Kids like anything if itâs dressed up right
Schools shut here in March and they werenât equipped to teach remotely. The government pretty much left the schools to get on with it. They cobbled together âsomethingâ but it was very patchy. I have two sons in the same school (a decent one) and one of them had a fairly full schedule and the other almost nothing. Primary school was almost non existent, the teacher marked pages in the books for us to cover with the youngest and for us to mail them copies of exercises etc. The main secondary school exams took place with a six week delay.
The schools opened as normal in September. The Government just told the schools to get on with it. No extra funding. Schools went online after seven weeks. The schools were better prepared this time and the lads have fairly full schedules. Primary stayed open for a month longer but they are also online now. It is impossible for a teacher to hold the attention of the kids on zoom or teams. They are just too young.
Equipment is a major problem. Not every kid has a laptop or they might have a poor internet connection. Poorer kids are missing out. Iâve managed to get some equipment donations from my place to some schools. Old machines recycled with new hard drives.
The kids are missing a huge amount from not having social interaction with their friends.
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Nah just âservicedâ
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A decent son like?
I see the INTO are out of the traps.
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How did the delivery job go? Will you keep the kids in the van while youâre minding them?
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Ha ha ha.
All that roster sounds great. But what do you do when infection rates reach a certain level? Just keep going?
Do you believe in âherd immunityâ?
You did not address my point about a de facto rolling lockdown, via close contacts, within a non lockdown.
I see the HSE are looking for volunteers to test the antigen tests. Thatâs hilarious. So it is.
Iâll have âŹ20 on the eldest.
I suffered the indignity of being sent to Moyle Rovers GAA ground for a test on Stephens day. Bad enough having being sent for a test due to the inability of a young neighbour to keep his power dry a few days before Christmas but to be sent to Tipp for it bate all. Anyway I arrives at 1 o clock and not a sinner to be found in the place. About a quarter of an hour later a young army lad arrives on with about âŹ40 worth of grub out of Supermacs in the Pajero. âTheyâre at the dinnerâ he roars out the drivers window. 4 testers insider at the dinner and the whole show shut down for an hour, what else would you expect. Anyway I boiled away in the car til 2 when out they came. The aul bitch couldnât resist the âhome of hurling digâ as she drove the yoke half way up into my brain. Anyway neâer a sign of Covid with me and the young fella up the road looking to come down for bottles. Told him if Iâd see him this side of Paddyâs day Iâd drive a sprong up his hole
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Post of the year 
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Youâve been properly mugged off there.
you are assuming the test and result was accurate!
Why do I have visions of your wan off Kilanaskully shoving the swab down your nose with grease stained fingers?
Fair fucks to her, she didnât give you half enough of it.
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Seems to be working in japanâŚthough a healthy elderly population is probably a significant factorâŚhigh levels of vitamin d in particular.
Of course I believe in âherd immunityâ
Itâs very hard to know what to make of infection rates given that theyâre based on a dodgy recently recalibrated pcr test and a redefinition of what constitutes a âcaseâ.
Without openness regarding age, cause of death, ethnicity etc itâs hard to know what tony etc are at.
The continued use of lockdowns may have as much to do with an inability for any medical advisor or politician to address the greatest clusterfuck ever witnessed by humanityâŚletting the elderly die alone, the ruination of economies, starvation, suicide, inappropriate and often fatal use of ventilation, being led a merry dance by a few chinese lads with fake twitter accounts etcetc. All for a seasonal virus which probably isnât any worse than than other worst flu years of the last 20 yearsâŚone which weâve already witnessed waxing and waning with the seasons.
OIUTF
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If you are going to make a claim that lockdowns âundeniably workâ and lower case numbers, hospitalizations and deaths, then you have to back it up with evidence rather than stating it as fact.
The theory that western style lockdowns work appeals to the âcommon senseâ idea that the spread of an infectious disease can be controlled by mass quarantine. The problem is that not alone has it never been seen in human history, in study after study the evidence is that lockdowns donât help and opening up after lockdown doesnât make things worse. There have been large scale studies done comparing US states and comparing European countries, and they all show the same results. Why that is is an entirely different question, and one I freely accept isnât understood. There are a massive number of variables at play, but the conclusion is clear that western style lockdowns donât work and persisting with them is insanity.
Thatâs before getting into all the other negative effects of mass lockdowns, the economic destruction, catastrophic drop in cancer screenings and treatment, impact on child development, domestic abuse and mental health, etc.
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