O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

[MadAmster]

Out of interest MA...do Dutch secondary school kids have to wear masks in school? From what I’ve seen they do in Spain though not in the UK, although I hear Suffolk CC has sensibly just reintroduced them as mandatory after half term and suspect more will follow..

Yes and no. Not in the class. They do have to when moving around inside school though. Kids don't have to distance from one another but staff do have to distance from pupils.

[ramAnag]

Yes and no. Not in the class. They do have to when moving around inside school though. Kids don't have to distance from one another but staff do have to distance from pupils.

Interesting...can’t quite understand the logic of having to mask up when moving around rather than sitting in class. As regards ‘distancing’...suspect it actually isn’t really possible for kids to socially distance given the usual constraints of class sizes and classroom dimensions.

P.S. I don’t really have ‘an agenda’, GP other than to see the end of a Covid dominated world asap.
I acknowledge all the points you make and they are reasonable imo, but the thread title is what it is, our figures are very concerning and, anecdotally I have noticed a huge difference in mask wearing elsewhere in Europe compared with the UK.