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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Don't know about Munroe. This from January has clear involvement from Dingwall and others meeting with MPs to try to influence them.

twitter.com/karamballes/status/1420071745843761153?s=21

The amount of access they had is quite shocking. Plus journalists working for them.

Reading this sort of stuff makes me so angry about how Dingwall used his position as a member of the JCVI to swing public opinion about vaccinating kids, whereas his opinion wasn't a considered, scientific balancing of the data but formed well before the data came in.

Thank you. They're a shower of shite, that much is clear.

Monroe is a favourite of U4T.

Interestingly, somewhere in that Karam Bales thread Shamez Ladhani is mentioned : today he is mentioned in the Times as having led a PHE study 'proving' that children in bubbles where a child tests positive. do not pose an elevated risk to their households. Nonetheless , it does show that the initial child in a 'bubble' to test positive at secondary passed on the infection to a household member 87% of the time.

The confidence that things are 'fine' comes from the fact that much lower infection rate was seen in any other children in bubbles who tested positive.

Oh and guess what I just found online .... not mentioned in The times (funny that!). It was an Alpha variant study...

twitter.com/ShamezLadhani/status/1421405971994316802?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Oh hang on. Think that's a different study...

His Twitter feed is certainly interesting...

This article, piggy?

They are being pre-emptive of a return to bubbles aren’t they?

Interesting that 2-3% of contacts tested positive when the LFT daily testing study had 1.5%. Also 10% of primary and 3.9% of secondary were infected but not all tested positive.

For the first positive, 33% of primary and 87% of secondary ended up with family members testing positive but only 6.5% and 5.3% of those who were contacts. Perhaps because they were isolating?!

[quote DreamingofBrie]I think the In Harmony programming from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic is inspiring, when you look at the children who carry on to Secondary and go on to play in the Royal Liverpool Youth Orchestra - the music education would be life-changing for those children an is a great example of where you could spend £4 million well!

www.liverpoolphil.com/about-us/in-harmony-liverpool/[/quote]

That's amazing! Definitely worth the money.

But, Tories 🤷🏻‍♀️

Indeed @WarriorN 😢

@WarriorN, I didn't realise till I read the whole page that there are more than one In Harmony programmes in the UK. It gives me great joy to know that. The RLPO are phenomenal too, a world class orchestra. The 10y celebration video makes me a bit teary!

I don’t even know what I mic drop is....

@JanFebAnyMonth

I don’t even know what I mic drop is....

I've been wondering if it'd be embarrassing to ask Noble the significance of tge Square before the mic drop 😁...

But, Tories 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yes to that too .

@JanFebAnyMonth

I don’t even know what I mic drop is....

You do it when you know you have bossed something.

Brie the end of proof tombstone. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombstone_(typography)

Means the same as QED.

I only found recently that some people don't do the cool lightning bolt for a proof by contradiction. They are wrong.

Perhaps because they were isolating?! : that doesn't make sense , though, because this is family where a child is positive.

@noblegiraffe

Brie the end of proof tombstone. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombstone_(typography)

Means the same as QED.

I only found recently that some people don't do the cool lightning bolt for a proof by contradiction. They are wrong.

Every day is a learning day!

I think I've taught proof by contradiction once (twice?) so the lightning bolt is new to me!

Actually, that paragraph isn't clear. The initial positive child had a high risk of infecting family members. The contacts had a much lower risk of infecting family members. It doesn't say whether the contacts in question actually had covid?

What was your degree, Brie?

A friend who did a maths degree recently tried to convince me that the correct sign for a proof by contradiction was this rubbish hash symbol thing. No way.

'But we assumed that a and b had no common factors so this is a contradiction POW lightning bolt therefore root 2 is irrational BOOM tombstone drop mic'.

What was your degree, Brie?

Chemical Engineering. I always feel that I am "not maths enough" to be a real maths teacher. I was out of education for 15 years before I became a teacher too.

Nah the maths in an engineering degree is harder than the maths in a maths degree.

I dunno, dh has a maths degree and I remember staring at his questions in absolute bafflement.... so much Greek!

@noblegiraffe

Actually, that paragraph isn't clear. The initial positive child had a high risk of infecting family members. The contacts had a much lower risk of infecting family members. It doesn't say whether the contacts in question actually had covid?

In the study I believe it does . But I am confused now...

@DreamingofBrie

I dunno, dh has a maths degree and I remember staring at his questions in absolute bafflement.... so much Greek!

One of the reasons I did music- lots of Italian, French and German as well as deciding the notes too. Would have loved to have studied Greek- sadly it was Latin or Greek in my school.