Sweden Chose Wrong, Brazil Followed

[Drummond]

No school, many closed for the year. But, the schools are still preparing breakfast and lunches for the kids. Yes. Bus drivers are being paid in many districts to deliver the meals. As I said, many are also feeding on the weekend, which is not the norm.

Ah, I see.

No .. here, schools are closed, as in, zero activity within their walls. Feeding kids becomes the responsibility of the parents.

There was talk in our media, unsubstantiated as yet, that studies of cross-infection in the very young suggested that it might be so low as to allow a rethink about schools remaining closed. Though it's understood that children aren't totally immune, they are thought to be so resistant, generally, that reopening schools might involve too small a risk for it to matter.

Official advice about mask wearing remains the same .. and seen as antisocial, because every mask worn is one more that our health workers could be using, instead.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...calls-rethink/

The UK Government has reiterated that people do not need to wear face masks in public, refusing to change their guidance despite both the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the White House considering the move.

Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s deputy chief medical officer, said that while the practice was “wired into” some Southeast Asian countries there was no evidence it helped stop the spread of Covid-19.

“There is no evidence that general wearing of face masks by the public who are well affects the spread of the disease in our society. What matters is social distancing,” Prof Van-Tam said at a Downing Street press conference on Friday.