Watching news items today of crammed beaches and beauty spots, one can only surmise that the great British public are enjoying their paid holidays a bit too much.
On the one hand you've got people saying that it's too soon to relax the lockdown and then you have widespread idiotic behaviour of many 1,000s.
I wonder how many of those in the beaches are also complaining that its unsafe to return to work.
I'd guess somewhere between 90 and 95%
So, first day the schools open and seven members of staff at Derby’s Arboretum Primary test positive for Covid.
Doesn’t bode well.
Well first I read about it and look at the statistics, we are panicking about something that is akin to flu and that kills many thousands of people every year. You actually seem to udnerstand very little about the virus, so not sure how you can accurately assess the risk to teachers.
Your ignoring the fact that 1) Children aren't greatly affected and to date the evidence suggests that they aren't spreaders either.
Teachers are in a better position than millions of other workers who are in contact with many hundreds of other people and different people from different places at that every day, Teachers are in contact with the same children from the same place every day.
You also seemed to think that it was difficult somehow to mitigate the risks, yet in Denmark they ahve had schools opened for over 4 weeks and seem to be managing just fine, so all the palava is just that - like everyone else, Teachers need to get back to work .
I'm sure you are familiar with risk assessments, thats actually not the same as judging or assessing a risk, thats using a tick list to look at known risks and mitigating them. Judging risk, is about understanding a risk and knowing the statistical chance of it happening, which is why I mentioned driving, most people don't perceive it as a risk which you amply demonstrated by querying it and then saying the only risk was from other idiots.
Mm, so mechanical failure,a burst tyre, an error of judgement on your part, a seconds lapse of concentration by you or somebody else, an unexpected event, i.e.Now going further animal running into the road, weather conditions etc. can all lead to unintended consequences.
Your risk averse because thats clear in your posts, thats fine everyone has different levels of risk they can cope with, but the problem we ahve here is that the cure and the hysteria is actually going to result in more people dying.
Testing positive for Covid isn’t to ‘have flu’ is it?
The point is, it’s a worrying ‘cluster’ of cases that needs explanation. Have those seven all spent a great deal of time together, either recreationally or preparing the school, over half term...or is this something that has developed since the teachers were last in touch with vulnerable children or the children of ‘key workers’ ten days earlier?
Also it’s not the greatest of news for parents already very reluctant to allow their kids to return to school.