Those lovely people at the Daily Mail (Daily Heil) certainly think that we should:
There are one or two problems with this newspaper story. Well, there are dozens but I have to summarise to make this post readable. Let's start with the Mail's lying. The vast majority of teachers are against opening the schools at this time. Nobody thinks its a good idea. Everybody thinks its a terrible idea. The unions are doing merely what you would expect in trying to protect their members. The newspapers here heavily support our Conservative government and have seen their physical sales and advertising revenues collapse during the pandemic, so they are pro easing the lockdown.
As I've said many times, easing the lockdown before you have proper test-trace-isolate procedures puts you at risk of losing control of the virus. France has fewer cases than us and better (well... less inadequate) testing procedures and even they are having problems trying to open up.
Schools are a particular issue too. Even the limited re-opening which the government are bringing in will create massive virus spreading centres. The lower end of Primary school is due to be one of the first back. Yes, these young kids are very low risk in terms of dying but they are very high risk in terms of spreading the disease. I work as a primary school teacher myself and let me tell you that the zero chance of getting children between four and six years of age to social distance effectively. Anyone with any experience of a primary setting thinks that this is nuts, which it is.
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With the summer holiday not to far away, I would not open schools until September ....we had a 12 year old die yesterday from the virus and that means kids can die from it....they are making schools as safe as possible but nothing can be guaranteed....so I would wait...
@Platinum If you kept schools closed because a child might die, you would never open them at all. As to the summer holidays, cancel them or halve their length.
@MartinII well to be fair if a child dies at school under usual circumstances it would be a really a tragic freak accident but with corona virus the risk to your childrens health is higher odds especially more so the younger one not understanding the danger of corona virus and transmit it too others
@MartinII you can't compere a freak accident at school with corona, they are completely different.....it's not only the children, school teachers and their families and the parents as they take and collect their children....for safety reasons, missing school for six months, won't hurt them as it can be added over the next few years....they opened in France and a child died and they closed eight schools and we don't need further disruptions....I'm a Tory and like Boris , but they have made so many mistakes and I don't want more deaths just because they went back too early...
