Lockdown Sceptics
Mumsnet Survey – Quarter of Parents are Bedwetters Mumsnet published a survey today asking parents how satisfied they were with the arrangement schools put in place to re-admit some children in July. It contains this horrifying finding: Among parents whose child was offered the opportunity to spend some time in school before the summer holidays, 23% say they did not take up the offer. The top reasons included:* concern that their child might transmit COVID-19 to family members (48%);* confidence that homeschooling was working well (39%);* concern that their child might catch COVID-19 and become ill (38%); and* worries about the local or regional infection rate (32%). I don't suppose I need remind readers that there isn't a single documented case, anywhere in the world, of a child passing on the virus to an adult and the risk of a child under the age of 15 dying from COVID-19 is lower than the risk of them dying from a lightning strike. PCR Test A reader with a background in infectious diseases has emailed me in answer to the question I posed yesterday about the reliability of the PCR test. This won't surprise anyone. Your reader's comments on the PCR test are interesting. It's worth noting that the test have been in existence for decades but has never been fully tested for ...
