Education Secretary Reveals that ‘Plan B’ for Schools Includes Mask Mandates

Schools will not reintroduce the policy of ‘bubbles’ to protect pupils against coronavirus, Nadhim Zahawi says, but he hasn’t ruled out a return of face masks. The Telegraph has more.

He said he had contingency plans to keep schools open, but told Sky News: “I don’t want to return to bubbles because actually, you saw the fall off in attendance which really does harm mental wellbeing, mental health of children.”

Mr Zahawi did not, however, rule out the return of the wearing of masks in the classroom in England.

He said: “We’ve got a contingency plan, as you would expect me to do… it contains lots of contingencies, including masks, absolutely.”

The bubble system, which led to whole year groups being sent home to self-isolate for 10 days because one of their classmates tested positive, was scrapped by the Government after more than one million pupils were kept off school in July.

The controversial approach was stopped on July 19th, as Boris Johnson announced that the “obvious way forward” was testing pupils rather than sending large numbers of children home to self-isolate. …

The mandatory wearing of face coverings in schools and colleges was scrapped in May, but Government guidance says that directors of public health could advise schools to reintroduce them if cases spike.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

Is he saying muzzles don’t affect their mental health. What sort of people are running this country now. This country is going backwards, we have fought against muzzling women and against segregation for many many years, now coming to the UK. Covid is NOT a deadly disease, its an excuse to use controls

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

We have a government that is comprised of “people” who are Satanists and psychopaths. Mask mandates for children are the Government’s way of softening up parents so that they will accept the injecting their young offspring with the Covid death shots. This is of course well beyond wicked.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Exactly, and in addition producing a generation of frightened, compliant children who will become a perfect slave work force in the coming years. And with the added bonus of having ‘end of use’ built in via clot shots.

Lockdown Sceptic
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

This man said this was all wrong in December

Lies, Damned Lies And Government Graphs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHUDyPYD1Dk

Let’s Wake up Wokingham

Friday 8th October 11am
Walk through Wokingham Town Centre with signs and strange masks as seen in Edinburgh last weekend
– please bring your carnival/Guy Fawkes/Fancy Dress masks and white overalls if you have them – if not please come anyway
Meet in the Cockpit Path car park in the centre of the town RG40 2HD

Stand in the Park Make friends – keep sane – talk freedom and have a laugh

Wokingham Howard Palmer Gardens RG40 2HD  
Sundays 10am
behind the Cockpit Path car park in the centre of the town 
Join our Wokingham & Bracknell Telegram group
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Hopeless
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

Don’t forget that, according to Whitty, the mental health of children of 12 years or more will be improved or assured by filling them up with jollop. It follows, therefore, that any mental health problems caused by masks will be magically counterbalanced by the wonder drug i.e. net effect zero and no problems.

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless

Is that the same Wittery who said in May 2020 that ‘covid’ was no threat to the VAST majority of people? I suppose every man(?) has his price.

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

What sort of people are running this country now.” Satanists.

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

They are Nazis. There is no better description.

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

You’d think, coming from a country where women are muzzled, he’d want to make sure it never happens here to ANYONE. Unless he developed a taste for it in his early years.

nonamehere
nonamehere
4 years ago

My daughters school has told us they will be required to wear masks all day, I emailed them to say, if my child wishes to take it off she can and if you have issues you can talk to me about it but the mental health of my child is my responsibility and this is not good for them.

No I'm Spartacus!
4 years ago
Reply to  nonamehere

I would ask them for a copy of their written policy on masks. There will be exemptions in there and I would exploit that.

Easy peasy Japanesey!

186NO
186NO
4 years ago

Great film!!

tom171uk
4 years ago
Reply to  nonamehere

Well done. Hopefully some other parents will take a similar stand. Hopefully…

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  nonamehere

Good for you.

itoldyouiwasill
itoldyouiwasill
4 years ago

True story: My child in school last week, was having a jab (not Covid!). Anyway, the nurse doing the jabs was asking all the kids in the queue whether they had had the Covid jab. Those who had not were asked to wear a mask! The nurse clearly felt unsafe around kids who had not received the covid jab so was asking them to wear a mask.
This is how utterly bonkers our country has become.
It’s pure dogma, nothing more, and it starts in the NHS where careerists, liberals and other general fruitcakes have been allowed to rule for the roost for years going completely unchallenged with their crackpot ideas.
Madness.

crisisgarden
4 years ago

That is completely shocking. The injectors must exist inside a carefully constructed fantasy world – completely protected from intrusive facts; otherwise they would be unable to carry out their duties.

HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
4 years ago

Isn’t it funny how we have to buy into other people’s delusions and be part of their psychosis now?

RW
RW
4 years ago

ROTFLMAO.

Somehow, I always feel terribly unsafe when seeing one of theses crackpots heading towards me armed with a needle. I mean, she could suddenly decide that a ghost behind my eyes is threatening her and try to stab it … 🙂

IanC
4 years ago

Meet Bob!

BOB isnt vaccinated.jpg
Dave Angel Eco Warrier
Dave Angel Eco Warrier
4 years ago

Politicians seldom, if ever, rule anything out regardless of what the issue is. Never have done, never will. It’s a well practised ‘get out of jail clause’.

rtaylor
4 years ago

This is child abuse.

Rogerborg
4 years ago

Why? Even assuming that muzzles did a damn thing, who would be put at risk by not wearing them? Every indoctrinator will be on to their 2nd or 3rd clot-shot like the good NPCs that they are. Is Zahawi saying that the clot-shots don’t work?

FrankFisher
4 years ago

I don’t suppose he has any evidence that masks do anything, at all, at fucking all, has he?

I don’t need a mask anyway, I have this stone that I bought to keep tigers away, but I have upgraded the firmware and now it keeps viruses away too.

Rogerborg
4 years ago
Reply to  FrankFisher

You only have one stone? Oh dear. [backs carefully away while summoning a Swab Stasi]

crisisgarden
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

I’m on two but I’m donating my third stone to the developing world – they need it much more than I do and it would be unethical for me to take a third stone.

DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

“Dismiss anything else, we will continue to be your single source of truth” Jacinda Ardern. She looks manic

Aleajactaest
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

she’s a fully signed up Schwab puppet

Aleajactaest
4 years ago
Reply to  Aleajactaest

all you need to know about Young WEF and the tentacles of Spectre in the “leaders of the future” I guarantee more than dozens of these little darlin’s will be in positions of Govt/Bureaucratic power within a decade, if not less.

I was a little sick in my mouth reading all the woke words on their website

https://www.younggloballeaders.org/

HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
4 years ago
Reply to  Aleajactaest

..since 2005.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Aleajactaest

Graduate of Schwab’s Global Yoof Team.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

Madder than a box of frogs that woman.

Woman….hmm, debatable.

DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

Give me a child til the age of 7, ‘Hitler, in inimitable and terrifying fashion, developed this maxim, stating baldly, He alone who owns the youth, gains the future

Kung Flu Lou
Kung Flu Lou
4 years ago

Kids injected from 12 up is an integral part of the plan. The ‘Covid passes’ which are being introduced around the world all start at 12. With less than half of 12 year olds injected in the U.K. expect the fear to be ramped up again.

Jabba the Hut
Jabba the Hut
4 years ago

Come on everybody you know they’re following the science they have been all along. There’s no damage done by wearing face masks only benefit the same with vaccinating children it’s all good. Trust the SCIENCE and the BBC and ITV they’re experts don’t you know.
I try to stop thinking about it because either I’m insane or the world has gone insane.

crisisgarden
4 years ago
Reply to  Jabba the Hut

Ahhh that’s reassuring, I was beginning to think it was a sinister plot to destroy social structures, hope and the future.

RW
RW
4 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

It seems to work. Ample proof that it must be unintentional. :->

Jabba the Hut
Jabba the Hut
4 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

Unfortunately a sinister plot is the only conclusion that can be drawn. Insanity is with the masses who can’t see through all the bull shit, it baffles me.

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  Jabba the Hut

plus wearing a mask has zero impact on breathing while exercising apparently…

RickH
4 years ago

I’m not naive enough to think that intelligence and honesty are sufficient conditions for good governance, or functioning in society.

… but they are necessary conditions.

Ergo ….

Bella Donna
4 years ago

This government needs horse whipping!

Trabant
4 years ago
Reply to  Bella Donna

And pistol whipping.

Jess
4 years ago

If Nadhim Zahawi doesn’t think forcing children into muzzles doesn’t “harm mental wellbeing, [the] mental health of children” he doesn’t think about anything.

The Telegraph uses this pic for its piece – unbearable but apt.

MASKPUPILTELEGRAPH.jpeg
PatrickF
PatrickF
4 years ago

Wearing a mask is good for your physical and mental health, if you want to destroy both, that is.

rockoman
rockoman
4 years ago

Sweden!

Masks never worn.

Primary schools never closed.

Other schools hardly closed.

ChrisDinBristol
ChrisDinBristol
4 years ago
Reply to  rockoman

Number of Swedish schoolchildren without serious preconditions that have died of supposed covid? Zero. Zilch. Bugger all.

Is it just me or do lines of muzzled kids sitting at their desks look, you know, a bit sinister?

IanC
4 years ago

It seems to me that our inglorious leaders might be getting some kind of a kick from the symbol of subjugation that is faceknickers. You gotta ask some serious questions of anyone forcing children to put these things on!
I believe the word in the OED is ‘fetish’.
“a man with a fetish for surgical masks”

PatrickF
PatrickF
4 years ago

Keep following the Agenda. All roads lead to Schwab.

RW
RW
4 years ago
Reply to  PatrickF

Schwab is a routinely self- aggrandizing old fool with a lot of money.

realarthurdent
4 years ago

There is only one plan, and it’s Plan B.

rockoman
rockoman
4 years ago

This is quite clearly psychological warfare against the population.

crisisgarden
4 years ago

Nobody needs to comply with this ever, a simple refusal/vague exemption claim is all that’s needed – schools are not allowed to prevent children from accessing education on this basis. And is the photo at the top of this article real? If it is, those responsible for this aberration should be barred from having anything to do with children ever again. A revolting image.

SweetBabyCheeses
4 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

Now that the law on masks has been abolished, is there even a need for exemptions? A refusal should be enough, but I presume that children make easier targets than adults, since mandates and rules are empty.

Dave Angel Eco Warrier
Dave Angel Eco Warrier
4 years ago

It was never a legal requirement to wear a mask. The government knew that but hoodwinked the majority.

Milo
Milo
4 years ago

wish someone would tell that to my local branch of Tesco

Dave Angel Eco Warrier
Dave Angel Eco Warrier
4 years ago
Reply to  Milo

Won’t they let you in? My big, local Tesco has been as bedwetting as any supermarket but I have always gone in there completely maskless throughout. For many, many months me and the missus were the only maskless people in there but no-one said a dicky bird. The manager often saw me but looked away and shuffled off when I met his gaze. They KNOW they cannot enforce it.

crisisgarden
4 years ago

Same 100% in my Tescos. I think the secret was to never wear one from the outset and be confident in your outright rejection!

BungleIsABogan
4 years ago

I have a feeling that all the things that are mentioned as being “Plan B” are probably actually “Plan A”.

Not that I’m cynical or anything…

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago

Possible reason why Oz is a anti-democratic disaster zone

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN3374

eastender53
4 years ago

Huxley wrote the blueprint for this in Brave New World. His ‘epsilon’ caste were starved of oxygen when young.

The plan to force a reduction in the flow of oxygen to the brains of children at school seems somewhat similar!

crisisgarden
4 years ago
Reply to  eastender53

I am reluctant to dismiss this as crazy-talk!

Gregoryno6
4 years ago

We’ve got a plan B!
(Pulls out Plan A, hoping nobody will notice)

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago
Reply to  Gregoryno6

Title: Plan A
Contents
See Plan B

Markus Skepticus
4 years ago

Here in Scotland schools are under the same mandates that were in place around Easter. Masks for all high school kids. Same social distancing.

TheyLiveAndWeLockdown
4 years ago

Same complete lack of effect

Norman
4 years ago

And if the age groups of the most infected are the same as in England, then it is mainly school age children who are getting tested positive since term began, so OK, Nicky baby, how do you reckon the masks are working in schools

amanuensis
4 years ago

Do they have any actual science to back up their claims that masks make any difference?

Why are they ignoring actual scientific evidence that children are much less likely to spread covid than adults, that most children get their infection from adults, and that if they’re infected hospitalisation/death is very very very rare?

Norman
4 years ago
Reply to  amanuensis

They are also ignoring their own statistics.

zners
zners
4 years ago

Very upsetting photos. The most upsetting photos I’ve seen from all of this has been of children in schools

DoctorCOxford
DoctorCOxford
4 years ago

Children getting Covid…a good thing. As it is with any number of viruses. Not that the government will ever admit that, despite the studies showing natural immunity exceeds jab induced (And i am pro-jab for those over 30). So why are we worried about such “outbreaks.” And exactly how much did masks help last August-July? Oh right, nil.

Any changes should await an outbreak leading to significant hospitalizations. Anything other than that is just cause for panic. And lets follow the Germans, Danes and others and stop testing healthy people!

Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago

Plan B: rehashing the same old pish as before.

Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago

I bet none of the ministers children will be muzzled and coerced to take a jab they don’t need.