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Originally Posted by Osem
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Hospital deep cleaning isn't new. It's actually a necessary part of hospital maintenance (every time a ward is refurbished, for instance, it needs to be deep cleaned before it can be opened again.
Problems occur when people try to do it on the cheap (even if the trusts don't, the contractors do).
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How's it going to work in practical terms? Is everyone who enters the affected schools really going to be scanned each time they do so? If so, surely that's a recipe for some very long delays getting in every morning. At my eldest's school the children have to pass from one school building to another in between lessons. Unless they're scanned each time they do so, what's to stop anyone who's so inclined to hide a knife in the grounds and take it in later or simply pass one to a friend through an open window? Who's going to be manning the scanners and tasked with the unenviable job of sorting out whether the kid in front of them is really tooled up or has a pocketful of keys or change?
How many people are stabbed in/just outside schools anyway? I can't recall many examples to be honest as compared to all those which have happened on public transport, in parks, outisde pubs/clubs/off licences or just in the streets. Maybe what we really need is a concerted effort to change the appalling youth culture which seems to have developed in recent times.
I can't help feeling that if the Government was as good at thinking things through as they are at chucking away taxpayers money we'd all be a lot better off.
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Like a lot of things our government does, the sole idea behind it appears to be to enable the government to appear to be doing something about a problem.
Like their silly reaction a couple of years ago to the terrorist bombings. The government planned to introduce aircraft style passenger (and, IIRC, baggage) screening to the London Underground. An idea that, thankfully, appears to have been forgotton about on the basis that the underground carries many more people each day than all the airports combined, and the resulting delays would paralyse London.