To get schools to open fully *& stay open* requires low levels of Covid circulating in the general community

This was clearly why the Scottish Govt aimed for elimination (and last week finally became the policy which they dared to speak its name aloud)

1/

But it's not what you can do, over an entire school year, if there is an "acceptable" level of Covid circulation of 30.4k new cases a month, as is Westminster policy.

And given the events around opening up in England, and the lag in the data, it looks like New Case rates in England are already locked in to breaching the "acceptable" threshold in a week or two.