Back To The Beginning 9: Back To The Beginning Of The Year?

This from the Guardian; alarming.

So now that everyone's been conned into believing that schools will not spread the virus (and hopefully that will prove true), and after almost three months hard sacrifice from real people, Boris calmly tells us that shit might get worse. The chief medical officer also doesn't preclude the possibility of Wave 4. Like this is some endless shooter game. Progressively harder waves of enemies to shoot, all to achieve some score. The only score here is the one that adds sterling to the coffers of corrupt party donors. This is unbelievable. If we go back two months in terms of the numbers I swear the streets of this country will fucking burn.

"“Of course, there will be a risk of increased transmission, that’s inevitable if you open up schools for millions of kids across the country. That is going to happen,” he told a Downing Street press conference."

Perhaps don't open schools then? If it's risky then maybe wait? Perhaps until after Easter since the holidays are a fortnight away anyway. Nope. Get the kids into school and damn the horses. At this point it's beyond even gaslighting. What on earth does Boris hope to gain here? Is this just to appease the Crank Recovery Group (nee ERG). We cannot go back to how it was. Realistically that's unlikely, given the effect of the vaccine roll out, but still. If the numbers start climbing it will be a massive kick in the nuts. The other problem is that it will just force the schools to shut. He doesn't seem to grasp that this is all interconnected; you can't just have an increase in the virus - taking it on the chin -  and keep schools open. There's no cost/benefit ratio here. If the virus spreads everything is affected, even with vaccines. 

Perhaps it's just as well I got a temporary Twitter ban, because after reading this,..  

Part of me wonders if the plan to open schools two weeks ahead of the holiday was both to appease the headbangers, and to encompass a built-in circuit breaker in the form of the Easter fortnight off. I doubt this is actually true, it's far too convoluted. But who know. We are in the twilight of lockdown; people are thinking that because they've been vaccinated they can do what they like, or that because they sense (perhaps incorrectly) an imminent end they can again do what they like. I don't think it works that way.

Regardless of what the government does or does not, certain measures will need to ebe in play for a lot longer than I think a lot of people expect. This can only lead to more bad behaviour. This article says it all. Particularly this quote, from a bus driver:

"I don’t feel valued. During the first lockdown, I really did. It was scarier, but people were appreciative, they knew we were doing our best to get them to work. We find young people are really good. "