As a Key worker- dilemma re school situation

the government have got the message wrong entirely.

they said if you can’t work from home go to work (but do it safely)

they should be saying if you aren’t a key worker you absolute must stay at home, irrespective of wether you can do your work at home or not.

hence the construction industry balls up

 

some do. Some don’t. I had to tell some construction lads to carry on working on some flash apartments in central London today as they can’t work from home and are designated essential workers by their employer.[/QUOTE]

Government have put this in the hands of the employers to decide though. It's a tough call I do understand the need to keep the economy going in some state if we can.
I think its reasonable to assume it was also known that the "lockdown" wouldn't be fully successful and that the virus will continue to spread the goal is to slow it as much as possible.

 

Half a million new benefit claims this week.

so let’s have a whinge that the civil servants dealing with that are ‘fake key workers’.

 

that’s a political choice that could have been easily avoided by paying a UBI. The political choice to push millions through a system designed to denigrate and destroy lives not help them.

 

Who’d have paid the UBI, how?

More to the point, how long do you think it’d take to create a secure system for paying one.

Oh yeah; back to that army of schroedingers civil servants (pretending to be working at home twiddling their thumbs whilst simultaneously filling up the trains as false key workers)

I’ve come to the conclusion you’re argumentative rather than wanting to actually defend your original nonsense position.