In a late addition to the raft of Covid restrictions announced by the Prime Minister yesterday, the Department for Education has issued new guidance today requiring secondary school students to wear masks in communal areas starting tomorrow. MailOnline has more.
The DfE sent an email update to schools and childcare providers which said: “Face coverings should be worn in communal areas in all settings by staff, visitors and pupils or students in Year 7 and above, unless they are exempt.
“Pupils or students (in Year 7 or above) should continue to wear face coverings on public and dedicated school transport, unless they are exempt.”
The update comes after the UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) said an individual, who is longer in the country, tested positive for the Omicron variant after travelling to Westminster in London and the infection was “linked to travel to southern Africa”.
Worth reading in full.
I wonder why this wasn’t announced yesterday? Is it because the Government knew it would play badly in the Sunday newspapers and on the Sunday morning talk shows? It has essentially sneaked the news out late on Sunday.
Needless to say, it makes zero sense. After all, if the Omicron variant is actually less dangerous than the Delta variant – and all the evidence we’ve amassed about it so far suggests it is – then shouldn’t we be encouraging schoolchildren to catch it so they can then experience a mild, cold-like illness and thereafter enjoy better protection against COVID-19 than if they’d been vaccinated? That is, the small number of schoolchildren who haven’t already caught and recovered from the virus?
As a parent of three children who will have to wear masks in school tomorrow, I am livid.
Stop Press: Those refusing to wear masks in shops and on public transport face being fined £200, rising to £400 for a second offence – the same penalty system as before. The Telegraph has more.
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Re: Face coverings. NAME AND FORM
I am writing to let you know that my child NAME is not able to wear a face covering. Therefore as stated in the most recent government guidance on face coverings (20th July 2021) is not required to wear one. There are a wide variety of reasons people are exempt from wearing face coverings and it is unlawful to request proof of exemptions. This means that NAME will not be required, or able, to wear a face covering at school, at any time.
I would appreciate it if you and other staff could ensure they are not made to feel uncomfortable or singled out because they are unable to wear a face covering.
Kind regards
Weren’t all those fines thrown out of court last time?
Why wouldn’t they be able to say they’re ‘exempt’, since no proof is (reportedly) required?
Kids don’t like to stand out from the crowd, in most cases.
The last couple of times I had get togethers with old friends with children (I don’t) they were full of how responsible their children had been in following the directives. It was nauseating, but I bit my tongue. But it’s all part of the strategy. Parents pressurise children to conform. Children conform. And before you know it, everyone is emotionally invested in conforming and there is no going back.
I usually just say “I’m not sick” over my shoulder and keep walking. Briskly. If I’m stationary I say I’m exempt. I’m thinking of saying ‘I identify as exempt’ or even ‘I identify as wearing a mask’ next time I’m challenged and have time for an argument.
Try I’m exempt and non binary. That will both scare and confuse.
Does anyone know if there’s a way to get a mask exemption on your phone screen kind of like a vaccine passport in reverse. 😀
Ok daft question. I’ve screenshot an exemption and its now my wallpaper. 🤣🤣
My phone doesn’t do wallpaper or apps, it’s a 15+-year-old NOKIA 1112. Doesn’t even have a camera. If asked for an app or paxport, I will ask the asker to show me how to find it on my phone which is probably older than they are. Could be fun.
That is if I haven’t already punched them in the face by then!
Does it say ‘I am exempt – now fuck off and mind your own business’?
Forgive me if this sounds naive but ITV lives mainly on advertising. Would it not be possible to crowdfund an advert saying that the Covid narrative may be flawed and asking for a debate between government scientists and the usual Skeptic experts. It could be carefully worded so it couldn’t be labelled as a conspiracy theory.
If it was ignored or refused follow up adverts could point this out. Until people see with their own eyes that the alternative side of the story is not being broadcast they will never believe.
What’s going on? If what’s happening on this site is even the slightest measurement of the real world the anger has increased exponentially. The average up and downticks for a post seem to have tripled.
I seem to recall that someone (might have been a well-qualified academic?) tried to do this with some media (don’t recall which) and they refused to run what was being requested.
No rational analysis of data can support “mask wearing’ : are all the scientific mask supporting lobby devoid of rational thought or part of some greater conspiracy? The global diktats on non pharmaceutical interventions are akin to faith belief not medicine or science. Highlighting hypocrisy and inconsistencies in data is of no avail because they truly believe. It will only be by a Ghandi style public refusal to be oppressed by autocratic rules that society will flourish Remember you are exempt from mask wearing if they make you anxious- you don’t need to prove it .
‘I’m exempt’ is all that is needed re face rags (if it comes to that).
If the crooks and Quisling shills in the ‘govt.’ gave a toss about limiting transmission of Moronic it would reanimate its ‘Shop Alone’ brand of idiocy. If this Omnimoron variant was actually even remotely dangerous. You remember: the Go alone, don’t take the kids, and certainly not your elderly wife/husband. Hunter gatherer suicide missions to Aldi from which few would return – remember those?
Why not do that, return to one person shopping trips? Masks don’t work natch, but fewer people rubbing shoulders in Tesco Extra on Dec 20th just might do ‘something’. But that might impinge on Corporatist Xmas profits, globalist Corporatist Xmas profits.
BUT they won’t do it because:
a It might severely screw the bottom line if we just send Dad in his Batman bandana out to buy all the trimmings and prezzies. He will cock it up for sure, lose the list. No pester power brats pointing at Oculus headsets. Etc.
b It’s all fearporn theatre anyway. The more who see other shuffling zombies in masks the better. And masks make one more item in the shopping basket. Especially those with… Read more »
“Needless to say, it makes zero sense. After all, if the Omicron variant is actually less dangerous than the Delta variant – and all the evidence we’ve amassed about it so far suggests it is – then shouldn’t we be encouraging schoolchildren to catch it so they can then experience a mild, cold-like illness and thereafter enjoy better protection against COVID-19 than if they’d been vaccinated?”
Well of course!! If this had been about the virus then yes but it’s not – it’s part of the cycles of fear mongering in the gaslighting process of descent into a totalitarian society, where our bank accounts will be controlled and we will be released funds only if we are good little sheeple doing what we are told..
The usd is going to implode so they have to create a new currency, a digital currency. Which requires what?? A digital ID. How does everyone get a digital ID??? Well now you know.
For goodness sake, we WANT it to spread through children because it doesn’t harm them and they build up a useful and natural immunity to the disease
Absolutely and we also want the Moronic variant for similar reasons
This is part of the “health terror” that the philosopher Giorgio Agamben rails against – an overreach of the state on invented health grounds.
By obeying social distancing, masking etc we are condoning the destruction of the foundations of community – looking at the human face is how we perceive the world. Do not comply! I’ve not worn a mask at all in any setting and certainly won’t now!
OK I know I can be a bit thick at times but——–
Schools are there to educate, teachers have all been to uni and should be classed as ‘well educated?
So why haven’t these numpties researched the uselessness of masks and the harms they cause?
We, the tax-payers are paying them to inform, educate and learn how to research things yet they don’t seem to be able to do the same.
What am I missing?
PS Toby I can understand if kids don’t want to appear different to heir peers, but maybe a stiff letter to the schools head and board of governors may have an impact? – or is that wishful thinking on my part
There’s no correlation between intelligence / education level and resistance to Coronabollox. I work with people who would generally be regarded as intelligent – most have degrees, a few have PhDs, but the level of bedwetting and compliance is off the scale.
Remember in the Summer the scrofulous Whitty and co were murmering that masking may always be needed in the winter, well seems once again they got their way.
up tick for usage of the word “scrofulous” !
It fits so well in this case too!
“scrofulous” my new favourite word.
WTF Toby, “Is it because the Government knew it would play badly in the Sunday newspapers and on the Sunday morning talk shows?”
What makes you think that the MSM you describe would say anything that would make it uncomfortable for the tyrant puppets in charge?
Mask sales were dropping quite quickly, they knew they only had to pull out the ‘old’ super mutant variant scam and the morons would start hand wringing once more.
The best thing any parent can do for their children in these evil times would be to take them out of the malevolent sick establishment that seeks to jab and mask them while teaching them that Shakespeare was an evil sexist racist who never actually existed.
These kids are the future of the Human Race for heaven’s sake and they should be able to count on their parents for protection from evil and all the other shite that is floating around the sewage system that we call the world today, the society of the 2020’s.
The lies just have to keep getting bigger and bigger to keep the moronic masses cowed.
https://vaccineimpact.com/2021/the-new-covid-variant-scam-was-simulated-in-israel-weeks-before-it-was-discovered/
This is all because the government is expecting a huge raft of ADE fatalities and ICU cases from late-December and January.
The ‘Moronic’ is harmless – just as was the original – but those who have been jabbed are potentially facing a serious threat to their health through being jabbed.
The jab will have procured it…..but the government, HKSA and NHS are covering their backsides by introducing measures now, so that they can say they ‘did something’. Then, if the ADE scourge does materialise, then they will then blame the ‘new variant’ – and of course the unjabbed.
Make no mistake at all, this is all to cover-up the huge (or was it deliberate) error they made in forcing useless and dangerous jabs on the population.
There is every chance that this could occur throughout the northern hemisphere this winter.
I actually think that it might be tactically valuable for the unjabbed to go along with the measures in December/January…..if people start dying in droves, things could turn very, very ugly.
I’m now a bad person. I actually hope those fuckers die in droves. They are the same people who YouGov tell me want to hold me down and rape my body with their unholy concoction.
Ordinarily I’m sure parents wouldn’t permit their children to go anywhere near a school practicing any kind of abuse, yet I’m equally sure many will go along with this sort, despite it being completely omicrom. Mass disobedience is the only way now…….across the board.
According to the bbc it is advised https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-59452502
I fully expect “People aren’t complying so we have to bring in vaccine passports, so sad, blah blah, didn’t want to, lie, lie”. Followed by a xmas Eve announcement of a lockdown. Thinking about it, they’ll announce the lockdown 2 days after Xmas recess of Parliament.
(They won’t be allowed to refer to “Christmas” if they do. 🙂 )
Once the non compliance starts it will snowball. The government have made a huge mistake and I thing they will realise that very quickly. They’ll then have a choice between backing down and doubling down. Both will lead to their demise.
Comments section on The Telegraph site is awash with “No way am I wearing a mask Peppa!”. Is sanity finally reasserting itself? I read two comments out of maybe a hundred which were in favour and they got shot to bits in seconds.
Straight for the child abuse again
This is a natural experiment though. The data for secondary school children is available. There needs to be a material deviation in the rate of change from Tuesday onwards.
So let’s look for it. And then write it up properly if and when it arrives.
But most particularly if it doesn’t.
Needless to say, it makes zero sense.
Making sense over Covid has never really concerned Johnson and the other criminals in his wretched government.
“As a parent of three children who will have to wear masks in school tomorrow, I am livid.” Just email the school Toby, tell them they’re all exempt. NO MASKS, NO TESTS, NO ‘VACCINES’. NON-COMPLIANCE FROM NOW ON!
Point or order, the muzzle penalties are not “fines”. Fines are issued by a court.
These are fixed penalties, which are blackmail demands that you can pay to admit guilt, but avoid a day in court and potentially higher actual fines.
Don’t grant the Corona Cops more power than they actually have. We don’t (quite, yet) have Judge Dredd stalking around handing out Iso-Cube sentences without appeal.
While the MSM condemns the use of ivermectin, the most populated state in India just declared they are officially COVID free after promoting widespread use of the safe, proven medicine. In addition to this, Ivermectin attaches to covid spikes and prevents them from binding to ACE2. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
I got mine from IndiaMart. 30c a 12mg tablet. As Brett Weinstein has said, the virus could have been wiped out with the use of Ivermectin. Instead we have the leaky vaccines breeding variants.
Children wearing masks damages their socialization and will psychologically scar them for life. In all the insanity in Australia (mostly just in Victoria) one positive thing is that children have never been required to wear masks (except in Victoria).
I work in a school. I am a Grandparent. These people in charge are NOT hapless Are NOT bungling Are Not making accidental mistakes as lockdown sceptics describe. This is in fact criminal negligence and worse because they know masks don’t work.
So please call it accurately… criminal !
Damn right.. and anyone, especially children with their developing brains, are being harmed. Those pushing this once again know it too.
We’ll said
Am I alone in thinking that the new mask mandates might have a special restriction as concerns the ‘unjabbed’ Nothing would surprise me from this evil government, who obviously have their strings pulled by the globalists.
Not heard of it.
I did hear the language regarding masks in schools was “strongly encouraged” as opposed to required.
BBC look east asking are these restrictions going to be enough to save Christmas.
What is the matter with these people?
Following orders..
Agreed.
Id love a whistleblower to emerge with the truth.
With the situation as it is at the moment, they wouldn’t be heard. That’s the level of corruption we’re facing, cowardice too..
And give up the six-figure salary, expenses and pension, as well as a sinecure where you don’t have to think?
Get real.