Who are you going to take off the priority list in oder to make room for the teachers? When everything is a priority nothing is a priority.
I agree that the return to school and universities in September are likely to have driven the prevalance of Covid, but I don't see how vaccinating teachers assists with that. Vaccinating one person in a class of around 30 is not going to prevent transmission.
I think the issue here is that the vaccination programme and its priority list is designed to save lives, not to provide Labour with a sound bite with which to appease the teaching unions and attempt to garner support from the public. I agree that when the clinically most at risk have been vaccinated then it will be desirable to look at at-risk occupations. Teachers would be well down that list. According to the ONS a sample of death rates are:
Restaurant managers 119 deaths per 100 000
Machine operatives: 106
Taxi drivers: 101
Nurses: 79 - (now vaccinated)
Bus drivers 70
Teachers 39.2
What happened to political threads being on the other board?
I remember in the early days of the virus the government was begging people to stay home and not visit family on mothers day, there was one poster who proudly declared that they knew better and were going to do it anyway. Something about feeling fit and healthy and so the rules didn't seem to apply to them. God knows where the younger generation are taking their lead from.
Go on then I'll have a nibble for you to make you feel better
Where is this a political thread? Point 2, I think you were shot down by CTMilller as to the valid reasons why I visited my beloved Mum.
Have a nice day best you can but wrap up warm if you're going out as it's very cold, wet and windy. If you do go out will it be for a legitimate reason or, do you still pine and hunger for your uni days and want to support these reckless idiots by being a naughty person?
Is it right to bring students into this? My understanding is that university students id not retrun after Christmas.
Of course this is political. What planet are you on? What do you think political discussion actually is?
We live in different worlds. If I go out today it will be to play beach volleyball or tennis in tshirt and shorts.
CT might have made valid reasons why the tone of my response was overly harsh, but the simple fact was the government explicity asked people to not go and visit elderly relatives, and in a defiant tone, you declared that you felt fit and well and so "I for one" am not going to follow the advice. That is the facts.
My point is that in questioning why certain people behave in certain ways, maybe the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Don't see Kerr Avon for ages
Don't see John2 for ages
Then we get them both in the same thread.
I think I might give Jolly a nudge