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Hospitals are full, people are being treated in ambulances, NHS workers are at breaking point - we're literally running out of oxygen; it would be unsafe to send children back to school right now, but let's not talk about closing schools, let's talk about moving learning online.
This year many children went six months without any online classes, while children from private schools & grammars sat in their google classrooms from 9 to 3. The fallout, the disparity - for learning, for mental health, for parents & carers, especially women - was devastating.
I heard George Osborne on the radio talking about how the pandemic had revealed that a child's bedroom could become a classroom - well, not my child, not most children.
Government! Rather than keeping parents & teachers in your favourite state of crippling uncertainty, follow your scientists' advice & prepare! Ensure all children have access to their online classroom, support schools to provide them. It's not perfect but it's better than nothing
Focus on online learning, vaccination, and making schools safe ( @dgurdasani1 has a great thread on this) rather than shilly shallying about with mass testing for a dangerous mass return
(and as for universities, jeez - like schools, these never closed, and in my view should be online wherever possible)
