The Nation Education Union has issued a press release today.
As things stand, is not safe to open schools up as the UK Government has ordered.
COVID19 Deaths and infection rates are too high.
Stop Wider 1st June School Opening : their press release direct
I will be looking at it below, but first lets take a look at the overarching situation,
the wider context of the NEUs request.
I will be looking at it below, but first lets take a look at the overarching situation,
the wider context of the NEUs request.
Learning all the time.
Self motivated learning - the desire to know, the urge to explore what truly interests one's mind, to excel in any given subject or skill, expressed as the desire to share and contribute to one's family and community. by way of applied skill originating in some native interest. Unquenchable interest and fascination. Study till you drop, from happy exhaustion. Home learning. Education.
Schools have been and are open on a limited basis, serving a smaller (6%) population of children of NHS staff and other essential key workers, as well as providing for various categories of vulnerable children, as organised by each individual school. This limited service is working well.
Teachers are also engaged with plenty on-line curriculum work with students who are staying at home. That appears to be working reasonably well. Better than the testing, tracing, quarantining and isolation treatment programs are. Teachers are adaptable, and their students are too.
Children's education continues. Everyone is doing their level best, including stay at home parents who are learning what learning is like.
There's a lot of home learning happening in the UK at the moment.
Cummings is, by his own admission, a media strategist, among other things, and he is a Master Baiter. He likes to lecture, and does not seem to show aptitude for learning. A bit like his political boss, Boris Johnson.
He baits the hook, he dangles the hook, he watches them bite, he pulls them in.
"£350 million to go to the NHS."
We will tell you that to think!
"Corbyn is a communist!"
We will hint at what we want you to think!
He baits the hook, he dangles the hook, he sees them bite, he pulls them in. I have written about this in a recent blog post.
https://dwylcorneilius.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-purpose-of-cummings-road-show.html
His road show was about breaking the citizens will to stay home to quell the spread of the infectious virus, an act of collective human solidarity.
In opinion polls taken around the 10th May, on average about 60% of citizens said they'd rather stay at home until they knew the infection was suppressed, because they had concerns for their elderly relatives and vulnerable people they knew. It was not a question of fear, rather it was a matter of concern for others.
Love. Compassion. Solidarity.
May 10th speech and much that has followed has been indirectly undermining the current, humane and quite wonderful grass roots solidarity - through sowing confusion, through conflating problems that were already in place exacerbated by the inadequate provision during lock down, with the lock down itself. It is the inadequate provision that is the problem. Easing the lock down may not resolve those issues unless there is funding and logistical support directed to those areas. Why not direct the resources anyway?
Keep this in mind as you read on.
Who benefits from broken grass roots solidarity?
UK Citizens have for the most part decided to bear the strain of staying at home, missing out on family and wider human contact, missing out on work, losing income, losing trade and business opportunities, in order to stop the community transmission of the infection, in effect an action of immense humane kindness and social cohesion, which the behavioural planners had assumed would not emerge, let alone be sustained. They were proven wrong. And not for the first time. The Behavioural Insights Team are pseudo-scientists, one and all.
From my perspective, the Cummings road show was orchestrated as part of a wider Government move to ease the lock down, which is being pursued even as there are more than eight thousand new infections daily, hundreds of deaths daily with no control of the spread of the virus in sight.
The only logical conclusion is that this is being done in order to increase spread of the infection towards mythical herd immunity at 20% of population infected. There are economic gains to be had, if the NeoLiberal sponsors can re-rig a broken economy, and blame a virus or a population for the broken-ness.
There is no real need to 'get the economy going' yet.
Things are not that bad. Three months of disruption so far. The nation has much more capability and capacity to deal with this. This is not a 5 year proxy war. This is not Vietnam, or Yemen. We are good. We could use better management, for sure. It is nowhere to be seen in Parliament or 10 Downing Street.
There is a real need to stop the spread of the transmission, to eradicate the virus from the population on the Islands of Great Britain and Ireland. That it can be done is clear, from all available evidence, even now. UK population infection rate is not even at 10%! That it would strengthen the UK economy is also clear. Multiple waves will not.
"I thought herd immunity was ditched!" I hear you say.
An article proposing a lower threshold for Herd Immunity appeared in early May, a week before Johnson's Sunday speech to the nation, in The Spectator, where a certain Ms. Wakefield works, where once Boris Johnson worked as the Editor. Throwing rocks in glass houses from a a distance gives him a 'weird sense of power'.
Here is the article, read it. see for yourself.
https://spectator.co.uk/article/herd-immunity-may-only-need-a-10-per-cent-infection-rate
Then on May 10th this article emerge, online, in support, coming from a Climate Modelling Scientist, of all people!
https://judithcurry.com/2020/05/10/why-herd-immunity-to-covid-19-is-reached-much-earlier-than-thought/
Herd Immunity has always been the background planning.
Stopping the spread, and eradicating the virus from within the population of the British Isles and Ireland has never been the policy objective.
I have written about the efficacy of the New Zealand approach, and how they looked at the experience of China, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam, and they chose to learn from that.
https://dwylcorneilius.blogspot.com/2020/04/new-zealand-demonstrates-efficacy-of.html
The situation in New Zealand is now a matter of record. They have eliminated the virus from within the New Zealand Island population. Success. We can do the same here, and yes, it would demand resourcing and commitment and it could be done within three months, if done diligently.
Meanwhile in the UK, slow spread has been the effect of Government policy. Some claim this is the result of incompetence. I reject that claim, The Corona Virus Policy of the UK Government is deliberate and intentional.
This was Professor John Edmunds, SAGE advisor on Epidemiology, on March 14th
"Indeed, the only way to stop this epidemic is to achieve Herd Immunity"
He was talking then about the idea that at 60% infected, the population would have achieved Herd Immunity. He was supremely confident in his assertion, to the point of arrogance.
In vaccination science, Herd Immunity is typically reached at 93%!
A month ago, he argues 'well there's always a risk.... but it's worth it."
This was in the lead up for moral support of the drive towards Johnson's May 10th speech
At the same time the Social Media world was being peppered with ConTheory, New Age, Alt Right commentariat calling for ending of the lock down, based on a series of lies, gaslightings and false assumptions, and this chatter was feeding into the pressure to 'ease the lock down'.
Today he states the obvious via the BBC, and others broadcasters, along with other SAGE Advisors, that the Ro is too high, that there are too many fresh infections and "it's a political decision, not mine to make."
The science has not changed.
Not since January 6th.
Not since February 3rd.
Not since April 1st.
We know more - we are learning all the time - and the more we know, the more damning the evidence is that SAGE, Edmunds, the Boris Johnson, Cummings and The Cabinet as a whole entity, have lied, manipulated and gaslighted the citizens of the UK.
They have collaborated in behaviour and action that has caused and is causing avoidable, horrible, lonely deaths in their many tens of thousands - between 40,000 and 60,000 excess deaths, whether it's due to COVID19 or due to the way in which the shut dawn has been imposed, either way are entirely down to UK Government policy decisions.
John Edmunds is covering his arse. A bit too late for my liking.
The shit is all over the shop, and it stinks.
Still, it is good that he is making a public statement, and it's not too late.
We could have a government that initiates a stop the spread, eradicate the virus policy, there is still time, and plenty of leeway, we have not reach even 10% infected across the whole population.
The National Education Union have issued a press release, demanding that the Government step back from the brink.
Four prominent members of the Government’s own scientific advisory body have broken ranks to express worries about the safety of wider primary school opening on Monday.
SAGE members Professor Peter Horby, who is chair of the Government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG); Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Institute; John Edmunds, professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Calum Semple, professor in Child Health and Outbreak Medicine have all expressed fears about the easing of lockdown.
Professor Edmunds said “There are still 8,000 new infections every day in England without counting those in hospitals and care homes… If you look at it internationally, it’s a very high level of incidence.
“I think many of us would prefer to see the incidence driven down to lower levels because that then means that we have fewer cases occurring before we relax the measures.”
Professor Farrar tweeted: “Covid-19 spreading too fast to lift lockdown in England. TTI [test, trace and isolate] has to be in place, fully working, capable [of dealing with] any surge immediately.”
Professor Semple said: “Essentially, we’re lifting the lid on a boiling pan and it’s just going to bubble over… We need to get it down to simmer before we take the lid off, and it’s too early.
DO NOT GO BACK TO SCHOOL
"We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control,
23rd March 2020 : 102 covid19 deaths in UK
28th May 2020 : 377 covid19 deaths in UK
In essence, there are three times as many deaths per day today as there were on the day Johnson's Government ORDERED lock down, without adequate preparations in place at that time. We know that that caused.
There are no adequate preparations in place today.
Test and Trace is not ready; there are no Fever Hospitals to treat symptomatic cases away from the community, there are no suitable quarantine support systems in place, many care staff still do not have the correct PPE.
The transmission rate is currently Ro hovering at 1, only because citizens have upheld the stay at home policy, and it can easily move upwards with "return to work!" order...
Here is a detailed reveal of the Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson, emotionally blackmailing the public, gaslighting parents, bullying teachers.
https://dwylcorneilius.blogspot.com/2020/05/gavin-williamsons-emotional.html
It was not safe then, it is not safe now.
That is why he was and is using such tactics. When the evidence does not support the action being suggested,then deceit and force are all that remain.
Do not go back to school, do not send your children to school, stay home, stop the spread - sue any employer who threatens to dismiss you for protecting the nation.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
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