Cases of COVID-19 in England fell again today with 97,770 reported, the first time there have been fewer than 100,000 reported since December 27th and a drop of 36% in a week.
The number of Covid patients in ICU also continued to fall.
Senior Government figures said that it showed the lockdown imposed on the advice of senior advisers before Christmas was working to control the outbreak of the highly infectious Omicron variant, but warned the public mustn’t become complacent and think it is over. “Lifting restrictions too quickly will just result in a resurgence of the virus which will overwhelm the NHS,” Health Secretary Sajid Javid said.
With infections currently higher in Scotland than south of the border, Nicola Sturgeon said that her additional restrictions, requiring people to keep their masks on while eating, was clearly making an impact. “What we need to keep in mind is that the infection rate would certainly be much worse had we not brought in these additional measures. Modelling from Imperial College has shown that Scots are particularly infectious while eating, and without this measure there would currently be 800,000 people in ICU with Covid in Edinburgh alone.”
Michael Gove said: “Some people say that Covid waves just fall by themselves, and spread dangerous ideas online implying that restrictions are not needed to control coronavirus outbreaks. The fact that infections are falling after we brought in restrictions shows the importance of using these tried and tested measures. Government is working closely with technology and social media companies to ensure all dangerous content online is removed.”
The Prime Minister echoed these sentiments. “Thank God I Listened to Neil Ferguson,” he said. “His predictions are always spot on.”
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Quelle surprise!
But, of course, this is the lesser problem. This rampant child abuse has created massive problems in terms of the deprivation of social contact and induction of mental illness.
A friend’s son is repeating his second year of a computer science degree because he couldn’t cope with the on-line aspects (and he is a computer specialist).
On line teaching doesn’t suit everyone. I agree there is too much computer in our lives. However, I do think the classroom has been a hotbed of group think too, which is highly dangerous, as we have seen.
Interestingly my four year old grandsons phoneticswent up 3 levels in the eight weeks his mum and I were homeschooling him. We’re thinking of making it permanent
I totally agree. My granddaughter was really struggling with understanding numbers. An hour a day for a couple of weeks and she is now flying. She is also asking many questions about everyday situations that require number skills. My daughter has already talked to other mums locally a out home schooling.
Lock ’em up.
Politicians, headmasters et.al.
Indulging in generalized fantasy doesn’t actually help credibility.
All part of the plan to make Western economies non-competitive going forward.
“China’s Belt and Road Initiative, in seeking to connect China to Central Asia, and eventually to Europe, will have the practical significance of shifting the world centre of gravity from the Atlantic (ie the USA and he might mean the UK as well) to the Pacific (ie China)
…….and will involve the cultures of Eurasia, each of who will have to decide what relationship to this region they will seek, and so will the United States. This is why many of us urged the United States to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank when it was proposed by China”
Henry Kissinger, Banking Conference, China, 2017
So the final stages of power shifting to China are underway. Russia is part of this. Australia and NZ are in the region too, hence all the ultra draconian programming there, to get people accustomed to the new world which will be fronted by a dominant Communist China but behind the scenes the existing power network will maintain its position. Israel is also a player in this via its dominant role in the tech sector and ‘smart cities’ agenda and its close relationship with Russia and China. Who knows which direction the UK will go in but they obviously have plans for the UK. It looks like the UK’s role will be as some kind of test-bed for the latest gadgets and methods of tyranny.
There is certainly an argument to be made that China, with globalist help, has already fought and won World War 3.
Depends what you mean by learning. Children will have learned a hell of a lot by default from this past year, not least the stupidity of mankind, the frailty of politics, of science and of society in general. That’s some footing upon which to build their futures. Forewarned is forearmed!
Let’s hope they have learned not to trust institutions too. We need a complete dusting down of the woke, group think, revolving door of upper middle class badly educated globalist bag carriers.
What do the government or teaching profession call learning? Indoctrination against their future??
In my small experience of families I live close too, the teenagers actually say hello in the morning instead of grunting, they seem lost but not angry too.
I think many smaller children have enjoyed the reconnection with family life and small pleasures like gardening, walking and even cooking. I do not count cycling in this as I notice in my very mixed community only the wealthier have cycles. The rest have legs with feet on the end.
Education is reading, writing, politeness, manners, respecting those around you, understanding the environment you live in and most of all critical thinking. All of which is not learned at school but by being involved with family and community.