Any evidence or even anecdotal evidence of kids passing to kids? Surely this is the key to schools reopening. Have kids gotten it or transmitted it to each other? If they canāt why is childrenās sports training dancing etc not on?
The government have a small window of opportunity here. The public patience is wearing very thin and I reckon that with the right strategy, you could get public buy in for at least the first three months of the year.
Shut the fucking schools and keep all non essential shut. Start a rigorous but strategic roll out of the vaccine. Aim to have all the āvunlnerableā and essentials vaccinated by the end of march and then , maybe then , you can start heading back toward normality
The ābang for your buckā argument comes from having to live with this virus for a long period of time.
Someone who points to 3 or even 6 months of GDP or short term unemployment is a dullard. How much did you borrow to maintain that GDP? In the case of their neighbours, they borrowed less. In the case of Ireland, we had a fiscal deficit more than anyone else in Europe to find our prolonged lockdowns.
What was always interesting about Sweden was that it was close to a control group on a lack of enforced restrictions. It was perfectly possible to disagree with their decision in March but take some learnings from it. The WHO themselves said this, is Peter Geoghegan including them in the group - or are we waiting until Biden gets into office when we can criticise them again?
But in your world, Guardianland, or on the flipside Telephraphland- it is all or nothing. There must be a winner and a loser. Such an intellectually limited approach might appeal to you, but hopefully our longer term policy makers arenāt.
If Peter Geoghegan can point to where he advocated never ending lockdowns, then he can talk. Otherwise he may as be like a Czech policy maker. Winning 1-0 in May time.
Are you not busy on some other thread trying to claim racism or some motive for a shooting. Off you go. Shur you may ad well as long as the rest of us are paying your inflated wages