UNISON Calls for Schools to Be Allowed to Close Early to Fight Omicron Spread
The trade union group UNISON has said that allowing schools to close early will halt the transmission of the Omicron variant. While the union has stopped short of demanding that schools be closed, it has called for more measures to be imposed on the classroom, such as mask mandates. The Express has the story.
Schools have been at the centre of countless restrictive measures over the past two years, with pupils suffering major disruption to their education thanks to decisions made by the Government and promoted by key unions. The emergence of the Omicron variant has reignited calls for measures that would further such disruption.
UNISON insists that schools should be allowed to close early “without the fear of Government criticism” to reduce the spread of the variant.
It has argued allowing schools to shut ahead of schedule in the run-up to the end of term would benefit both parents and teachers.
It said: “Allowing schools to close early this week would reduce the risk of Omicron transmission, make Christmas less stressful for families and give staff more time to get their boosters.”
UNISON claims to represent more education staff than any other U.K. trade union.
A spokesperson for the group told the Express that while “we don’t want to see schools close”, new measures are needed to prevent further disruption.
It has called for the return of face masks in secondary school classrooms, as well as the return of “bubbles”.
The union is also pushing ministers to send air filtration devices to all schools before the New Year to help temper the spread of the virus when – or if – pupils return to the classroom.
UNISON’s Head of Education, Mike Short, said in a statement: “Stopping the virus in its tracks and keeping pupils and communities safe should be a top priority.
“Action now will help cut family stress levels this Christmas.”
Short added that, along with the other measures proposed by the union, the return to schools after Christmas should be staggered.
He said: “Bubbles must come back, and pupils shouldn’t all return at once on the same day in January.”
This came as England’s Chief Medical Officer branded Omicron a “really serious threat”.
Chris Whitty told a press conference on Wednesday: “The how big a threat – there are several things we don’t know, but all the things that we do know are bad.”
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UNISON: bunch of sniveling opportunistic cowards. Government should (but won’t) should follow the science (!): no issues for children, teachers no worse than anyone else. So schools remain open with no restrictions. Any teacher who refuses to work is in breach of contract and is fired. Maybe there will be a strike, but it cannot be any worse than it already is.
TBH, I detested Thatcher, but we really could do with someone like her to destroy these unions.
Well I am no fan of how UNISON or most/all other unions I know about here and elsewhere have responded to covid, but it’s the same response as virtually every other institution that has either just rolled over or actively used covid to their own advantage. Ultimately the government’s Big Lie that covid is exceptional leaves the door open to this kind of thing, which is probably the intention.
Yes exactly so. The real fault lies with the government that wants as much disruption as it can get away with and Unison is very happy to oblige.
Yep. In cahoots.
No one has ever convinced me that the collateral damage to national life , health and mental state has been worth it. It is NOT exceptional – 80,000 died from (not with) Hing Kong flu in 1967/8 and there was none of this utter madness.
The damage to the national life is the real Government agenda ijn line with the Great Reset which Johnson is slavishly following and clearly outlined in Schwab’s shocking outrageously dehumanising,, subversively anti-democratic and Corporate Elitist book of the same name.
You’re missing the essential point that this opportunistic idiocy is all down, ultimately to Tory voters who went along with the seed that was the proroguing of parliament.
fucking moron
Is RickH deliberately trying to cause dissension in the anti-Covid ranks? Playing the hoary old party card is one of the paid troll’s favourite tricks.
What an utterly fatuous comment.
I agree. I was just mimicking the sort of brainless generalisations that are pretty common here. This one is just as true.
Sorry the truth bit winds you up because it wounds a hobby horse.
‘I agree. I was just mimicking the sort of brainless generalisations that are pretty common here. This one is just as true.’
So you’re a troll?
‘Sorry the truth bit winds you up because it wounds a hobby horse.’
Are you dense? What on earth are you talking about? You couldn’t wind me up in your wildest dreams. And what ‘hobby horse’? Are you unwell?
I think RickH needs to take a rest or perhaps we need a rest from him.
The muppet needs to lay off the scotch.
Yes he’s a troll, and not a very good one. I just ignore him as he rarely says anything worth listening to.
Time to stop winding people up gratuitously.
Rick, this situation is of vastly more importance than our petty political differences. We are a minority, and we need to stick together.
Goverments set people against eachother – so they don’t have to get their hands dirty. Let’s become immune to that.
Obviously, we all have diverse political/religious/belief make-ups, and this will bleed through, but what is the most important issue right now?
And actually, our greatest asset is our diversity, in coming together for a greater common cause.
At the time Parliament was attempting to rig procedure with Bercow’s active help in order to overturn the Brexit vote.- just in case you have forgotten.
I think it is you who are “missing the essential point”.
If we were following the science we wouldn’t let government anywhere near the provision of education!
Or teachers.. just another brick in the wall..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IpYOF4Hi6Q
We don’t need no vaccination
We don’t need know forced control
No dark cultism in the classroom
Tyrants leave those kids alone
(We need to replace Teachers with Teachers, MPs, Journos, SAGE Mugs, and so on, so I went with Tyrants to encompass them all)
“…know…” should be … no.
You no it.
I watched a clip of Marr interviewing Dave Gilmour a few months back, and Marr asked him about that song, and if he still stood behind the lyrics now. Gilmore immediately caved and said oh.. no no no..
I’m afraid Dave Gilmore is no Roger Waters, who not only wrote the song but actually has a backbone. He’ll speak his mind about taboo subjects like the treatment of the Palestinians, whereas Gilmore is luxuriating in a comfortable liberal middle-class retirement, rubbing shoulders with the arseholes who are oppressing us..
Oh please. Thank heavens Dave Gilmore is no Roger Waters, Waters is a great musician, far more talented than the miserable Waters. Waters on the other hand is a typical anti-Semite who blames Israel for the death of George Floyd and probably all the ills of the world.
Oh don’t be so silly.. you obviously no nothing about music, and as for the anti-semite tag.. that’s just so overused now its sell by date is well past. Get real, and open your eyes to what’s really going on in the world..
Good one..
And we wouldn’t let them run the country. ( I use the term ‘run’ loosely – maybe I should have said ‘attempt to run…’
you missed the I in ruin.
Aren’t the schools closing this week for Christmas.
Also I was talking to a friend who’s highish up in a charitable voluntary NGO and he said a couple of weeks ago that they have been contacted to arrange volunteers for “testing” from 4th Jan as it’s unlikely children will be “tested” over the Christmas holidays so there will need to be mass testing of children from the 4th Jan.
Nice to see that the scheduled plan is being followed.
we’re closing tomorrow at 12am, and there’s always a bit of a drop off in numbers on the last day anyway because some of our students commute for over an hour to get to us.
so not much opportunity for us to close early
I meant 12 pm of course
I know. I was just being pedantic, which I’d just criticised someone else for on an earlier article, so I’m also being hypocritical. It’s been a long day, starting with reading about Johnson and jabbing kids to keep schools open, sandwiched with a trip to Waitrose where I was the only one unmasked, and ending at only 17.41 with a glass of Rioja and a lot of crisps…
Hopefully pm, not am!
whoops!
“he said (…) as it’s unlikely children will be ‘tested’ over the Christmas holidays so there will need to be mass testing of children from the 4th Jan.”
There’s a hidden premise somewhere there.
I’ve heard the rumour that a lockdown is planned starting 3 Jan.
This could be combined with keeping schools open for spiked children – or opening them FOR the mass spiking of children, and then perhaps soon closing them.
Ooh ain’t that good of the Israelis.
I wonder if they are gaming for Billy’s forthcoming smallpox extravaganza that he promised.
My uncorroborated info from talking to various pub managers is that lockdown is rumoured to be pencilled in for Jan 5th.
It will be earlier than that.
Staff at the local high school have been told the first 3 days of term will be testing only, no classes. Coz of Covid
Is anyone aware of any study or any source that confirms that a PCR test or a lateral flow test DOES NOT detect the common cold or the flu as a false positive?
Cause I’m starting to think that Omicron is just an old “friend” we haven’t seen in about two years…
There was a comment from the CDC back in July this year that it appears a bunch of people latched onto and then Facebook and a load of others have essentially discredited. Specifically the comment was,
“CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses.”
I’m not entirely sure how to read into that but I can understand the initial reaction from the people that jumped onto this. The link to where this is on the CDC site is below:
https://archive.ph/AkmRA
Probably repeating myself but I was chatting with a guy the other day who was explaining how he’d been lay up in bed for a couple of weeks. Took numerous lateral flow tests along with two negative PCR’s. Eventually his doctor told him he had flu but at the same time as COVID. While that suggests it does differentiate between flu and COVID, it also suggests some fuckery going on in COVID reporting……but then there always has been from day 1!
Fuckery everywhere you look.
It’s rather difficult for anyone to be really sick with two viral infections at the same time.
This though is evidenced base medicine – which has been trashed. So it must have been wrong.
Obviously.
Lol.
It took Lindeman and Isaacs about 15 years to isolate the miracle substance which stopped one being infected with two viral infections at the same time – something interfered with this, so, they called them, drum roll, – Interferons!
Big pharma was in like a flash – the new holy grail – just give it to everyone so they don’t get sick at all. Ever.
But, it err, killed a few people so they had to stop – but that was then.
As of 2018 I think 19 have been discovered, and our Great Scientists haven’t got a clue as to how they really work.
pcr info attached. Lateral flow test info is found in the documentation
Is this saying while the PCR can be specific in what it’s looking for ( even if it can’t be sure somebody is infected ), the LFT could potentially be picking up other coronaviruses, or possibly even flu?
They have tested it against those viruses and got a negative result. However, they are looking for a nucleotide sequence that is between 60 and 100 nucleotides in length in a mass of RNA from every animal, bacteria, virus and fungi .it is estimated that there are 200,000 viruses in the sea alone so it’s guaranteed that no primer or probe used in PCR is 100% specific
Thanks for the explanation and the link.
Where is this from? Is this from the manufacturer or has it been independently replicated?
The CDC website
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/rt-pcr-panel-primer-probes.html
CDC can’t be trusted.
Don’t shoot the messenger 😃
Twinkytwonk,
Documents I have seen suggests that 3 code sequences – start, end and middle metaphorically – are used to identify SARS-CoV-2. There have been reports that moronic matches only 2 (which 2 is left unspecified, all other variants have matched 3 by implication), so that suggests moronic isn’t SARS-CoV-2?
Have you any further info on this?
Rather than “we had to destroy the village in order to save it”, 1968 US army in Vietnam we now have
“we have to destroy children’s education in order to save it” 2021 – copywright: teachers unions, government, journalists, public health meddlers and associated crackpots.
Chris Whitty is a piece of shit! Like literally and actual piece of shit! Let’s just ignore what South Africa said as that doesn’t suit our narrative.
Well, we all literally have shit in us. But now you are conjuring up pictures of whitty as the shit monster in Dogma. Lol
A shit demon if you will!
Pedant! 😉
Nearly two years of this shit and still people are spouting nonsensical crap about ‘stopping the virus’. What part of ‘endemic’ do these people not understand? FFS!
UNISON=King Canute
More pedantry from me here: Canute was the one who wanted to prove he wasn’t a god. It was his followers who said he could stop the waves…
He’s more a misspelling of CNUT.
Shame for Canute that there were no PR advisers in those days to tell him the optics wouldn’t look good!
Boris Johnson on boosters – YouTube
It doesn’t stop the virus, quite the contrary!
It does increase Big Pharma profits, which is what this is all about.
TTP (corporates have a right to a profit, even a deemed profit) introduced via the back door.
The following is an entirely unproven speculation: Historically, trade union used to be somewhat shady organizations with their top brass usually having links to organized crime. Has this ever changed? And considering that the way to get these people moving is to give them money, has the unfaltering commitment of the major UK unions to the Chinese elimination strategy no matter how ridicolousy it turns out to be in practice perhaps something to do with Chinese money? Moreover, is it so unimaginable that they’re inclined to listen to leaders claiming to be communists, especially if these also offer a monetary reward for that?
Some of the top union leaders in the US were linked to the CIA (and MI5/6 by implication in the UK) as part of the Cold War strategy. Loads of meeja and art world bods, too. Jackson Pillock an artist?
One of my ‘colleagues’ is a Unison representative, and literally thick as sh*t. This person is currently trying to pressure their child to get ‘jabbed’. Enough said, total f*cking scumbag.
It not odd that somehow Covid has got a name that it will not spread after certain hours.
Some countries are now employing night curfews on bars and restaurants. Some countries have shopping in non essential shops only for the vaxxed. Meaning that Covid will not enter those shops.
This one about schools seem to suggest that these buildings are breeding ground after certain hours.
Maybe we should give covind more credit as to have some greater intelligence then we expect. 😉
PS I wish i could add emojis here to emphasise when I am being sarcastic.
Will this do:
😞 ? I’m not very good at emojis
You need a Rick from The Young Ones emoji…
Looks like we are going to be put through the same pseudo-medical charade all over again, with all the usual suspects acting out the same tired old routines – including pots and pans on the doorstep of No10 on Thursdays at eight. Have the National Hoax Service nurses started their instagram dance routines yet?
That photo looks like the first step of about 10 to become CCP soldiers marching in Tiananmen square.
It’s from San Francisco.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP_SdjD5ms#t=26s
Ah the good old Tianenmen Square – 110% truthiness
The MSM’s iconic tankman defending people from the Evil CCP tanks approaching the Tianenmen Square.
A fuller view of the event – he actually trying to stop tanks leaving the square
Pro-tip: If there is ever a close cropped picture presented in the MSM during a politically contentious event, ask yourself – what is happening out of frame that they do not want me to see?
“Action now will help families cut stress levels at Christmas.”
Evil, lying, sadistic psychopaths!
It’s now not just a case of do as I say, not as I do, but believe our words rather than your own eyes.
“Evil, lying, sadistic psychopaths,” sums this up very succinctly.
Link sent to me from Aussie-land.
https://seed128.bitchute.com/p9qjf9GxljoD/KJiW1Pa0arJk.mp4
Thank you.. I’ve just watched that. Very disturbing indeed. Terrible crimes are being committed under the guise of health..
Tomorrow is the last day of term in our area.
Interesting
https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1318039087638122514/xlarge/
Are they just books about previous Scariants, given a new title to try to flog them?
You still have to make a new cover, new ISBN no. To publish a book and register it takes months.
The Chief Medical Officer is a really serious threat. I wonder what dirt Gates has got on him because he must know that he’s spouting rubbish.
Either that (and, looking at him, it must be a serious possibility) or the offer of an exceptionally comfortable retirement when his career ends!
Whitty has devoted his life to finding a cure for malaria. The first genetic malaria vaccine developed in the late 1980’s (nothing to do with him) was pulled shortly after release because it made the disease worse in the ‘vaccinated’ than the control group. ADE in action. Whitty knows this.
What his ilk do not realise is that those who bring about any sort of revolution are the first to be disposed of when it achieves its objectives.
Omicron hasn’t killed as many people as Alec Baldwin, but who in government cares? The only thing they care about is being disgusting toadying idiots, or scared that the Globalists will publish the compromising photographs and evidence that they hold on them. How disgusting has the country become? The Daily Mail has gone full-on Nazi propagandist. This rag publishes lie after lie about the “vaccines” and “pandemic,” and a large section of the British population eagerly sucks them up. If there were such cowardly sheep here in 1939, the Nazis would have been invited in with open arms. The accompanying photograph clearly shows the blatant lies the DM has published in the last few days. A DM columnist, Richard Littlejohn, who for decades posed as a “Go ahead, make my day” hardman conservative recently penned an article in which he said: “No jab, no job – it’s a no-brainer …”. This is a man that used to regularly say in his Daily Mail columns after reporting left-wing idiocy: “You couldn’t make it up”. Now he’s the cheaply bought (or blackmailed) POS you couldn’t make up. I’d advise everyone to have their life-jackets at hand because these seas we’re drifting on… Read more »
“Omicron hasn’t killed as many people as Alec Baldwin”
i posted that on the BBC message board and it was immediately deleted. I then tried:
Alec Baldwin is more deadly
also deleted.
NO SENSE OF HUMOUR
Bullshit Bollox Corporation.
At least you can post on there. I’m permanently banned!
That’s cred..
That’s what I’m working on. My previous post was, in regards to people banging pans for the NHS
Most of these people would have a nurse murdered for improved battery life on their phone
For them people you mention, most of them would view “likes” on Twitter or Facebook as being a few points above battery life length.
What more do you expect from the British Bolshevik Corporation?
Omicron hasnt killed as many as lockdown but rather than have a ‘mild variant’, they want lockdown
Paper rags with holes. Sitting at a distance. ‘Boosters’.
Dear God this is just canting superstition.
Nothing can prevent you getting a cold eventually.
Death is the only certain thing in life. But extremely unlikely from “covid”.
You are abusing the kids and ruining society. Get a grip!
Live free TODAY or quake in fear eternally.
Can someone with some fucking common sense get control of this situation? We can’t be far off from seeing these people just running around the streets screaming.
They’ll scream, they’ll shout, they’ll dash themselves with flints, if told to do so. I fear most are irretrievably lost.
Robert Peston knows masks are for show only (He just didn’t know his lack of one was on show).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl9_FFlPrOo
Hate those dystopian pictures, the schools enforcing them are a disgrace
Only a madman tortures himself to death to avoid dying while knowing he is not going to die from the ‘threat’.
This agony is primordial; it is evil incarnated.
We are living in Aztec times.
Sacrifices must be offered.
Their god is PRIDE.
Yes, take it out on the kids yet again, why not?
Brutes.
The Liberal Democrats think they’ve taken North Shropshire. The betting market appears to agree with them. The result is due in some time around 5am.
Let’s hope Graham Brady’s postman is hale and hearty.
Gotta admit, I’d like to know who Rishi Sunak has been meeting in California.
Some will be going mental at the thought that not only was Boris Johnson at a lockdown party in May 2020, but pizza was consumed. We’re one compromising photo away from goodbye Johnson. About 7am is when I’d aim to release it.
Boris career has always been pepperonied with scandal, however you slice it, he’s not been a steady hand on the cutter. Since he allegedly got covid he’s not been on topping of his game. The Tory base has never been thinner.
/TryTheFish
“Gotta admit, I’d like to know who Rishi Sunak has been meeting in California.”
Some honcho from the US ‘health industry’ at a guess.
It’s such a pity that those blokes who filmed themselves accosting baggy-eyed, bald twat Whitty, didn’t do more than push him around a bit. Pity they weren’t carrying a portable gallows or something.
The unfortunate reality is that these sorts of people, who shriek the loudest about having other people’s welfare at heart, actually care only for themselves. Utterly selfish. Utterly hypocritical. Utter parasites.
‘Won’t somebody please think of the children!’ -Helen Lovejoy, The Simpsons I watched a ‘discussion’ yesterday between Steve Kirsch and some nonentity who refused to commit himself on any issue other than the issue of intentions, and he said he assumes that everyone in the debate has the children’s best interests at heart. I disagree. He appears to have a deficient anthropology which presupposes that all men are fundamentally ‘good’ at heart. This view cannot hold up under scrutiny. But regardless, he fails to confront/consider the fact that, statistically speaking, this virus poses children zero risk, and so when there is zero risk from inaction, any risk from intervention is unacceptable, which means he needs to ask himself why there is such a disproportionate focus on children with regard to ‘Covid measures’ including ‘vaccination’ with a novel and experimental technology. The only potentially logical answer, one we often hear from those who acknowledge the virus poses children no risk, is that ‘we’re all in it together’ and we need to protect the elderly. First of all, if you’re elderly and you believe this, then you’re a disgrace and you need to grow up. Immediately. Never before have we sacrificed children… Read more »
The inventor of mRNA Robert Malone has raised concerns about injecting children.
https://lorphicweb.com/before-you-inject-your-child-dr-robert-malone/
He’s saying don’t do it.
Covidianism. In case you didn’t realise, this is what it means for man to ‘play God’.
It never ends well.
Ergo, time to find the real God.
Many of us have found Him.
We have indeed. So let’s pray, hope and not worry.
Amen.
How’s Sweden getting on? Heard no Swedish schoolchildren died from Covid when deaths were higher. Enjoy the lower IQ conversations in 20 years folks.
Confused. All the schools in our area are finishing at 12 tomorrow anyway. Normal end-of-term day.
Now see that others have pointed this out.
It appears that it has nothing to do with anything but crashing the economies of democratic countries to bring in vaccine passports and control, Whitty said it will take another 18 months