We must decide when lockdown ends. Not them! Don't let them decide what's healthy for us!
It looks like schools will be the next line of attack in this phase of Class War. Now the BMA are supporting the teaching unions correctly opposing this lockdown. Is it reasonable to assume schools will be safe? What is the point of opening for a month and a half anyway; wouldn't' it be best to just write off thsi school year full stop? Kids aren't going to social distance and we can't really turn schools into some chemical prison, which is what they will be. Teachers and Dinner Ladies wrapped in masks and gloves serving socially distanced maths and deep cleaned pie and mash? Can you imagine a school kitchen run without PPE?
What a joke. No, we must support these unions on principle. This isn't just about the issue of school hygiene, important though it obviously is. It's about standing in solidarity with those from the working class caught in the prison spotlight, trying to escape to safety. We have the likes of rancid toff "journalist", Isabel Oakeshott (i don't even care how it's spelt) exhorting them to 'be brave like the nurses' and the Daily Heil calling on them to 'be heroes' (though I note their tone is less abrasive than usual, interesting!). They are already heroes; they do a difficult often thankless job (no thanks to the likes of the Fail) wherein they are treated like shit by the government. Remember when Gove called them 'the blob'? What a tosser that man is. Supercilious smarmy deceitful little toerag.
The question is which is more damaging: a year off school (which doesn't mean a year off learning either, nor does it mean teachers aren't working, either), or Covid? Not a trick question!
Actually it is. The correct answer is class war; the most important message your kids will ever learn until we overthrow this monstrous system. When the ruling class thinks your kid's safety is less a priority than the profit of privatised academies run by its mates in the city and abroad, there is only one answer. Struggle and fight.
The teachers are now the proverbial canaries in the coalmine: if they give in (for which no shame must be attached) then where does that leave anyone else the bosses demand on the frontline? It's not even just teachers, it's all the staff necessary to run the schools: cleaners, caterers, suppliers, along with their families. Society is interconnected. Why else do they practice divide and rule?
We must also not fall for the propaganda. Rishi Sunak, a former city slicker, would have us believe in the "dignity of labour". What a crock. There's no dignity in breaking your back for someone else to profit. No one in their right mind would accept that if they really grokked that's how they lived. Problem is they don't - because they fall for this nonsense. "A child's education is precious", well so's it's life - and a few months disruption from the official curriculum (the quality of which merits another discussion entirely!) won't destroy their life chances. If it did what does that say about the system? Kids are learning right now what real dignified work is: the essential stuff. That's why it's so gratifying seeing their homemade raimbows and "I heart the NHS" posters. Those are worth more than all the GCSE's in the world!
First they came for the teachers...after they left the elderly and frail to die in nursing homes...after they abandoned the nurses and doctors to the petri dish they'd concocted...you get the picture.
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