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This debate is honestly set to catch fire. The Sun article today about teachers "betraying" vulnerable kids by not reopening schools when schools have literally been kept the fuck open for vulnerable kids and children of key workers has caused outrage from teachers. Michael Gove, the most hated politician in the education sector, is now lying on national television about the situation. I'd fucking love nothing less than to be able to get back in front of a class on Monday rather than spending another 7 hour day sat on my laptop on my own in my bedroom waiting for kids to start submitting work off the video lessons I've spent my Sunday night putting together and trying to mark their work by typing on a word document, and feeling a misplaced sense of guilt when half of them show no engagement for another week without me being able to anything about it before people like me get accused by Brexity twatwits on social media and the Daily Mail of refusing to provide the kids with an education and that maybe the threat of a pay cut would change our mind. It's absolutely fucking disgusting. No wonder teachers in other countries look at the UK and are absolutely mystified by how professions like ours along with nurses, doctors, carers, police are regarded with such venom by the general public. I want like everyone else for my job to go back to normal but wanting something and it being the best thing to do aren't the same thing and it's yet another unsurprising embarrassment that the British public are incapable of grasping this simple fact.

It’s called “lying to the rest of the world”

"The new normal" is just another way of saying "new world order"

You know. Everyone knows.

I really, really don't get your point. BMI might not be flawless as a measurement (there are better ones), but obesity is an established medical diagnosis with well known concrete negative health effects with tons of research throughout the decades, so I'm not sure what "rhetoric" you're referring to? Yes, it's a complex condition influenced by many factors, including genetic and socioeconomic ones, but regardless of what combination of factors causes it, it doesn't change the fact that an obese person is, well, obese. It's a medical term, not some arbitrary label assigned to someone in order to discriminate or create stigma. I think the article is just trying to spin the latest research on obesity and covid-19 into some sort of a social issue, which in my opinion is a very weird thing to do here.

Won't be everyone's cup of tea I know, but for those that play or remotely care, I went for my first round of Golf in ages today and enjoyed every minute. Course was in great nick and it made a refreshing change from the 'norm' of the last couple months.