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Herd immunity without vaccine or treatment is a ‘Darwinian policy’
"That is going to mean a lot of elderly are going to die and those with heart conditions and diabetes and other risk factors and this for me is just unacceptable."
1 June too early for schools to reopen in England, say scientists
“Support for a fixed date for school return is vanishing quickly. What is needed now is local flexibility to determine when it is right for schools to open up to more pupils, informed by evidence of what is happening in their local area.”
Secret Teacher – Life in lockdown
To every adult who has worked so hard to make this lockdown as happy and rewarding as possible for children, thank-you all.
Let’s stop pretending back to school is about anything other than the economy
"The government hope that, if the smallest children are in school again, thousands of people can go back to work."
Director-general Tony Hall says BBC needs to take action on diversity
He was speaking during the BBC Creative Diversity Dialogue event.
Migrant NHS cleaner ‘proud’ of his role as fee for overseas workers scrapped
Hassan Akkad believes the pandemic has shown the world how important migrants and refugees are to communities.
Johnson promised 25,000 contact tracers by June 1st but who are they?
“Job advertisements for manual contact tracing staff are presented as a ‘work from home opportunity’, at an hourly rate of less than the living wage.”
Daniel Hannan reminded of tweet telling people “coronavirus isn’t going to kill you”
He argued that the virus has been wrapped up in "alarmism, doom-mongering and panic" in February.
Meet the ‘naive’ & ‘ignorant’ Tory peer running govt’s testing programme
Some have questioned why the government didn't appoint an independent with expert medical knowledge.