Boris: Schools are safe the anxiety we have as a government is their role in spreading the disease

[MissMarpletheMurderer]

It's the mingling that's the problem and not the schools.

Oh and secondary schools are a bit of a problem and we will have to look at what happens to them later this month

All on SKY news atm.

Most seem to be running around like headless chickens.

My local council's schools page states "The new school term started on Monday 4 January, with primary-age children (from reception to year 6) and those in early years settings expected to attend on their school’s advertised first day of term" and then on the weekly coronavirus cases page it says "The single best action we can take to protect each other is to stay at home and not mix with people we don’t live with to protect the NHS and save lives."

So which is it?

What are the MPs supporting opening schools with no extra mitigation planning on doing if their hospitals are overwhelmed and they need healthcare? Do they have private doctors to use? Are private hospitals still in operation?

Just wondering.

Or are they just bunkering down.

We're in a tier 3 area and our primary school just announced its closing. We had one case since September. I can't do home schooling again, it was incredibly stressful and I can't listen to my kids bickering all day again. It's easy closing a school but when do you open again? When is it safe? I can't stand the uncertainty.

What a cockwomble.

Private hospitals don't generally do emergency care so that's not the reason MPs don't care about the collapse of the NHS.

They need to make schools safer. If they'd been safer they'd not need to close now.

My friend's kid in MA, USA has one week in school one week home learning (live streamed lessons) - masks and SD desks in school all the time (only time not wearing masks while eating lunch).

They had rates similar to us in the summer, their rates are about 20x lower than ours now. It's not a bloody coincidence.

It's the most bizarre statement.

That's exactly why I am anxious Boris. My DC can get Covid in school and bring it home to the family.

I'm now curious to know what he thinks people are worried about ¯\(ツ)/¯

So it's bunkering down then and hoping to privatise the NHS on the back of it's collapse?

How many MPs have primary aged children who go to state schools I wonder.

I watched the interview and it sounded to me like he was just buying time.

@IloveJKRowling

Not the same as putting a non masked teacher in a small room with 30 bodies that aren't capable of SD

Yes - in rooms that are too small to SD, and the latest data is that kids transmit the new variant more than adults.

Link to data?

Just more Boris Bullshit. The man is a complete liability. Totally unfit to lead. Delay delay delay until it's far too fucking late. Useless.

I got the impression that he was trying to say that children are not at risk, teachers are at no more risk than any other employee, but that the mingling/spreading was a problem for the wider community.

Also got the impression that he wants to keep primary open and shut secondary.

@Bewareoftheblob

I got the impression that he was trying to say that children are not at risk, teachers are at no more risk than any other employee, but that the mingling/spreading was a problem for the wider community.

Also got the impression that he wants to keep primary open and shut secondary.

He knows that if he shuts secondary he’ll be forced to also shut primaries.

Jeremy hunt is brilliant he is getting to the heart of it.
Can't he take over 1⃣ of the other roles

He knows that if he shuts secondary he’ll be forced to also shut primaries.

Maybe, but I wonder what difference shutting primary makes. Our local primary has 70% of children in last March/April - all apparently keyworker children. I guess it's still smaller groups at least.

@Emeeno1

Most seem to be running around like headless chickens.

My local council's schools page states "The new school term started on Monday 4 January, with primary-age children (from reception to year 6) and those in early years settings expected to attend on their school’s advertised first day of term" and then on the weekly coronavirus cases page it says "The single best action we can take to protect each other is to stay at home and not mix with people we don’t live with to protect the NHS and save lives."

So which is it?

Yes this in an absolute nutshell. How can they they not see how ludicrous this is. Schools are exactly the same as a family of 4 visiting your in laws in the living room of their home except with quadruple the amount of people.

link to data?

It's on Christina Pagel's twitter feed - the Imperial study of new variant.

@Barbie222

What he seems to be saying is “school buildings are safe but what actually happens in schools isn’t”

That's what I heard too lol.

Did he say that again? Again? For goodness sake he said that twice in the last press conference on the 30th! And he’s still parroting the same crap? Ffs. Time for him to go!

@MissMarpletheMurderer

It's the mingling that's the problem and not the schools.

Oh and secondary schools are a bit of a problem and we will have to look at what happens to them later this month

All on SKY news atm.

I'm still trying to work out what he actually meant?

Is he saying the buildings aren't an issue themselves? At least while empty!

Nicola sturgeon making a statement now.

She's so much clearer, explains it so well. Has an open and honest attitude.

She explained they are acting now before things get out of control. She all but said "like England"

She's also closed schools until February. Explained they just don't know yet the impact of new virus and until they do it's safer to remote learn.

Oh and they are considering nursery and school staff to be added to vaccine priority list.

Schools will be first thing to open up after this period of lockdown.

Thanked all businesses for everything they done too.

It's also blatantly obvious that they need to cancel GCSEs and A Levels etc. They won't want to close Secondary for that reason.

Explained they just don't know yet the impact of new virus and until they do it's safer to remote learn.

Well, how sensible. An actual leader, I wonder what having one of those in charge of your government feels like....

@Panickingpavlova

Jeremy hunt is brilliant he is getting to the heart of it. Can't he take over 1⃣ of the other roles

I know! I mean Fuck Me, Hunt is the voice on sanity in the government. Tbh that's the weirdest thing that has happened this pandemic.

It's so true about imposter syndrome, I'm not going to suffer it again!

You lot also made me