globally informed organisation and the BMA and the NHS confederation?

Or are they simply delusional?

Question is,

Am I being unreasonable to agree with the World Health Organisation?

No, this government are dangerously incompetent.

I'm bumping myself. Even if no one else does, I think this is worth saying...

Boris is an absolute bloody joke. He will do anything rather than try to restrict people.

He is terrified of giving us bad news but doesn't seem to realise that his actions now will involve bad news later.

Ds attends a small independent school that had no covid cases at all before this autumn.

Start of Autumn term, by the end of the first week, there were 7 cases. Headmaster immediately restored rules on masks in classrooms and on buses for all over 11s, staged lunches, classroom bubbles, supervised hand washing, compulsory twice weeklyLFTs. Now we have no cases.

The got needs to act equally swiftly, not sit on their hands.

He will do anything rather than try to restrict people

And yet there are a bajillion posts on the threads on here saying 'I won't comply' if he did decide on restrictions...

Numbers of cases of Covid - assuming that's what you're talking about when you don't mention it explicitly - in Scotland rose rapidly when schools went back here in August and are now falling equally rapidly. I have two children in secondary school, first few weeks back I was getting 2 or 3 emails a day saying there had been a case in my child's year group. Haven't had one for about 3 weeks now.

No "bubbles", yes the kids are supposed to be wearing the magic masks of immunity but according to my kids most are not covering their noses and they are definitely not wearing them when hanging around at lunch or break. Vaccination rates of 12-15 appear higher in Scotland though, speaking to parents it's more about getting the kids vaccinated then the scottish government have no excuse to keep the masks and other restrictions in schools.

Johnson is reckless and doesn't care. It will never be his problem to pick up the pieces. As long as him and his mates are OK he'll do what he likes.

But...but..but we're British and therefore exceptional. And our government has an exceptional track record in handling this crisis. Other nations are just jealous.

Since most of d's school seem to have had Covid now it's a bit like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted. The decision has been made to lift restrictions and I don't think many are prepared to go back to them.

They don't want to restrict people's freedoms by imposing lockdowns, masks etc. Delusions of grandeur there but it's in the tories best interests to do so because a lot of people who will die are their core support base. People in their teens and 20s might still get it but won't be at as much risk as a 70 yr old tory peer.

Boris hates giving bad news and being the unpopular one, he sends others to do it, he wants it all to be a big jolly jape, he doesn’t care if the bodies pile up, to use his own words. He is the extreme version of a Disney dad.

@awaynboilyurheid

Boris hates giving bad news and being the unpopular one, he sends others to do it, he wants it all to be a big jolly jape, he doesn’t care if the bodies pile up, to use his own words. He is the extreme version of a Disney dad.

That's absolutely true about him being a Disney dad! He only wants to give good news, wants to be Mr Popular, and inevitably leaves everything too late so that it's a bigger problem.

@RedHelenB

Since most of d's school seem to have had Covid now it's a bit like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted. The decision has been made to lift restrictions and I don't think many are prepared to go back to them.

But you can get it more than once and of course there are different variants anyway.

Boris would only press the brakes as the front wheels went over the edge of the cliff and then claim there was nothing he could've done to stop the car going off the cliff even tho people told him to hit the breaks 500m before the edge

@HollowTalk

Boris is an absolute bloody joke. He will do anything rather than try to restrict people.

He is terrified of giving us bad news but doesn't seem to realise that his actions now will involve bad news later.

Absolutely CORRECT. He is a coward who never, ever learns anything from his experiences.

I just wish they'd ask - at the press conferences, or on Marr or whenever - "WHY, do you thin, is the UK infection rate considerably worse than any other country in the world? What are all these other countries, especially the ones with similar population size, doing that we are NOY?"

It doesn't make sense looking at the numbers rising each day and doing nothing. Mask wearing and wfh is hardly draconian and will have an impact. 4/29 in DC's class off with CoVid.

Someone tweeted after the presser that you always know, when this govt says it's not going to do anything at all, that the actual time to take action was 3 weeks ago.