The Sixty-Fifth Republic - The Covid School Phoney War under way so who will the gold medal and who will get the wooden spoon?

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You can sit on chairs but keep the windows open. You don’t have to upload LFT results during the holidays. You do not have to wear mask - free choice

@Monkeytennis97, found it, Rite of Spring clap along. Including horrific 3rd beat of bar gong sight-reading nightmare .

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[quote CarrieBlue]@Appuskidu - see my earlier post - I’d misremembered the details, £20 voucher if sent home and tests and survey completed rather than £25 for positive. I don’t know if that’s better or worse![/quote]
Ahhh, right-sorry I didn’t read properly.

No, I’m not sure if that’s better or worse!

What’s probably worse of all of it, is that we all know, that no matter what the results of the trial were, the government and the press would report it to have been a success and no matter what scientists said about it, they’d just be criticised for being pinkie lefties with an agenda!

It was always going to be spun as a complete success, completely agree!

@DreamingofBrie I'm a pianist and a first study woodwind player (in orchestras), don't want to say which instrument as may be a bit too outing. I also play violin and viola and can play school band stuff on brass too. I love messing about on all instruments tbh!

@DreamingofBrie love it!!

Younger teachers will end up better off given suspicions of how quickly immunity wears off and how little talk of boosters there seems to be.

Sorry, tad negative.

Yeah, I'm a bit concerned that I got mine v early because of CEV dh but there seems to be no sign of a booster for relatives of CEV...

And I just miss out on the over 50 thing.

Surely they'd do boosters by date of 2nd dose than try to work out groups again?

Semi hopeful of boosters by occupation, surely that makes more sense. Teachers, NHS, carers etc first. WFH last.

The booster is because the vaccine wears off over time though, so giving a booster to a teacher who only got their second jab a couple of months previously makes no sense.

Good point noble. Hadn't thought of it like that. Otoh will they be able to boost everyone who needs it before winter?

God knows. Presumably all those places that got turned into vaccine centres will be needed back for their original purpose?

I think the money to incentivise students to get a PCR for the trial was fair enough HOWEVER it means that the trial doesn’t translate to real life, surely??

Good point:

The outline plan is to prioritise cev people and over 50's followed by people 18-49 who are considered vulnerable to covid or flu. The latter is the group I was vaccinated in last time. Mine were in March and May I think.

I think they were suggesting doing it at the same time as the flu jab?

Oh sorry just remembered it was also health and social care frontline workers too - but we weren't counted as part of that group last time despite doing the entire social care programme for young people single handed pretty much as everyone else was working from home.

@noblegiraffe

Surely they'd do boosters by date of 2nd dose than try to work out groups again?

I really hope so. I think I was the second or third fully vaccinated staff member in the whole school.

I don't see how they can justify not boosting teachers. We'll be the only people exposed to large groups of non vaccinated people. Even care and NHS is majority adults who have been mostly vaccinated.

I had my vaccine in March as a leftover but could fall in the not protected but gets no booster category as I won't qualify on age or CV.

Oh, Herc, Herc, Herc....

This shower of shite will simply do some Orwellian doublethink and declare (like last autumn) that teachers are safe because school children cannot spread Covid.

Whilst at the same time conducting press conferences with no journalists allowed in the room

Read this
bylinetimes.com/2021/06/10/independent-public-health-england-data-very-strongly-managed-by-government-documents-reveal/?fbclid=IwAR0LpdV7OrINlC6Sct0lgac1lJ-HSUtJvlhsIxMsdQ8_eQO8h_9hDtplbKk

Station I know. The holiday positivity is filling me with false hope.

I’m early 40s and won’t be double jabbed until later this week. I could have moved the 2nd jab forward but I didn’t want to end up needing time off work after the first one had knocked me out for a couple of days.