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should we sacrifice the lives of older people so young people have better long term life opportunities?
That wasn't what I was suggesting, just that keeping schools open is about more than allowing parents to work.
I agree with @Señor_Bear that something like this is the answer:
Lock the place down for 10 weeks and go on a massive vaccination program like a war effort.
I have no confidence we have enough vaccine available to reach the 20m priority people in 10 weeks or that with the current rate of spread and hospitalisation levels that would be enough anyway.
We need to be planning measures that can last for 6 months.
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No I know you weren't suggesting that, but that's the dilemma isn't it? How can it be worth it (now we know that the kiddies are spreading it)?
I agree - I don't think 10 weeks is enough, needs to be longer.
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We need to be planning measures that can last for 6 months.
If only we didn't have a government with the long term vision of a daddy long legs.
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10 weeks of lockdown should also reduce normal hospital load, seasonal flu, A&E entries etc.
Also will allow track and trace to be refined, and easier to manage when there are hardly anywhere to mingle.
Not that people have been using it religiously.
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Acliff
The pandemic is definitely having a big impact on a lot of people's long term life opportunities - about 1000 a day at the moment aren't going to have any at all unfortunately. To me this outweighs the issues above - should we sacrifice the lives of older people so young people have better long term life opportunities?
Educationally it is possible to make changes to allow for that, the problem is (again, sorry for sounding like a stuck record) that our incompetent government aren't capable of effectively delivering it and are ideologically opposed to modern educational techniques which actively improve opportunities, because they think education peaked in the 1950s. I used to work on a programme that raised GCSE attainment by 2.5 grades on average for pupils who took part - it was scrapped by Jeremy Hunt despite the possible ROI being incredible.
I agree with @Señor_Bear that something like this is the answer:
I reckon that would be better for the economy in the long term too. But this would take decisive leadership and we don't have that.