hypochondriac

Could have been worse. At least we are in the prem whilst this is happening. Imagine if we had gone down instead of Swansea.

Wow.

I'm not a big fan of Cummings myself but is it really necessary to say he looks like a paedophile or that he shouldn't be around children? He's still a human being.

I think regardless of your opinions, everyone can agree that Wes is the most partisan poster on the forum. It's not like he tries to hide it though

What about if the home shirt was a sash abd the away kit was also a sash with the colours reversed?

I saw Coogan live once. Every single character was sh*t and unfunny apart from partridge. He really struck gold there.

I'd like to criticise Coogan but I find Alan partridge too amusing.

Yes I'm aware of the advice. I think I've said previously it's certainly not all teachers or headteachers but there's definitely an element there who are happy staying at home where they perceive it to be safe with little appetite to leave since they are being paid regardless and there are quite a few who really aren't providing any extra work (unlike my private school friend who has been working flat out every day.) I haven't been a fan of the tone of some of the communication from some headteachers- essentially guilt tripping parents into not sending their children to school, dictating to parents what is going to happen and demanding that the government "make it safe" without outlining precisely what that means. Like you say though, that's not the attitude of all heads or teachers but it's worth pointing out that this element does exist along with the loons- mostly on twitter- droning on about the government being eager to kill children and dispose of half the country.

It's not quite accurate to say I run a day nursery but it's similar. I'm desperate for children to get a proper early years education (including my own) and I'm keen for all staff to be as safe as possible whilst doing so. Many childminders have already shut permenently as it is and they won't be replaced any time soon. Its simple for teachers to refuse to come into school because there aren't really any wider knock on effects for them and there are for other businesses. Quite aside from financial considerations, Southampton in particular has some horribly deprived areas and nurseries essentially act as the eyes and ears of social services. No doubt there are some young children in Southampton currently being abused physically and sexually at the moment and no one will know. Its simply not possible for early years to stay closed until September for that reason alone.

You could say I know what I'm talking about.

Since the sash.

Children numbers will be down but the vast majority of early years childcare settings will be opening if there is demand (assuming government advice doesn't change.) If child welfare is the primary concern then we already know that children benefit massively from school and that the risk from coronavirus is statistically tiny for younger children especially.

Why do you suppose the vast majority of nurseries are planning to return on June 1st? Maybe those who run nurseries care about their staff less? What do you reckon? Or could it be that theres a greater financial consideration that both early years workers and managers have that schools and teachers don't have? And the need to save jobs needs to be balanced along with sensible risk management.

It absolutely is one of the reasons for quite a few.

One week of work a month? No wonder there's no rush to return!

Loads of teachers aren't doing anything. One of my mates is a teacher at a private school and working bl*ody hard. Three other ones work at primary schools and are working one week on and three weeks off and are sat at home watching Netflix whilst they are off.

You realise there's a number of teachers that have been going into school this entire time and many who want to start up again? Also fifty percent of teachers aren't in a union.

No I'm not, I haven't ignored anything all I've said is that it's moronic to quote something like second highest death rate out of context and think that's some sort of gotcha. I'm also not the one making the fatuous claim that the government wants to kill children and that we should ignore scientists. Not sure why you are talking about kawasaki disease but of course it is a risk like anything else is. It has affected a relatively small amount of children, there is currently no proven link to covid (in fact the numbers with kawasaki are actually lower than average for this time of year) and last time I checked it had led to one death. As tragic as that is, the measures taken need to be proportionate to the level of risk which is low.

It's a lot which is clearly a concern. Many thousands dead from the virus and more on top of that due to the lockdown. That doesn't mean we stop listening to experts or think the government wants to kill children by opening schools though.

Lol so I assume you'll just ignore my question then. A guardian headline about the death rate just proves my point.

That article doesn't advocate for not trusting scientists and using common sense. It's also in the guardian.

Yeah scientists. Pfft. What do they know eh? We need some of that common sense instead. We've had enough of experts, let's use our instincts instead. Great plan.

OK then please find anyone you consider qualified who has used the phrase "second highest death rate" without any context. The only stipulation is it can't be a far left activist on twitter. I'll wait.

Shouting about second highest death rate completely out of context is moronic as anyone would know if they bothered to look into things at even a surface level or if they'd listened to most people qualified to talk about it because they've been saying as such for ages.

See it's things like this regurgitating ill-informed newspaper headlines unthinkingly like "second highest death rate" that means some balance is required.