Social distancing for infants: apparently the measures imposed in some schools simply didn’t work.
It’s perfectly safe to send your child back to school, Boris Johnson said – flying in the face of the facts.
Public Health England – because it hasn’t gone yet – has just published details of the number of people who caught Covid-19 after schools opened in June. And they’re not good!
First-off, there were 30 outbreaks. There should have been none.
These outbreaks resulted in a total of 198 confirmed Covid-19 cases – 70 in children and 128 among staff. Again, there should have been none.
And 121 cases were linked to the outbreaks – 30 in children and 91 in staff. Again, these people would not have been at risk if schools had not reopened – in a limited way, remember – in June.
Is that really everybody, though?
I wouldn’t like to say for sure, because the government’s test and trace efforts have been a travesty.
Still, we’re being told that children are at greater risk of long-term harm if they don’t attend school than from the virus.
I’m sure that will be a great comfort to parents and children who contract it during the autumn term.
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Still apt: Keir Starmer reckons he was named after original Labour leader Hardie – but can anyone doubt that his illustrious forerunner might have said these words, if confronted with evidence of Starmer’s abysmal performance? [I’m astonished to discover, after using the image on another article, that I need to clarify that he didn’t.]
Don’t get me wrong; it’s great that Labour Party members are challenging Keir Starmer over something.
And his failure to voice a coherent party policy on the people coming across the channel in dinghies – because they aren’t legally allowed to demand asylum in the UK without physically being here – is indeed shameful.
It seems the sticking-point for party members is that Starmer has criticised the government for incompetence in failing to carry out its own policy to deflect refugees away from the UK, because it is not Labour’s job to support the Tories in their cruelties.
And the protesters are right to point out that international law is clear: the migrants’ right to come to the UK for asylum is protected.
But there are so many other issues on which Starmer has disgraced himself – and brought Labour into disrepute.
Where is the party’s condemnation of Israeli’s bombing attack on Gaza, that has been ongoing for, I believe, 11 days by now?
Related to that, where is his apology to all the party members Labour has been persecuting with false allegations of anti-Semitism? This is linked to the party’s attitude to Israel because Labour under Starmer seems to think that opposition to that nation’s policies is the same as hatred of Jews – a clear fallacy.
Still on an ethnic theme, isn’t the Labour leader due a kicking over his frankly racist attitude to the Black Lives Matter campaign?
Or, going back to support for the Tories, why is he getting a free pass over his demand that schools must open again in September – in line with Boris Johnson’s own comments – when it is still not clear whether this is putting our children, and ourselves, in danger?
In fact it seems all-too-easy to challenge Keir Starmer over failings in his leadership.
Has he done anything that party members can wholeheartedly support?
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Oliver Dowden: do you believe this face when it tells you it’s safe to go back in a swimming pool with loads of other people who’ve never had a Covid-19 test in their life?
Imagine a plane crash killed 157 people. It would be top of the day’s news. A terrorist incident killing 126 would also be the top headline.
Yes
Imagine 157 deaths in a plane crash yesterday 126 deaths in a terrorist attack today
The media would notice
This country is in a terrible mess; the uselessness of the mainstream media is a significant reason why https://t.co/XJC24yYys3
— Stefan Simanowitz (@StefSimanowitz) July 8, 2020
And now, to top it all off, culture secretary Oliver Dowden has announced the latest plan to increase the death toll: reopening gyms and swimming pools!
It seems they want us all to die.
Dowden said outdoor theatres could reopen immediately, along with recreational sports. Indoor pools, gyms and sports facilities will follow.
Here are the details:
Outdoor pools will be able to re-open on 11 July
Indoor gyms, swimming pools and sports facilities will then be able to re-open from 25 July
Grassroots sport will be able to return from this coming weekend, beginning with cricket (other sports will follow)
Outdoor theatres will be able to start up from Saturday
Small pilots of indoor performances with socially distanced audiences will also take place to help work out the best way to get them up and running
From Monday 13 July, beauticians, tattooists, spas, tanning salons and other close contact services can reopen “subject to some restrictions on particularly high-risk services”
Okay, so how will we be able to avoid catching Covid from other users of these sporting facilities? Dowden said there will be “enhanced cleaning” at gyms and pools.
How the hell is that going to work?
In a place like a swimming pool, where people immerse their entire bodies – including the faces that we’ve all been told not to touch since March – what are they going to do?
And nobody will be asked to wear a face mask in a gym.
So that’s fine. If anybody asymptomatic takes Covid-19 into a gym or pool with them, everybody there is certain to catch it.
Dowden held a press conference, touching on other matters. For example:
He said he was “absolutely confident” Boris Johnson and Gavin Williamson would not have ordered parents to send children back to school unless it was safe to do so. Oh, really?
England suffered a wave of school closures after Johnson and Williamson ordered them to open too soon and outbreaks of Covid happened.
If Dowden was “absolutely confident” Johnson and Williamson’s plan was safe, this does not bode well for his reliability on gyms and swimming pools.
And in response to a question on sanctions for people who flout the rules, he said he was “tremendously heartened” by the “good British common sense” the British public had displayed.
Does he mean the common sense displayed by the public in Soho when the pubs opened on Saturday? Let’s look at a picture of them all keeping two metres away from each other:
Or we could consider what happened at Bournemouth when the sun came out?
Well.
Apparently the police have the power to disperse crowds. Clearly they didn’t exercise it on Saturday.
Perhaps they were too busy stopping and searching 12.5 per cent of London’s black population for no good reason instead…
Dowden also – implausibly – claimed that the government continues to be “informed by science” on the pace at which it is reopening the economy – but we can see that this isn’t true.
Asked about the data the government has seen since pubs and hairdressers re-opened last weekend, he said it was “all continuing to move in the right direction”.
But we won’t know whether those reopenings have led to an increase in Covid infections for another week and a half.
It all adds up to nothing less than sheer foolhardiness from a government that knows it is the people who will suffer for Tory mistakes.
You’d think Boris Johnson would have got the message after a hospital in his own constituency had to close its Accident & Emergency unit, with no fewer than 70 people going into self-isolation.
But no.
He wouldn’t get the message if it was written in fiery letters across the sky and followed him wherever he went.
He’d probably just try to convince us that God was wrong for arguing with him – and then deny it when religious leaders got angry.
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As I write this, some English people will have been in the pub for more than 10 hours. I wonder how many of them have caught Covid-19 by now?
Here's to all the Super (spreader) Saturdie morons who trust @BorisJohnson and @RishiSunak, and will be putting themselves and everybody else in mortal danger by going to the pub.
People have camped outside and queued up to get into their local drinking establishments – forgetting the 2m social distancing rule in the process, This Writer notices.
— Al Murray – DKMS.ORG.UK (@almurray) July 4, 2020
Admittedly, Johnson has taken precautions. He told everybody to use their “common sense”:
Boris Johnson telling everyone to use their common sense (from 6am) tomorrow while clearly forgetting the same people he is addressing had fist fights for the last 12 pack of Andrex and cleared the supermarket shelves of every single beer and lager, apart from Corona 🤦🏼♀️
The logic seems to be this. 'The infection rate is falling because we're doing certain things. So it's safe now to stop doing the things that are making the infection rate fall.'
So it seems likely that England is cruising towards another peak of infections, on a wave of alcohol – and lies.
Johnson claimed he would not ease lockdown if the ‘R’ rate – the rate at which Covid-19 infections multiply, edged above 1 – that is, one person being infected for every person who already has the disease. But the ‘R’ rate is above 1 now in many parts of England and he hasn’t said a word.
Boris Johnson, May 2020: “If the R goes up again, we will not hesitate to put on the brakes”
I'm old enough to remember when MPs lost their job for a bit of outdoor nooky, or someone finding out they did a line or two of coke at uni. Surreal isn't really the word for living through the normalisation of everyday political manslaughter. https://t.co/SEE625y5ku
(It would make sense – Johnson might be expected to at least try to get back the £48 million he has given to the pub chain.)
Wetherspoons have been given £48.3 million. The ENTIRE music industry is asking for £50 million. One drains the NHS, treats employees like shit and does nothing to boost mental health. The other unites people in the worst of times and boosts mental health. Priorities.
— The Rock Fairy 🤘🏻🧚🏻♀️ (@TheRockFairyHQ) July 3, 2020
The decision to allow pubs to open is like spitting in the face of everybody at the NHS who has worked hard to keep the number of deaths down, despite the Tory government’s continued failure to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) or carry out tests to any recognisable standard (because Johnson was determined to outsource provision of these to private firms that failed us all). NHS staff have protested…
"It's not the time to be opening pubs at 6am"
NHS staff have marched to Downing St in protest of the government's handling of the #COVID19 pandemic.
… but it is impossible to reason with blank stupidity. That’s why this is likely to be accurate:
EXCLUSIVE: List of confirmed opening times for Super Saturday.
11:00 – Red Lion 12:00 – King's Head 13:00 – Royal Oak 14:00 – Rose and Crown 21:00 – NHS Nightingale
— Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) July 4, 2020
Of course, some of us might hope that certain people catch the virus, considering the way they have flouted all the other rules of lockdown…
Typhoid Nigel strikes again. Less than 2 weeks after returning from US. Not yet out of quarantine. Illegally infecting a pub near you https://t.co/crJrotlHCm
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) July 4, 2020
The first claim is demonstrably a lie, as Farage was in Tulsa two weeks ago today. The second claim implicitly misstates the quarantine law in England: there's no "negative test" exception from the obligation to self-isolate for two weeks – https://t.co/I2HF7BOuQghttps://t.co/MQPNhYGpig
But we should all remember that if anybody gets it at all, they will not be to blame. They are, after all, only obeying the instructions of their government.
It might make you feel superior to blame people but the government has said it is safe to go to the pub. If you have a problem with that, you have a problem with government policy.
In a few hours times there will be images of people queued outside of pubs shared widely on here. These people will be accused of being idiots. But all they are doing is following the government line. When the second wave comes it’s the government that must be held accountable.
The government is to blame if there is a second wave, the government is to blame if there is a second wave, the government is to blame if there is a second wave, the government is to blame if there is a second wave, the government is to blame if there is a second wave.
— Helen STAY SAFE Holland (@helenhbristol) July 4, 2020
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The Treasury has been accused of taking an irresponsible approach to the coronavirus epidemic after a backlash to its Twitter post, hailing Saturday’s scheduled reopening of England’s pubs.
“Grab a drink and raise a glass, pubs are reopening their doors from 4 July,” the tweet read, while a graphic carried the message: “Pubs are back”.
Many of those condemning the post… accused its celebratory tone of being in poor taste given that the virus has killed at least 43,000 people in the UK.
The tweet came as Leicester was put back under lockdown conditions amid a localised outbreak and fears were expressed about numbers of cases being seen in Greater Manchester.
Research conducted on behalf of the hospitality industry has suggested many people across the UK are concerned about the reopening.
The irresponsible tweet certainly attracted the wrath of the Twitterati, with Chancellor Rishi Sunak targeted for criticism:
Have you deleted this disaster of a tweet @hmtreasury?
Take this down – this is going to kill people. One day I hope this gets used in a court case against these evil bastard Tories! https://t.co/fOaNzOVwiT
According to the research, people are less likely to go to the pub as a result of the Covid-19 crisis. But that still leaves plenty of punters ready to risk infection:
I hope the 'common sense of the British people' that Johnson is so enthusiastic about manifests itself on Saturday night. I rather think it won't, though. Alcohol and crowded enclosed spaces are just what the virus ordered. https://t.co/ozazljSwjw
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Boris Johnson: he seems to think we’ll accept any old nonsense that comes out of his mouth.
Isn’t it a good thing Tories like Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock don’t have any reputation of honesty to ruin?
If they had, the Covid-19 crisis would have scuttled them double-quick.
As it is, it should be no surprise to anybody that Johnson’s claim, last week, that “it is safe” for pupils to return to school is bunkum.
On Friday Mr Johnson, speaking at a primary school in Hemel Hempstead, said he wanted all year groups in all schools to return in September.
Minutes from the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) on May 21 reveal that extending the easing of restrictions through social bubbles or opening schools for all age groups would reopen transmission networks.
That means it would almost certainly ensure that more people started catching the disease again.
The minutes argue that although parents and teachers had a “relatively young age profile” which meant a lower level of risk of suffering from Covid-19, it urged “very careful monitoring and evaluation of infection in schools after any reopening”.
Reopening schools or non-essential retail “would require a significant effort to ensure that environments are appropriate to minimise transmission” such as distancing and hygiene measures.
Opening non-essential retail would lead to a “modest increase” in contacts of between 10 percentage points.
The minutes say: “Sage advised that overall public adherence with social distancing measures will likely be diminished by HMG signalling its intent to release even some of the measures.”
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Did you go down to the beach over the weekend? Then you’ve probably caught Covid-19 and are set to overburden our hospitals. Well done, you!
More people are going to die after the Tories lifted lockdown conditions too soon.
According to Boris Johnson’s silly “Defcon” scale, the UK is still at Covid Level 4: hospitals aren’t overwhelmed but the R number (the reproductive rate of Covid-19) is still above 1 in some areas, meaning more than one person is catching it for everyone who has it already. The government’s own guidance says it should continue in lockdown.
However, the Tories are behaving as if we have reached level 1, with sports events restored (starting with pigeon racing, of all things), and vulnerable people allowed to leave home for the first time in many weeks; your diabetic granny can now visit the supermarket, even if it means she catches Covid on the way and dies in a couple of weeks time. Nice! The guidance says this level is only likely to be reached when a vaccine has been created and there is no vaccine.
Schools in England have reopened but it seems the only people sending their children back are parents who have had enough of trying to “home teach” them, or who don’t understand that they won’t be able to interact with their friends without shouting.
Monday the 1st of June, 2020.
This is the day the government told you not to meet up with more than 6 people unless you’re in a classroom, then it’s 15 plus a teacher, and despite thousands of daily new infections, your 90 year old diabetic nan can pop to the supermarket.
As one response stated: schools should be places where knowledge is passed on – not Covid.
Are they safe? Judge for yourself on the basis of this:
My wife is a teacher and she's having to buy hand sanitizer for the whole classroom as the school won't provide it. The school hasn't given any reassurances that the school will be safe.#schoolreopeninguk
— Linda HG ⚫#notmovingonuntildomisgone (@LindaGalone) June 1, 2020
And there are inevitable contradictions:
According to Jenny, the health expert at the press briefing, schools can safely reopen, because kids won't infect each other. But …..playgrounds in parks must remain closed, as it's not safe, because kids may infect each other.
Health officials made a desperate last-minute plea to the Tories, begging them to halt their homicidal plan to lift lockdown conditions – but their fears fell on deaf ears:
Senior public health officials have made a last-minute plea for ministers to scrap Monday’s easing of the coronavirus lockdown in England, warning the country is unprepared to deal with any surge in infection and that public resolve to take steps to limit transmisson has been eroded.
The Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) said new rules, including allowing groups of up to six people to meet outdoors and in private gardens, were “not supported by the science” and that pictures of crowded beaches and beauty spots over the weekend showed “the public is not keeping to social distancing as it was”.
On Saturday and Sunday, parks and seafronts were packed as people anticipated the lifting of restrictions on what has been dubbed “happy Monday”. Car showrooms and outdoor markets will also be reopened, millions of children will return to primary schools and the most vulnerable “shielded” people will be allowed out for the first time since lockdown began in March, all as long as physical distancing is maintained.
The argument is strong, and is supported by statistics:
Spain – 96 new Coronavirus cases recorded yesterday
UK – 8000 new Coronavirus cases recorded yesterday
Guess which one of these countries HASN'T extended lockdown until late June?#SecondPeak
I’m aware of how hysterical and melodramatic this sounds even as I type, but I can’t think of another way to say it: All the lives lost in the coming second spike in infections will have been deliberately and consciously sacrificed by the government to protect Cummings & Johnson.
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Social distancing for infants: This Site never tires of showing this image of one school’s attempt to impose social distancing on children who will have no idea what it is or why it is necessary, and who will be deeply upset at being told to stay away from their friends.
The Guardian and the Mirror have led with headlines that are overly optimistic for the Tory government’s school plans, in the opinion of This Writer.
A million children is about half of all those in Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 who could return under lockdown easing – and about 49 times more than were likely to be sent by parents, according to This Site’s own (unscientific) poll.
Of the 532 respondents (at the time of writing), 528 said they would not send a child back to school at the whim of the UK’s apparently homicidal government. Only four said they would.
Here’s a preview of the front pages:
Guardian front page, Monday 1 June 2020: One million children set to stay off school today amid safety fears pic.twitter.com/LK8iMYhd7d
Worried parents are expected to keep at least a million eligible primary pupils at home today as schools allow more children to go back to classes.
That is around half of those in Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 who could return under lockdown easing – in a major blow to Boris Johnson ‘s hopes of getting back to normal before the summer break.
And headteachers predicted more than one in five teachers will be forced to work from home due to health conditions, their age or having vulnerable family members.
The school-or-no-school division across the country became apparent yesterday as the Prime Minster was criticised over shambolic planning – with ministers producing a blueprint for reopening schools on May 12 and then changing it 41 times.
This Writer is looking forward to finding out how many children actually turn up.
But considering the Tory government’s current penchant for … mislaying?… the facts, we may all have to seek alternative sources for them.
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And now it seems he wants to kill some more: children may be more resistant to Covid-19 than many adults, but they are susceptible to a variant of Kawasaki disease. How many will be laid low by a stupid prime minister’s stupid decision to reopen schools a stupid amount of time too early?
Boris Johnson has refused to take responsibility for deciding what should happen if teachers don’t turn up when schools reopen on Monday.
In that case, he can hardly hope to impose any authority on parents – one would imagine.
Johnson announced on May 10 that he hoped to be able to reopen schools for Reception and Year 6 pupils at the beginning of June.
We all knew this meant schools would be reopening then, even if a second wave of Covid-19 infections had broken over the United Kingdom, causing chaos; he’d said it so he was damn well going to do it.
But little effort has been made to protect teachers or children from possible Covid-19 infection if they go back.
Regulations for teachers tell them that they must continue working if they are exposed to anyone with the virus, meaning they may then go on to infect all the children in their class and, via their colleagues, all the children in the other classes too.
Social distancing plans suggested by some schools have prompted ridicule from the people – not least because they rely on Reception-age children understanding that they need to stay two metres or more away from each other. Fat chance!
Given all of these failures, this poll may seem a forgone conclusion, but with only a day to go, it seems worth asking the question of everybody, whether you have a child to send back to school (and bear in mind that this affects England only) or not:
Downing Street suggested that teachers and other staff who refuse to turn up in schools over safety concerns will be a matter for heads to sort out.
Asked whether they would be deemed to be in breach of their terms of employment, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “Head teachers I’m sure will be having conversations with their own staff in the usual way.
“The Education Secretary has been working very closely with schools and unions for the last 10 weeks. He met with the unions again yesterday.
“Our approach throughout this has been to work closely with schools, heads, and teachers’ representatives to ensure that we deliver a cautious and phased return in a safe way.
“But I’m sure head teachers will have been having discussions with individual teachers.”
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Closed: schools in England should stay that way because the Tory government cannot guarantee that they are safe – and parents will be legally responsible if their children catch Covid-19 while following the government’s demand that they attend.
If English parents send their children back to school on Monday (June 1), they will carry responsibility if their child catches Covid-19 as a result.
It seems the Tory government isn’t telling anybody about that part of the law on parental responsibility.
This Writer is grateful to one such parent, who writes:
You have a legal obligation to not send your child anywhere you believe to be unsafe.
If you suspect your child is going to be harmed and you send them anyway and they get harmed, you are legally liable.
You cannot be made non-liable either, not while you have parental responsibility and they can’t penalise you for fulfilling a legal obligation.
So the law seems clear, in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic:
There is no guarantee that children will be safe from catching this potentially deadly disease at school.
If they catch it, then it doesn’t matter whether they show symptoms or not – they will still be vulnerable to the variant of Kawasaki disease that has proved fatal in several cases both in the UK and around the world.
Parents have a responsibility to keep children away from places where they may be endangered – and these places currently include schools.
If the child catches Covid-19, or contracts the Kawasaki variant, at school then the parent will be legally responsible for it – not the Tory government that demanded that the child must go back to school.
So the law tells us that parents must keep their children away from school, no matter what the government says.
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