Sounds like more ‘guidance’... meaning students will be ‘asked’ to wear masks ..


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[COVID-19: Contingency plans drawn up over fears
a quarter of public sector workers
could be absent due to Omicron
Boris Johnson is tasking ministers with contingency
planning in a bid to reduce possible disruption
to public services and supply chains caused
by the current record-breaking number of COVID cases.]


https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-...icron-12507186

Labours Wes Streeting MP
on SkyNewsHD,

Says keeping kids in school
is needed, so he says Masks are needed.

But 2 tests a weeks is hard to achieve,
with lack of tests kits

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Plus lateral flow tests are very unreliable even when trained people are doing the tests ... imagine how effective they are in the hands of teenagers who let’s say “ aren’t as careful “ as you would hope - many of whom do not take the Covid situation seriously


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Yes Johnson will need to do a briefing
this week,

letters, DT
 

SIR – The Covid testing regime currently in place causes more trouble to the
economy than it’s worth.

By far the larger proportion of those testing positive are isolating without
symptoms. Meanwhile, the omicron variant continues its relentless progress
through the population on its trajectory to becoming another version of the
common cold.

Here’s a novel idea: scrap testing. Stay at home if you feel ill but go about
your business as usual if you are well.

William Tarver
Wokingham, Berkshire



SIR – John Swinney, deputy first minister of Scotland, recently said: “What
we have got to recognise is that omicron is a serious threat to absolutely
everybody within our society and we have all got to take measures to protect
ourselves by limiting our social contacts and connections.”:umm2:


I would suggest that a virus that kills fewer than 1 per cent of those who
catch it (and, of that group, many have comorbidities or are obese) should
not be described in such lurid terms.

Is it any wonder that, with politicians engaging in such hyperbole, so many
people are frightened out of their wits?

John McErlean
Elstow, Bedfordshire

what we have is an over reaction from the leaders in wales and scotland and it's caused by 2 things.

1. They dont want to be blamed if something goes wrong
2. It's not their countries that are paying for the compensation to livelihoods, it's the british people as a whole. Surely that cannot be right. Scotland or Wales cannot put a future financial burden on the UK population

The whole UK is constantly paying for projects that only benefit London & The South of England so I don’t see why not :shrug:.

the difference being those decisions are made by the uk parliament that includes representation from scotland and wales. England has no representation in scottish or welsh parliaments

Why you should take Arista's daily stats numbers with a pinch of salt and not seriously.

the important number is those that are on ventilator and that number has been decreasing over time. If people go into hospital, get treated in non icu wards and leave within 2 or 3 days, its not a catastrophic situation

Yes but UK just like in the USA
Inside Politics now started on CNN HD
America has a massive amount of Essential workers
off sick, with Omicron Mild Covid Variant
Closing Flights down as well.

It is Correct, to take days off and not spread it more
but the International shortage in test kits
mean some workers are going back, still slightly ill,
and passing Covid on.(In the UK and the USA)

Alf they are not Mine
they are the UK Government official numbers
Anyone else doing this mega thread would do the same.
Each number posts,
has the UK Link


There is one other Link
showing the Whole World
with the USA at top and UK 2nd
with Cases.

Down the very bottom
is Small Island Nations
with no Covid,

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

Sunday 2/1/21


73 have Died
137,583 caught Covid-19

No update in Hospital Numbers - same as 2 days ago.


148,851 Total UK Deaths of Covid-19



https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

So England
now Follows Wales and Scotland.
Teachers will not have to have a mask on, though.

But all children and youngsters
must have a Mask on in school. In England.

Ch4HDnews
Stephen Barclay MP
Cabinet Minister said on the
26 of Jan it will be reviewed
in Parliament.

He said this rule was under Plan B rulings.



7,000 Lucky Schools will get Ventilation Units

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I’ll give you peeps some feedback on what % of students abide by the new rules next week ..

Sadly this time we will have to threaten exclusions and follow through not just instruct them and do nothing ..

One of our most senior teachers ( head of subject) said before we broke up that he was probably leaving for a completely different job , far less money ... but he wouldn’t be a ‘sitting duck’ !!

Meaning it’s only a matter of time before he contracts the virus in school he’s 56 and rotund ..

Supposedly a survey done three weeks ago showed that those working in education are 37% more likely to catch Covid than the other professions - reported yesterday on LBC radio


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