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Is anyone else considering not sending their kids back to school in September?
Here are some reasons I'm cautious. Firstly, the R rate in Devon may have risen https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8509897/Covid-19-R-rate-risen-one-South-West.html
Anecdotal, but I know of over a dozen covid deaths in the small town their school is in.
Another is I'm deeply sceptical of the figures produced by the govt anyway. For example 
https://twitter.com/Dr2NisreenAlwan/status/1294171096762265600?s=19
https://twitter.com/Dr2NisreenAlwan/status/1294171096762265600?s=19
Next, we run a public facing business. Each week dozens of people come here. We have only opened our outside space as we feel that's the only way we can operate safely. School however will be indoors, and hundreds of people, with huge difficulty enforcing social distancing
Re masks for teachers, the messaging is muddled. NEU's position is that teachers should be permitted to wear one if they want to but why is this even a debate? In virtually all other closed environments, they're obligatory. https://twitter.com/NEUnion/status/1289138509324918784?s=19
Here a senior govt official admits our test and trace is not up to the job of preventing a second wave https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8537571/Test-trace-not-prevent-second-coronavirus-wave-identifies-needs.html
I can't find it, but recently Harvard Prof Bill Hanage said on @novaramedia that we should absolutely forget covid being over by Christmas. As I said I can't find the clip, but this is v good https://novaramedia.com/2020/04/22/after-the-lockdown-w-bill-hanage/
So at the moment, with a lying government who know the economy is borked and is desperate to get kids back to work so the parents can go back to work, and with flu season imminent, I'm not feeling confident about sending my loved ones back to school.
Correction, I meant kids back to school.
Just to add to this thread... https://twitter.com/doctor_oxford/status/1294304174205816833?s=19
https://twitter.com/doctor_oxford/status/1294304174205816833?s=19
