The omicron variant will lead to “chaos” in schools, MPs have warned, with children set to be forced into self-isolation by the new rules. The Telegraph has more.
In an attempt to prevent the spread of the mutant strain of Covid, close contacts of those who test positive for omicron will have to self-isolate for 10 days, with the Government confirming that this applies to children.
On Sunday night, ministers were warned that the move risks a repeat of the situation during the summer term when thousands of healthy children were told to stay at home.
Steve Baker MP, deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group, said the measures “will cause chaos including collateral harms like damage to children’s education”, adding: “The Government needs to explain when all of this will be brought to an end.”
Parents have called for children to be exempt from the new self-isolation rules.
Molly Kingsley, co-founder of parent campaign group UsForThem, said: “We learnt from summer that forcing healthy children to isolate was an unmitigated disaster and it is unforgivable to do that again.
“If they don’t exempt children it will cause chaos in the classrooms. Asking healthy children to quarantine is not a harm-free measure, it is harmful to children who are not at serious risk from the illness. At this point in the pandemic it is shameful for the Government not to have an exemption for children.”
Earlier this year, the Telegraph launched a campaign calling for an end to disruption in schools and for children to be put at the heart of policy making.
In a further blow to the end of term, the UK’s biggest teaching union was arguing on Sunday night for a return of the ‘bubble’ system and for all in-person nativity plays and other Christmas activities to be axed, as the Government confirmed facemasks would have to be worn in secondary school corridors from Monday.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Nadhim Zahawi joined hundreds of teachers last night at the Teaching Awards, an annual jamboree for the teaching profession in London. There wasn’t a face mask in sight.
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But their jabs do not prevent infection so their vaxxine pass are rendered useless!
“The Prime Minister and half the Cabinet are currently at a huge lunch in Westminster. There is not a mask in sight (apart from the waiters, of course). Yet tomorrow the PM will make all of our children wear masks in schools. It’s all theatre, folks.”
https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1465312059139235848
It’s not ”a variant” that is causing chaos. It’s these disgusting, self-serving, prancing nowts that are doing that.
“The omicron variant will lead to “chaos” in schools, MPs have warned”. No the governments panicky and half assed response to the moronic variant will lead to further chaos for the entire nation.
It’s not ”panic” though, is it? It is deliberate and cold calculation on their part. They know EXACTLY what they are doing, and to say otherwise is being overly generous.
We see a new variant, and literally after a few days, they are saying we should “get our boosters” to protect ourselves, despite the vaccine not being effective against the original virus after a while and not against the Delta variant, so how is it supposed to work with this moronic Xi variant?
That’s too intelligent a reply.
Room 101 for you mate.
“In an attempt to prevent the spread of the mutant strain of Covid“. And yet no previous attempts worked, so why even bother, for a variant that’s even less harmful, and so will have negligible to next-to-zero effect on children!! This is a classic example of Einstein’s definition of insanity (keep trying the same thing hoping for a different outcome). That our politicians and so-called health ‘experts’ cannot see this is just incredible.
Of course they can bl**dy well see it! Why are so many people ready to excuse them on the grounds of their being inefficient? They are greedy, self-serving, arrogant, manipulative nobodies, taking orders from elsewhere.
We know this platform is an echo chamber, but where can the ‘awake’ go to be heard by others who need to start waking up? Has anyone got any suggestions? This is becoming utterly ridiculous.
I understand brekky telly for the ‘moronic’ was actually inciting violence against the independent of mind, aka mask ‘exempt’. this morning. Actually encouraging and advocating violence between the masked and those ‘exempt’. Pushing for more and more conflict between naturally immune and the poisoned. This just gets more barbaric and evil by the day.
IT HAS TO STOP!
Bandstand in Blake Park – Bridgwater – Somerset. Every Sunday 10am meet likeminded people who can see the bleedin’ obvious.
Telegram: Connecting Warriors. MeWe group Connecting Warriors
Other venues are available all over the country, but you won’t find their details on MSM.
If unsure A good start would be Telegram groups for your area. “A Stand in the Park – Bracknell & Wokingham” might have more details.
Teachers are hypocrites? Who knew?
Yeah.. and cowards too..
Angelique Coetzee the chairwoman of the South African Medical Association was the first to identify the dreaded omicron –
“It presents mild disease with symptoms being sore muscles and tiredness for a day or two not feeling well. So far, we have detected that those infected do not suffer loss of taste or smell. They might have a slight cough. There are no prominent symptoms. Of those infected some are currently being treated at home,” Ms Coetzee said.
Given the severity I’m surprised that Boris has announced a child cull, for your safety of course.
I wonder if Coetezee is wishing she kept her big mouth shut?
Ivermectin help reduce the severity of vaccine adverse reactions. If someone is suffering from a post vaccine syndrome, FLCCC clinicians and a growing network of colleagues have reported significant clinical responses to ivermectin. Because Ivermectin has 5 different mechanisms of action against coronaviruses, the medication is also effective with the different variants of the virus. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
https://twitter.com/UsforThemUK/status/1465029150914355209
https://usforthem.co.uk/resources/template-letters/
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Dear
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
In the local club a couple who are both teachers attend and fully support mask wearing for kids at school..
When I point out that the room we are in is basically a classroom but no one is wearing a mask, they fail to see the hypocrisy.
Makes one’s piss boil
To them, there’s no hypocrisy: Masking pupils is about managing workplace risk. But private, voluntary gatherings are not work places. That they’re obviously not really scared about COVID doesn’t figure here. No one can expect them to put their lives at risk in the classroom, though, no matter how minimal that risk might be. See also bad poem above. And the usual COVID mechanics of forcing them might help me! (and hence, it must be done) but forcing me doesn’t (hence, there’s no reason to do it).
This comment has nothing to do with the article whatsoever, it’s just about a bad poem I came up with when mopping my floor earlier today. It could become a national anthem of sorts for the United Kingdom of Boris & Johnson, rumoured to have been a great and valiant nation at some unspecified time in the past. But that was before its leader fell under the foul spell of a band of elderly sages left over from the communist revolution which never happened who were most famous for their inability to predict anything except their own predictions.
I’ve named it The Precautionary Principle or The Warsong of Susan B Michie
Run Britannia!
Run and hide from all these COVID waves!
Feeble, weak Britannia,
Nothing else can keep you safe!
Fear Britannia!
Fear these dreadful COVID waves!
Poor, old, scared Britannia,
Taking any risk at all will surely be your grave!
I have been out this morning – to the dentist and three different independent shops. I do not wear a mask and no comment was made anywhere. The dentist knows I am exempt (for a diagnosed medical condition), but the shopkeepers weren’t interested, nor were they wearing masks. I used to wear a lanyard, but I now refuse to as I fail to see why I should have to visually justify that I can have my face uncovered. I am looking forward to a decent challenge somewhere so I can show off my wonderful resting bitch face, but somehow I think it might be some time coming.
Just wait until tomorrow – last summer in went from hardly anybody wearing one on the Sunday to nearly everyone muzzled when the nappy-mandate came into effect the following day.
I’ve noticed a general increase in masked zombies and a renewed vigour in their angry stares when encountering people who ignore their pseudomedical fetish. But only among the (middle-class) English (and Chinese, obviously). The Poles were as unimpressed as ever. We’ll see what tomorrow brings.
I’m about to take my weekly taxi trip to the cashpoint and to do bits of shopping; fully prepared with a dirty mask in one back pocket and ‘exempt’ lanyard in the other.
Thanks to lockdownsceptics (as was) I obtained the first of these just before the onset of mandatory masking last summer and am fully aware that I do not require such a lanyard still less discuss the reason for my self declared exemption to any taxi driver or shopkeeper that might question it.
At the point of questioning my use of the single word “exempt”* the offender has committed a crime against Disability Discrimination Statutes which are Primary Legislation which far outweigh Ministerial pronouncements, on Twitter or elsewhere.
There is no requirement to produce medical documentation to anybody, including the Police, until a prosecution arrives at Court which has not once occurred in England since masking became a requirement.
I will brandish my lanyard at an uninformed taxi driver in preference to being left stranded on a street corner and will wear my, dirty, mask in my Pharmacy which is MY decision and not up for discussion.
*I generally extend this to “I’m exempt thank you” as common… Read more »
Absurdly enough, we’re all ‘exempt’ by virtue of the fact we are human beings.
Though I sometimes wonder how many lizards there are amongst the powers-that-be!
This time last year there were claims made here of moral repugnance about claiming to be legally exempt when this might be lying.
I always found such fears to be ridiculous when merely feeling ‘anxiety’ if wearing a mask is sufficient and who is to prove otherwise?
You can go onto Gov.uk here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own
You can access this for either printing or scanning onto your ‘phone ( if you still use a smartphone, of course..)
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/903452/Exemption_from_face_covering_badge_for_mobile_phone.pdf
Current Omicron count – England 3 – Scotland 6. So how is the mask mandate in Scotland helping?
PS I think it ought to be called the Irish variant – O’Micron.
“Omicron Variant Will Unleash Chaos in Schools as Hated ‘Bubbles’ Threaten to Return”
or
“Futile, unwarranted panic over Omicron variant will unleash needless suffering and waste in schools as misguided, hysterical local authorities and governning bodies think about bringing back bubbles, egged on by central government”
Guarding their arses against future claims of negligence. Each might do well to follow government guidelines in only the narrowest sense but many will take them to the Nth degree.
Just look at those teachers attending the Teachers Awards. Are they congratulating themselves for the part they’ve played in destroying the future for children? That’s the only conclusion I can come to, because they certainly do not deserve praise for anything they’ve done over the last two years.
Parents must be furious to see this, especially considering none of the teachers are muzzled or distanced while today they will be enforcing such rules on children.
Well, let’s hope they enjoy the praise while it lasts, because the whole thing is very reminiscent of how the NHS were treated as heroes before being ‘vaccinated’ became a condition of their employment.
All state employees will be first in line for the Social Credit payments
Was it shown on the telly news or This Morning/Breakfast shows?
I haven’t got a TV licence so I wouldn’t know, but I imagine TV news is too busy reporting bullshit to scare people into wanting lockdown.
That’s why my five year old grandson is now Electively home educated and is thriving. His maths, reading and writing have improved greatly since sept, he is learning the piano, sign language, can light a fire safely using a flint and learning to forage safely and does science, creativity and gets out and about loads. He has lots of friends and plays rugby. His behaviour has been the biggest improvement, previously he was angry and tired alot of the time.
I know alot of people can’t do it but there are many groups out there to offer support for those that want to try and I recognise it can be more problematic for secondary age. .
Some schools are now so desperate to keep their numbers up they offer ‘blended learning’ which is part school part home education.
Sounds amazing Catee. One of the things the local Stand in the Park group here have done is set up support for home schoolers, including finding a dedicated building for them to use.
We’re going to end up with some interesting divergences amongst the young by the time this madness is over.
Absolutely, my only worry is that if EHE is shown to give better results for many children they will make it illegal as they have in many eu countries.
All awake people should be remiving their children from schools with immediate effect. To not do so is child abuse and it is akin to saying you want the New Normal to thrive. STOP FEEDING THE BEAST.
Good for him and for you.
There are two forest schools on the outskirts of my city that offer real education in a rough & tumble environment with usually one on one teaching (sometimes two on one).
Sadly they are only available as the Last Chance Saloon for misbehaving children who have been expelled from everywhere else.
Bozo bans the word ‘Christmas’ to avoid offending followers of other religions.
Alex Belfield (YouTube) usually so spot on in all things sceptic gets it all wrong on this one.
He claims it is all about pandering to the wishes of johny cum lately adherents of other faiths demanding that the indigenous population change their ways to suit them; it’s been going on for years hence my own city attempt to abandon Xmas street lighting in favour of ‘Winterval’ which they had to abandon after about three years.
Nothing could be further than the truth; many recent arrivals and their offspring regard Christmas as a holiday to be enjoyed in secular ways like family get togethers and exchange of gifts, attending Works Xmas Do’s, with some going so far as to include glittery decoration of their home, tacky or otherwise.
For proof that Moslems are not offended take a look at, for example, the way the terminals at Dubai airport are decorated for the Yuletide Season. My Hindu owned local convenience store/post office will be discreetly bedecked with tinsel bunting as usual as this pleases the kiddies on their way home from the nearby school.
No, this is about PC… Read more »
While Christmas certainly offends some immigrants, you are correct in that, generally, anti-Christmas/Christian sentiment comes from self-loathing establishment types who project their hatred of their own culture onto immigrants/other cultures. Ironically, it is itself a form of ‘soft discrimination’ in that it unwittingly suggests that other religions and cultures are unable/not advanced enough to tolerate/cope with Christmas and by extention Christians.
Furthermore, and again ironically, it undermines the establishment’s relentless push for ‘multiculturalism’, unless they want to openly admit they have no desire to achieve ‘integration’ and ‘harmony’.
On the other hand, if it stops these lunatics from associating Christmas with their deranged push to inject everyone, then I’ll take it.
oikophobia is by far the biggest for of prejudice in this country.
The local oikey ‘troubled estate’ is the area where residents are most likely to decorate the outside of their homes with ever expanding illuminated festive light shows. Clearly some are neighbours competing with each other, others offer charity boxes for people to contribute to the upkeep of such displays or designated charities.
Last year there was at least one reported incident where police asked the householder to ‘tone it down a bit’ because the display was attracting crowds and so was not ‘Covid Safety Compliant’ ffs.
Sometimes snobby killjoys from soulless private manicured estates write to the local paper denouncing this wasteful use of Universal Credit (with staggering presumption) while others jump on the Climate Change bandwagon about the amount of CO2 being produced, tossers all of them.
It’s not my cup of tea but if brings a bit of cheer on a dark winters night good luck to them.
If it offends anyone, they’re welcome to fuck off to a non-Christian country instead.
That’s a rather undiplomatic and no-nonsense way of putting it. I quite agree.
That misses the point, it’s the white liberal self hating guilt merchants that make these pronouncements, not usually immigrant communities themselves.
It started when the Polytechnics started churning out graduates of ‘Progressive Studies’ or more particularly when those people started to arrive in middle management positions within the public sector trying to make names for themselves in ways that didn’t cost much money.
‘That misses the point, it’s the white liberal self hating guilt merchants that make these pronouncements, not usually immigrant communities themselves.’
I take ‘Backlash’s’ statement to include these very people.
Especially those people in fact!!
May I recommend Robin Aitken “The Noble Lie”; a polemical demolition of the insidious effect the Liberal/Left (sic) have had on these islands since the late 1920’s, encapsulated by the BBC today.
Alex Belfield stinks to high heaven of false opposition. Many have called him out as a freemason playing his part in undermining opposition to the government – and I agree with them.
That may or may not be the case, especially when he bangs on about Meghan and other celebs, but he shines a spotlight on areas of genuine concern about which his commenters are keen to expand.
As he often reminds us he has to operate carefully to avoid falling foul of YouTubes “community guidelines’ but makes it clear when he is self censoring giving viewers the opportunity to dig further for themselves.
Which part of your second sentence are you “agreeing with”?
Teacher says it is dangerous, and teacher is always right.
But send them on lockdown without pay and they could be persuaded otherwise
Dear Father Christmas:
‘Stop Press: Nadhim Zahawi joined hundreds of teachers last night at the Teaching Awards, an annual jamboree for the teaching profession in London. There wasn’t a face mask in sight.’
So the ‘teaching profession’ is once again congratulating itself, and after long periods where it abandoned its responsibilities. How utterly grotesque and unsurprising.
There a photo of that maskless shindig 🔝 up there in a later thread.
My Mother (who hates this scam in its entirety) is a retired teacher. She started her career in the flu year of 1968, and is utterly ashamed of what her once honourable profession has become.
Good for her, my Mum was a WW2 trained State Registered Nurse who felt the same towards her Profession before retiring after 40 years experience. Not the nurses themselves, the way Nursing was mismanaged.
You might be surprised at the vast gulf that exists today between Nurses and Doctors in todays NHS whereas in her day they all saw themselves as equally valued parts of the same team.
I am hearing daily that the greater gulf is between “clinicians” and management, winning over time hence why parts of the nHS are so sclerotic; other factors at play too such as GPs offloading patients onto A&E.
oh dear…”widening”.
I’m glad a cost-benefit analysis has been done. Sorry. Forgot.
It’s filed right alongside the risk assessment that hasn’t been done.
The precautionary principle has now returned all the way to medieval superstition: all that we do not know could kill us, therefore we must make ritual sacrifices in order to appease the bloodthirsty Gods of the gaps.
As opposed to secular superstition and Naturalism of the gaps, which has endured ’til this very day. A remarkable achievement.
In Ireland some principled teachers had the guts to speak out…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJfAW8jcF28
And here we are today… as we move progressively into this “Dark Winter” phase of the NEW NORMAL, and legally 04:00 tomorrow Convid1984 measures are locked back in with fine threats for those of a likely increasingly non-compliant bent.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/11/28/mask-refusniks-face-200-fines-ministers-warned-new-covid-rules/
[Cue thuggish Covid Marshalls at the ready]
And this is how tragically a once free society dies. Since March 2020 Brits have willingly given up vast swathes of personal liberty to BlowJo’s fake emergency enabled BUILD BACK BETTER cabal govt, with barely a whimper.
How’s that working out?
For sure you, and your babies and kids will be forcibly injected for ever after with these cell altering products, digital currency follows, as do then the social credit scores and if you’re a totally numbed out compliant zombie all will be well.
Fuck that.
For a small but growing critical mass of us in the 1st world West, trust in the institutions that had governed us all to date is now gone. It is never coming back.
Nicely demonstrated by the UK govts stance on this farcical next chapter game of variants – Omnicrap phase and how it… Read more »
Could just as easily describe a hangover or alcohol withdrawal for those not accustomed to heavy drinking with the added bonus of nervous anxiety compounded by dread feelings of guilt.
New Years Day being being a perhaps the day most present at A&E with such symptoms.
What a fkd up situation. Become ungovernable and you become unteachable, remain obedient and you remain superstitious and indoctrinated.
How’s the flight to homeschooling coming on, based in virtue and reality?
At least there are some voices within the political sphere calling out this revolting tory/sage junta: Well done David Kurten.
@davidkurten
Coercing children to wear face masks in school is psychological abuse from a deplorable regime.
Schools and teachers should note carefully however: it is guidance that says SHOULD, not a statute that says MUST. They should not enforce it or they too will be guilty.
My niece has been so indoctrinated by her school teacher mother that she won’t go out without one.
Horrific.
Does she see a wire mesh fence and claim it’s anti-malarial too?
I see the parents taking their children home from the local Junior school, not a mask in sight unlike last autumn.
That’s very sad.
Western governments are compromised.
It is now clear that they are not in charge but rather receiving instructions from privately controlled multinational institutions.
As far as I am concerned our government is no longer legitimate.
This has been the case since this crap started.
since the late 60s this has been true but they are operating more overtly now.