Seanm
pfm Member
I'm not sure I follow you. They didn't do either of these things. There is no targeted, limited test and trace strategy. What they actually did was assure schools that by the time they opened children and staff would be able to get rapid tests, and then they hoped for the best. Schools built their strategy around this and now some at least are barely holding on. They were first of all misled, and then kept in the dark.Just take this one to start with.
The choice is between two evils. Either you open high schools and universities only when you have a rapid test on demand facility (possibly a long way away, maybe never); or you open schools with a targeted, limited test and trace strategy, the sort of thing they're talking about now. Both routes have very undesirable consequences, I'm sure I don't need to spell them out. They decided to go for the second of these choices.
Hopefully heads will be reassured about the safety and the viability of their schools by whatever is proposed in the strategy about to be unveiled.
The costs of assuming this government is ever acting in good faith are very high. The broader cost to society of having to assume, just to survive day to day, that your government is lying to you in a way that might prove fatal is incalculable, I think.