If this doesn’t make you think twice about breaking COVID rules....

[Strawberrycreamsundae]

Then nothing will......🤬😡
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55479018

And yet schools are open.

:( It's so sad that doctors that are so overwhelmed are having to do this.

Where is the leadership from government?

It really doesn’t mean much when schools are open, especially in T4 areas.

@DownWhichOfLate what do you think should happen to the kids of none key worker parents? Not being goady, genuine question

God bless our doctors/nurses/health care assistants/cleaners/porters etc.

We can’t have it all, we can only afford to have a certain level of society open, surely schools must be a priority?

Blood on their hands....really

It's a virus ffs. We're not all Lady Macbeth with a knife in our hands
I'm sticking to the rules, not because I agree with them but because my autistic brain won't let me not and even I think I'd stick 2 fingers up at someone who told me I had blood on my hands for not wearing a mask (can't wear one, have a bloody lanyard round my neck on the very few occasions I'm anywhere that needs one).

I thought his comments were very hyperbolic. I had to switch station because my ire started to rise when he started ranting.

He basically implied that everyone who caught C19 was either a totally innocent victim or a desperately bad selfish person. No inbetween. Nobody understandably struggling with horrible decisions.

So yeah, his comments make me think twice -- but in opposite way OP wanted. I am sorry the man is stressed out but his guilt-mongering still backfires with me.

Wouldn't surprise me if someone comes forward to say the guy himself has not followed every rule perfectly since February. He's set himself up for it.

I get and understand he's angry but he's directing it at the wrong people.

Be angry at the failure to shut schools when cases spiralled in December, be angry at the piss poor test and trace, the delayed PPE, the failure to manage international travel and quarantining for months, the years of inadequate funding to the NHS etc etc etc

@LST - is furlough still an option? It just seems madness to keep schools open whilst also having articles such as this.

@DownWhichOfLate me and my dp have never been furloughed. The worm is there. So no.

*work sorry

Unfortunately his hyperbolic statements are having the opposite effect. But to be fair he's not the only one guilty of that.

I have been in my immediate family group since Christmas- this government will shortly force myself and my children into large crwods with no ppe totally several hundred people - every single day .

Super. I'll just go into my SEN school on Monday and tell all my students they're selfish twats with blood on their hands!

I got a notification from NHS track&trace to isolate due to contact I'd had. Doing the maths that was a Saturday when the only place I'd been was to a shopping centre to pick up groceries and a plunger.

Fortunately I tested and was negative, but could easily have been a positive. I was following all of the rules, going out for essential items (still Tier 2 at this point btw), wearing a mask, and distancing. I live alone btw, so that is the only social contact I'd had.

Not everyone getting the virus is 'breaking the rules', in fact I'd hazard a guess that most aren't.

Completely understand his anger. He must be exhausted and in despair. But the government likes to blame the public too, because it deflects from their lethal incompetence. He’s not wrong, but it isn’t the whole story. We are only part of the problem.

Epidemiologists are saying on Twitter that they’re horrified by schools staying open in January, not least because it gives the virus more opportunity to mutate in ways that the vaccines might not be able to protect against. It is an almighty shitshow all round.

@LST - I don’t know. What would you do if your child has to isolate for two weeks? Maybe more than once in quick succession?

@DownWhichOfLate wfh. But they wouldn't be getting homeschooling at the same time.

I didn't hear the interview.

The article is fair warning about not breaking rules on socialising, especially New Year's Eve gatherings. And the message about that is right.

"The people we are getting are, like the first wave, my age really. I am 58 and I would say half the patients are younger than me. It is middle-aged people or a little bit older that we are getting."

I would not be surprised at all if he has followed every rule to the letter (highly principled individual)

DownWhichOfLate

@LST - is furlough still an option? It just seems madness to keep schools open whilst also having articles such as this.

I think it’s your works discretion. I have no childcare from the 4th to the 18th January. I asked my work to be furloughed but they said no. It’s out of my hands, schools shut. I’m not a keyworker so I don’t get a place in the school hub. I’ll need to take it off unpaid. But I thought that’s why furlough was set up? To help those in need that have childcare issues?

@lljkk

I thought his comments were very hyperbolic. I had to switch station because my ire started to rise when he started ranting.

He basically implied that everyone who caught C19 was either a totally innocent victim or a desperately bad selfish person. No inbetween. Nobody understandably struggling with horrible decisions.

So yeah, his comments make me think twice -- but in opposite way OP wanted. I am sorry the man is stressed out but his guilt-mongering still backfires with me.

Wouldn't surprise me if someone comes forward to say the guy himself has not followed every rule perfectly since February. He's set himself up for it.

100% agree with this comment.

This scaremongering is extraordinarily dangerous and unnecessary.

All schools need to close. It's ludicrous some being open.