To expect people ill with Covid stay home?

Why? Doesn't their health matter?

Keep an FFP3 in your bag and then you can pop it on and reduce your risk of infection.

@mumatlast14 What experience do you have of working with children with significant SEND needs? If you did you would understand re mask wearing but please see the other poster's detailed response for clarification.
Government guidance at the height of Covid ruled out mask-wearing for teachers, and that was in mainstream settings!!!

This

Plenty. What experience do you have with working with clinically vulnerable and those suffering long covid? If you did you'd realise its important to find ways to protect everyone's health by using a variety of tools to do so.

@mumatlast14 OK. So how would these YP respond to an authority figure coming into their home wearing a mask covering do you suppose?

In response to your edited comment re gov guidance and schools - they didn't have all the facts then. We now know the damage covid causes. See Long Covid Kids for full details. But yeah, let's just continue to disable our young people and increase our benefits cost/demand as those young people grow into adults too ill to work.

@ExpectMore Says the woman who has "help" for her own children when taking 6 weeks off work!!! 😄
I will continue to be "greedy" and work in order to pay my rent
Get back to your kids, maybe?

We been told to wear masks if we have a cold. I've booked my flu and covid jab for next week.

@mumatlast14
So teachers should wear masks now?
And you won't send your child to school with a cold?

Have you answered this?

Well firstly you would have a conversation and explain. Secondly its not EVERY time - its if you or they are ill. Or you could meet outside, make sure ventilation is suitable. Its about education - the more we normalise it the better. No one says it will be perfect EVERY time but doing nothing changes nothing. If you hospitalised a client due to your infection would you care? If a client asks you to mask would you?

If ill then yes.

I get that but it’s still someone’s health and life at the end of the day. There’s no price can be put on that.

Surely most people couldn’t voluntarily bring themselves to kill someone for the sake of £75 independent of how much they have or don’t have. It’s conceptually the same situation, the action (knowingly spreading germs to vulnerable parties) just different and I think that difference disconnects people and makes it feel “less real”.

This makes sense.

I know and that is where it also needs to change. So employers need to have a look at their sickness policy and think of the greater good. Won’t happen I guess.

I have huge sympathy for those with strict workplace sickness policies who can’t take much time off when sick.

For me, I am more talking about those that could WFH but choose not to.

Or those that go to the gym/exercise classes when it wouldn’t kill then to miss a class. Or those that choose to visit relatives with illness when it would be so easy to reschedule.

Personally now for me - because I have experience with long Covid and know what damage Covid does - I just want that knowledge so I can choose to avoid sick people where possible. So if a friend has a cold and I’m
sharing a car - give me a heads up as I’m aware sharing a confined space with no air is a huge transmission risk.
whereas a large space is not. So I won’t share the car.

If I have visitors - tell me you’re ill and we’ll reschedule because again being in close contact is a high transmission risk.

Yes, I do agree with this.

This is true. It’s completely normal behaviour in Japan. We just need to make some changes to our behaviour to normalise not spreading round illness so easily.

@Tryonemoretimethat is so encouraging to hear because many days Long Covid feels like a death sentence.

P.s
The 2 people arguing on here are getting very tedious. Can uou pm each other or something? You've totally derailed the thread.
Just piss off and be very glad you don't have Long Covid!

At one point, I was so ill with LC that I told my husband it was going to kill me. And I don't know if it helped the recovery, but I started to take a strong biotic called Your Gut Plus. No links to the company.

@ExpectMore Well, as mummy who has lost, I imagine I feel this more keenly but...
I find it desperately sad (for both you and your children) that you have the absolute privilege of 6 weeks' off to spend time with your very young children, as well as home help so you "don't have to worry about life admin" but yet here you are, on MN for the second day in a row, frequently putting down those of us who work our arses off to make ends meet.
Would I want to be able to spend time with my babies? Absolutely.
Would I want to be you? Absolutely not.

@mumatlast14 Except that "meeting outside" possibly isn't going to work for a YP with severe anxiety and/or agoraphobia???