You have to remember, Boris' illness was all a cover and the doctors and nurses were actors from Casualty.
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You have to remember, Boris' illness was all a cover and the doctors and nurses were actors from Casualty.
The binman chronicles
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France have just had to close 7 schools, surely this hokey cokey method is more harmful to kids than just having an online tutoring programme.
French schools shut after child tests positive
Seven schools have closed as a precaution in the north-eastern French city of Roubaix after a child tested positive for coronavirus.
Officials say they will tell the families of those who came in contact with the child. Meanwhile, the shuttered schools will conduct lessons remotely.
French schools began to reopen last week as the country slowly eased its lockdown. But many were concerned about the move, with one poll showing 69% of respondents thought authorities could not keep them safe. A number of other schools have since closed because of positive cases.
Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer told French broadcaster RTL on Monday that 70 cases of the virus had been found in the roughly 40,000 schools that have opened since last week. He said all affected schools had been shut, showing how strict the authorities were being on safety.
But he also said that not teaching children could have serious consequences. "Our children must not be collateral victims of health measures," he reportedly said.
tsubaki
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There are ways they (and the rest of the workforce) can do a lot of that now - go to a four day week, so you have a different fifth of the class off (or taking part in the lesson remotely) on every day.
Give the parents the same day off in the week and you help with public transport and lowering exposure at work too.
Are you stating this as fact or in your opinion ?
If you’re stating as fact something to back it up would be good.
OnlyBlueWillDo
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How much have the Tories cut from health and social care the last 10 years, how many times in those years they were told they were harming the NHS by doing so, putting more burden on hospitals.
They've reaped what they sowed, and the public get the government they deserve by voting Johnson in again like utter idiots, it's been said many many times, Turkeys voting for Xmas.
Returning people with Covid back to care homes is why we are seeing nearly half the deaths to this virus now come from those homes for the most vulnerable in our society, it's a shocking scandal that this government needs to be held to account for.
It's truly disgusting what they've done, the worst government in the world at handling this pandemic, that's what we have in charge here.
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It just showed how weak as an opposition the Labour party was under Corbyn.
The school near us has gone to a partial return.
The kids are as normal in the classroom - yet have to social distance in the playground ????????
Relatives want the government to be held to account. Johnson, Hancock, Raab, Gove et al will find it increasingly hard to hide behind anyone and anything.
Coronavirus: Daughter's anger as father dies after ... - Sky News
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"The daughter of a man who died with suspected coronavirus has told Sky News she wants to know who signed off on a government policy to allow untested COVID-19 patients to be sent to care homes, potentially spreading the virus.
Dr Cathy Gardner says she fears the policy could have been a factor in the death of her 88-year-old father Michael Gibson, who passed away in a care home in Oxfordshire on 3 April.
She has described the government's discharge policies as "irresponsible".
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We are nowhere near those countries in terms of recovery. Just look at weeks 17 and 18 here.
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Measuring excess mortality: England is the European outlier in the Covid-19 pandemic
Excess mortality data avoid miscounting deaths from under-reporting of Covid-19-related deaths and other health conditions left untreated. According to EuroMOMO, which tracks excess mortality for 24 European states, England had the highest peak weekly excess mortality in total, for the over-65s...voxeu.org
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...are you just going ignore that? ^^^^
Was planning to yes, but I don't get your point.
I said we learn from Italy, hopefully all goes well for them, and in a few weeks we can follow suit.
That would tally with your point that we are a few weeks behind Italy.
If everything goes well for the similarly effected European countries then there is no logical argument against relaxing things here.
We need things to be back to as close to normal ASAP. We will not be able to reduce risks to nil any time soon so we need to mitigate the risk as best we can.
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davek
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Hopefully one day there will be a reckoning for those who constructed that policy....preferably involving a noose.
They are murderers. No ifs or buts. They've conspired to murder people.
davek
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I didn't say we are a few weeks behind. I said we are miles behind.
Stevie Wonder could read that table and draw more rational conclusions than you.
davek
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Bankrupt....You're calling me out for being irrational???
I'll just leave that table here so other people can again peruse the details and understand how we cant look at Italian and Spanish and French developments and steadily come out of lockdown as threy are starting to.
EU calls for independent probe into the WHO’s pandemic response
The European Union and other countries have called for an independent assessment of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) response to the coronavirus pandemic “to review experience gained and lessons learned”.
The resolution has the support of more than half of the WHO’s member countries and will be discussed this week at the decision-making body of the UN health agency, being held virtually this year.
The move comes amid Australia’s call for an independent inquiry into the origins of the pandemic and the WHO’s response to it — and after Donald Trump’s repeated accusations that the WHO helped China cover up the extent of the initial Covid-19 outbreak.
Mr Trump has also called for an immediate halt to all US funding to the UN health agency.
The EU resolution proposes that the independent evaluation should be initiated “at the earliest appropriate moment” and should, among other issues, examine “the actions of the WHO and their timelines pertaining to the Covid-19 pandemic”.
The WHO announced the coronavirus outbreak to be a global health emergency on January 30, its highest level of alert. In the following weeks, the WHO warned countries there was a narrowing “window of opportunity” to prevent the virus from spreading globally.
WHO officials, however, repeatedly described the transmission of the virus as “limited” and said it was not as transmissible as flu; experts have since said Covid-19 spreads even faster.
It declared the outbreak to be a pandemic on March 11, after the virus had killed thousands globally and sparked large epidemics in South Korea, Italy, Iran and elsewhere.
The European Union and other countries have called for an independent assessment of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) response to the coronavirus pandemic “to review experience gained and lessons learned”.
The resolution has the support of more than half of the WHO’s member countries and will be discussed this week at the decision-making body of the UN health agency, being held virtually this year.
The move comes amid Australia’s call for an independent inquiry into the origins of the pandemic and the WHO’s response to it — and after Donald Trump’s repeated accusations that the WHO helped China cover up the extent of the initial Covid-19 outbreak.
Mr Trump has also called for an immediate halt to all US funding to the UN health agency.
The EU resolution proposes that the independent evaluation should be initiated “at the earliest appropriate moment” and should, among other issues, examine “the actions of the WHO and their timelines pertaining to the Covid-19 pandemic”.
The WHO announced the coronavirus outbreak to be a global health emergency on January 30, its highest level of alert. In the following weeks, the WHO warned countries there was a narrowing “window of opportunity” to prevent the virus from spreading globally.
WHO officials, however, repeatedly described the transmission of the virus as “limited” and said it was not as transmissible as flu; experts have since said Covid-19 spreads even faster.
It declared the outbreak to be a pandemic on March 11, after the virus had killed thousands globally and sparked large epidemics in South Korea, Italy, Iran and elsewhere.
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