is that the number of cases will go up, and it might falla bit is that the number of cases will go up, and it might fall a bit over half term, fingers crossed cases do fall because the children are in school but then that is the pattern last autumn. it fell at half term but then started rising again and was rising very fast amongst secondary school students in particular and then amongst primary school pupils, as well, so both of them going up, that leads to more children being off school and it will lead to more staff contracting the virus, not being seriously damaged by it, in the vast majority of cases, but still having to stay off. it is now clear there is more long covid, cases are highest amongst educational staff in any of the occupations we are now seeing, and long covid also being a threat so the government should be acting to try and stop cases being that high. following the scottish government on what happens if your brother or sister test is positive, but you should stay—at—home until