Keep schools open, vaccinate all teachers!

Running a country must be overwhelmingly challenging these days but sometimes you get the impression with this wretched covid-19 pandemic that the virus is always one step ahead and just when you catch it up it changes direction. So Boris Johnson for example comes on television to make a nationwide announcement and informs us what he plans to do to grab the virus in his hands before it leaps beyond reach. But the virus is always too far ahead. That's the situation now. Boris is expected to announce another lockdown tonight which means schools closing, businesses closing, everything closing and all of us sent into hibernation. That's all negative negative negative. But sometimes the hardest decisions need to be looked at in the simplest terms. Yesterday Boris desperately wanted kids to go back to school today becauae he said that was best for them and that the risk of getting the infection in schools was very small. A few hours later it's all woe woe woe because the new variant of the virus is racing away beyond anyone's grasp. Surely it doesn't require a lot of brain cells to see the solution in front of your eyes. The one great development is that there are now two vaccines authorised for use in the UK. So for heaven's sake vaccinate all teachers to keep schools open and vaccinate all doctors to keep hospitals running with full staffing levels. All the media focus is on this 90-year-old or that 90-year-old rolling up his his/her sleeve to get the first vaccine. But teachers and doctors are trying to carry on and get no vaccine jabs. It seriously makes no sense. Don't close all schools, Boris. Just line up the teachers now and give them the vaccine. It's that simple.