Deja Vu ?

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Xmasdemon · 04/12/2025 13:44

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39p0krjvego.amp

The front of a school building with a mix of facades - some wooden slatted with large windows and some stone and brick - and a driveway leading up to it. There are blue bollards directly in front of a brown reception area. A sign at the entrance reads...

Congleton High School shuts for deep clean after pupil sickness

Congleton High School wrote to staff and parents to inform them of the closure.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39p0krjvego.amp

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ShesTheAlbatross · 04/12/2025 14:15

Xmasdemon · 04/12/2025 14:06

@JacquesHarlow I am just genuinely curious as to whether we need to worry about another pandemic

But there’s no suggestions these children have any more significant than a bad (but bog-standard) flu.

Obviously at some point there will be another pandemic, probably bird flu. But there’s literally no reason to think this school is a worrying warning sign of imminent disaster.

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Xmasdemon · 04/12/2025 14:15

@DisplayPurposesOnly there is an article on BBC where a doctor says this is the worst flu season she has witnessed since she started in 2010

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4q5g2ww55o

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DisplayPurposesOnly · 04/12/2025 14:13

I loathe scaremongering posts like this.

It's been said many times that this is a bad year for flu (there's an article on the BBC news website today) so i doubt it's anything more than that.

JoshLymanSwagger · 04/12/2025 14:11

@Xmasdemon The school shut for a couple of days last week. They have loads of "flu" type cases.
I doubt very much there's a new "Congleton" strain of Covid knocking around.

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Xmasdemon · 04/12/2025 14:06

@JacquesHarlow I am just genuinely curious as to whether we need to worry about another pandemic

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JoshLymanSwagger · 04/12/2025 14:05

Not again! 🤦🏻‍♀️

JacquesHarlow · 04/12/2025 14:02

I'm sorry to react harshly @Xmasdemon but I really don't like the way this has been posted.

What do you expect the school to do in this case? Do you think they should just do nothing and let pupils get sick and suffer?

Are you trying to intimate that we're going back to the "bad old days of COVID' to whip up the usual froth on here about children's mental health and "let them catch a cold" etc?

YABVU.

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