It’s still too early to send our children to school
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I CANNOT believe the government is pressing ahead with its plan for the admission of more students in primary schools.
The UK Government has failed to conduct widespread Covid-19 testing amongst the population. It has also failed to carry out contact tracing. Its tracing app has faced serious questions as to its adequacy. Never mind its failure to provide sufficient PPE gear to health and care home staff in March to May, now we have the push to partially reopen schools during June.
It is still far too early to reopen schools. The Government’s guidelines fail to take account of asymptomatic transmission of Covid-19. A recent editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine commented: “Asymptomatic transmission of SARSCoV-2 is the Achilles’ heel of Covid-19 pandemic control through the public health strategies we have currently deployed.’’
There needs to be broadened testing to include asymptomatic persons in prioritized settings such as schools.
Asymptomatic transmission raises the question: will staff and students be provided with masks in enclosed indoor settings?
How will social distancing work in many school buildings with their narrow corridors and small classrooms?
The Government’s reopening of schools also ignores the issue of multi-system inflammatory syndrome (MISC) in children.
The CDC and WHO have both issued health alerts about MISC which mainly affects older children, median age group nine11, which covers year 6 in this country. Globally there are growing numbers of children who have developed this Covid19 related illness which is very poorly understood.
In our current situation humility and recognition that there is so much that we don’t know about this virus should guide the actions of politicians.
Getting a few weeks of education before the summer holidays pales in the face of a new threat to children’s health.
Remainers couldn’t dupe public before
ACCORDING to the latest polling, 81% of the population think
Dominic Cummings broke lockdown rules, 67& don’t believe his explanations and 66% think he should be sacked,
According to Nick Martinek
this is not about Covid-19 – it’s all just a put-up job by Remainers.
Baffling, then, that Remainers lost the referendum. If they can dupe the public now, why not then?
I don’t think Dominic holds us in contempt
IN reply to the letter from Mr Verguson
The Government sends all communications regarding Covid-19 to me. In fact any person can ask for them to be sent. Some days I get 50 or more. The minutes of SAGE – the committee that advises the Government on public health _ can be accessed. What is clear is that Dominic Cummings was never a member of SAGE. If he was there, it was as an observer. Some observers are listed in the minutes if you care to look.
What is also clear is that the Government followed the advice of the committee all along. I would think that any Government that did not act on their say so could be fairly and harshly criticised. If any inquiry takes place, with hindsight it will possibly become clearer what the Government ought to or could have done differently at different times.
To say the present Government as, “costing thousands of lives”, is neither fair nor helpful.
Ending the transition period after Brexit, which by the way has already happened, is not dependent on Dominic Cummings staying in his job. Although Cummings has many failings, contempt for the British people was not one of them and I think, no matter what I make of his trip to Durham, I do applaud him for helping win a Leave campaign against the odds and helping the Conservatives to a decisive election win.
Doing what is right for British people, judging the mood of the country and moving Britain to independence and not a vassal state is not yet a criminal offence.