Gavin Williamson, the useless twit with the whip on the desk has declared exams will go ahead next year. I don't really understand the point in saying this. Either they go ahead, which seems likely but we can't know for sure so why bother, or they don't, in which case he looks stupid. Everyone understands the current situation and everyone agrees we'd like education to function. But everyone also understands that might not be possible, we just don't know. So why make predictions?
Johnson is making excuses, saying "we" didn't have experience of SARS and so can be excused for his colossal ineptitude. I don't think so. We planned for this. Besides which we could have simply looked to those countries and took our cue from them. We didn't; that's arrogance and exceptionalism. Now the death toll from COVID directly is 60,000 dead. This blood, this devastation, the social and psychic toll are his to bear. I hope every single one of these evil Tory motherfuckers is haunted by this for the rest of their very privileged days. They will know lives the rest of will only dream about and their share that with their elite mates. Well now they can suffer for it. I've no sympathy.
Teachers follow the high risk in the queue for the vaccine. By my calculation the earliest anyone can hope to be fully vaccinated is the 28th of December, assuming no break for Christmas on the part of the medical teams delivering this (for which the Tories will offer little more than the sound of a clap I'm sure). That's a day after the long weekend Johnson has deigned to gift us over Christmas. So that means it's entirely possible those at risk people could be jeopardised by well meaning family. Is it really worth the risk, for the sake of a few days? Hopefully some will see the wisdom of avoiding this and perhaps, perhaps, getting together for new year instead. I see no effort from the PM warning against getting together for this reason.
And you won't.
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