Compulsory masks in schools could be ditched within days under plans being considered by ministers. According to one member of the Government, it will definitely happen before January 26th, the day earmarked for the scrapping of most ‘Plan B’ restrictions. Today’s Sun has more.
Falling Covid rates mean face coverings in schools could be scrapped before Plan B restrictions are lifted – which is expected on January 26th.
Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi is desperate to free youngsters from having to cover up all day long in classrooms.
One Government insider said: “Masks in schools could theoretically come off sooner than January 26th – if we start seeing really good numbers.
“They are not not linked to Plan B, so it could happen sooner than lifting Plan B. It’s not going to be any slower.”
Compulsory face masks in classrooms were imposed at the beginning of term amid fear Omicron could overwhelm the NHS. But the Government has admitted the evidence for using masks in schools to reduce Covid spread is “not conclusive”.
And new stats reveal Covid infection rates have dropped below 100,000 a day in the UK for the first time in over three weeks. Stats whizz Sir David Spiegelhalter yesterday said that Covid cases have now peaked.
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“it will definitely happen before June 26th“
Alarming mis-type!
Prophetic?
The masks should never have been a thing. Not for anyone. Certainly not for kids.
Of all the crimes since March 2020, the face masks have been the cleverest bit of social engineering – especially when they told us that we should wear them to PROTECT OTHERS.
I wore a face covering ONCE – when the pilot announced that he would not take off until everyone had one on. I put it on, he took off, I took it off.
That pilot was a right prat.
Although I think you already knew that. Still, it feels good to say it.
He obviously was a spineless, ignorant prat; the plane is his, the rules are his. Most cos and captains just give the usual “welcome aboard” announcement, if anything.
Spot on.
They could have been ditched ages ago if people weren’t such pathetic, spineless, naive little sheep
And if masks hadn’t been transformed into a political statement – “I wear MY mask to protect YOU from Donald Trump.”
Finally seen a bit of mask wearing drop-off in the local supermarkets for the first time since the omicrons began. As it is now the equivalent of a cold they can surely drop the mandate for everyone.
I do hope so Andy…
I can forgive some of what transpired as the official COVID response back in early 2020, however now as we head into 2022… continuing to punish kids by stifling them with masks in schools, never ending and pointless LFT testing, all aimed at reducing their educational opportunities – we need to end this bullshit now and guarantee their freedoms ASAP.
LOL!
https://waketfupweekly.substack.com/p/the-dark-fascist-connections-of-the
Interesting chap Zahawi is
That is a very dark read but shows how there are some seriously deep layers to what we consider “society.”
Yes, I thought the same, and before reading any comments here, I posted essentially a duplicate of yours.
The daily sight of children wearing masks has been one of the most disturbing things I’ve witnessed. In the classroom it’s almost impossible to hear what they’re saying and I can’t tell if they’re listening or read their emotions, making lessons almost unworkable as a normal human experience. I will never forgive the people who inflicted this cruelty on them for political reasons, nor will I forgive adults on the ground with responsibilities towards children for imposing this nonsense.
The children won’t forget either. And they’ll be the ones in charge soon enough.
And nor should they.
God help us!
You have my sympathy. It must be a truly mind and heart-wrenching experience for you as a teacher. I imagine this cruel state of affairs has been extremely difficult for you, and others like you, to cope with on an emotional level.
No escaping the reality that the whole of this utter shit-show has just been one ultra, mega, fucking wrecking-ball! It’s truly fucking sickening, to be faced with the searing, painful reality of just how lost and demented we are.
Fuck.
Lost and demented. Love that summary. Yes it’s been very hard but I also feel lucky to have been able to help kids not feel scared and help them see through the fog of propaganda. As you can imagine I’ve had to be extremely careful in doing this!
Thank you for this. I cannot say the same about my son’s school teachers, who I previously held in fairly high regard. He is one of only two in the class who is ‘exempt’ from mask wearing (by me from the very beginning) and it is clear that many of his teachers feel threatened by it.
Face coverings in schools were never compulsory, mandatory or a legal requirement. They have always been guidance or advice, how people interpret that is up to them. I believe it’s child abuse.
It took us months to convince our son not to wear a mask. He was worried about what others would think and knew his friends would give him a hard time. Peer pressure’s a terrible thing! Maybe this explains why more parents didn’t ‘exempt’ their kids. This was an appalling thing to do to children, I can’t even comprehend the idea of putting them on primary/nursery children as they do in other countries. The damage that will be doing is incalculable.
One of the things that made it so hard for my girl to go back to school was knowing that there would be pressure to mask and jab and she didn’t want either thing but also didn’t want to have yet another reason to be ostracised by the other kids. She hated the masks but was so scared of not wearing one, not because she thought they did anything but because others thought they did.
Such is the assault on humanity we’ve witnessed. It played on the decency of people and created deep divisions that will take years to heal. Whether deliberate or not, this has been a magnificently evil chapter in our history.
Peer pressure’s a terrible thing!
Yes, awful. And for adults, and our ‘leaders’ also to contend with.
Compounded by the fact that schools were themselves modelling caving in to peer pressure. When I wrote to our head back in the early summer she replied that whatever she thought herself, she could not take a different stance from all the other schools in South Gloucestershire.
‘she could not take a different stance from all the other schools in South Gloucestershire.’
Why not?
Because it was important to model how to cave in to peer pressure? Actually, I really appreciate this head as she has always been quick to phone me when I write my obstreperous mails and she is obviously not a mask fanatic. I do think heads have been put in an extremely difficult position, because whatever they may think they are government employees and they also have the unions and a lot of anxious parents breathing down their necks.
Yes they have, but they had more autonomy than they would care to admit. My head has navigated it pretty well and done things only when they were required and not a moment longer. The school hasn’t ‘promoted’ the ideology [unwittingly promoting communitarianism] and been relatively pragmatic; as far as is possible when the rules are harmful and make no fucking sense of course. I’ve heard horror stories from nearby schools though when heads took it upon themselves to go above and beyond simply to make themselves look good. Virtue signalling writ large at the expense of children. Sickening.
A typically slithery reply, and a useful way of avoiding the facts, which I’ll bet you provided!
It was the reason we took our two kids out. So far, home educating is working well, even with two pretty busy parents! I recommend Simply Piano and IXL.com – in just over a year, both of these tools have brought about more progress in Music, Maths and English than could ever have been achieved in the
schoolsBrainwashing Establishments.Hat’s off to you.
I hope you’re not a teacher with that apostrophe 😉
OMG we did that too! We are not alone! I’ve found a fab course for GCSE Ancient History – we just started on Cyrus the Great and – I kid you not – the first subject of study was how to assess sources to decide who wrote it, for whom, and how reliable they were. How we laughed….
Ferguson was predicting, what was it, 5,000 deaths a day sometime about now.
There should be serious consequences for this kind of insane scaremongering.
There should be.
Serious.
Consequences.
But there won’t be. His ridiculous face with those beady eyes too close together will no doubt be back on our screens sometime soon predicting that the next killer wave is on its way, and thousands will die.
His background is in string theory, perhaps the stupidest branch of modern physics, a nutty untestable ridiculous theory which adds nothing to the sum of human knowledge. Would have been a perfect career for him if he’d stayed there and then he could have written all the dodgy code he liked and it would not have made the slightest difference in the real world.
Sorry, the thread is about masks, but I just wanted to get that off my chest.
To be fair to the reliably incorrect modellers:
The problem isn’t that their models are so bad,
The problem is that anyone listened to them.
And the fact that “they were only following orders” to bring up the absolute worst case scenarios…every time!
Exactly.
Absolutely! Unequivocally, it is dangerously misleading/wrong information. But, hey, it’s fine.
Dare to merely question any element of the fairy-tale on the other hand – or even reproduce embarrassing/uncomfortable official data – and you will be summarily derided, denounced and decapitated.
When the pandemic’s over maybe he’ll turn his talents to the climate emergency. They could use some of his prognostications.
What if a Young Guard, ‘supported’ by unions, refuse to rip ’em off?
Stranger things have happened.
But mask wearing in shops and on trains kept, according to the newspapers. Still worse than November. pathetic.
Just don’t take any notice, I don’t. If anyone approaches me about the matter in a shop, I aggressively tell them to Fuck Off. If we all did the same, it would stop
I got approached for the first time today, in the garden centre. Needless to say I didn’t buy anything
Same here. Never worn one. No f-cks left to give, and it probably shows on my face, as I never get approached by anyone!
Righteous! 👊
Agree. Claim exemption, there is no comeback for that. If you like, I can post here an exemption card in Classical Greek. The regulations do not stipulate the language of the home-made card.
I love it. Who would dare question the wisdom of something so archaic?
No, don’t claim exemption. Just tell them to fuck off. It sends the right message
I don’t think he will somehow.
I’ve had a few things I’ve been planning to say but quite honestly I’ve barely had a chance, and certainly not recently. Best one was a bus driver, I think in 2020. He nearly crashed the bus afterwards…
Do it! I’ll put it on a t-shirt.
For now, I’ll go with
Παραβαίνω τους κακούς κανόνες!
And then a follow up:
Facilis descensus Averno, noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis. Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hic labor est!
A mechanism for them to lend some credence to the legitimacy/rationale of the entire illusion, if they phase it?
In Homebase this afternoon almost 100% full on Zombie apocalypse mask compliance,me excluded obviously , seemed like a parallel universe after reading The Daily Sceptic.
-10 social credit points for you I’m afraid.
The children will remember what the country has done to them during this time.
Look after your children because soon enough they’ll be looking after you.
And your unused masks will be bought up by Australian governments. Enjoy the revenue!
Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi is desperate to free youngsters from having to cover up all day long in classrooms.
Desperate, maybe. But desperate to free youngsters from having to cover up all day long in classrooms.
Yeah, right.
He’s one of the worst toads in a world of amphibious creatures.
Within days? I doubt schools/LAs would change anything midweek so if it’s not this Monday the 17th then it’ll be the 24th. 2 days before the rest of the restrictions are supposed to expire? Well aren’t they lucky.
Even if the government change their regulations schools still take the most restrictive advice from council Public Health Directors. This is the case in Hertfordshire where the unqualified Jim McManus is the Public Health Director. The Government should enforce the decision and not give local public health groups the ability to override it.
Our group did an awareness event in town. Got talking to lots of people about the actual rules regarding masks, that they just did not know! Many are still terrified they will told off for not wearing them! We had lanyards to encourage people to take that stepping stone to removing them completely, which all went. It is mostly complicity, and fear of authority that keeps a lot of people wearing them!
Still, they have achieved what they wanted to – normalising this authoritarian ritual for every future season of infectious illness. Signaling the acceptance of the notion of asymptomatic transmission and our bodies being dangerous for one another…
So very true.
I wonder if this has any connection to the French teachers threats to walk out if restrictions are NOT tightened?
Could Bozo be goading the English teaching unions? Announcement on a Saturday to allow time for the union leaders to be fully frothed by Monday morning?
An engineered row? A mega distraction? It’s not as if the government have shown any concern for our children throughout the last two years.
More shenanigans.
Johnson’s latest ‘dead cat on the table’…
Ironic how the chief victims of Covid fascism have been the very old, and the young. Those sections of society whose welfare is paramount in every civilised community.
There Are Now 365 Studies that Prove the Efficacy of Ivermectin and HCQ in Treating COVID-19. Any hospital administrator who mandated the shots to employees to comply with the government mandate for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and who refused to allow alternative treatments to be tried, doctors who pushed their patients to take the EUA drug without giving fully informed consent, anyone who forcefully administered the shot, the AMA, AAP, Boards of Health, CDC, FDA, NIH, WHO, scientists who participated in the development, Big Pharma (Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, Astra Zeneca, et. al.), anyone who pushed the sick into nursing homes resulting in deaths, all must be arrested, prosecuted, tried and if found guilty sentenced to prolonged imprisonment and fines or death for intentional homicide. Get your ivermectin before it is too late! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Anyone who’s been allowing their child to be abused like this should be ashamed.
Teachers and the unions going to be upset 😀
Masks need to be ditched everywhere. Especially on public transport.
Black masks, some overprinted with ghoulish images, have become a new fashion accessory for ‘hoodies’ adding to their already slightly menacing image.
Travelling up to London last night I was very glad my husband was with me when a group of about 8 lads, all hoods up, masked up, smallest slits left for their eyes -stomped through out virtually empty carriage. Had I been alone I’d have felt extremely vulnerable.
I’m not pointing the finger at these boys and saying they were going to cause trouble, but these masks and the anonymity they give, the fact they look menacing and intimidating, they’ve got to go.
What’s the point of CCTV these days? Must be a nightmare for the police and security services.
“Zahawi is desperate to free youngsters from having to cover up all day long …..”.
No his is NOT desperate. If he was he’d spend a few minutes looking to see if there’s ANY evidence for masks working, realise there is none, and abolish the dictat for ever.