Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Nymzee]

Mmmm, this is Matt Chorley from the Times etc.

Of course they’re saying that now the lockdown has reached their beloved London.

 

[Seanjd]

Teaching union trying to get another extended paid holiday for their members.

Kids need to be at school for so many reasons.

Yes they spread the virus but the answer is to increase testing in schools.

University learning should have been remote. Full stop!

Teachers are in school whether or not schools are fully open like they are at the moment or only open for vulnerable and key workers. Teaching unions are paid to protect their members, and at the moment, schools are a hot bed of transmission more than anywhere else.

Rather than blaming the profession and implying that members are lazy, blame the government who promised to provide vulnerable children laptops so they can access learning at home but haven’t. If this was done as it was supposed to be the first time round, we would be in a position where learning at home and accessing school part time could be a workable solution. Instead, the government is happy to blindly allow the key demographic of transmission to continue to spread this virus for nothing but political reasons.

 

[mill]

It does sometimes. What he said about dead parts of the virus is correct.

Should maybe do a bit of research before throwing insults around.

Do you think that these ‘false positives’ are a massive problem in the testing? Do you think cases of people testing positive for the virus when actually they’ve *had* it are massively over estimating the figures?

 

[NorthernBlue]

Teachers are in school whether or not schools are fully open like they are at the moment or only open for vulnerable and key workers. Teaching unions are paid to protect their members, and at the moment, schools are a hot bed of transmission more than anywhere else.

Rather than blaming the profession and implying that members are lazy, blame the government who promised to provide vulnerable children laptops so they can access learning at home but haven’t. If this was done as it was supposed to be the first time round, we would be in a position where learning at home and accessing school part time could be a workable solution. Instead, the government is happy to blindly allow the key demographic of transmission to continue to spread this virus for nothing but political reasons.

This all well and good but who looks after and supervisors primary school children If both parents are told they can’t take time off by their employers?

 

[Nymzee]

This all well and good but who looks after and supervisors primary school children If both parents are told they can’t take time off by their employers?

Ship them off to work on a farm like back during the war.

 

[Seanjd]

This all well and good but who looks after and supervisors primary school children If both parents are told they can’t take time off by their employers?

The schools do like last time. Key workers and vulnerable.

 

[NorthernBlue]

The schools do like last time. Key workers and vulnerable.

But what if you work for a business not classified as essential so don’t qualify for key worker status but you are still required to work?

 

[Seanjd]

But what if you work for a business not classified as essential so don’t qualify for key worker status but you are still required to work?

The government have said that everyone must work from home/business close apart from essential workers. Anyone who still had to go to work will be classed as essential worker.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Of course they’re saying that now the lockdown has reached their beloved London.

And their weekend retreats in Dorset Devon and Cornwall...

 

[NorthernBlue]

The government have said that everyone must work from home/business close apart from essential workers. Anyone who still had to go to work will be classed as essential worker.

But that didn’t happen first time and it won’t second either. Plus this time it’s all woolly as to what business need to close. A lot will claim to be essential when they are not and expect people in. This happened first time round. A lot of parents took holidays first lockdown to cover this. Holidays are now exhausted. Employers still expected them to work from home and for work to get done no excuses.

 

[Nymzee]

But that didn’t happen first time and it won’t second either. Plus this time it’s all woolly as to what business need to close. A lot will claim to be essential when they are not and expect people in. This happened first time round. A lot of parents took holidays first lockdown to cover this. Holidays are now exhausted. Employers still expected them to work from home and for work to get done no excuses.

The schools aren’t shutting anyway so it doesn’t matter.

 

[daza_1973]

Amazon UK HQ last night after Boris's announcement last night.

 

[PSB1]

Teachers are in school whether or not schools are fully open like they are at the moment or only open for vulnerable and key workers. Teaching unions are paid to protect their members, and at the moment, schools are a hot bed of transmission more than anywhere else.

Rather than blaming the profession and implying that members are lazy, blame the government who promised to provide vulnerable children laptops so they can access learning at home but haven’t. If this was done as it was supposed to be the first time round, we would be in a position where learning at home and accessing school part time could be a workable solution. Instead, the government is happy to blindly allow the key demographic of transmission to continue to spread this virus for nothing but political reasons.

All very true. Currently and for the foreseeable future, teachers play Russian roulette every time they go into work. Yet they do so and very largely, without complaint.

 

[Seanjd]

But that didn’t happen first time and it won’t second either. Plus this time it’s all woolly as to what business need to close. A lot will claim to be essential when they are not and expect people in. This happened first time round. A lot of parents took holidays first lockdown to cover this. Holidays are now exhausted. Employers still expected them to work from home and for work to get done no excuses.

That’s up to the government to sort out. Like I said before, they had their chance to supply laptops to those who needed them but chose not to. Now instead we have swathes of young people putting themselves and their relatives at risk.

 

[NorthernBlue]

That’s up to the government to sort out. Like I said before, they had their chance to supply laptops to those who needed them but chose not to. Now instead we have swathes of young people putting themselves and their relatives at risk.

Which is probably true and ties into all other incompetent decisions and actions taken over the time. We should have had plans in place. But at the end of day, just like first lockdown, no one has any clue how to address these issues. It’s shrug your shoulders stuff.