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Scottish Primary School Closes After ‘Suspected’ Omicron Outbreak

by Luke Perry
7 December 2021 9:00 AM

Todholm Primary school, located in Renfrewshire, Scotland, has been shut for a week after a ‘suspected’ outbreak of the Omicron variant led to numerous members of staff and two class groups being required to self-isolate. Last week, approximately 14,000 school pupils in Scotland were recorded as absent for Covid related reasons. The Times has the story.

Todholm Primary, in Paisley, Renfrewshire, announced it had been forced to close for a week after a suspected outbreak of the Omicron variant meant it was unable to maintain necessary staffing levels.

Two class groups in P1 and another in P2 are self-isolating, as well as multiple staff members.

The number of pupils absent for Covid reasons throughout Scotland was holding steady at about 14,000 on Friday, some 2% of the total school roll.

NHS Highland has eight confirmed cases of Omicron, with some detected amid a “significant outbreak” of Covid linked to a music event at the Royal British Legion in Nairn on November 27th.

There have been 67 cases of coronavirus detected in Nairn in the past seven days, a rate of more than 400 per 100,000, above the national average of 250 per 100,000.

Greater Glasgow and Lanarkshire has the highest number of confirmed Omicron cases with 49.

Cases have also been detected in Forth Valley, Ayrshire & Arran, Fife, Grampian, Lothian and Tayside. Only the Borders, Dumfries and Galloway and the islands health boards remain free of the variant at present.

Dr. Christine Tait-Burkard, a Covid specialist at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, urged the public to follow new guidance to take a rapid test every time they go out in public.

Speaking on Lunchtime Live, on BBC Radio Scotland, she said: “We still don’t know very much more about Omicron.

“The continued information we get from South Africa is, on the positive side we continue to hear that it doesn’t seem to be as devastating in terms of symptoms when we compare it to Delta. Obviously we have to put caveats on that as South Africa has a different demographic of younger people.

“On the other hand we continue to see a very rapid spread in South Africa which is bad news, and we also see increased transmission in the U.K. Time will tell how much quicker that is next to Delta in a highly vaccinated society.”

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Omicron VariantSchool ClosuresScotland

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago

The argument holds a certain amount of water, for me, though I can’t help thinking there have always been and will always be boys who look up to people like Tate, as indeed there are always people of all ages and both sexes who look up to or at least hanker after less than ideal role models – and I am not even sure “role model” is necessarily an applicable term a lot of the time. There are people with pretty disastrous lives who try to live like some idiot from social media or TV or whatever, but a lot of people just find those kind of people mildly interesting/distracting/amusing/titillating and don’t seriously try to emulate them. I’m not saying that’s ideal, but I am not sure that there be too much hand-wringing about it.
But yes, more properly decent men with what have been traditionally identified as more “masculine” qualities would be a better outlet. I like the “chivalry” idea.

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago

money isn’t the main index of masculinity’. Otherwise, we would all just be looking up to gangsters and criminals.

Gangsters and criminals aren’t the even close to being the richest people. Unless he means….

Based on my own first hand experience, my impression is that teenage boys are sick to the teeth of wokeness.

I think this guy is right on the money, but it’s a message Jordan Peterson has been putting out for quite a few years now. Maybe it’s gathering momentum.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
2 years ago

“Chivalry is the thing that we’re missing today…”. Hmmm. Most of us associate chivalry with being courteous, particularly with women e.g. opening doors, taking off your coat to put around your wife, paying the bill etc. Putting women before yourself. But this is based on the belief that women need/want to be looked after and almost all women in today’s society have made it crystal clear that they do not want this, so why chivalry? What’s the incentive to be chivalrous to the angry woman that gives you the hand gesture in her car? The woman that pushes in at the bar? All the women who’ve been telling men that masculinity is evil and they are sh*t? All the women (a couple on here) that reply to questions about feminism by trying to mock and humiliate (male tears, male fragility, male this, male that etc)? No, chivalry is not the problem; the problem is why there is no incentive to be chivalrous. Over to you ladies.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

Agree, Chivalry on one hand requires grace on the other.

Andrew Tate appears to be yet another figure of hate for the easily triggered. He isn’t. He’s playing the ‘toxic male’ role perfectly, interspersed with some really astute analysis of our crazy world. He really is smarter than he looks, and the simple thinkers of the left can’t rationalise that.

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

all women in today’s society have made it crystal clear that they do not want this

Don’t agree. Most women I know absolutely love to be treated like ladies, but of course without being patronising.

I think the idea that all women don’t want that is created in the same way that the idea that we all want a gender-free, gender-fluid, racially hypersensitive world.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

For some reason you’ve missed out an important part of what I posted i.e. “and almost all women in today’s society…”. You confuse me tbh. You post about the problems with feminism and so you know that feminists do not want to be treated differently in any way, but then you post that all the women you know want to be “treated like ladies”. What does that even mean in today’s world? It’s almost like you’re trying to earn brownie points after knowing you’ve lost favour. Look, you’re a good poster, but be consistent at least. And please tell me the planet you’re on because I want to be on it. Deep down women may want to be treated like ‘ladies’, but that sure as hell isn’t what they tell everyone or how most women behave

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

🙂 no brownie points for me.

I don’t see the inconsistency. Most women I know aren’t feminists, they’re normal people who recognise that men and women are different and who aren’t offended by gentlemanly behaviour, but the opposite.

That doesn’t mean I don’t know the odd feminist or that I’m not a bit familiar with feminist ideology.

Both are possible, no?

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Please read your own previous posts chap. You are now saying feminism is NOT a problem. Your own posts will answer your own question about inconsistency.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

That’s a very degraded idea of it. The whole serve the weak concept actually is, because chivalry is a property of knights who serve someone strong, namely, the king.
The weak only appear here because chivalry is about knight’s code of honour and unprovoked attacks on someone who’s very much weaker aren’t honourable because no bravery is required for that: Everyone can attack the relatively defenseless, that’s a typical course of action of pompous cowards who want to show off (often for the members of the unfairer sex :->) but don’t want to risk anything while doing so.

Another important proper of someone that’s honourable, alongside with courage, is politeness, ie, proper behaviour towards others, even if those others perhaps wouldn’t behave propery themselves. It’s extremely impolite to let a door slam into someone’s face, hence, when there’s someone close behind you, hold it until he or she had a chance to get it themselves. I usually let it slam if people mistake me for their private door opener and don’t take it over once they can reach it. This has nothing to do with putting woman before myself, it’s just the kind of courtesy one should extend to everyone unless there’s individual, good reason not to. If people try to berate me for that, they’re acting implolitely, that is, dishonourably, which implies that their blathering doesn’t matter.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

So many words, such little meaning. You seem to misunderstand the difference between politeness and chivalry. Oh, and thanks for the history lesson. Enlightening. Thank God for Google aye?

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

At least, I don’t need 29 words soley to express I didn’t understand any of this plus a bit of seriously bizarre abuse exemplifying how completely you didn’t understand any of this. If that’s your typical behaviour, your apparently typical experiences with woman don’t surprise me.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  RW

When articles like this pop up it’s the same bitter individuals with an obvious axe to grind repeating the same, tired old sexist tripe who react. They can’t resist apparently. You can put money on who will respond and what they will say by now.😴 Much like the mask articles, I dont get involved as there’s nothing further to add and I’ve made my views perfectly clear on these matters by now.
Just stopped by to say great comment though. A non-hostile man who doesn’t have ‘woman issues’. How refreshing on here!😊👍

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Bingo. As always with you. Thanks.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

I have sort-of a middle position here: I know what FreeLemming is referring to and I really both dislike and disagree with these people. It’s just that their statements don’t concern me — there’s a German saying Leute reden viel wenn der Tag lang ist — during a long day, people will talk a lot. I’m also from a different cultural background and most of what is called (toxic or non-toxic) masculinity here is – in my opinion – simply bad behaviour of people who could have done with an education. My idea of conduct that’s appropriate for a man (not male) simply doesn’t include – to use a somewhat infamous example – having sex with a blind-drunk female student behind a row of refuse bins.

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RW
RW
2 years ago

The reason why Tate is not a good role model is because he’s essentially the male equivalent of a self-licking ice cream cone: As far as I know this, everything he does is about him. That’s not how a man should behave.

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Judy Watson
Judy Watson
2 years ago

Somebody give me a clue as I can’t be bothered to google it.

Who is Andrew Tate?

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Dr G
Dr G
2 years ago
Reply to  Judy Watson

Can’t help you Judy.
I’m up here in Australia and have also not heard of him.
Assuming he’s a brash chauvinist, doesn’t seem surprising that telling white boys they are the root of all evil and everyone else is a victim pushes them towards someone with an opposite and simplistic view of manhood.

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Judy Watson
Judy Watson
2 years ago
Reply to  Dr G

Thanks for that Dr G – I am in Thailand so maybe someone from the UK will enlighten me?

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago
Reply to  Judy Watson

Former council estate kid made good via a career in martial arts culminating in being a World Champion kick-boxer. Since made many millions through websites for grown-ups, and various other business interests. Has a very simple and clear view of what an alpha-male is, and isn’t shy in being one. Into conspicuous consumption via million pound cars. The epitome of toxic masculinity to many on the left, competitive, ambitious, successful. In some ways he reminds me of a Hugh Hefner for the new generation. He’s worth listening to for some interesting angles on the ‘patriarchy’, but there’s no doubt in my mind he is playing a character to annoy just the right people.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

I’d really love to see on of these alpha males compete with a machine gun. Or try to out-run a horse.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  Judy Watson

Same here but he doesn’t sound like my cup of tea.😁

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  Judy Watson

Former kick-boxer turned person-in-the-online-sex-business who’s also a limited-scale internet celebrity.

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mikkip
mikkip
2 years ago

Tate is an actor, a performer, a brand. Of course boys want to emulate him: he is rich, successful with women and gives off an aura of supreme self confidence.

The establishment is doing its best to destroy men, masculinity and manly role models. The mainstream push the idea of toxic masculinity and radical feminism to the point that boys have become seen as dysfunctional girls. Big government are replacing the need for competent men by acting as sugar daddy for single mothers and loser men.

This is no time for chivalry. In fact being the chivalrous nice guy provider can make boys even more unattractive to women. Some say that the average girl prefers the “bad boy”, not the “white knight” (at least until their biological clock tells them it’s time to settle down with a resource provider after they’ve spent their peak years being run through by all the studs). Time for boys to be more like Tate: look after themselves (ignore the blandishments and advice emanating from our corrupt institutions) and to hell with what they say!

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lymeswold
lymeswold
2 years ago

I agree with the little I’ve read of Knowland, but I can’t help thinking we need a better word than chivalry, which to anyone who understands the term probably has connotations of the ‘knights of yore’, Jane Austen, and so on. And the qualities we’re looking for don’t apply only to how males treat females, but more generally to the respect and care of our neighbour – a distinctly, though not exclusively, Christian idea.

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ELH
ELH
2 years ago
Reply to  lymeswold

There is a short story written by Paul Gallico about a woman trying to decide which man to marry. One of the characters tells her to evaluate kindness as it is a trait which outlasts love, passion, drama, emotion etc. I have always thought it is a good measure of a person, especially a man, (a caveat being that kindness to animals but not to humans is a red flag).

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