AIBU NOT TO SEND MY child to school where 19 children and 4 teachers have been sent home

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What would you do ??

I wouldn’t send him in

@UtterlyPerfectCartoonGiraffe the OP asked for OPINIONS
That was MINE
I don't really care if you find it helpful or not you sarcastic woman.

Always one spouting bollocks. It isn’t flu. It’s just called flu. Spout that crap to the formerly healthy dead people and their families. There are people on this thread, who aren’t fit and healthy. Including me. So insulting.

What now?! So it’s not flu, but it’s called flu? Why the hell would they call something that’s not a flu, a flu? 🙄🤪🤪 that’s like calling measles a cold.

Covid-19 is an influenza strain. It’s flu. It’s a tough one, but if you’re healthy, you’ll be fine. It’s mostly killed the elderly and people with underlying conditions.

We had four schools in our area come back from skiing in Italy this weekend. Only one has told those involved to stay at home for 14 days. The other schools have said all children should attend.

An office in Canary Wharf sends employees home as a staff member went skiing to Italy (has cold type symptoms) yet schools are now being advised to stay open unless symptoms appear.

DS went skiing in Italy returning late Sat but the school hasn't spoken to any of them re hygeine etc. or told parents which route the coach took from North Italy to Verona.

@GrannysBat Please get your facts right. Covid-19 is not a strain of influenza. It is a strain of coronavirus. They are completely different.

So it's not flu. Not even a tough one

@WhentheRabbitsWentWild

Why are you so rude? Have you noticed most people don’t talk like this? And why are you angry about my opinion of your opinion if we’re allowed to give opinions then? Are you ok? Do you need a lie down?

It is most definitely not a type of flu, it comes from a different variety of viruses entirely.

It shares some symptoms with influenza and it may ultimately turn out to have a similar case fatality rate but we do not know yet. On the current evidence it is several orders of magnitude more deadly than the flu. There may of course be many unreported asymptomatic cases which would bring this down.

*The Foreign Office has now updated its travel advice, warning against all but essential travel to 11 quarantined towns in Italy.

The government said anyone returning from those towns must self-isolate.

And those who have travelled north of Pisa are asked to stay at home for 14 days if they develop flu-like symptoms.*

From latest BBC report. I think follow the guidelines. We can't all self isolate at the drop of a hat. Isolate if that's what's recommended. But in this case, it's not.

Assuming most have been sent home because they’ve been to affected areas, not that they’ve been diagnosed.

We’re still only at eight confirmed cases in the UK, but tbh all this self isolation is causing mass hysteria which, while people need to be a bit vijilent is totally OTT.

There are children in my DS’ school who have been sent home because they have been to certain areas. but none have been diagnosed with Coronavirus so there’s absolutely no way I am keeping DS home.

And I’m assuming that a child having to self isolate means that child’s parents then also have to self isolate.

It’s not going to be the virus which brings the country to a halt, it’s going to be the hysteria which for the most part is unnecessary.

And I speak as someone who is in an at-risk group.

@GrannysBat you really ought to stop digging that hole. And also stop dispensing your sage advice until you understand what covid 19 is.

You are categorically wrong to say it’s the flu, or like the flu. It’s a different virus family.

Just because it shares some symptoms with the flu doesn’t mean it’s the same thing. You can also have shortness of breath due to lung cancer, but you wouldn’t say they’re the same thing, would you?

Depends on level of risk in the country they have been to, presumably over half term.

My sons school has sent home a teacher who has been to one of the lower risk ones so school is open as usual.

Thank you to most of you for your valid opinions @WhentheRabbitsWentWild other people are not deciding for me I asked what people would do bit ultimately I made the final decision thank you ps my mum always taught me of I didn't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all.!!!!

Regular flu kills more people than covid-19. It’s not a killer virus, like Ebola. Some people are getting mild reactions. Stop the scare mongering.

The key takeaways for me is just how deadly flu is! And worse - per the NHS - the majority of cases don’t have symptoms. WTAF!!!

Regular flu kills more people than covid-19.

Whilst that is absolutely true, the transmission rate is higher (somewhere between 1.5 and 3.5 for Covid19, compared to 1.2 for seasonal flu) and the mortality rate is also higher (seasonal flu has a mortality rate of less than 0.1% apparently, compared to around 2% for Covid19. So the point is it COULD be significantly worse, if efforts to contain it fail.

If I hear one more comparison to flu, I think I'll flounce off mumsnet.

As mentioned upthread my son's school has remained open with nobody going home.

Yet another local school whose children went to the same resort has sent staff and children home who reported feeling unwell.

Our school were already blase about the group going to a hotel in the news with children catching Noro just two days previously (then half our group.got it)

The head's said nothing to the parents of children who went.
Should I be pressing for more knowing the other school has ill children from the same resort?
It's been 4/5 days since he returned.

I would send them in. I imagine the risk is minimal.

Thanks - I think I'm only a bit nervous as his brother has asthma and suffers terribly when he gets colds etc.

I had SARS (another coronavirus). I remember feeling like I had a chest infection, then suddenly, on the day I was admitted, I was vomiting constantly. There was pain all over me. I couldn't lie down. I couldn't sit up. My skin was sore to touch. It was painful to cough. It was painful to breathe. I eventually got faint a few times and my vision started to go. My then BF called an ambulance. I got worse and worse and worse and worse and worse. After 3 hours, the ambulance hadn't arrived so he called again, and an ambulance arrived an hour later.
They brought me down to the ambulance, a little blase about me. When they did obs on me, my blood sugar was 2.8. My BP was 60/40, my HR was almost non existent. They immediately bluelighted me to hospital. They said that with my obs, they'd never actually seen anyone conscious. I started to cry in the ambulance with the sirens.
Got to resus and they couldn't get my bp up. They administered drips and drugs through the iv line to get it up, but it kept steady at about 60/40. They couldn't get a line into me. On the 6th attempt (after the 5th attempt being a surgeon who said - FUCK THIS and stormed off), they got one in somewhere. The rest is a blur of surgeons shouting about lines into my groin and into my neck (two docs had an argument about that). I was in pain and struggling to breathe, though hospital treated me for the pain and I was on oxygen. That's the last I remember.
I woke up 2 weeks later.
I had gone into a coma and developed pneumonia. My organs then all started to fail. My family were called in as I was presumed to be close to death.
I survived by the skin of my teeth.
I was raving for the first 2 days or so. I couldn't walk for a week.
I was released after a week after coming out of the coma. So 3 weeks total in hospital.

THAT IS CORONAVIRUS. THAT IS NOT THE FUCKING FLU.

It's scary but I find the amount of panic unnecessary, more people die and get really poorly off the flu each year ! It's crazy how many schools have been to Italy I'm in north east and there has been quite a few sent home from school around here but it's just because they've passed through, not because they've shown symptoms so I would still send him x

And worse - per the NHS - the majority of cases don’t have symptoms. WTAF!!!

the man who infected all those people in France didn’t even have any symptoms. So you might be carrying it and passing it on without knowing.

I admit I was wrong it’s not flu. But it’s a corona virus, which can cause respiratory problems like MERS or SARS. And for a big healthy chunk of the world, they might get it and recover fine. The scare mongering needs to stop. Stop reading stupid newspapers.

@Skierrdery what a truly horrible experience for you and family

I think they must have put a line into my neck and groin as I had bandages on my groin and my neck. Apparently they had about 6 drips going into me at any one time while I was in ICU. I could just as easily have come a cropper.

It's not 'just the flu'. For some people maybe, but for others it's a horrific illness. Well I can only speak about SARS.