Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics) (15 Viewers)

[Sky Blue Pete]

Williamson’s announcement is sending my anxiety through the roof about workload and COVID implications

I’m sorry bsb

 

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[Brighton Sky Blue]

if you've got a colleague who voted tory offer to make them a coffee and wank in it.
Stress relief and retribution in the flick of a wrist.

Perhaps unsurprisingly hardly any teachers I know vote Tory

 

[covcity4life]

Erm no I didn’t it’s teaching a practical subject remotely

I'm joking.

Not sure what i will be asked to do. Wont ask for a few days so don't get asked to prep lol

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

I’m sorry bsb

He is strongly hinting that schools will function basically as medical centres and staff to carry out tests. Then he goes on about world class education but still won’t let me teach properly. If you put teachers up the vaccination list then we actually could deliver one

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

I'm joking.

Not sure what i will be asked to do. Wont ask for a few days so don't get asked to prep lol

Sorry CC4L just on edge as is the missus

 

[clint van damme]

Perhaps unsurprisingly hardly any teachers I know vote Tory

there's always one contrary c**t in any situation.

 

[covcity4life]

there's always one contrary c**t in any situation.

No there aint

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

there's always one contrary c**t in any situation.

Actually I think my HOD did

 

[chiefdave]

Secondary schools and colleges in areas of England with very high rates of Covid infection rates will not open to all pupils in January, the education secretary says.

Most of the country is in tier 4, the highest tier possible at present, so surely all those areas are very high rates of infection and therefore schools will be closed?

 

[clint van damme]

He is strongly hinting that schools will function basically as medical centres and staff to carry out tests. Then he goes on about world class education but still won’t let me teach properly. If you put teachers up the vaccination list then we actually could deliver one

there was a headmaster on the radio from a school in Essex who said they'd used every spare bit of space to set up for social distancing and keeping bubbles apart, now he's been told he has to create a testing area before they go back, it's a fucking shit show.
Yet they get it un the neck constantly form the Daily mail brigade. Wankers.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

there was a headmaster on the radio from a school in Essex who said they'd used every spare bit of space to set up for social distancing and keeping bubbles apart, now he's been told he has to create a testing area before they go back, it's a fucking shit show.
Yet they get it un the neck constantly form the Daily mail brigade. Wankers.

Replicate that across the country with schools that haven’t been funded properly for years and it’s utter carnage

 

[Deleted member 5849]

He is strongly hinting that schools will function basically as medical centres and staff to carry out tests. Then he goes on about world class education but still won’t let me teach properly. If you put teachers up the vaccination list then we actually could deliver one

While I do get vaccinating the most vulnerable first, I am a bit surprised that key workers, who are expected to keep society functioning, aren't given some kind of priority.

 

[clint van damme]

While I do get vaccinating the most vulnerable first, I am a bit surprised that key workers, who are expected to keep society functioning, aren't given some kind of priority.

they are being, just teachers aren't included, which is ridiculous and an act of spite from the tories.

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

While I do get vaccinating the most vulnerable first, I am a bit surprised that key workers, who are expected to keep society functioning, aren't given some kind of priority.

Are they not at all!

 

[Deleted member 5849]

they are being, just teachers aren't included, which is ridiculous and an act of spite from the tories.

Yeah, I meant tbh not just teachers, but supermarket workers etc. too. Stick the people (and their families!) who have to go in first,the rest can wait.

Although I suppose once you add families, that probably *is* just about everybody who's pushed out into society atm...

Ignore me, then(!)

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

While I do get vaccinating the most vulnerable first, I am a bit surprised that key workers, who are expected to keep society functioning, aren't given some kind of priority.

If someone wants me going in to teach remotely and in school at the same time with deaths pushing 1,000 a day then perhaps so...

Who is going to turn around these huge numbers of extra regular tests in enough time for them to be meaningful? If it takes a day or two to get the result what’s the point?

 

[clint van damme]

Yeah, I meant tbh not just teachers, but supermarket workers etc. too. Stick the people (and their families!) who have to go in first,the rest can wait.

Although I suppose once you add families, that probably *is* just about everybody who's pushed out into society atm...

Ignore me, then(!)

I definitely think there's an argument for extending those classed as frontline workers and teachers should be in that category for sure.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Nobody else has had to turn their place of work and job responsibility into that of a part time tester while being expected to do their normal job as well, unless I am mistaken.

The worst thing is Labour fecking agrees with it

 

[hill83]

Most of the country is in tier 4, the highest tier possible at present, so surely all those areas are very high rates of infection and therefore schools will be closed?

The cases per 100000 rate.
Coventry is 240. Where my mates brother lives in Essex is 1600.
I know it’s not purely based on that but both areas are now tier 4.

So to answer your question. Not a clue mate.

 

[xcraigx]

981 deaths is awful. Whoever decided to keep London tier 2 and to open up at Xmas should resign

981 deaths is down to the lag in reporting over Xmas. We went from 700 odd a day in the days before Xmas, then 3-400 for 4 days and now we are catching up. Expect tomorrow to be higher again. Scotland were giving 40 odd deaths a day before Xmas and have announced less than 50 in total for the past 6 days.

 

[Ian1779]

If anyone thinks that the logistics and infrastructure will be in place for 3500 secondary schools to deliver mass testing on Jan 18th has to be contender for the thickest, most moronic imbecile ever to be created from 46 chromosones.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Stop calling Van Tam ‘JVT’, it’s not the fucking Eton WhatsApp

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Schools are safe, says Boris

Let me out of a fucking box then, says BSB

 

[Ian1779]

Schools are safe, says Boris

Let me out of a fucking box then, says BSB

Boris unsurprisingly is talking out of his arse again.

 

[cowboy1850]

Nobody else has had to turn their place of work and job responsibility into that of a part time tester while being expected to do their normal job as well, unless I am mistaken.

The worst thing is Labour fecking agrees with it

How come strike action is never mentioned in the education sector? I understand that some people won't want any actions to have a negative impact on the kids but I haven't worked in a sector that is so messed up.
Got to be honest, the academy I work for don't really seem to care about the kids anyway.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Boris unsurprisingly is talking out of his arse again.

Indeed. Make everyone stay home or reinstate full normality in schools.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

How come strike action is never mentioned in the education sector? I understand that some people won't want any actions to have a negative impact on the kids but I haven't worked in a sector that is so messed up.
Got to be honest, the academy I work for don't really seem to care about the kids anyway.

Most of the public think we are lazy wasters who couldn’t be bothered to get a real job. Striking just backs that narrative

 

[Ian1779]

How come strike action is never mentioned in the education sector? I understand that some people won't want any actions to have a negative impact on the kids but I haven't worked in a sector that is so messed up.
Got to be honest, the academy I work for don't really seem to care about the kids anyway.

Like BSB said - there has been a narrative in the media over the last 10 years that education staff are lazy, overpaid and scared of hard work, so we don’t get supported by the public. Now we’ve even been sold out by the Leader of the Opposition - so now not even Labour have our backs.

 

[chiefdave]

The situation in Greenwich is weird.

The local authority tried to close schools early before Christmas due to an increasing rate of infections. This resulted in the government threatening them with legal action and forcing them to stay open.

The government then shut schools early before Christmas due to an increasing rate of infections.

Couple of days ago a hospital under Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust declared a major incident and was turning people away.

On today’s list of London boroughs where the return to schools will be delayed Greenwich is nowhere to be seen. It has a higher rate of cases than areas that are on the list and the surrounding areas are on the list.

Make sense to anyone?

 

[chiefdave]

education staff are lazy, overpaid and scared of hard work

Certainly not my view but I think getting public support for a strike during a pandemic would be very tricky.

As you say this is something where Labour should be totally behind the teachers.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Certainly not my view but I think getting public support for a strike during a pandemic would be very tricky.

As you say this is something where Labour should be totally behind the teachers.

They aren’t. But Starmer isn’t the crazy commie so it’s OK.

 

[David O'Day]

Boris mate, stop giving end dates you can't keep.

Kai thanx bai

 

[Ian1779]

Certainly not my view but I think getting public support for a strike during a pandemic would be very tricky.

As you say this is something where Labour should be totally behind the teachers.

Kier is too busy chasing the Daily Mail readers, who would actually prefer teachers and kids to catch Cov-ID so it’s fair.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Kier is too busy chasing the Daily Mail readers, who would actually prefer teachers and kids to catch Cov-ID so it’s fair.

He’s already impressed G to be fair

 

[Ian1779]

The situation in Greenwich is weird.

The local authority tried to close schools early before Christmas due to an increasing rate of infections. This resulted in the government threatening them with legal action and forcing them to stay open.

The government then shut schools early before Christmas due to an increasing rate of infections.

Couple of days ago a hospital under Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust declared a major incident and was turning people away.

On today’s list of London boroughs where the return to schools will be delayed Greenwich is nowhere to be seen. It has a higher rate of cases than areas that are on the list and the surrounding areas are on the list.

Make sense to anyone?

Labour run authority that were prepared to openly defy the Government. Sounds a ridiculous thing to say but is it that much of a stretch anymore? (Also notice how Labour backed the Government on this and not its own officials?)