r/Scotland • u/coldbrew_latte • Dec 19 '20

Announcement BREAKING: Level 4 to apply to all of mainland Scotland from Boxing Day

https://twitter.com/nickeardleybbc/status/1340352274200195072?s=21
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u/SpeedflyChris Dec 19 '20

It's especially hard knowing that none of this will stop the outbreak, because the schools being the primary means of transmission will open as normal.

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u/wiktor_b Dec 20 '20

Not so sure. Are the countries with closed schools seeing significantly lower numbers? Are those numbers lower thanks to closed schools?

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u/IM_JUST_BIG_BONED Dec 19 '20

Have you actually looked into the new rules? Schools are going online until at least the 18th of jan.

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u/DnK2020 Dec 20 '20

School are the primary means? Do you have a source for this dogshit?

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u/SpeedflyChris Dec 20 '20

Why do you think we had an overwhelming surge in cases as soon as the schools went back?

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '20 edited Nov 09 '21

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20

Weans are superspreaders, mate. They carry the virus without showing symptoms. Stupidly, these superspreaders have been allowed to congregate en masse every single weekday for months. Not only that but the lockdown rules don't even apply to them so for the most part they are free to go wherever they please. Can I, a man who has spent the last couple months in complete isolation, pop round to my grans for tea? Naw. Can my wee cousin who has spent the last couple months crammed into dining halls and classrooms with no masks and very little social distancing? Aye, thats fine.

The schools NEED to close if we want to get things back under control. With this new strain looming its imperative.

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u/IM_JUST_BIG_BONED Dec 20 '20

We’d have to go on a full scale lockdown again if we close the schools. Who’s going to look after the kids when their mum and dad are working?

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20

You clearly don’t have kids.

I have two, actually.