VIDEO: Sunday, 21st February 2021. BBC Scotland. Sunday Show presented by Martin Geissler. Professor Linda Bauld, from Edinburgh University, a public health expert, says we must maintain the public health measures we’ve been living with. Dr Deepti Gurdasani, an epidemiologist (MPhil University of Cambridge) explains that it is not yet safe for Scottish pupils to go back to school until additional internationally accepted mitigation methods are in place.
I agree with the points made by Dr Deepti Gurdasani, obviously.
The Scottish Government’s so-called “National Clinical Director for Scotland” Jason Leitch is indeed wrong, again and remains out of his depth, as I have explained in an earlier blog post. Children are just as likely to get or pass on the virus – just more often asymptomatically than adults to whom they pass the virus on. Kids can get infected at school and then go home to infect their older family members who then suffer symptoms etc.
Blame the Scottish Government minister John “the Swindler” Swinney – whose complacent remarks to Martin Geissler were not worth repeating here – and blame too his boss Nicola “Killer Krankie” Sturgeon for the Scottish Government’s poorly prepared and premature school re-opening which will cost lives and threaten to resurge the pandemic in Scotland.
Mitigation methods
Mitigation methods suggested by Dr Gurdasani.
- Mask use for primary school children
- Ventilation
- Air filtration / purification devices
- Carbon dioxide monitors
- Smaller class and bubble sizes
- Teachers mustn’t move between bubbles
Mitigation method suggested by Peter Dow
- Indoor ultra violet lights to help inactivate airborne viruses
- UV protective wear – sunglasses, sunscreen lotion, hats etc.
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