What’s the point in a minutes silence for this? It’s not someone to remember happily or be something to remind people off?
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I'd be wary until its been reviewed - her posting record is pretty 1-dimensional. I'm not sure why a complex model that matches the Imperial data is very useful, considering the people who wrote the Imperial paper acknowledged that their data was very much affected by the lockdown at the time.
The source of the initial headline tweetables all seem to head back to this paper which is linked to on the WHO site:
Aye. Fair enough.
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I like his "I provided you facts" then his rambling on. Reminds me of a certain Liverpool managers slippery slope.
Yes, but YouTube said 0.05%. You need to educate yourself
The same demographic suffer the most economically the more covid you have and have the worst health outcomes. Special educational interventions would help address the issue rather than increasing infections to try to solve the educational issue of the restrictions.
Trudeau and the canadian government socialists! truly some north americans need to look into simple political definitions, because Trudeau is way far from a socialist spectrum
This is pure speculative/qualitative - but aren't the poorest kids also likely to be living in a household which is more likely to have poor covid outcomes?
Such as? We know they’re not engaging with online learning and sending teachers or teacher’s assistants to visit every home in the country would a) require an insane amount of personnel/resources and b) cause more infections than keeping schools open.
Some renediation will have to wait until the kids return to school, funding schools properly might also be a start. And there is lots you can do with online learning. What we are doing isn't really online learning as it is mainly just another way of delivering notes to kids who aren't in school. True online learning is very different from what we are doing but requires educational development that has to be funded and funding of Learning Management and other associated systems and services. Another thing we haven't really done is use SME'S to deliver online across schools - this has huge potential as it avoids those situations where gaps are filled by teachers with the wrong skills. As an example in my last teaching role I never taught biology (my speciality) but did teach quite a bit of RE which was a challenge.
And time. A lot time. While with each week these kids are kept out of school they fall further and further behind.
They are happening actually but not sure what amount, I guess small. They are going to homes where the kid cannot come into school such as ones that would attend a special education class . The parents might feel it’s too risky or the child may feel anxious or worried. Staff are going out to those. I dunno how they work it though as I’m sure it’s not every school
It all comes down to the parents too. I guarantee you our kids are ahead of where they’d be if they were in their usual classes. My youngest one can read a little above his age range and write a little. That only happened in lockdown.
We have spent half the pandemic in Cambodia and more recently back in the UK, hands down the online learning offered by the school in Cambodia was superior t what we've experienced in the UK. Like most parents who have the time, we have spent alot of time with the children while they've been online learning and in Cambodia our children progressed, back home in the UK at best they have stagnated and at worst they have regressed.
Fair play to you geebs but that’s exactly what I’m getting at.
Its been the opposite with me, working full time from home covering three different people and trying to homeschool as a single parent has been the toughest twelve months I can recall, thankfully her school have been absolutely brilliant, they are doing after school catch up sessions for those who have struggled, and she is really throwing herself into it, so hopefully the damage can be undone
Sounds like you’ve reared a great kid. With that attitude she’ll go far. Unfortunately not many children will share her drive and will be seriously disadvantaged if their parents (or parent) have gone through a similar 12 months to you.Its been the opposite with me, working full time from home covering three different people and trying to homeschool as a single parent has been the toughest twelve months I can recall, thankfully her school have been absolutely brilliant, they are doing after school catch up sessions for those who have struggled, and she is really throwing herself into it, so hopefully the damage can be undone
I agree but in a pandemic you need to prioritise the lesser of many evils. I also not comfortable forcing unvaccinsted teachers back to work.
They wanted to extend the easter holidays by a couple of days (in between) to effectively have a 5 day period with everything shut down. They decided on that yesterday and reversed their decision today. It is a shambles but not much changed regarding lockdown otherwise.
I'm quite surprised by Germany in this regard. Indecisive and making hasty decisions without doing the work before hand to check it was viable.
Theres been a spike these past weeks that they didn't expect, i'm not sure how much work beforehand was to be done. It's all terribly politically though because health is a state issue, so the federal government can't do much by itself, and the individual states have very different opinions, so any nationwide decision is always some sort of compromise. This one sucked
I think most of Europe should be in a tight lockdown whilst they get their people vaccinated. It seems the UK model is the way to go on this looking at the numbers.Theres been a spike these past weeks that they didn't expect, i'm not sure how much work beforehand was to be done. It's all terribly politically though because health is a state issue, so the federal government can't do much by itself, and the individual states have very different opinions, so any nationwide decision is always some sort of compromise. This one sucked
I don't know, it's been to long to end normal life because of it, and I'm a very wary and careful person. Last year I didn't see my parents for 3 months despite them only being some 40 miles away (due to a closed border between us). My niece started school last fall and she's had like 2 months of schooling until now? We can't go on like that for another year if vaccinating will take that long. Going the UK/US route and strictly importing vaccines might be the only way to speed it up, but I can't currently see the entire EU agreeing to that (and am unsure if i'd want it).
Where abouts are you?
Southern Germany right on the border to France (Karlsruhe).
Ah right I had no idea!
That can happen when you get sideswiped by a new, much more contagious variant that developed in a country where the virus was allowed to spread freely without adequate lockdown measures. Which we’ve seen in places with large swathes of underprivileged people living in slums. Such as Brazil, South Africa or Kent.
Thanks! I'm happy to see the UK getting into better shape now, it's proof positive to everyone that vaccination works and will benefit us all in the long term. I don't think we'll have mass travelling and thousands of fans for the Euros though but I'd be very happy if I'm wrong!
. I'm a proud citizen of nowhere and a circumstantial one of the US and Germany)They realised they can't just make up new rules at 3 a.m. (such as closing the supermarkets) and get away with it. I'll give Merkel some credit for taking the blame and apologising though. It was quite a remarkable press statement for a politician. We'll have summer weather over Easter so people will go outside and gather around the beer gardens (as they are already doing even though you can't sit in them) and meet up with friends. I think they know that people aren't going to stay inside at this point. Might actually be safer as well as otherwise they'd just be meeting indoors.
Was it developed there or just discovered there?
