refitman wrote:AnatolyKasparov wrote:Well.......do you think that if Corbyn was still leader (or indeed PM) he would be saying kids should stay away from school indefinitely?
And this really is an instance where the headline doesn't tell the whole story.
I would expect him to at least try to give the impression that he cares about the health and safety of the children, the teachers and everyone else that will be involved.
I agree with this sentiment - getting kids back to school is really important for social well-being but it must be done in a way that gives some confidence they are doing it in the appropriate way
Things such as how they monitor any cases, what happens when a case is found etc must be freely available as well as any fiscal support for parents, teachers, schools, LA to help manage it
There could be real problems as we enter the respiratory virus season when colds and other illnesses will increase so how will we know what is CV or not? We could have dealt with this potential issue over the summer by improving our ability to differentiate but have spent more time quarantining healthy people based on a poorly conceived testing regime
The problem is not so much kids going back to school but how can it be done in poor infrastructure, over-large classes and all the other consequences of austerity.
Starmer has to be careful with the PR on this because he needs to be quite clear what he means and that this is getting through to people - he, I don't doubt, is not at all like Johnson but sometimes he allows himself to be portrayed as such - another example of him not being very good at the 'politics' part of the job!