| Pressure growing on the government to reopen quicker 09:33 - Feb 15 with 7918 views | StokieBlue |
Obviously there is the CRG who seem to be getting a lot of interview time on the BBC who are pushing for things to be opened up whilst the government pushes back and says it won't commit to dates until it sees actual evidence and numbers.
On top of that the hospitality sector seems to be making a concerted push to get opened up quicker. The reasons are of course clear and in many cases perfectly reasonable but there is an awful lot of pressure being applied:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56068252
Even calls to run "Eat out to help out" again:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56060962
The government seem to be sticking firm to the opening of schools first, see how that goes and then look to open up other things from Easter (outside, although Martin is pushing for them to be open inside as well).
I think the debate is going to get quite messy and heated over the next 6 weeks or so given both positions have some valid points.
SB |  | | |  |
| Pressure growing on the government to reopen quicker on 11:46 - Mar 19 with 307 views | Herbivore |
| Pressure growing on the government to reopen quicker on 11:43 - Mar 19 by hype313 |
To be fair, it sounds more isolated incident than a larger issue reading reports this morning, saying that children returning to school has not led to a rise in Covid infections, as the first data shows just 0.05 per cent of secondary students tested positive. |
This is only the second week of them being back in England though. Probably need a few more weeks of data to see if there's been much impact. |  |
| |
| Pressure growing on the government to reopen quicker on 11:47 - Mar 19 with 302 views | StokieBlue |
| Pressure growing on the government to reopen quicker on 11:43 - Mar 19 by hype313 |
To be fair, it sounds more isolated incident than a larger issue reading reports this morning, saying that children returning to school has not led to a rise in Covid infections, as the first data shows just 0.05 per cent of secondary students tested positive. |
That's not my point though. I didn't say it would lead to an increase in infections, I said that teachers are a small cohort without whom the school can't remain open and that is why they should have been vaccinated.
It doesn't take many teachers to be off to close a school and then kids are straight back in the situation of learning from home which defeats the object of opening them up first.
It would have been a minor change to the vaccination programme but some in this thread were dead against it because the order of vaccination was already confirmed. At most if would have delayed some vaccinations by about 3 days.
SB [Post edited 19 Mar 2021 11:48]
| | | |
| Pressure growing on the government to reopen quicker on 11:49 - Mar 19 with 287 views | hype313 |
| Pressure growing on the government to reopen quicker on 11:47 - Mar 19 by StokieBlue |
That's not my point though. I didn't say it would lead to an increase in infections, I said that teachers are a small cohort without whom the school can't remain open and that is why they should have been vaccinated.
It doesn't take many teachers to be off to close a school and then kids are straight back in the situation of learning from home which defeats the object of opening them up first.
It would have been a minor change to the vaccination programme but some in this thread were dead against it because the order of vaccination was already confirmed. At most if would have delayed some vaccinations by about 3 days.
SB [Post edited 19 Mar 2021 11:48]
|
Oh, don't get me wrong SB, I was in agreement with you on this thread, I was just merely saying that it's quite positive news that so far there hasn't been a huge surge of infections, but as Herbie said, it's still early days so we need to wait and see. |  |
| |
| |
By continuing to use the site, you agree to our use of cookies and to abide by our Terms and Conditions.
