I take it you are not applying for the Johnson-balls spokesman vacancy then M?

It is £100,000 per anuum still there are just some things that are beyond the pale........

Imagine having to talk that s***e in front of millions.

Gary Lineker?

Well if he doesn’t it will be about the only job he hasn’t done! With his record he is probably over qualified

Edited by Spiderman (05 Aug 2020 6.49pm)

With increased levels of testing (between 59% and 87% of symptomatic people tested at some point during an active SARS-CoV-2 infection, depending on the scenario), and effective contact tracing and isolation, an epidemic rebound might be prevented. Assuming 68% of contacts could be traced, we estimate that 75% of individuals with symptomatic infection would need to be tested and positive cases isolated if schools return full-time in September, or 65% if a part-time rota system were used. If only 40% of contacts could be traced, these figures would increase to 87% and 75%, respectively. However, without these levels of testing and contact tracing, reopening of schools together with gradual relaxing of the lockdown measures are likely to induce a second wave that would peak in December, 2020, if schools open full-time in September, and in February, 2021, if a part-time rota system were adopted.

This is from The Lancet

In summary:

To prevent a second COVID-19 wave, relaxation of physical distancing, including reopening of schools, in the UK must be accompanied by large-scale, population-wide testing of symptomatic individuals and effective tracing of their contacts, followed by isolation of diagnosed individuals.

Is there any reason to think that can possibly happen?

Or anything like it?

Nope. I’m astounded how sensible you are on this virus subject.

What Maple and all the other lefties who are okay with damaging education, employment and futures all do is ignore the chances of dying from Covid. As a child you statistically have more chance of being struck by lightning. That isn’t an exaggeration, it’s a fact. In all the schools around the world that have been open for months, only one teacher has been reported catching the virus off a child, in Australia. The slums of Mumbai couldn’t socially distance or implement any measures to ‘fight off’ lol (deal with) the virus but it has gone down to extremely low levels efficiently by itself. And yet you get more and more leftie MP’s and activists going on about the same things they know are obstacles because the public can’t and won’t cooperate even if the government made it possible. If it’s not Keir Starmer it’s Tony Bliar or Layla Moran and her ‘We should be aiming for zero Covid cases’ delusion.

Everywhere else faces life, gets on with it and shows no problems from their results, yet for some reason the NEU and all the obstructive lefties in all their mischievous parties and agendas will do everything they can to try and influence anyone they can that schools can’t function and consequently many children’s futures and current lives suffer. I’m not sure whether in their elitist arrogance they think everyone is completely stupid or they want to be even more unelectable each week after Whatsapp messages go round at weekends as to how to knock the government, whether warranted or not, and in turn the public they’re supposed to care more about. Have they seen the polls recently? Even with so many p1ssed with the Tories, Labour are miles behind. At least I won’t have to vote Boris if it comes to it to keep a bunch of traitors out who’d throw everyone under the bus for a General Ele ction victory.

COYP

Unions often care about their image more than their members. They won't want the roasting in the press. However, if they ballot their members, then there could be issues. I'm not in the conventional teaching profession - I'm an adult educator. I'm not particularly concerned but considering a lot of our students are in high risk categories (many are refugees or older people) there are genuine issues that some people would have a right to consider. Schools themselves, though, as you say, don't seem to be the issue.
I have to think that nobody has really thought about adult education amongst all of this. But if you consider it, it's quite a large part of education these days, usually falling under the further education and training remit.

Red and Blue Army!