Perhaps pure coincidence?
I'd imagine since the end of July cases very slowly started to rise. Coincides with us all wearing a mask places. Means nothing but a sheer coincidence.
Given the sheer amount of things opening up , normality creeping back in, social lives getting back to normal, drunk nights out, shoppers wearing less masks , workplaces packing workers back in after shielding ends etc. It's pure coincidence that schools going back has seen more cases. Given that the virus is meant to have an incubation period of 2 weeks , you can date it back before schools opened.
Plus given the numbers of infected, much less kids are positive than it seems , the story just inflates in the media to make it sound much worse. I'd love to know how many countrywide are testing positive as I only hear any cases in Liverpool in general news.
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I remember in August the gov made a point - through media - of saying that when schools opened there would be trade offs.
Basically this is the trade off.
Had this discussion with my dad last night, though, in regards to the Uni students.
I totally agree schools have to be back. People who are parents and need to work simply can't be looking after their kids in the day forever, it's not sustainable. Plus, the school system needs to be kept going, it is key.
But... Uni wise, could there not have been another way around it? Just say all courses were home learning - they might as well be any way - and defer students going to the unis/halls whatever until next spring?
It's not like 18/19-year-olds or older need any looking after like an 8/9-yr old does.
Just seems it could have been a sensible trade off and stopped the risk of loads of students spreading it around the country.
I mean, the real solution is to get on with it and get back to normal, but the government managed to contribute net zero towards that being able to happen over the course of the last six months and we are where we are.
