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Face Mask Requirement in Secondary Schools Expected to End on May 17th

by Michael Curzon
7 May 2021 10:30 AM

After being urged not to “pander” to the pro-mask teaching unions, the Prime Minister is expected to stick to his plan to end the face mask requirement in secondary school classes when the next step of the Government’s “roadmap” out of lockdown comes into force. Mask-wearing will, however, continue to be encouraged in school corridors. The Telegraph has the story.

The Prime Minister will confirm that the Government guidance is changing from May 17th, when England moves into stage three of the reopening roadmap, according to multiple senior Whitehall sources.

Officials at the Department for Education are already drafting the new guidance, which will drop the recommendation that English secondary school pupils should wear face masks in class, while still encouraging their use in corridors.

Gavin Williamson, the Education Secretary, told the Telegraph that the success of the vaccine rollout and the current low level of Covid cases in schools had paved the way for the move.

“As infection rates continue to decline and our vaccination programme rolls out successfully, we plan to remove the requirement for face coverings in the classroom at step three of the roadmap,” he said.

However, on Thursday night education trade unions – which have been pushing to keep masks in classrooms into the summer – threatened to defy the change.

Kevin Courtney, the Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said he would stick by teachers who still wanted pupils to wear masks, adding the coverings remained in place as a “precautionary measure”.

The Government guidance is only advisory rather than backed by law, meaning teachers will retain some autonomy about what to do in the classroom.

Meanwhile across the rest of society, rules on mask wearing are expected to stay in place even past the “end” of lockdown in June.

The Telegraph report is worth reading in full.

Tags: ChildrenFace MasksSchools

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wokeman
wokeman
1 year ago

You can’t power an industrial economy on wind, anyone who believes so is either corrupt, mad or stupid.

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Grahamb
Grahamb
1 year ago
Reply to  wokeman

Didn’t we try that in the past?

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago
Reply to  Grahamb

Yup. There is a good reason that coal then oil tool off and windmills and sailing boats got relegated.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  wokeman

You cannot run a country on wind and that is why as well as the wind we have the Smart Meter to ration energy use. ——–Energy is the new currency. Carbon taxation is the new wealth redistribution tool.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  wokeman

Clearly the intention is to make sure that we are no longer an industrial economy.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
1 year ago

Net Zero Means Powerless Defenceless –

latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online. 

08b-Net-Zero-Means-Powerless-Defenceless-MONOCHROME-copy
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FerdIII
FerdIII
1 year ago

12.000 Bird choppers in the UK coving an area almost the size of West Sussex. 500 dead large birds per chopper every single year. Producing at best 15% of our energy needs. They are not Gaia friendly. Capacity is at best 50% given wind intermittency and the poor quality of battery storage. Per Chopper:

  • 300-350 tonnes of steel;
  • ·3-5 tonnes of copper;
  • ·1,200 tonnes of concrete (cement and aggregates),
  • ·2-3 tonnes of aluminium;
  • ·2 tonnes of rare earth elements; [Aluminium; Zinc; Molybdenum. Zinc, Nickel, Cobalt, Platinum, Aluminium, Rare Earth Elements] and Nickel. 

There are not enough rare earth elements to power a wind grid to sustain our economy. Not enough in the entire world and you need to move gigatonnes of tender Gaia’s skin to get at them. All done with hydrocarbon (clean, abiotic) power.

There is not enough land (must be flat, in a wind zone etc). Each MW eats up 50 acres of space (most farms are 3 MW to 5 MW in size). To treble wind production you would have to carpet the equivalent of Kent, Surrey and the Sussexes with the Bird manglers. It is insanity, not ‘green’. The Choppers are placed on farmland or once wild areas. This is not eco-friendly.

Follow the money. Lots of millionaires in the supply chain of the Bird Eaters.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  FerdIII

I hear in Germany the Red Kite is virtually wiped out. —Birds of prey are always looking down. They don’t see the blades coming.

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TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

Used to see lots of birds of prey in the hover in Caithness when driving down the A9. Haven’t spotted one in ages now, but the area has been industrialised with turbines.

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TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
1 year ago
Reply to  FerdIII

In many areas in Scotland the formerly beautiful landscape has been ruined by bird choppers. Who would want to go hill walking in apparently remote areas if these areas have disfiguring structures, concrete and roads all over them, and you have to listen to woop woop turbine noise instead of wildlife and the breeze?

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  TheTartanEagle

When you return from holiday and are emitting all the “dreadful CO2” you look down at Scotland and it is starting to look like a giant pin cushion.

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zebedee
zebedee
1 year ago

I didn’t think the models were GIGO, I thought they were just GO

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10navigator
10navigator
1 year ago

All these scams such as ‘green energy’, electric vehicles, HS2, Cv-19 ‘vaccine’ etc should be filtered out by honest and wise politicians to whom we cede responsibility to make decisions on our behalf. They in turn are answerable to the PM who we trust will be a wise and pragmatic leader. Where are they? They’re certainly not to be found in Westminster.
Without the above, any pseudo-expert, fake, charlatan, flanneler, cheat or phony (yes, Ferguson, I’m looking at you) can hold sway and stuff us all.

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
1 year ago
Reply to  10navigator

The Simpsons monorail episode comes to mind. Sinking our money into inadequate solutions to a made-up problem.

Those who claim to ‘follow the science’ clearly don’t understand the scientific method.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
1 year ago

I keep wondering where all the British green jobs are. Minus 3000 in Port talbot is the only relevant statistic I can think of.

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

It’ll be minus 6000 in Port Talbot by the time the knock-on effects of destroying the steel plant there play out.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  RTSC

Indeed, as I have been pointing out since this criminal and sad announcement.

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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago
Reply to  RTSC

No need for coal, much of which used to come from a relatively local open cast colliery (Felin Fran, near Merthyr – although I think that is now our of action), nor any iron ore, which arrives by sea via the local docks, or else by train from other ports. Quite a while back, when there was another steel plant at Llanwern, east of Newport, all the iron ore arrived by sea at Margam, which can handle the large ships, and a large chunk of it was hauled by train from there to Llanwern.

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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago

Worth observing that the Met Office uses 1991 to 2020 for long term average sums at present. Incidentally, another story that undermines the concept of “Net Zero” is the latest delay to the Hinkley Point C project – now delayed to 2029 at the earliest.

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Spycatcher
Spycatcher
1 year ago

“[Hydrogen] Highly explosive, low kinetic energy compared with hydrocarbons” surely chemical or potential energy, not kinetic?

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
1 year ago

We know the drill by now and that is to destroy our economy, our society and our way of life. None of this surprises me. What really does surprise me though is the level of abject ignorance demonstrated by MPs. You would have thought that the people actually representing us would have some inherent ability to discern, to weigh information, to be curious, to have some innate intelligence… Apparently not. They, almost as one body, seem to possess no curiosity, no outrage (when the only steel furnace is about to be extinguished), no ability to discern or to look further than the end of their paychecks and expenses and the possibility of jumping on a gravy train here or there, usually funded by some billionaire or other, to endlessly pontificate on matters on which they are not fit or able to speak about. As a whole, bar a very few, they have let us down badly. They give credence to organisations like the CCC because they’re just too lazy to do any digging into the subject themselves or they’re too cowardly to sabotage their careers by speaking out. These are the best in the land?? How the F did they end up where they are? Perhaps it is us who are the lazy ones in not skewering their nominations to be MPs to forensic examination in the first place. One thing I know, from the council politics down here in the shires, is that only those people who know the game and tow the line will be put forward onto the ballot – basically they’ve already been corrupted before they’ve taken one step through the doors of Westminster.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

“No outrage”???—-Correct, but plenty of outrage if we want to process illegal aliens in Rwanda who chucked away their documents. Plenty of outrage if someone swears at a Muslim. Plenty of outrage if Braverman uses a perfectly good word that appears in the dictionary—“Invasion”. Plenty of outrage if a father does not want a man that has suddenly decided he is a woman in his daughters toilet. ——Yes outrage is very selective for the parasite class of UN lackeys pandering to pretend to save the planet politics who don’t give a jot whether it impoverishes us all and is actually doing that RIGHT NOW. Just take a look at your energy bills. Just ask people in Port Talbot.

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Smudger
Smudger
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

Why would they (establishment, career party politicians) change when the people continue to go out and vote for them time and time again no matter how incompetent, disinterested or morally corrupt they undertake their role.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago

The most important commodity is ENERGY.———— Price and availability of energy is directly tied to prosperity, good health and life expectancy. The one billion people in the world that don’t even have electricity and the other 2 billion that only have enough to power a fridge will testify to that. So why are our politicians seeking to take away cheap reliable energy and replace it with expensive unreliable energy? ——-Hey Jim Dale answer that question will you? For anyone who does not know who this idiot Dale is, then tune into GB News where he is the resident climate change activist. Well Dale won’t answer that question because he thinks if a Mars Bar goes up 1p it is all because of “Climate Change”. He will claim the cocoa beans got wet or some other squirmers excuse. But enough of silly activist weathermen. ——-Why do government want to remove cheap reliable energy? ——Do they have evidence that the CO2 from the coal and gas is causing or going to cause dangerous changes to the climate? NOPE. The Chinese and Indians who emit 40% of that CO2 don’t think so and continue to use reliable affordable coal. They are using more coal than we did since the beginning of time, so there cannot be a climate apocalypse heading in past Jim Dales house now can there? —So WHY? ———-Because of UN politics. The Politics of Sustainable Development that says the prosperous west has used up more than its fair share of the fossil fuels and we are to leave it in the ground. Eco Socialism with climate as the plausible excuse and we all fall for it. Ask your friends and family. They will almost all think that the climate is changing and it isn’t the same as when they were young. They think they can look out of their bedroom window and see climate change. They see storms on the telly and think “Wow Greta was right”——Wakey wakey people you are being manipulated. —-Look at your electric bill and if you thought that was bad “You ain’t seen nuthin yet”

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StickyWicket
StickyWicket
1 year ago

The good thing about CLS’s Royal Society report was that they looked at 37 years of weather data and considered the impact of variable weather on electricity supply from renewables (see image from their report below). That’s what’s blown the CCC out of the water.

But the RS report had a big weakness in that it didn’t consider the impact of variable weather on energy demand. It turns out that back-to-back low wind years like 2009-11 are also colder than normal so demand for heat is higher. Once we’re all using heat pumps (!), that demand will have to be met with electricity, so we’ll need even more storage than RS calculated. So, the RS has blown themselves out of the water too.

It’s like a green circular firing squad.

The costings in the RS report were a total fantasy too.

Covered in depth here:

https://davidturver.substack.com/p/royal-society-large-electricity-storage-report.

Figure-5-Variation-in-Supply-Consumes-Most-of-the-Energy-Store-2009-2011
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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

Perhaps you could use wind power to manufacture gas, oil and coal.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Not really. The first large-scale practical application of a steam engine was using the Newcomen atmospheric engine to pump water out of collieries. This superseeded horse-powered pumps, not wind-powered ones.

Aside: Why haven’t the netzeroes thought about horse-powered dynamos for electricity generation so far? Horses not being sufficiently renewable because they fart?

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
1 year ago

They never used to give it a name when it was a bit blustery. I agree that the climate in this country has deteriorated very rapidly but I think the reasons are entirely deliberate and man-made and not a by-product. Just look at how many measures have been introduced recently in order to reduce the worldwide harvest and thus reduce worldwide population. They will carry on un until about 7 billion are dead and they are convinced of their righteousness.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Jabby Mcstiff

I agree that the climate in this country has deteriorated very rapidly but …

How does climate “detetiorate?”

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wryobserver
wryobserver
1 year ago

It might help persuade the zealots that they are on shaky ground if they were forced to relinquish all items that they own that are dependent on fossil fuel, in particular oil. All plastics? No more Nespresso? No phones, tablets or desktops? A large proportion of their wardrobes? It would be interesting to determine exactly what they would have to do without…

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lynwen
lynwen
1 year ago

It’s like being in a recurring nightmare. Doesn’t matter how much the obvious lie is exposed the zombies keep moving in the same direction towards destruction of our country.

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