25 April

This is the report that will be used from today to 'prove' to people that 'schools are safe'. It's embarrassingly bad, all 4 pages of it, with 2 vague references. The data size? 18 infections in schools before the lockdown. 18! In any serious study that would be laughable. They don't even publish the numbers of close contacts who actually agreed to get tested. There is not one sensible reason to get kids back to school at this stage of our fight against Covid-19. When that fight started ScoMo said we had to be prepared for at least 6 months of hardship. 1-2 months in, it's now too hard? The only reason it's being suggested is to protect 'the economy'. Fuck the economy, it's a myth. Don't even take my word for it, read the letter over 100 of Australia's top economists wrote to the National Cabinet. And look at NZ, one their greatest internal sources of Covid-19 infections? A school. (https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/120895239/coronavirus-everything-we-know-about-new-zealands-marist-college-covid19-cluster) http://ncirs.org.au/sites/default/files/2020-04/NCIRS%20NSW%20Schools%20COVID_Summary_FINAL%20public_26%20April%202020.pdf