Shows my ignorance - I assumed the current test would indicate if somebody has had it and recovered.
It sounds like there is already a test out there? I thought it was still being developed.
As far as the latest news goes there is no test yet anywhere that shows you have had the disease. But a fair few labs think they are close. The current increase in testing to 25,000 a day all seems to be based on the current test which will only show if you have the active disease.
... if you actually have the active virus. A pedantic but important differenence.
Not necessarily. I received an email earlier today sent by our school to all parents asking who was a critical worker. Advising that they were working on a contingency plan for one school in the region to look after the children of critical care workers while other schools close.
Not sure if that's an organised thing or just a local initiative.
When? After the kids have started their A-Levels? And A-Levels after they have started their degree courses? Award the certificates based on work to date and thus the predicted grade and move on. As a recruiting manager I don't really care what someone got in lower stages of education - GSCEs and A-Levsl are stepping stones.
I suggested earlier just reset the school year through the system so they all start again in September, crash building program for new year -1 and additional teachers. To include universities as well
Crash building for capacity? When I was a boy we just used portakabins.
In my school too. They were bloody awful.
Before we moved to Canterbury I went to a primary school in the suburbs of Reading and the portakabins used there were nicknamed "terrapins". I have no idea why.
Pupils of key workers should turn up at their schools on monday
Define "key workers" Mr Johnson. NHS staff, police, fire obviously. Supermarket and pharmacy staff I assume. And their supply chains? And the factories who make the food and pharmaceuticals? How about the people who keep phones and broadband running. Power and utilities. Who else?
How about the "I need to work and have no childcare and my neandertal boss will fire me" worker. Will we now see kids sat in the front of your Amazon delivery van? Etc etc.
Need to Think Through The Details. Then make announcements. Schools are all closed. Except for children who need to come to school. So schools remain open then...
Emergency services and health workers was mentioned
When? After the kids have started their A-Levels? And A-Levels after they have started their degree courses? Award the certificates based on work to date and thus the predicted grade and move on. As a recruiting manager I don't really care what someone got in lower stages of education - GSCEs and A-Levsl are stepping stones.
I suggested earlier just reset the school year through the system so they all start again in September, crash building program for new year -1 and additional teachers. To include universities as well
Crash building for capacity? When I was a boy we just used portakabins.
In my school too. They were bloody awful.
Ours had electric radiators which were far better at maintaining a reasonable temperature than the centrally heated radiators in the rest of the school.
Not really. Certainly no more than any other generation in history. This really is an 'Act of God' which it would have been impossible or impractical to prepare for.
Yes, if only the human mind were capable of conceiving of the idea of an epidemic before 2020. But alas,
Shows my ignorance - I assumed the current test would indicate if somebody has had it and recovered.
It sounds like there is already a test out there? I thought it was still being developed.
As far as the latest news goes there is no test yet anywhere that shows you have had the disease. But a fair few labs think they are close. The current increase in testing to 25,000 a day all seems to be based on the current test which will only show if you have the active disease.
... if you actually have the active virus. A pedantic but important differenence.
Not really. Certainly no more than any other generation in history. This really is an 'Act of God' which it would have been impossible or impractical to prepare for.
What's more, look at the incredible achievements in the response: from a standing start, the genetic sequence of the virus had been completely determined in weeks, and the information disseminated around the world, with candidate vaccines already in clinical trials or about to be.
Not much help in the immediate crisis, of course, but stunning all the same.
I think the sharing of data between countries is a real positive
What sort of imbecile announces that exams are cancelled but refuses to explain what system he has put in place to replace them?
Twat.
He clearly hasn’t even spoken to Ofqual or the JCQ yet.
I am expecting to find my students in a panic tomorrow and I don’t blame them.
Because these things take time to organise but closing schools won't wait.
If he had announced the schools were closing but made no mention of exams you would have been screaming about that as well.
Basically you will never be satisfied by anything he says, which reflects far more on you than it does on the Government.
No I wouldn’t. I would have expected him to make a call on that later.
Then your students would have been in an even greater panic tomorrow. Schools closed but they might still have to take their exams? That would really have upset things.
This was literally the only thing they cold have done at this point. Delaying closing the schools would have been unconscionable, closing schools but making no comment on exams or saying they would still go ahead would be terrible.
They have closed the schools as lots of teachers were screaming for them to do and have said that no child will lose out because of missing exams. What else would you have them do?
You know, I was going to reply in detail, but it’s not worth it. You don’t understand and you don’t care, and you never will.
LOL. I do love it when teachers think they are the only ones who know anything about kids.
When? After the kids have started their A-Levels? And A-Levels after they have started their degree courses? Award the certificates based on work to date and thus the predicted grade and move on. As a recruiting manager I don't really care what someone got in lower stages of education - GSCEs and A-Levsl are stepping stones.
I suggested earlier just reset the school year through the system so they all start again in September, crash building program for new year -1 and additional teachers. To include universities as well
Crash building for capacity? When I was a boy we just used portakabins.
In my school too. They were bloody awful.
Ours had electric radiators which were far better at maintaining a reasonable temperature than the centrally heated radiators in the rest of the school.
Our brand new 1960s primary had underfloor heating - which was brilliant. Shame they had to add portakabins within 10 years due to undersizing the school.
Oh to be 9 or 10 now - 26 weeks holiday to look forward to!
On renters saying they will be protected from no fault evictions is spectacularly missing the point. They want protection from eviction for not paying the rent because they have lost their job due to govt shutting down the economy.
When? After the kids have started their A-Levels? And A-Levels after they have started their degree courses? Award the certificates based on work to date and thus the predicted grade and move on. As a recruiting manager I don't really care what someone got in lower stages of education - GSCEs and A-Levsl are stepping stones.
I suggested earlier just reset the school year through the system so they all start again in September, crash building program for new year -1 and additional teachers. To include universities as well
Yes. Then align the academic year with the calendar year with everyone moving up a year in January.
Hard luck to those who make those silly diaries that run from September to August.
No more summer holidays?
November to January....
Australia have just before Christmas to just after Australia Day (26th January). Of course that is the summer there!
Not really. Certainly no more than any other generation in history. This really is an 'Act of God' which it would have been impossible or impractical to prepare for.
What's more, look at the incredible achievements in the response: from a standing start, the genetic sequence of the virus had been completely determined in weeks, and the information disseminated around the world, with candidate vaccines already in clinical trials or about to be.
Not much help in the immediate crisis, of course, but stunning all the same.
I think the sharing of data between countries is a real positive
Yes - and the very international nature of clinical trials. That will help us, fingers crossed, in the immediate crisis by providing better guidance on which drugs might work.
Not really. Certainly no more than any other generation in history. This really is an 'Act of God' which it would have been impossible or impractical to prepare for.
Yes, if only the human mind were capable of conceiving of the idea of an epidemic before 2020. But alas,
You can conceive of an epidemic, but that doesn't mean it's practical to remain in a high state of readiness for decades on end on the off-chance that one appears this year. And even by the standards of epidemics, this is exceptional in being both so contagious and deadly, but spreading before symptoms appear.
What sort of imbecile announces that exams are cancelled but refuses to explain what system he has put in place to replace them?
Twat.
He clearly hasn’t even spoken to Ofqual or the JCQ yet.
I am expecting to find my students in a panic tomorrow and I don’t blame them.
Because these things take time to organise but closing schools won't wait.
If he had announced the schools were closing but made no mention of exams you would have been screaming about that as well.
Basically you will never be satisfied by anything he says, which reflects far more on you than it does on the Government.
No I wouldn’t. I would have expected him to make a call on that later.
Then your students would have been in an even greater panic tomorrow. Schools closed but they might still have to take their exams? That would really have upset things.
This was literally the only thing they cold have done at this point. Delaying closing the schools would have been unconscionable, closing schools but making no comment on exams or saying they would still go ahead would be terrible.
They have closed the schools as lots of teachers were screaming for them to do and have said that no child will lose out because of missing exams. What else would you have them do?
You know, I was going to reply in detail, but it’s not worth it. You don’t understand and you don’t care, and you never will.
LOL. I do love it when teachers think they are the only ones who know anything about kids.
To use your earlier description.
Twat.
How many 16 year olds have you known in your life? Teachers may have taught thousands.
On renters saying they will be protected from no fault evictions is spectacularly missing the point. They want protection from eviction for not paying the rent because they have lost their job due to govt shutting down the economy.
Just reading through the thread Big_G; I would be more than happy to post you a bottle of sanitiser. It would be one of the smaller ones, but if that helps, let me know and we can maybe exchange private messages to get your address if that works via Vanilla.
Not really. Certainly no more than any other generation in history. This really is an 'Act of God' which it would have been impossible or impractical to prepare for.
Yes, if only the human mind were capable of conceiving of the idea of an epidemic before 2020. But alas,
We did, see David Quammen`s excellent book "Spillover".
What sort of imbecile announces that exams are cancelled but refuses to explain what system he has put in place to replace them?
Twat.
He clearly hasn’t even spoken to Ofqual or the JCQ yet.
I am expecting to find my students in a panic tomorrow and I don’t blame them.
Because these things take time to organise but closing schools won't wait.
If he had announced the schools were closing but made no mention of exams you would have been screaming about that as well.
Basically you will never be satisfied by anything he says, which reflects far more on you than it does on the Government.
No I wouldn’t. I would have expected him to make a call on that later.
Then your students would have been in an even greater panic tomorrow. Schools closed but they might still have to take their exams? That would really have upset things.
This was literally the only thing they cold have done at this point. Delaying closing the schools would have been unconscionable, closing schools but making no comment on exams or saying they would still go ahead would be terrible.
They have closed the schools as lots of teachers were screaming for them to do and have said that no child will lose out because of missing exams. What else would you have them do?
You know, I was going to reply in detail, but it’s not worth it. You don’t understand and you don’t care, and you never will.
LOL. I do love it when teachers think they are the only ones who know anything about kids.
To use your earlier description.
Twat.
How many 16 year olds have you known in your life? Teachers may have taught thousands.
It ain’t worth the effort. Trust me. I’ve tried and I’ve failed. He’s just an unpleasant person.
On a serious point, I have been pondering how this could be worked if Himself does stick to the policy. A-level History and Geography I might manage with coursework. What about Physics? Could something be done with those controlled practicals you have to do?
What sort of imbecile announces that exams are cancelled but refuses to explain what system he has put in place to replace them?
Twat.
He clearly hasn’t even spoken to Ofqual or the JCQ yet.
I am expecting to find my students in a panic tomorrow and I don’t blame them.
Because these things take time to organise but closing schools won't wait.
If he had announced the schools were closing but made no mention of exams you would have been screaming about that as well.
Basically you will never be satisfied by anything he says, which reflects far more on you than it does on the Government.
No I wouldn’t. I would have expected him to make a call on that later.
Then your students would have been in an even greater panic tomorrow. Schools closed but they might still have to take their exams? That would really have upset things.
This was literally the only thing they cold have done at this point. Delaying closing the schools would have been unconscionable, closing schools but making no comment on exams or saying they would still go ahead would be terrible.
They have closed the schools as lots of teachers were screaming for them to do and have said that no child will lose out because of missing exams. What else would you have them do?
You know, I was going to reply in detail, but it’s not worth it. You don’t understand and you don’t care, and you never will.
LOL. I do love it when teachers think they are the only ones who know anything about kids.
To use your earlier description.
Twat.
How many 16 year olds have you known in your life? Teachers may have taught thousands.
What sort of imbecile announces that exams are cancelled but refuses to explain what system he has put in place to replace them?
Twat.
He clearly hasn’t even spoken to Ofqual or the JCQ yet.
I am expecting to find my students in a panic tomorrow and I don’t blame them.
Because these things take time to organise but closing schools won't wait.
If he had announced the schools were closing but made no mention of exams you would have been screaming about that as well.
Basically you will never be satisfied by anything he says, which reflects far more on you than it does on the Government.
No I wouldn’t. I would have expected him to make a call on that later.
Then your students would have been in an even greater panic tomorrow. Schools closed but they might still have to take their exams? That would really have upset things.
This was literally the only thing they cold have done at this point. Delaying closing the schools would have been unconscionable, closing schools but making no comment on exams or saying they would still go ahead would be terrible.
They have closed the schools as lots of teachers were screaming for them to do and have said that no child will lose out because of missing exams. What else would you have them do?
You know, I was going to reply in detail, but it’s not worth it. You don’t understand and you don’t care, and you never will.
LOL. I do love it when teachers think they are the only ones who know anything about kids.
To use your earlier description.
Twat.
How many 16 year olds have you known in your life? Teachers may have taught thousands.
Exam-wise, it might be the cue for a rethink as to their purpose. Do we need them? GCSEs are basically valueless now the school leaving age is 18 or 21, and even A-levels matter mainly as gatekeepers for university entrance, for which they can easily be replaced.
Not really. Certainly no more than any other generation in history. This really is an 'Act of God' which it would have been impossible or impractical to prepare for.
What's more, look at the incredible achievements in the response: from a standing start, the genetic sequence of the virus had been completely determined in weeks, and the information disseminated around the world, with candidate vaccines already in clinical trials or about to be.
Not much help in the immediate crisis, of course, but stunning all the same.
I think the sharing of data between countries is a real positive
Yes - and the very international nature of clinical trials. That will help us, fingers crossed, in the immediate crisis by providing better guidance on which drugs might work.
Not so convinced by this. Stem cell therapies are very difficult to get right (lots of v nasty side effects). More likely that repurposing of an existing drug will be the best - and some of those trials should report very soon. EDit: Sorry block quotes have got infected. My comment is below
I heard on the German news that Macron has requisitioned/ordered lots of a anti-malarial drug as it is having good initial results. I have no more details than that.
Pupils of key workers should turn up at their schools on monday
Define "key workers" Mr Johnson. NHS staff, police, fire obviously. Supermarket and pharmacy staff I assume. And their supply chains? And the factories who make the food and pharmaceuticals? How about the people who keep phones and broadband running. Power and utilities. Who else?
How about the "I need to work and have no childcare and my neandertal boss will fire me" worker. Will we now see kids sat in the front of your Amazon delivery van? Etc etc.
Need to Think Through The Details. Then make announcements. Schools are all closed. Except for children who need to come to school. So schools remain open then...
There were only around half the number of kids in my wife's class this morning. I'm pretty sure that's duplicated up and down the country. Making it official will cut the number turning up considerably - and making the prevailing situation official is a good idea anyway.
What sort of imbecile announces that exams are cancelled but refuses to explain what system he has put in place to replace them?
Twat.
He clearly hasn’t even spoken to Ofqual or the JCQ yet.
I am expecting to find my students in a panic tomorrow and I don’t blame them.
Because these things take time to organise but closing schools won't wait.
If he had announced the schools were closing but made no mention of exams you would have been screaming about that as well.
Basically you will never be satisfied by anything he says, which reflects far more on you than it does on the Government.
No I wouldn’t. I would have expected him to make a call on that later.
Then your students would have been in an even greater panic tomorrow. Schools closed but they might still have to take their exams? That would really have upset things.
This was literally the only thing they cold have done at this point. Delaying closing the schools would have been unconscionable, closing schools but making no comment on exams or saying they would still go ahead would be terrible.
They have closed the schools as lots of teachers were screaming for them to do and have said that no child will lose out because of missing exams. What else would you have them do?
You know, I was going to reply in detail, but it’s not worth it. You don’t understand and you don’t care, and you never will.
LOL. I do love it when teachers think they are the only ones who know anything about kids.
To use your earlier description.
Twat.
How many 16 year olds have you known in your life? Teachers may have taught thousands.
Exam-wise, it might be the cue for a rethink as to their purpose. Do we need them? GCSEs are basically valueless now the school leaving age is 18 or 21, and even A-levels matter mainly as gatekeepers for university entrance, for which they can easily be replaced.
Post A-Level applications to uni are the way forward.
When? After the kids have started their A-Levels? And A-Levels after they have started their degree courses? Award the certificates based on work to date and thus the predicted grade and move on. As a recruiting manager I don't really care what someone got in lower stages of education - GSCEs and A-Levsl are stepping stones.
I suggested earlier just reset the school year through the system so they all start again in September, crash building program for new year -1 and additional teachers. To include universities as well
It is hard to see how universities would be able to take undergraduates in September, anyway. They won't have completed their own core functions for existing UG/PG students.
Not really. Certainly no more than any other generation in history. This really is an 'Act of God' which it would have been impossible or impractical to prepare for.
What's more, look at the incredible achievements in the response: from a standing start, the genetic sequence of the virus had been completely determined in weeks, and the information disseminated around the world, with candidate vaccines already in clinical trials or about to be.
Not much help in the immediate crisis, of course, but stunning all the same.
I think the sharing of data between countries is a real positive
Yes - and the very international nature of clinical trials. That will help us, fingers crossed, in the immediate crisis by providing better guidance on which drugs might work.
Not so convinced by this. Stem cell therapies are very difficult to get right (lots of v nasty side effects). More likely that repurposing of an existing drug will be the best - and some of those trials should report very soon.
EDit: Sorry block quotes have got infected. My comment is below
I heard on the German news that Macron has requisitioned/ordered lots of a anti-malarial drug as it is having good initial results. I have no more details than that.
That’s chloroquinine, I think. Private sales of it in the Uk were banned a while back, and the NHS has commandeered what stocks there are.
What sort of imbecile announces that exams are cancelled but refuses to explain what system he has put in place to replace them?
Twat.
He clearly hasn’t even spoken to Ofqual or the JCQ yet.
I am expecting to find my students in a panic tomorrow and I don’t blame them.
Because these things take time to organise but closing schools won't wait.
If he had announced the schools were closing but made no mention of exams you would have been screaming about that as well.
Basically you will never be satisfied by anything he says, which reflects far more on you than it does on the Government.
No I wouldn’t. I would have expected him to make a call on that later.
Then your students would have been in an even greater panic tomorrow. Schools closed but they might still have to take their exams? That would really have upset things.
This was literally the only thing they cold have done at this point. Delaying closing the schools would have been unconscionable, closing schools but making no comment on exams or saying they would still go ahead would be terrible.
They have closed the schools as lots of teachers were screaming for them to do and have said that no child will lose out because of missing exams. What else would you have them do?
You know, I was going to reply in detail, but it’s not worth it. You don’t understand and you don’t care, and you never will.
LOL. I do love it when teachers think they are the only ones who know anything about kids.
To use your earlier description.
Twat.
How many 16 year olds have you known in your life? Teachers may have taught thousands.
Exam-wise, it might be the cue for a rethink as to their purpose. Do we need them? GCSEs are basically valueless now the school leaving age is 18 or 21, and even A-levels matter mainly as gatekeepers for university entrance, for which they can easily be replaced.
Post A-Level applications to uni are the way forward.
However true, that’s not really a helpful comment on the current situation.
When? After the kids have started their A-Levels? And A-Levels after they have started their degree courses? Award the certificates based on work to date and thus the predicted grade and move on. As a recruiting manager I don't really care what someone got in lower stages of education - GSCEs and A-Levsl are stepping stones.
I suggested earlier just reset the school year through the system so they all start again in September, crash building program for new year -1 and additional teachers. To include universities as well
It is hard to see how universities would be able to take undergraduates in September, anyway. They won't have completed their own core functions for existing UG/PG students.
What sort of imbecile announces that exams are cancelled but refuses to explain what system he has put in place to replace them?
Twat.
He clearly hasn’t even spoken to Ofqual or the JCQ yet.
I am expecting to find my students in a panic tomorrow and I don’t blame them.
Because these things take time to organise but closing schools won't wait.
If he had announced the schools were closing but made no mention of exams you would have been screaming about that as well.
Basically you will never be satisfied by anything he says, which reflects far more on you than it does on the Government.
No I wouldn’t. I would have expected him to make a call on that later.
Then your students would have been in an even greater panic tomorrow. Schools closed but they might still have to take their exams? That would really have upset things.
This was literally the only thing they cold have done at this point. Delaying closing the schools would have been unconscionable, closing schools but making no comment on exams or saying they would still go ahead would be terrible.
They have closed the schools as lots of teachers were screaming for them to do and have said that no child will lose out because of missing exams. What else would you have them do?
You know, I was going to reply in detail, but it’s not worth it. You don’t understand and you don’t care, and you never will.
LOL. I do love it when teachers think they are the only ones who know anything about kids.
To use your earlier description.
Twat.
How many 16 year olds have you known in your life? Teachers may have taught thousands.
It ain’t worth the effort. Trust me. I’ve tried and I’ve failed. He’s just an unpleasant person.
On a serious point, I have been pondering how this could be worked if Himself does stick to the policy. A-level History and Geography I might manage with coursework. What about Physics? Could something be done with those controlled practicals you have to do?
You mean the ones we were trying to finish off before the schools were shut?
They are pass/fail rather than graded.
The simplest (though probably not fairest) method is just to give everyone their UCAS prediction.
What sort of imbecile announces that exams are cancelled but refuses to explain what system he has put in place to replace them?
Twat.
He clearly hasn’t even spoken to Ofqual or the JCQ yet.
I am expecting to find my students in a panic tomorrow and I don’t blame them.
Because these things take time to organise but closing schools won't wait.
If he had announced the schools were closing but made no mention of exams you would have been screaming about that as well.
Basically you will never be satisfied by anything he says, which reflects far more on you than it does on the Government.
No I wouldn’t. I would have expected him to make a call on that later.
Then your students would have been in an even greater panic tomorrow. Schools closed but they might still have to take their exams? That would really have upset things.
This was literally the only thing they cold have done at this point. Delaying closing the schools would have been unconscionable, closing schools but making no comment on exams or saying they would still go ahead would be terrible.
They have closed the schools as lots of teachers were screaming for them to do and have said that no child will lose out because of missing exams. What else would you have them do?
You know, I was going to reply in detail, but it’s not worth it. You don’t understand and you don’t care, and you never will.
LOL. I do love it when teachers think they are the only ones who know anything about kids.
To use your earlier description.
Twat.
How many 16 year olds have you known in your life? Teachers may have taught thousands.
Exam-wise, it might be the cue for a rethink as to their purpose. Do we need them? GCSEs are basically valueless now the school leaving age is 18 or 21, and even A-levels matter mainly as gatekeepers for university entrance, for which they can easily be replaced.
Post A-Level applications to uni are the way forward.
However true, that’s not really a helpful comment on the current situation.
No, I was commenting on the post saying they should just be scraped these days.
What sort of imbecile announces that exams are cancelled but refuses to explain what system he has put in place to replace them?
Twat.
He clearly hasn’t even spoken to Ofqual or the JCQ yet.
I am expecting to find my students in a panic tomorrow and I don’t blame them.
Because these things take time to organise but closing schools won't wait.
If he had announced the schools were closing but made no mention of exams you would have been screaming about that as well.
Basically you will never be satisfied by anything he says, which reflects far more on you than it does on the Government.
No I wouldn’t. I would have expected him to make a call on that later.
Then your students would have been in an even greater panic tomorrow. Schools closed but they might still have to take their exams? That would really have upset things.
This was literally the only thing they cold have done at this point. Delaying closing the schools would have been unconscionable, closing schools but making no comment on exams or saying they would still go ahead would be terrible.
They have closed the schools as lots of teachers were screaming for them to do and have said that no child will lose out because of missing exams. What else would you have them do?
You know, I was going to reply in detail, but it’s not worth it. You don’t understand and you don’t care, and you never will.
LOL. I do love it when teachers think they are the only ones who know anything about kids.
To use your earlier description.
Twat.
How many 16 year olds have you known in your life? Teachers may have taught thousands.
It ain’t worth the effort. Trust me. I’ve tried and I’ve failed. He’s just an unpleasant person.
On a serious point, I have been pondering how this could be worked if Himself does stick to the policy. A-level History and Geography I might manage with coursework. What about Physics? Could something be done with those controlled practicals you have to do?
Everyone who's ever been to school thinks themselves an expert on education (I do not except myself from this judgment)....
When? After the kids have started their A-Levels? And A-Levels after they have started their degree courses? Award the certificates based on work to date and thus the predicted grade and move on. As a recruiting manager I don't really care what someone got in lower stages of education - GSCEs and A-Levsl are stepping stones.
I suggested earlier just reset the school year through the system so they all start again in September, crash building program for new year -1 and additional teachers. To include universities as well
It is hard to see how universities would be able to take undergraduates in September, anyway. They won't have completed their own core functions for existing UG/PG students.
They might not have done anyway, given the lecturers’ strike.
When? After the kids have started their A-Levels? And A-Levels after they have started their degree courses? Award the certificates based on work to date and thus the predicted grade and move on. As a recruiting manager I don't really care what someone got in lower stages of education - GSCEs and A-Levsl are stepping stones.
I suggested earlier just reset the school year through the system so they all start again in September, crash building program for new year -1 and additional teachers. To include universities as well
Crash building for capacity? When I was a boy we just used portakabins.
In my school too. They were bloody awful.
Before we moved to Canterbury I went to a primary school in the suburbs of Reading and the portakabins used there were nicknamed "terrapins". I have no idea why.
Same here, a secondary school the badlands of Bucks. My understanding is that Terrapin was the supplier of prefabs.
I am again getting pissed off at the media demanding absolutes. How long to the day will schooled be closed.
FFS, this is fast moving situation, nobody can truly be sure about anything. It is how the public react, if Boris' Dad and Jezza get in their bloody homes and stay there, how lucky we get with respect to the NHS capacity, etc etc etc.
I am sure they were tempted to just say that was it for the academic year, but that brings huge problems if things aren't too bad and in 2 months lots of people are going back to work as normal.
And you also don't want to promise something like 15 days (or as the French call it 2 weeks) knowing that really you are going to be extending that time after time.
Sadiq should shut the tubes and bus down, can't think of a better breeding ground than that for the virus. Temporarily lift the congestion charge
Services will be reduced but I don't think it makes sense to shut them down completely.
Reducing bus and tube services increases passenger congestion, which defeats the purpose. Stopping altogether means people, including key workers like doctors and supermarket toilet roll shelf-stackers cannot get to work.
And is there much evidence Covid-19 is spread amongst commuters. It seems like it should be but do cases follow tube lines and bus routes? Have TfL scientists been taking samples to check?
When? After the kids have started their A-Levels? And A-Levels after they have started their degree courses? Award the certificates based on work to date and thus the predicted grade and move on. As a recruiting manager I don't really care what someone got in lower stages of education - GSCEs and A-Levsl are stepping stones.
I suggested earlier just reset the school year through the system so they all start again in September, crash building program for new year -1 and additional teachers. To include universities as well
Crash building for capacity? When I was a boy we just used portakabins.
In my school too. They were bloody awful.
Before we moved to Canterbury I went to a primary school in the suburbs of Reading and the portakabins used there were nicknamed "terrapins". I have no idea why.
Same here, a secondary school the badlands of Bucks. My understanding is that Terrapin was the supplier of prefabs.
A particular type of immediately post-war design, often used in schools.
Yeah, had them in my Reading-based schools up until the 1990s.
Not really. Certainly no more than any other generation in history. This really is an 'Act of God' which it would have been impossible or impractical to prepare for.
What's more, look at the incredible achievements in the response: from a standing start, the genetic sequence of the virus had been completely determined in weeks, and the information disseminated around the world, with candidate vaccines already in clinical trials or about to be.
Not much help in the immediate crisis, of course, but stunning all the same.
I think the sharing of data between countries is a real positive
Yes - and the very international nature of clinical trials. That will help us, fingers crossed, in the immediate crisis by providing better guidance on which drugs might work.
Not so convinced by this. Stem cell therapies are very difficult to get right (lots of v nasty side effects). More likely that repurposing of an existing drug will be the best - and some of those trials should report very soon.
EDit: Sorry block quotes have got infected. My comment is below
I heard on the German news that Macron has requisitioned/ordered lots of a anti-malarial drug as it is having good initial results. I have no more details than that.
When? After the kids have started their A-Levels? And A-Levels after they have started their degree courses? Award the certificates based on work to date and thus the predicted grade and move on. As a recruiting manager I don't really care what someone got in lower stages of education - GSCEs and A-Levsl are stepping stones.
I suggested earlier just reset the school year through the system so they all start again in September, crash building program for new year -1 and additional teachers. To include universities as well
It is hard to see how universities would be able to take undergraduates in September, anyway. They won't have completed their own core functions for existing UG/PG students.
They might not have done anyway, given the lecturers’ strike.
Reset the academic year to coincide with the calendar year ... ?
What sort of imbecile announces that exams are cancelled but refuses to explain what system he has put in place to replace them?
Twat.
He clearly hasn’t even spoken to Ofqual or the JCQ yet.
I am expecting to find my students in a panic tomorrow and I don’t blame them.
Because these things take time to organise but closing schools won't wait.
If he had announced the schools were closing but made no mention of exams you would have been screaming about that as well.
Basically you will never be satisfied by anything he says, which reflects far more on you than it does on the Government.
No I wouldn’t. I would have expected him to make a call on that later.
Then your students would have been in an even greater panic tomorrow. Schools closed but they might still have to take their exams? That would really have upset things.
This was literally the only thing they cold have done at this point. Delaying closing the schools would have been unconscionable, closing schools but making no comment on exams or saying they would still go ahead would be terrible.
They have closed the schools as lots of teachers were screaming for them to do and have said that no child will lose out because of missing exams. What else would you have them do?
You know, I was going to reply in detail, but it’s not worth it. You don’t understand and you don’t care, and you never will.
LOL. I do love it when teachers think they are the only ones who know anything about kids.
To use your earlier description.
Twat.
How many 16 year olds have you known in your life? Teachers may have taught thousands.
It ain’t worth the effort. Trust me. I’ve tried and I’ve failed. He’s just an unpleasant person.
On a serious point, I have been pondering how this could be worked if Himself does stick to the policy. A-level History and Geography I might manage with coursework. What about Physics? Could something be done with those controlled practicals you have to do?
Everyone who's ever been to school thinks themselves an expert on education (I do not except myself from this judgment)....
I don’t mind people thinking they’re experts on that when they’re not. We’re all guilty of that arrogance to some extent.
I do object to being roundly and repeatedly abused and told I know nothing about my own job by an oil rig worker and amateur archaeologist whose posts display a profound ignorance of the subject he thinks I don’t understand.
When? After the kids have started their A-Levels? And A-Levels after they have started their degree courses? Award the certificates based on work to date and thus the predicted grade and move on. As a recruiting manager I don't really care what someone got in lower stages of education - GSCEs and A-Levsl are stepping stones.
I suggested earlier just reset the school year through the system so they all start again in September, crash building program for new year -1 and additional teachers. To include universities as well
It is hard to see how universities would be able to take undergraduates in September, anyway. They won't have completed their own core functions for existing UG/PG students.
My job at the moment is to ensure my department delivers. Very busy few weeks getting everything moved to online submissions for coursework and robust online protocols for assessments.
When? After the kids have started their A-Levels? And A-Levels after they have started their degree courses? Award the certificates based on work to date and thus the predicted grade and move on. As a recruiting manager I don't really care what someone got in lower stages of education - GSCEs and A-Levsl are stepping stones.
I suggested earlier just reset the school year through the system so they all start again in September, crash building program for new year -1 and additional teachers. To include universities as well
It is hard to see how universities would be able to take undergraduates in September, anyway. They won't have completed their own core functions for existing UG/PG students.
Compulsory gap yaaaaaaaas...
Everyone qualifies early. They have to get the final year out the door - there won't be accommodation for them anyway.
On renters saying they will be protected from no fault evictions is spectacularly missing the point. They want protection from eviction for not paying the rent because they have lost their job due to govt shutting down the economy.
The Government has just put £300 billion into the economy so people don't have to lose their jobs
I am again getting pissed off at the media demanding absolutes. How long to the day will schooled be closed.
FFS, this is fast moving situation, nobody can truly be sure about anything. It is how the public react, if Boris Dad and Jezza get in their bloody homes and stay there, how lucky we get with respect to the NHS capacity, etc etc etc.
If HMG has cancelled exams that take place in the summer, then presumably schools will shut for months, not reopening till September and possibly not even then.
I am again getting pissed off at the media demanding absolutes. How long to the day will schooled be closed.
FFS, this is fast moving situation, nobody can truly be sure about anything. It is how the public react, if Boris Dad and Jezza get in their bloody homes and stay there, how lucky we get with respect to the NHS capacity, etc etc etc.
If HMG has cancelled exams that take place in the summer, then presumably schools will shut for months, not reopening till September and possibly not even then.
I think that is definitely the presumption, but (big but) if things don't turn out as bad as feared, we could end up with the opposite problem, loads of parents going back to work as normal and nowhere to leave the kids.
And then if he said, right we are re-opening them, it was be all about massive U-Turn, poor planning, etc.
On renters saying they will be protected from no fault evictions is spectacularly missing the point. They want protection from eviction for not paying the rent because they have lost their job due to govt shutting down the economy.
So as suspected not much for the underlings
I think it will come, the pressure will be inevitable but a complete lack of comprehension of life renting within the cabinet of multi millionaires shows they dont get it.
Is Boris Johnson seriously saying that he has no intention of changing the Brexit timescales?
Honestly...we might not have a fucking EU, and the fundamental role of the state may have changed in these months...
He just needs to deflect the question.....
Yep Its dumb. Both the question and the response.
They need to have it beaten into them IT DOESN'T MATTER.
It's such a dumb question to ask at this time- it just just creating division when we need to pull together....
Anything now is on the cards if Covid 19 carries on it's path of devastation ....that microbe is one hell of a plucky motherfucker...it's tough enough finding a home in a bat, never mind jumping into a pangolin...and living...and then remarkably jumping into a human's gob- and managing to get into the human's lungs still intact..and then thriving....and the more it thrives the more it knows...like the little fucker knew how to get into Bergamo from Wuhan. Who would've thought that? It fucking sussed out the Ryanair cheap flying slots to spread quickly around the world. Crazy but true.
And now the malicious twat has set it's sights full throttle on bringing down the global economy, of fucking up the financial system and bringing the whole thing down like a stack of dominoes.....the bastard isn't bothering with the fragile countries of Africa like it's distant cousin, Mr Ebola....small fry....no... Covid 19 is much more cunning..... this little shit is aiming for the jugular of global capitalism at a full speed of knots.... and I cannot see anything stopping it. Can you?
From a University admissions point of view, if we have to move to lockdown (which is clearly coming), the building blocks aren't in place for September entry, event without A level results.
Interviews for some courses e.g. teaching, nursing, midwifery haven't been completed, the Student Loans Company/Student Awards Agency for Scotland need to play their part etc etc.
The case for post qualification applications has been made quite clearly now.
On renters saying they will be protected from no fault evictions is spectacularly missing the point. They want protection from eviction for not paying the rent because they have lost their job due to govt shutting down the economy.
So as suspected not much for the underlings
I think it will come, the pressure will be inevitable but a complete lack of comprehension of life renting within the cabinet of multi millionaires shows they dont get it.
They have got non eviction for non payment of rent, what more do they want?
What sort of imbecile announces that exams are cancelled but refuses to explain what system he has put in place to replace them?
Twat.
He clearly hasn’t even spoken to Ofqual or the JCQ yet.
I am expecting to find my students in a panic tomorrow and I don’t blame them.
Because these things take time to organise but closing schools won't wait.
If he had announced the schools were closing but made no mention of exams you would have been screaming about that as well.
Basically you will never be satisfied by anything he says, which reflects far more on you than it does on the Government.
No I wouldn’t. I would have expected him to make a call on that later.
Then your students would have been in an even greater panic tomorrow. Schools closed but they might still have to take their exams? That would really have upset things.
This was literally the only thing they cold have done at this point. Delaying closing the schools would have been unconscionable, closing schools but making no comment on exams or saying they would still go ahead would be terrible.
They have closed the schools as lots of teachers were screaming for them to do and have said that no child will lose out because of missing exams. What else would you have them do?
You know, I was going to reply in detail, but it’s not worth it. You don’t understand and you don’t care, and you never will.
LOL. I do love it when teachers think they are the only ones who know anything about kids.
To use your earlier description.
Twat.
How many 16 year olds have you known in your life? Teachers may have taught thousands.
It ain’t worth the effort. Trust me. I’ve tried and I’ve failed. He’s just an unpleasant person.
On a serious point, I have been pondering how this could be worked if Himself does stick to the policy. A-level History and Geography I might manage with coursework. What about Physics? Could something be done with those controlled practicals you have to do?
Everyone who's ever been to school thinks themselves an expert on education (I do not except myself from this judgment)....
I don’t mind people thinking they’re experts on that when they’re not. We’re all guilty of that arrogance to some extent.
I do object to being roundly and repeatedly abused and told I know nothing about my own job by an oil rig worker and amateur archaeologist whose posts display a profound ignorance of the subject he thinks I don’t understand.
Fuck you you ignorant shit.
It is you with your fucking arrogance thinking you always know best who is at fault here. You have this attitude that no one except you can possibly know anything about students except you and the other teachers. You know more than parents, than families, than those of us who work with kids outside of school and more than even the kids know themselves.
Then you have the audacity to use that false omnipotence to attack the Government for not doing exactly what you want at exactly the time you want it.
You are a teacher. Not a fucking world expert on everything to do with our children. And certainly not an expert when it comes to making decisions affecting all of our lives.
On renters saying they will be protected from no fault evictions is spectacularly missing the point. They want protection from eviction for not paying the rent because they have lost their job due to govt shutting down the economy.
The Government has just put £300 billion into the economy so people don't have to lose their jobs
The issue is what does the local cafe do when it is shut down, do they continue to pay their staff to do nothing or does the owner pocket the money? That’s the situation in 1000s of businesses. A local initiative to harness this excess labour into food distribution, mask production etc would be ideal but I don’t see that happening. Just because £300B has been put in does not, as yet protect a single job without something to back it up.
On renters saying they will be protected from no fault evictions is spectacularly missing the point. They want protection from eviction for not paying the rent because they have lost their job due to govt shutting down the economy.
So as suspected not much for the underlings
I think it will come, the pressure will be inevitable but a complete lack of comprehension of life renting within the cabinet of multi millionaires shows they dont get it.
They have got non eviction for non payment of rent, what more do they want?
On renters saying they will be protected from no fault evictions is spectacularly missing the point. They want protection from eviction for not paying the rent because they have lost their job due to govt shutting down the economy.
The Government has just put £300 billion into the economy so people don't have to lose their jobs
The issue is what does the local cafe do when it is shut down, do they continue to pay their staff to do nothing or does the owner pocket the money? That’s the situation in 1000s of businesses. A local initiative to harness this excess labour into food distribution, mask production etc would be ideal but I don’t see that happening. Just because £300B has been put in does not, as yet protect a single job without something to back it up.
I would have assumed that the loans are tied to certain conditions. The first of which is you don't fire your staff.
I am again getting pissed off at the media demanding absolutes. How long to the day will schooled be closed.
FFS, this is fast moving situation, nobody can truly be sure about anything. It is how the public react, if Boris Dad and Jezza get in their bloody homes and stay there, how lucky we get with respect to the NHS capacity, etc etc etc.
If HMG has cancelled exams that take place in the summer, then presumably schools will shut for months, not reopening till September and possibly not even then.
Sturgeon said no guarantee that schools will reopen until after the Summer holidays. Been speaking to a couple of my teacher friends, and they say - privately - that schools will be reorganised into 'key worker' creches, and now that all exams have been cancelled, it's a case of managing this and resetting in the Autumn.
In my house, the news of school closures has been greeted by the younger members with a certain sombreness...
...akin to telling them that 'Santa has been' when they were about six...
On renters saying they will be protected from no fault evictions is spectacularly missing the point. They want protection from eviction for not paying the rent because they have lost their job due to govt shutting down the economy.
So as suspected not much for the underlings
I think it will come, the pressure will be inevitable but a complete lack of comprehension of life renting within the cabinet of multi millionaires shows they dont get it.
They have got non eviction for non payment of rent, what more do they want?
What sort of imbecile announces that exams are cancelled but refuses to explain what system he has put in place to replace them?
Twat.
He clearly hasn’t even spoken to Ofqual or the JCQ yet.
I am expecting to find my students in a panic tomorrow and I don’t blame them.
Because these things take time to organise but closing schools won't wait.
If he had announced the schools were closing but made no mention of exams you would have been screaming about that as well.
Basically you will never be satisfied by anything he says, which reflects far more on you than it does on the Government.
No I wouldn’t. I would have expected him to make a call on that later.
Then your students would have been in an even greater panic tomorrow. Schools closed but they might still have to take their exams? That would really have upset things.
This was literally the only thing they cold have done at this point. Delaying closing the schools would have been unconscionable, closing schools but making no comment on exams or saying they would still go ahead would be terrible.
They have closed the schools as lots of teachers were screaming for them to do and have said that no child will lose out because of missing exams. What else would you have them do?
You know, I was going to reply in detail, but it’s not worth it. You don’t understand and you don’t care, and you never will.
LOL. I do love it when teachers think they are the only ones who know anything about kids.
To use your earlier description.
Twat.
How many 16 year olds have you known in your life? Teachers may have taught thousands.
It ain’t worth the effort. Trust me. I’ve tried and I’ve failed. He’s just an unpleasant person.
On a serious point, I have been pondering how this could be worked if Himself does stick to the policy. A-level History and Geography I might manage with coursework. What about Physics? Could something be done with those controlled practicals you have to do?
Everyone who's ever been to school thinks themselves an expert on education (I do not except myself from this judgment)....
I don’t mind people thinking they’re experts on that when they’re not. We’re all guilty of that arrogance to some extent.
I do object to being roundly and repeatedly abused and told I know nothing about my own job by an oil rig worker and amateur archaeologist whose posts display a profound ignorance of the subject he thinks I don’t understand.
Fuck you you ignorant shit.
It is you with your fucking arrogance thinking you always know best who is at fault here. You have this attitude that no one except you can possibly know anything about students except you and the other teachers. You know more than parents, than families, than those of us who work with kids outside of school and more than even the kids know themselves.
Then you have the audacity to use that false omnipotence to attack the Government for not doing exactly what you want at exactly the time you want it.
You are a teacher. Not a fucking world expert on everything to do with our children. And certainly not an expert when it comes to making decisions affecting all of our lives.
On renters saying they will be protected from no fault evictions is spectacularly missing the point. They want protection from eviction for not paying the rent because they have lost their job due to govt shutting down the economy.
The Government has just put £300 billion into the economy so people don't have to lose their jobs
The issue is what does the local cafe do when it is shut down, do they continue to pay their staff to do nothing or does the owner pocket the money? That’s the situation in 1000s of businesses. A local initiative to harness this excess labour into food distribution, mask production etc would be ideal but I don’t see that happening. Just because £300B has been put in does not, as yet protect a single job without something to back it up.
Angela Merkel giving a national address at the moment.
Disappointing. No "amazing, fantastic, incredible, terrific, world leading, etc.".
... but "it is serious and it is in the open."
I thought it was a very good speech, even if the content was for us fairly predictable. The most interesting point was how difficult it is for her to close the borders, because she knows what it is like to like in a country with closed borders.
I wonder what pb will be like after 80 days self isolation on a boiling hot summers evening! The economy might yet be saved by an increased demand for moderators.
On renters saying they will be protected from no fault evictions is spectacularly missing the point. They want protection from eviction for not paying the rent because they have lost their job due to govt shutting down the economy.
The Government has just put £300 billion into the economy so people don't have to lose their jobs
No they have guaranteed loans to that amount so business owners dont lose their business. People are still being laid off
On renters saying they will be protected from no fault evictions is spectacularly missing the point. They want protection from eviction for not paying the rent because they have lost their job due to govt shutting down the economy.
So as suspected not much for the underlings
I think it will come, the pressure will be inevitable but a complete lack of comprehension of life renting within the cabinet of multi millionaires shows they dont get it.
They have got non eviction for non payment of rent, what more do they want?
On renters saying they will be protected from no fault evictions is spectacularly missing the point. They want protection from eviction for not paying the rent because they have lost their job due to govt shutting down the economy.
So as suspected not much for the underlings
I think it will come, the pressure will be inevitable but a complete lack of comprehension of life renting within the cabinet of multi millionaires shows they dont get it.
They have got non eviction for non payment of rent, what more do they want?
and who the hell is going to be taxed to pay for the rich people being bailed out again.....you and people like you are exactly why I refuse to vote tory
I wonder what pb will be like after 80 days self isolation on a boiling hot summers evening! The economy might yet be saved by an increased demand for moderators.
As long as SeanT doesn't start moonlighting as a mod...
On the other hand each debate is a once in a lifetime chance to raise the health issue at a time of national emergency for him. At the same time I wouldn't favour him staying in too much longer.
He's extracted some commitments from Biden on university tuition by staying in. Now he should extract some commitments on healthcare, and then pull out.
When? After the kids have started their A-Levels? And A-Levels after they have started their degree courses? Award the certificates based on work to date and thus the predicted grade and move on. As a recruiting manager I don't really care what someone got in lower stages of education - GSCEs and A-Levsl are stepping stones.
I suggested earlier just reset the school year through the system so they all start again in September, crash building program for new year -1 and additional teachers. To include universities as well
It is hard to see how universities would be able to take undergraduates in September, anyway. They won't have completed their own core functions for existing UG/PG students.
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They need to have it beaten into them IT DOESN'T MATTER.
To use your earlier description.
Twat.
Oh to be 9 or 10 now - 26 weeks holiday to look forward to!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8116881/Doctor-claims-breakthrough-stem-cell-injections-treat-coronavirus.html
The downside of HRH having succumbed would be endless Nicholas Witchell....
On a serious point, I have been pondering how this could be worked if Himself does stick to the policy. A-level History and Geography I might manage with coursework. What about Physics? Could something be done with those controlled practicals you have to do?
EDit: Sorry block quotes have got infected.
My comment is below
I heard on the German news that Macron has requisitioned/ordered lots of a anti-malarial drug as it is having good initial results. I have no more details than that.
Making it official will cut the number turning up considerably - and making the prevailing situation official is a good idea anyway.
My comment is below
I heard on the German news that Macron has requisitioned/ordered lots of a anti-malarial drug as it is having good initial results. I have no more details than that.
That’s chloroquinine, I think. Private sales of it in the Uk were banned a while back, and the NHS has commandeered what stocks there are.
They are pass/fail rather than graded.
The simplest (though probably not fairest) method is just to give everyone their UCAS prediction.
FFS, this is fast moving situation, nobody can truly be sure about anything. It is how the public react, if Boris' Dad and Jezza get in their bloody homes and stay there, how lucky we get with respect to the NHS capacity, etc etc etc.
I am sure they were tempted to just say that was it for the academic year, but that brings huge problems if things aren't too bad and in 2 months lots of people are going back to work as normal.
And you also don't want to promise something like 15 days (or as the French call it 2 weeks) knowing that really you are going to be extending that time after time.
And is there much evidence Covid-19 is spread amongst commuters. It seems like it should be but do cases follow tube lines and bus routes? Have TfL scientists been taking samples to check?
One of these days, he will actually be dead, and then you'll be sorry.
Yeah, had them in my Reading-based schools up until the 1990s.
My comment is below
I heard on the German news that Macron has requisitioned/ordered lots of a anti-malarial drug as it is having good initial results. I have no more details than that.
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2020/03/18/2226098/french-researcher-posts-successful-covid-19-drug-trial
https://terrapinmodularbuildings.wordpress.com/about-terrapin/
I do object to being roundly and repeatedly abused and told I know nothing about my own job by an oil rig worker and amateur archaeologist whose posts display a profound ignorance of the subject he thinks I don’t understand.
And then if he said, right we are re-opening them, it was be all about massive U-Turn, poor planning, etc.
Anything now is on the cards if Covid 19 carries on it's path of devastation ....that microbe is one hell of a plucky motherfucker...it's tough enough finding a home in a bat, never mind jumping into a pangolin...and living...and then remarkably jumping into a human's gob- and managing to get into the human's lungs still intact..and then thriving....and the more it thrives the more it knows...like the little fucker knew how to get into Bergamo from Wuhan. Who would've thought that? It fucking sussed out the Ryanair cheap flying slots to spread quickly around the world. Crazy but true.
And now the malicious twat has set it's sights full throttle on bringing down the global economy, of fucking up the financial system and bringing the whole thing down like a stack of dominoes.....the bastard isn't bothering with the fragile countries of Africa like it's distant cousin, Mr Ebola....small fry....no... Covid 19 is much more cunning..... this little shit is aiming for the jugular of global capitalism at a full speed of knots.... and I cannot see anything stopping it. Can you?
Interviews for some courses e.g. teaching, nursing, midwifery haven't been completed, the Student Loans Company/Student Awards Agency for Scotland need to play their part etc etc.
The case for post qualification applications has been made quite clearly now.
It is you with your fucking arrogance thinking you always know best who is at fault here. You have this attitude that no one except you can possibly know anything about students except you and the other teachers. You know more than parents, than families, than those of us who work with kids outside of school and more than even the kids know themselves.
Then you have the audacity to use that false omnipotence to attack the Government for not doing exactly what you want at exactly the time you want it.
You are a teacher. Not a fucking world expert on everything to do with our children. And certainly not an expert when it comes to making decisions affecting all of our lives.
Show some fucking humility for once.
In my house, the news of school closures has been greeted by the younger members with a certain sombreness...
...akin to telling them that 'Santa has been' when they were about six...
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All numbers are from the Wikipidia page and May not be total accurate.
Total Deligats: 3,979
Awarded so far: 2,224
Still To award: 1,755
Needed to win: 1,990 (on first round)
Bidden: 1,179
Sanders: 884
All others: 162
So to win they need
Bidden: 811
Sanders: 1,106
Which as a % of remaining deligaets
Biden: 46.2%
Sanders: 63.0%
In reality Biden could get as low as 37.1% of the remaining deligats and then go to the second round where the supper deligats may swing it for him.
largest % for Sanders so far:
Northern Marianas: 63% (caucus)
North Dakota: 53% (caucus)
Vermont: 51% (home state)
Idaho: 43%
Navarro 40% (caucus)
Colorado 37%
I don't think this is new to anybody on here, but as I was calculating for myself thought I would share
I thought it was a very good speech, even if the content was for us fairly predictable.
The most interesting point was how difficult it is for her to close the borders, because she knows what it is like to like in a country with closed borders.
The maths is impossible for Sanders now, but he'll hang on until the bitter end and waste everyone's time I imagine.
Equally posted without comment, we should not just have one rule for Richard while leftwing PBers get off with abuse
He's extracted some commitments from Biden on university tuition by staying in. Now he should extract some commitments on healthcare, and then pull out.
Spoiler: people have already lost their jobs