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A Question for Acting Prime Minister Santia Bradshaw

Submitted by SirFuzzy Will the MOEd [Ministry of Education] be forced to consider having a staggered teaching arrangement if the covid-19 induced realities still swamp us at the beginning of a new academic year in September 2020″? I believe that secondary school may adapt to the stay-at-home- distance education model far easier as you have…

Submitted by SirFuzzy

Will the MOEd [Ministry of Education] be forced to consider having a staggered teaching arrangement if the covid-19 induced realities still swamp us at the beginning of a new academic year in September 2020″?

I believe that secondary school may adapt to the stay-at-home- distance education model far easier as you have young school children that can “fend for themselves” far better than the 5 – to ten-year-old age group found in the primary school.

I guess many of us are praying for a quick vaccine. To return us to the “bad normal” we called acceptable pre-covid19. Now, I have not been to the primary school classroom in aeons. I know that when I was in a primary school in the 1970’s the seating arrangement(s) did not allow for the 2M/6ft distance that is mandated now. So if we are to stick to that social distancing requirement, the average primary school will have far less classroom capacity.

I don’t see the government being able to build new primary schools any time soon, therefore, maybe we can make use of some of the disused government buildings to provide schooling? The abandoned secondary school building(s) in White Park road will be a good candidate; of course after a thorough industrial cleaning occurs.

That campus may absorb some of the pupils that can no longer fit into the classrooms island wide. However, using widely distributed disused gov’t buildings may present a transportation issue for some parents. So let keep the pupils in the same school that they were assigned and the parents know how to get to them etc.

IMO, the better solution is to have a shift system that allows for the primary school to have some pupils starting school at different times. This staggered approach should allow the classroom size to be smaller as few pupils should be on the campus. This will require a lot of planning and also consultation with the teachers’ union, but I think it a step worth exploring. If it is feasible and doable at the primary school level where I think it is most necessary, then some consideration can be given to it happening at the secondary school level at the specific school(s) that it fits best.

Discuss for 100 marks.

62 responses to “A Question for Acting Prime Minister Santia Bradshaw”

  1. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    My own question for our acting PM

    Dear Ms. Bradshaw, Please watch the two videos linked below and after consulting with your Minister of Health and the BAMP answer the following:

    If a 70 year old patient with a heart condition (for example) were to be infected with Coronavirus and knowing that aged patient with heart disease patient stood a substantially increased risk of death from the Coronavirus would our local doctors, at the patient’s or next of kin’s request (were the patient not be in a position to give consent), be allowed to request our local doctors try alternative, non-pharmaceutical approaches to treat the patient like high-dose Vitamin C by IV or Ozone Therapy as recommended by integrative medical practitioners? If not, why not?

    (I understand that the drug Choloroquine which has received some favourable reports as a treatment for Covid-19 is not recommended for patients with heart disease related complications as it presents a very high risk of severe side effects.)

    A panel of Doctors report from Thailand, US, and China on clinical trials and treatments of COVID-19
    A panel of international integrative physicians reporting from Thailand, US, and China on clinical trials and treatments of COVID-19 with high doses IV vitamin C.
    (Nemos News Network – With John Michael Chambers, Lior Sher, Dr. Thomas Lodi, MD – Thailand, Dr. Nathan Goodyear, MD – US, and Dr. Richard Z. Cheng MD – China)

    https://youtu.be/I7DjZU4M78c

    Journal of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology
    A Plausible “Penny” Costing Effective Treatment for Corona
    Virus – Ozone Therapy.

    clinmedjournals(DOT)org/articles/jide/journal-of-infectious-diseases-and-epidemiology-jide-6-113.php?jid=jide

    Robert Jay Rowen, MD,* and Howard Robins, DPM
    Rowen and Robins. J Infect Dis Epidemiol 2020, 6:113
    DOI: 10.23937/2474-3658/1510113
    Volume 6 | Issue 2
    A very inexpensive, essentially 100% safe, and apparently Ebola effective therapy should tame coronavirus due to a common denominator in most viruses. Oxidize them, then they simply become inactive or even better – destroyed.

    youtube(DOT)com/watch?v=JYIBFnGWeEM

  2. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Do we have post mortems on people who die from, or are suspected to have died from, coronavirus?

  3. SirFuzzy (Former Sheep) Avatar
    SirFuzzy (Former Sheep)

    I really have not heard many persons talk about primary schools, and how we are to get them up and serving the primary school population if in September 2020 covid19 is still strong among us.
    I accept that the unions will play a big part, but dire times may require dire solutions. The unions will know what they have to do if they want to be part of a solution.

  4. Observing Avatar
    Observing

    @Sir Fuzzy
    Has any of the teachers’ unions ever been “part of the solution?”

    @Hal
    agreed re. the DLP

    @David
    20 years ago a poorly conceptualized and politicized Eductech was in full swing with horrible implementation and zero strategy for continuity and long term sustainability
    .
    There have been minimal if any real lasting benefits from that project (400+ thousand dollars back in the day)

    Now here we are here with no “opening date” no “online policies” no guidance, direction or specific announcements relating to education or schools all the while a bucketful of teachers, students and families are falling through the cracks or being left behind as a result. But hey, “we got dis”

    Madame Bradshaw should NOT be holding the education portfolio at the same time as being Acting Prime Minister during this crisis. Complete dedicated attention is required in key areas (labour, education, health, welfare, economic affairs) if we are to come out of this with a society intact.

    Just observing

  5. David Avatar
    David

    @Observing

    As usual horrific and terrific insight.

    Stay safe!

    >

  6. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    “…What the ministry can focus on is getting the teachers that home sitting down doing nothing while still drawing a salary to prepare content for the subjects and year levels they currently teach for publishing to an e-learning platform freely accessible to all students…”

    heheheheheheheheh

    You definitely is a teacher!!!

    Doan really matter all de fancy talk if dere is not curriculum Crapau smoke we pipe!!!

  7. Piece the Legend Avatar
    Piece the Legend

    “16. Did anyone consider the risks and the legitimate objection of teachers to inviting students and parents into their homes and vice versa using the Google Meets platform?”

    The platforms are invasive if

    A.you let them be
    B.you dont know what to do and
    C.if your software and curriculum are not designed properly

  8. David Avatar
    David

    Listening to the Mayor of Atlanta and a few others yesterday discussing plans to reopen the economy, he listed many of the same problems we have been discussing here about Barbados.

  9. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    When is the BLP going to publish the commissioned report by Sir Keith Hunte on racial harmony in Barbados? It was written and published, so why has the press not got hold of a copy and published it? Was it too damning?

  10. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Hal
    You can’t be serious! We don’t touch subjects such as race and labour exploitation in Barbados.
    Why do you think that Barrow passed the Public Order Act in 1974?
    Why do you think people hide behind pseudonyms?
    I will tell you this straight up. I wrote a letter to the Nation about two or so years castigating Cow Williams. I received about thirty five calls; over a hundred emails , telling me how somebody needed to tell off Cow ever since. All of those people were living in Barbados. Not one took up their pen !
    Right now on this blog, we all talking about post COVID-19 . We are all on what the government should and should not do. Nothing about the parasitical corporate sector. Ask yourself why.
    Rihanna a “little poor black girl from down in the city “makes it big and starts serious philanthropic work. Ask yourself how come whites, Indians and others who have made billions out of this country don’t seriously give back unless there is a hurricane or such calamity and it has to be all over the papers.
    Well my Brother if we do frighten to even put we names to something we write, you really think that we gine seriously discuss race relations or ask how in 2020 black workers making $125US per week.
    Go figure.

  11. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    Hear from doctors and academics around the world on the success of Vitamin C for treating patients infected by the virus in this current pandemic. They explain when and how Vitamin C should be used in ICU units and why it is Vitamin C’s role in managing an immune response that is so key.

    https://youtu.be/dhAjq-4At0g

  12. GreenMonkey Avatar
    GreenMonkey

    PharmaNutrition
    Volume 12, June 2020, 100190
    Intravenous vitamin C for reduction of cytokines storm in acute respiratory distress syndrome
    Author lAlbertoBoretti, Bimal KrishnaBanik

    Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, P.O. Box 1664, Al Khobar, 31952, Saudi Arabia

    Received 31 March 2020, Revised 5 April 2020, Accepted 6 April 2020, Available online 21 April 2020.

    Introduction.

    (1st paragraph snipped for brevity)

    In China, the death rate was peaked at 3% a few weeks ago but is now declined to 0.7 %. Good results are obtained using Interferon Alpha 2B (IFNrec) without any combination with Kaletra. The use of Intravenous (IV) Vitamin C (Vit-C) has shown promise in this area in China. The IV Vit-C (or Ascorbic acid) protocols are mentioned in clinicaltrials.gov, for Covid19 and other pathologies. Shanghai now utilizes IV Vit-C in the treatment for Covid-19. Many physicians in China have identified promising results using IV Vit-C against Covid19. Thus, there is a need to urgently review the uses of IV Vit-C, pre- and post-infection, and during different stages of the infection. IV Vit-C is helping to develop a stronger immune system response, reducing the cytokines storm, or increasing antiviral activities through other unknown mechanisms.

    Perhaps, the reduction of the cytokines storm in the late stages of the Covid19 infection is the most significant application of IV Vit-C. Covid19 pneumonia is a complex medical disorder with high morbidity and mortality rate. This causes severe lung injury that results in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), a life-threatening lung disorder. This process prevents the necessary oxygen to enter into the lungs and ultimately causes death. Coronaviruses increase oxidative stress that promotes cellular malfunction and ultimately results in organ failure. It is believed that pulmonary failure (ARDS) is the principal cause of Covid19′s action on humans. This helps to increase oxidative stress considerably because of the generation of free radicals and cytokines. This process finally leads to serious cellular injury, organ failure and death. The administration of anti-oxidizing agents along with proven conventional supportive therapies is believed to have an important role in controlling these medical situations. Appropriate vaccines and antiviral drugs for the Covid19 epidemic are not available. IV Vitamin C and other antioxidants are extremely good agents for ARDS. These can be applied clinically. Importantly, high dose IV Vit-C is safe and effective. In this paper, we review the use of high-dose Vit-C as an efficient method of treatment for patients with cancers and infections.

    The antiviral properties of Vit-C help to reduce symptoms and mortality in children and adults [[1], [2], [3], [4]]. The antiviral activities of ascorbic acid was known and it was published almost 80 years ago [[5], [6], [7], [8], [9]] when scientists were involved in work on poliomyelitis. Moreover, the use of ascorbic acid as a medicinally crucial agent against various diseases was also well established [[10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21]]. Applications of Vit-C are found in poliomyelitis [[22], [23], [24], [25], [26]]. Many other uses of Vit-C include hepatitis, herpes, chickenpox and measles, infectious mononucleosis, trichinosis, urethritis, Antabuse, arthritis, and cancer. Vit-C is also helpful for the treatment of elevated cholesterol and arteriosclerosis, [[27], [28], [29], [30], [31], [32]], corneal ulcers, glaucoma, burns, heatstroke, sunburn, slipped disc, toxins, and heavy metal poisonings [[33], [34], [35]]. The appropriate clinically effective vaccines and specific antivirals may serve effectively if they are available. Considering the current situation, the use of Vit-C as an antiviral agent should also be considered. Notably, Vit-C can be used alone or in combination with other available medicines to exert positive synergistic effects. Here we review the principal mechanism of actions of IV Vit-C that helps to make the immune system stronger, reduces the cytokines storm and inhibits oxidative processes. Under the first criteria, literature knowledge on cancer treatment will be reviewed first. Then, the antiviral properties will be reviewed, with focusing on the reduction of the oxidative pathways typical of the Covid19 ARDS

    Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213434420300153?fbclid=IwAR1jOSLX-sgH5jbJCtMcRUCaBhEOkevGMsHfGp3oFEFXq5yANm9uRS9ZkCY

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