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bitsandbobs

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Unkraut said:
There has been some resistance to closing schools, partly because it's not easy where both parent work to look after them at short notice, and you can't involve friends and relatives. They are often out by mid-afternoon. Other reasons include them getting together and dossing around in shopping malls etc., and having to use public transport to get to school - making social distancing harder. At least with the blighters in school this can be enforced!
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A German colleague told me that some of the resistance to closing schools is that German schools are "old-fashioned" (her words) and cannot easily provide online teaching.
 
mjr

mjr

Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
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Netherlands goes into its toughest lockdown yet, for five weeks. https://www.thejournal.ie/netherlands-lockdown-2-5299852-Dec2020/
 
tom73

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roubaixtuesday said:
This joint editorial is only the second in the more than 100-year histories of the BMJ and HSJ. We are publishing it because we believe the government is about to blunder into another major error that will cost many lives.

Devastating editorial from health professionals.

https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entr...uRJoqA51mdPiCCrsnSpY_UKMInxfVxNOVGOYsP5hFQchu
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The truth often is. Wales must be having kittens right now and be wishing why they ever signed up to this. London maybe leading the way but numbers are moving up in all other areas. Even if more people do a rethink as things stand in will not take many to just go for. To kick start things nicely. :sad:
 
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SteveF

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9th 10th and 11th December were pretty grim for the US when you consider the daily death toll for each of those days exceeded that of the 9/11 atrocity....
 
deptfordmarmoset

deptfordmarmoset

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Julia9054 said:
However, even if academies and (I assume) free schools choose to close, the government can still force them to stay open.
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Well, fairly predicably, the academies and free schools ignored the closure request. And with Government legal action on the way, Greenwich backed down. So we're back to spreading covid-goodwill.
 
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roubaixtuesday

self serving virtue signaller
Epidemiologist on the "It was the new strain wot won it" bollix


View: https://mobile.twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1338769169341444096


Short version: it wasn't.
 
deptfordmarmoset

deptfordmarmoset

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Julia9054 said:
Up here in the North, many academies would like to close but have been threatened with legal action.
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It's a shame this hasn't been tested in court. The provision for giving Williamson power to order specifies that the Secretary of State must have regard to medical advice and that any direction from him must be necessary and proportionate.

IANAL of course, I'm relying on David Allen Green's Law and Policy blog.
 
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