I agree with you regarding schools, they should have closed them at the beginning of last week if they intend having the Christmas easing of rules. Schools are Coronavirus factories and now freshly infected children are going to be indoors for long periods of time with elderly relatives over the five day period. They’ve messed it up again.This a what I meant about Greenwich getting it right about shutting physical schooling but Johnson stupidly overruling them. It remains to be seen whether he'll back down on the school closures or prefer to kill a few more people. I'm betting the latter.
The way things are going it seems the local, regional and other lower ranking authorities are making the better Covid control decisions, more appropriate and at the right time.
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Eaton and many other public schools shut down last week for this very reason. The class system is alive and well. The junior officers from Eaton are protected behind enemy lines, whilst the cannon fodder Private foot soldiers from state schools are ordered to advance on the virus.
I think they need to announce the scrapping the 5 day spread-fest over Christmas by the end of play tomorrow, at the latest.