The Scottish Government requires all schools to leave windows open in an attempt to stop the transmission of Covid. This has led to teachers and pupils sitting in freezing classrooms and needing to wear winter coats to stay warm, with opposition MSPs demanding that the Government install indoor ventilation as an alternative. The Times has the story.
Children are being forced to wear overcoats and blankets in bitterly cold classrooms because of a Government edict to keep windows open to limit the transmission of Covid.
One teacher said that temperatures plummeted to 11C, potentially putting children at risk of asthma attacks and other conditions linked to the cold.
The Scottish Government advises schools to strike a balance between ventilating classrooms to clear the air of the Covid while keeping room temperature above 17C.
Nuzhat Uthmani, a Teacher at Lorne Street Primary School in Glasgow and a member of the Educational Institute of Scotland teaching union, said: “I had my jacket on after lunchtime for the whole afternoon, along with my 30 pupils. We were so cold.”
Kerry Fraser, an English Teacher at Perth High School, said her pupils had complained of the cold. She added: “I checked the CO2 monitor and it was 11.2 degrees. I had to close all the windows and watch the monitor go red. I’ve been wearing a blanket in class.”
Opposition MSPs said the situation was unacceptable and urged ministers to install indoor ventilation in schools.
Michael Marra, the Scottish Labour Education Spokesman, said: “The SNP and the Greens rejected our proposals for air filters for every classroom.
“Eighteen months into this pandemic, and ‘open a window’ is the best the SNP have to keep schools safe. It is insulting and unsustainable.”
Oliver Mundell, Scottish Conservative education spokesman, said: “We are only at the start of winter, and temperatures will drop. The SNP need to provide more support, so teachers and pupils are not left bearing the brunt of the freezing months ahead.”
Willie Rennie, the Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesman, said schools need more than CO2 monitors to keep Covid at bay and called for a rollout of air purifiers.
He said: “The new Omicron variant is posing more threats to us, the government has a duty to step up, evolve its position and make sure we are doing the right things for our schools.”
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More child abuse from Jeanette Krankie & her junta.
The new religion demands that sacrafices must be made.
Poor Scotland, led by an idiot, just keeps making mistake after mistake in their feeble attempt to “control” a virus. You know, things like shutting restaurants at 8pm, because the virus knows the time of day. Not allowing alcohol with a meal because the virus knows if you are drinking when you eat a meal at a restaurant. Wearing masks to and from your table at the restaurant, but not when you sit down at the table, again this clever virus knows when to attack. It goes on and on and now you are being told to leave windows in the classroom open, during the winter months, causing kids to freeze to death. Folks, I am not certain why you have put up with this absolute bs for well over 18 months, but I can tell you, you better speak up soon or your lives are over for good.
The insane rules are intentional, the lunacy is designed to wear us down and make us accept the irrational as normal- the new normal.
Panic overreaction writ large. However, they could also be falling foul of the Health and Safety at Work Act, in as much as real risks should be reduced as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP). Of course, the definition of ‘reasonable’ and ‘practicable’ could be debatable. There are also minimum temperature recommendations which they are probably contravening, and other related health risks in a wide variety of working circumstances. An obvious crap idea, which they should be ashamed of.
Doing something stupid (causing another risk) on account of being scared of something else might not be a good defence in court. At least it’ll keep the procurator fiscals etc busy north of the border!
This is insanity…what parent would allow their child anywhere near such a madhouse. ?
Scottish teachers are so well informed. “I checked my CO2 monitor and it was 11.2 degrees” 🤣🤣
The revival of the practice of child sacrifice: another example of the response to Covid being worse than the disease.
This is illegal.
Reuters reporting Japan is at 1% of its COVID peak cases and falling. India is at 3% of its peak and falling. What did these countries do? Ditch vaccine mandates for ivermectin. Since April 28, India medical officials started providing hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin to its massive population. As India is the major pharmaceutical manufacturer in the world, they were ready for this massive drug distribution. MIRACULOUSLY!, COVID cases have plummeted quickly since then. Meanwhile, all “first world” countries in Europe are reporting a rise in cases. Get your ivermectin before it is too late! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Surely the climate change nutters would have something to say about wasting energy to heat rooms with the windows wide open
THREE ABORIGINAL TEENS ARRESTED AFTER ESCAPING FROM QUARANTINE FACILITY IN AUSTRALIA
“According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the three teens from the Binjari community near Katherine, aged 15, 16 and 17, tested negative for the virus yesterday. They had been confined to quarantine for being ‘close contacts of positive cases,’ only to scale a fence and escape at 4:30 am Wednesday morning.”
https://wearechange.org/three-aboriginal-teens-arrested-after-escaping-from-quarantine-facility-in-australia/
When this all started in 2020, my cousin in NZ told me about people in quarantine centres and 1 man ‘escaped’ and the guards hunted him down and brought him back and everyone was SO relieved. Horrifying but true
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-chilling-new-advice-on-vaccine-heart-risk-for-children/
I HAVE just been alerted to the Government’s new Myocarditis and pericarditis after Covid 19 vaccination: guidance for healthcare professionals, published four days ago on Monday. It makes chilling reading.
You can read it here.
First, it is a clear admission of that myocarditis is a serious post-vaccine adverse reaction risk. Second, amongst the usual and increasingly implausible disclaimers like ‘it is a rare condition’ and ‘it is usually mild or stable and most patients typically recover fully without medical treatment’, comes the terrifying admission that ‘a high percentage of children admitted to hospital with myocarditis have significant left ventricular fibrosis and no follow-up data is available yet on hospitalised patients.’
https://www.wnd.com/2021/12/vaccine-inventor-fundamentally-evil-covid-policies-harming-children/
In a wide-ranging video interview with WND, the vaccine researcher who invented the messenger RNA technology behind the Pfizer and Moderna shots explained why he opposes universal vaccination for the COVID-19 virus and why he’s been willing to risk the reputation he’s cultivated over three decades and weather the scorn of the government and health-care establishment.
Some better news…
High Court judgement ruled in favour of Dr Sam White @JusticeforDrSW
who should not only be able to return to work as a GP but the freedom to challenge and criticise flawed covid policies is now assured.
Congratulations @Francis_Hoar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGFdWcJU7-0&ab_channel=UnHerd
Freddie Sayers UNherd. Howard Springs camp.
This young woman was incarcerated in the camp for two weeks and threatened with a $500 fine even though she tested negative repeatedly.
When she enquired about this she was told by the Australian CDC it was probably “punishment” for lying to the authorities about having taken a test, when she had not. She never tested positive, but was locked up for 14 days and lost her job
From Telegram:
I was speaking to a fellow human rights lawyer from Japan last night. She asked me, “are they really transporting people into detention simply for being close contacts?”
I told her that it is even worse than that – that the judgment call on whether somebody should be taken to a quarantine facility is an arbitrary one, based on loose and dangerous criteria such as whether that person is ‘likely to cause a risk’ if they aren’t locked up.
It doesn’t matter if the ‘close contact’ tests negative, even multiple times (like most of Australia’s Covid measures, it’s not actually about whether people are sick, or contagious).
There is also no defined limit to the quarantine period. In NSW, where a personalised “public health order” lasts for 14 days, a new one can be issued ad hoc at the end of that period, again and again. I have spoken to people who were in quarantine for 2 months, despite repeatedly testing negative, and despite repeatedly suggesting alternative places they could isolate. One of these people, a young Sudanese mother who I am assisting with claims for false imprisonment and racial discrimination (arbitrary criteria such as ‘likely to cause… Read more »
And one hates to piss on the party of those who animadvert about people being “hung”, and “Nuremberg 2.0”; but the only thing that snapped the German masses out of their collective trance in the mid-1940s was the complete and utter destruction of the society, economy and infrastructure of their country- in one of the more elegant phrases to have emanated from Foggy Bottom, their being bombed back into the Stone Age. Whence our Allied liberators? Where is our “outside”?
Mass destruction of historic architecture and inner city housing blocks and gruesome mass killing of people inhabiting them didn’t bomb anyone back into stone age. The German armament industry reached the peak of its output in winter 1944. And the war didn’t end until almost all of Germany was military occupied by enemies with seriously superior numbers.
The Brits (and, to a lesser degree, the Americans) acted here exactly like the ‘huns’ they used to claim the Germans were because they were – like all other parties – shelling whatever happened to be in the front line during WWI.
Strategy bombing failed even more miserably during the Vietnam war. The bomb tonnage dropped on Northern Vietnam was an insane multiple of the what was dropped onto Germany during WWII. Outcome: USA loss.
Surely there is a law about minimum temperature for classrooms?!
I’ve continued to see clients face to face privately and through a not for profit counselling service throughout the pandemic. I’ve never opened a window whilst sitting a room with a client for an hour. I don’t wipe down surfaces or use the hand gel we have dotted around the place. I’ve never worn a mask and neither have the clients. The counsellors have seen about 100 clients in our rooms. Whilst people have cancelled due being pinged or having to self isolate, we’ve had not one incidence of COVID. Maybe I’ve been cavalier and I realise my experience could be an anomaly but I do not think do. We are all volunteers and have seen every client within two weeks of self referral. The local NHS, GPs, CAMHS, schools, job centre and social workers all signpost clients to us.
“and make sure we are doing the right things for our schools.”
How about resigning en masse..?
My sister in South Africa forwarded me this message:
Richard Friedland, chief executive officer of Netcare Ltd., which operates the largest private health-care network in South Africa: “If in the second and third wave we’d seen these levels of positivity to tests conducted, we would have seen very significant increases in hospital admissions and we’re not seeing that. In our primary care clinics it is mainly people under 30-years-old.”
“So I actually think there is a silver lining here and this may signal the end of Covid-19, with it attenuating itself to such an extent that it’s highly contagious, but doesn’t cause severe disease. That’s what happened with Spanish flu.”
“We are seeing breakthrough infections of people who have been vaccinated, but the infections we’re seeing are very mild to moderate. So for health care workers who have had boosters, it’s mostly mild. I think this whole thing has been so poorly communicated and so much panic generated.”
“It’s early days, but I’m less panicked. It feels different to me on the ground.”
COVID-bollocks: The ICUs are full of young people and even triple-vaccinated ARE NOT SAFE !!! AAAAAAAH !!!!
Grrrr ….
Astounding scientific discovery
Covid: First Omicron variant case confirmed in Wales – BBC News
According to this BBC news report the Omicron variant is actually shaped as a letter ‘O’
Mind you not any old ‘O’ but a Greek ‘O’ that is thinner at it’s base
This could be the breakthrough we have all been hoping for
There was obviously a time when the variant existed but had not been named. How did the variant know in advance that it was to be named ‘Omicron’?
With a bit of reverse engineering we can eradicate this virus by creating a new alphabet
Then again it could just be more bullshit from the BBC
Apparently people don’t like being called racist, misogynist, Nazis in their entertainment, who knew….the extension to add back the dislike button apparently 🙂
Punishment after punishment. Saddening 🙁 I think it’s time parent’s claimed back their children from what is a corrupt and quite frankly useless education system. Homeschooling has taken off in the US and I hope it takes off here too
I think most private things would take off if only we didn’t have to pay twice.
Wasn’t there a party once who campaigned on ideas like individuals knowing better than government what they should spend their money on?
Gov.uk website has: “However, guidance suggests a minimum of 16ºC or 13ºC if employees are doing physical work.”
Since teachers aren’t doing ‘physical work’, their unions should be protesting about this and encouraging walkouts (in the event that parents haven’t already lost their rag with Krankie and her cabinet of nutters).
You’re overthinking it just add “physical work” to the job description. And let them do some jumping jacks every once in a while.
It’ll harden em up a bit after all the CRT, Trans, Climate justice nonsense they’ve been taught.
Who’s paying the schools inflated heating bills… We are in the grand scheme of things.
All that wasted energy on heating the air that’s just flowing out of the open windows. Disgusting waste let alone pointless.
Who said Scotch politics politics just produces a load of hot air?
Ah yes – and think about the extra CO2!
So the politicians are all trying to score points off each other instead of calling out the bullshit. It gets more like Gulliver’s Travels every day. Or Nero fiddling while Rome burns.
Keeping the windows open. I wonder if the heating is still on. Knowing just how mad this world is I will expect this is the case.
What happens when the weather is really cold. I will then expect the pipes to freeze. Then the wee ones will have to be sent home.
Any recommendations for solicitors who will provide services for people who’s job is mandating “vaccines”?
“How do you spell, ‘Pneumonia’, children?”
Scottish kids won’t be able to answer because they’ve already succumbed to it.
We had to give the children full pneumonia to prevent asymptomatic pneumonia.
If it saves just one life!
Don’t worry, if they succumb to anything, it will just be called a new covid variant – which now also attacks the young!
This gets more hilarious by the hour.