Rises in cases in a number of areas across England promptedSpeaking at the time, Prof Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer for England, warned the nation had"probably reached near the limit or the limits" of what can be done to reopen society safely.
"What that means, potentially, is if we wish to do more things in the future we may have to do less of some other things," he said. Prof Neil Ferguson, a former member of the government's scientific advisory group, Sage, whose modelling led to the decision to impose the lockdown, also suggested ministers would need to"row back on the relaxation of restrictions" to allow a full-time return to schools and keep the virus under control.
Meanwhile. Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, said the government needed to improve its test and trace system or consider closing pubs ahead of schools reopening.:"If we were seeing cases go up again, then yes, absolutely, pubs would be the first thing that I would say would have to close... I think there is a growing amount of evidence that pubs are one of the main places where this virus spreads.
A moral duty to continue the pandemic is all that will happen. It's no secret schools are breeding grounds for virus spread. It's been happening as long as there have been schools.
Nope. Moral duty is to keep pubs open.
It’s impossible with the current infection rate. Most state schools area not big enough to keep distance between the kids. Tories must stop pocketing tax money and start working seriously starting with testing. If they can’t trace every infection schools should not reopen.
Teachers and their families just want to stay alive. Kids can pass virus on. Look around. Govt have failed you. People not following simple rules. In a few weeks will all be morally obliged to stay home again as cases are on the rise!!
Thousands on social media now saying they will not be sending their kids back to school.
How on earth does this man get to talk about ANYTHING from a moralistic perspective?
Our PrimeMinister has absolutely no grounds to preach to us about morals. The arrogant, incompetent hypocrisy is despicable.
I have no clue why they haven't gone back long ago. We should have cancelled the summer leave as they had been off for months already. Suspect its the lazy teachers again whining and whinging
Moral duty is to guarantee that there will be no risk for children, teachers and families. Can the government do that? I doubt so. If something goes wrong who will be the responsible?
Please stop talking about schools 're-opening', most of them have been open the whole time caring for children of key workers. Never closed!
With education a priority since Day-1, RealGeoffBarton 'Class-A Tw' was bleating 'science is not definitive' 'significant gaps in evidence, knowledge and understanding' back in APRIL/MAY/JUNE blocking 10DowningStreet BorisJohnson in efforts to re-open schools in July🤦♂️🤮💩🥱
The message couldn't be clearer: it's 'a moral duty' now so no need to engage your brains, gut intelligence will suffice. Let's just wear our poppies, wash our hands clean for the queen, keep our mouths shut and everything will be fine.
Selectively concerned with morals. Don’t fall for this shit
Our school is opening, because the head ignores the unions. This is political and nothing more
Tell the idiots packing beaches about moral duty.
Few weeks back. ‘Thanks keyworkers’. Now during school holidays, ‘lazy bloody teachers’!!!
Well yes. But also a moral duty to make sure children and staff are safe.
I am willing to bet that most parents (not all) didn't spend any time teaching their kids during lockdown!
Moral duty to keep children alive moral duty to get them back to school.
Why is moral duty in inverted commas? Doesnt the bbc agree?
Yes but when there’s a virus still kicking our arse its hardly a priority. Parents could of course make their kids do online courses but nah that’s too difficult give them their PS4
Johnson and morals are you f in kidding me....
The kids definitely need to go back to school as it seems every generation is dumber than the last. The government need to stop changing their story about who can and can’t carry the virus. If they worried about spreading it they shouldn’t have opened the pubs
Morals...by Boris Johnson!! The guy is the sewer of morality. His mind is a moral cesspool of corruption
Boris Johnson and his band of criminals is the LAST person that should talk about morals!
“Moral”?,really?,morals where finished with sending the elderly in thousands to their deaths in care homes
2nd wave is around the corner and yet we are still not thinking about utilising the UK's infrastructure and do full online class rooms. It isn't hard to do. But they would rather use our kids as guinea pigs and put them all together. Fucking madness.
Not if there's a pandemic.
I & all those i spoke 2 r determined our kids go back. Safer in class of trackable kids than on a beech. Europes kids ALREADY MONTHS ahead of ours with NO prob. Seems some parents don't want them back or they will hv 2 go back 2 work & EARN their money.
Maybe there is a moral duty to keep them safe and alive
So why is the guidance for full opening so inadequate and unsafe? Completely ignores how transmission occurs. Expecting all pupils back at once means social distancing is impossible in an enclosed space. PHE_uk educationgovuk you need to amend the guidance urgently.
Then shut down the pubs.
What's different now to how the situation was in march/april. Suddenly it's mad panic mode to get them back to school. So why weren't they back sooner and why on earth couldn't alevels and GCSEs sat. If no one else was at school these poor students could have been
Surely a moral duty would be listening to the experts, not spending a billion quid on PPE that doesn’t fit or never appears because the companies happen to be run by friends of yours, Actually giving wage rises to the very workers who treated the sick and having coherent rules?
Unless you are a teacher union leader.
This talk of choosing between schools and pubs is ridiculous. We need to shut where the virus has spread. That's the whole point. We need to be able to track and trace that's where the focus should be.
No 'person of politically acceptable gender' can serve two masters. Our leader either serves 'the country' as promised, or one's paymasters. What usually happens is that our leader pretends to serve one lot while subservient to the other. Guess which dips out, every flaming time!
Bojo spouting about “ moral duty “ Get back in the sea .. 🙄
As a teacher, I agree that kids need school. As an asthmatic, middle aged, high cholesterol person I do not feel it is my 'moral duty' to take one for the team. We could've had very low incidences of infection by now - Johnson has failed us. Teachers don't have to compensate
The PM and 'moral duty'? Hmmmmmm.....
School maintains control over society. Of course we want kids back in the brainwash. Tories won a majority from properly schooled idiots. School retains the undemocracy. Home school people!
Whenever the words “moral duty” are used you know straws are being clutched at.
As a teacher I want to go back and the students need to go back as a lot of them have done no work since March. However I don't understand why the advice says we don't need face coverings when I am moving between bubbles of 140 in each. Yet I need to wear one in a solicitors 🤔
Moral duty to expose kids and teachers to a deadly virus for the economy?
Close pubs do whatever it takes to get kids back to school if teachers not happy sack them but here’s the golden bullet no pension and put it to fight COVID 19
So we're following 'Moral duty' now. What happened to 'following the science'?
All of these people saying it’s not safe yet they’ll happily take their kids to a supermarket or playground, mixing with people they don’t know and with no knowledge of their health.
Never. We love are furlough life now. Not going back to dem days again. Furlough forever joenottoofussed
What needs to be asked is why this message now / what’s changed? Every school I know is going back based on the guidance from the Govnmnt. So is it back to herd immunity, is it actually worse than stated. Forget the issues of 10yrs impact on education & irony of Boris’ morals 🙄
Morals? Boris? Some mistake surely?
And what does a man who shags his friends' wives and ditches his sprogs know of 'moral duty'?
A man without morality exacting moral behaviour from others. What is the moral code Boris is referring to?
'In the normative sense, “morality” refers to a code of conduct that would be accepted by anyone who meets certain intellectual and volitional conditions, almost always including the condition of being rational. ' 1/4
Sure .... but why are schools going back to 20-30 kids in a room again! Why won’t class sizes be smaller? Surely this would help!
Got to get the teachers there first,🤔
PM has moral duty to act in the best interests of the country, not just him and his mates.
There is also a moral duty to protect the teachers, teaching assistants and any support staff. Is that being done ?
We have children of all ages mixing freely with each other where I live as if the is no virus so what is the problem in them going back to school 🙄
For once I wish BorisJohnson had an original thought and didn’t follow the insane policies of Donald Trump.
Why are you simply repeating what the government says?
Yes , they need to be back in class, the country is far less productive when kids are at home. Need this furlough crap to cease too, get people back into work and working.
they have a moral duty to take our children out of poverty but they haven't done it, too busy putting them into poverty, the immoral duty of the nasty party.
Safety comes first. Parents who feel it is unsafe are being ignored.
Kids want to go back, parents want them back..... lazy teachers want a few more weeks off
Since when did 'moral duty' EVER guide the actions of Boris Johnson!!?
They should have been back before the end of the last school year. Stop with the bullshit and scaremongering coronavirus is just the common cold!!! It’s no big issue for 99.8% of the population. I cannot live like this any longer
Jesus! Just send the kids back to school NOW! and stop being so frightened! If you don't like it, stay in! If you go out, be careful and respectful. Just stop living like scared people.
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Idiots in pubs not distancing. Scottish moron footballers not distancing. Shows that people inside not distancing creates spikes. Kids should be in school but risky. Either they will catch & spread to older people or Covid will do Spanish Flu and take kids/teenagers out
Moral duty is to keep our children safe first , rather then focusing on economy !!
They won't have any jobs to go to thats tue scary thing
Boris Johnson who ❗️Disappeared for 12 days in mid February to sort out his chaotic personal life ❗️Too lazy to read long memos end February ❗️Refuses to meet bereaved families Covid 19 Lecturing on MoralDuty BritainsTrump
Yeah. You had a moral duty to show the NHS protests yesterday. Dincha?
We know that other places which have come out of lockdown have been linked to new spikes. How are large groups in classrooms not a high risk? 'Moral duty'? It sounds like the usual bollocks from the government.
Moral duty to them, is to keep them safe and well. Economic duty to them is to get them to school.
From what I’ve seen with wearing face masks ect I think it’s the parents that need educating
We have a moral duty to provide education for all children- and to provide the means to access it.
Thats fine, dont worry soon you can all get your vaccine and mircochip you dirfy dogs
So if he wants school to open then pub's will have to close?
So many replies here showing people still have no clue what is really going on. Always on BBC websites. Switch this shite off or at least look in to things. This is NOT incompetence. It is a planned assault on your civil liberties, freedom and life. And it will continue.
No. Moral duty is to keep them and their families alive and well. Readjust you’re morals.
Let them stay home, then the parents will know what their children are being indoctrinated with. Just have as couple moms of friends have them all together. They hang normally, so no increased Covid risk & they can still socialize (with those they probably only hang with anyway)
Boris messing up again
Have you had enough of the FEAR and Propaganda yet?
Teach in person. Do a good job of remote teaching. Retire. Pick one - don't ask minimum wage parents to pay for you doing nothing full time.
'Morality' begins with the individual not State nor msm, same with Sovereignty Awakening NoFear nomuzzles
Boris had a moral duty not to try and infect the UK public with C19. 'Take it on the chin 'Let it move through the population' Some of us still remember you murderous buffoon!
This government doesnt know the meaning of the words 'moral' or 'duty' nor the BBC queslings who are responsible for the spewed propoganda. Do your jobs bbc so that we might have a government that is not deliberately & knowingly killing its citizens.
If it’s safe
Close schools forever
Absolutely. How long can we continue this isolation - physical and psychological..No one is in a position to stick his neck out and say this..Lack of vaccine makes it look suicidal..In this pandemic , may be our children inspire the World to be back on its feet!
Could we have you asking him about the morality of stuffing 100's of millions of pounds worth of PPE contracts without competition or Ministers costing a poor borough 40 million.
The lies of sinners. Servants of Satan have no right to speak of morality as they do the Devil’s work. May God strike you down should it so please Him.
what if the virus is in the school?
Boris Johnson ' would close pubs before schools ' in local Covid -19 lockdown.
Agreed, but Boris talking about morality is hilarious 😂
Boris Johnson talkng about morals
But Trump’s the bad guy when he wants the same thing? Not that I agree. I’ll gladly have tax dollars go to parents to home school.
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