Palma09/09/2020 12:15
Thousands of pupils will start returning to class today as schools finally re-open after being closed since the lockdown in March. But they are completely different schools to the ones that pupils left in March; classrooms have been rearranged to respect social distancing, children from six upwards will have to wear a mask at all times and even school opening and closing times have been changed to ensure that there is no mass arrival or exit. What is clear is that the new measures place additional pressure on teachers and their unions nationwide are already talking strike action.
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Spot on Mark. The 'new normal' smacks of autocratic social control. It's a very scary phrase that should be cofined to history where it belongs. Our freedoms are constantly being eroded and we are treated like naughty school children.
I wish people would stop saying "the new normal" as there is nothing normal about it. It is a quasimodo like life style we are forced into by politicians and virologists, whose only purpose in lfe seems to be "to get the numbers down", irrespective of the collateral damage it does to society, the economy and their own country. I bet there is not 1 person on earth who finds this normal. Let´s call it the temporary abnormal, as that is exactly what it is.