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 ??

Thanks for thinking of me Flissity. I think it was probably harder for my family than for me as I was in a coma. But please don't think that some of us are being hysterical for not wanting to get the damned thing.

Just for the sake of quarantine, I don't want my area to be affected. Let alone actually getting it.

I feel for the people on the cruise ship and in Lanzarote. A couple were interviewed this morning on ITV and they don't know how long they'll be quarantined for. But they're all mingling within the hotel!

That’s the problem - they are all mixing together 😧
It’s not comparable to flu as we have a yearly flu vaccine. I’m 7mnths pregnant and have 2 DD’s. I also don’t want my elderly family members getting it!

I know - they're being quarantined, but they're sharing buffets together (they've no choice) and some are sunbathing etc. Then again, on the Diamond Princess they were all confined to their cabins but it didn't contain the spread. I think last figures were 20% had contracted it.

We're hearing numbers of people who have it, who have survived, who have died. What we're not hearing is anyone yet who has actually ended up in ICU to say what their experience of it was. I'm pretty damn sure it's not a case of you feeling like you've a sniffle on a Monday and ending in ICU of a Tuesday!

@WhentheRabbitsWentWild
@Worraloadabollox,

I'm sure you realise that we were surrounded by more SAHMs and Nan's, who would be happy to give advice and often without it being asked for. Everyone had an opinion on how you should be looking after your child and would freely voice it. Families were bigger so that meant more experience of childhood ailments. School wasn't as serious as it is now, with ongoing course work, so keeping a child off was less of a dilemma.

OP your DS is in the at risk group, so you're best keeping him off, as you have decided.

I see the Pope has cancelled an appointment today after becoming unwell.

@Skierrdery that’s scary to read. Thank goodness you got though it to tell the tale. That’s terrifying.

@Zaza1414. Hi Zara, a child in my son’s school returned from a holiday in northern Italy and attended school for 2 days before self quarantining. My son had contact with this child. If my child gets sick, Will the GP not see him??

Janice88 I think the advice is to ring 111 and outline the situation and they will give you instructions on how to proceed. This is to prevent people with the potential of having the virus from infecting those in the high risk groups by going to a GP surgery/A&E.

@frumpety thanks. I’ll do that

I think a lot of the problem lies with official guidance , which the school will have followed , so Ski trip returns on say Saturday, kids return to school and official guidance changes on Tuesday morning, so school then react accordingly, after the pupils and teachers have been in the school for a day and a half.
It would appear from the data that children don't seem to be falling foul of this illness quite like adults, so hopefully that is reassuring a bit. Do you know if the people who have returned are being tested OP ? And if they are, how long it will be before they are given the all clear ?

What we're not hearing is anyone yet who has actually ended up in ICU to say what their experience of it was.

Exactly. Why not?

It would appear from the data that children don't seem to be falling foul of this illness
Where is the data for this?

All we're hearing about are deaths. We're not hearing an age breakdown of people with it, nor how severely unwell they are becoming.

Sorry Skierrdery data was probably the wrong word to use, but from the information that has been on the news so far, it would appear that those most affected are older people with co-morbidities , which is obviously what you would expect with any outbreak of any illness. People who have tested positive have remained with their children and those children have suffered no ill effects.
Sounds like you had a hellish experience with SARS

The only stories I've heard on the news is the age of the deceased.

People who have tested positive have remained with their children and those children have suffered no ill effects.

Again, I'd love if you could provide a link to this/these report(s).

There's a personal story around each of the thousands of deaths. Grandchildren they loved, husbands they loved, children they loved, wives they loved.

Italy in particular (I've never been to China), are all about family so Nonno (grandad) or Nonna (grandma) will be greatly missed and grieved by all. They're very much into generations being together. I know the reports I've heard coming out of Italy were of people 80+ but that's actually quite young for Italians. Relatively speaking. They'd be as fit as fleas.

Yes every single death is so many lives affected. I don't think we will know for a long time how this virus takes hold of people with different immune responses, chronic conditions etc as well as those fit and well beforehand.

www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/specific-groups/children-faq.html

Not sure if this link will work , but the general gist appears to be that children present with mild symptoms, except an unlucky few who suffer complications as a result of underlying issues. Difficult to assess as those underlying issues are not described in detail. I imagine that like the UK population, there will be people of all ages who really do not want to get a virus, this one or any other. Or bacterial infection or even worse fungal infection. I have been in the very sad situation of seeing two people die of fungal infections whilst they were neutropenic, one was as a result of candida which the vast majority of the country would see as a mild inconvenience

I think the reports coming out of Italy I have heard have mentioned that the people who have died have been of poor health. Doesn't make it less tragic for those involved though.

The Pope looks like he has it and he went around kids g and blessing people as normal

Kissing

@Skierrdery Totally agree with you DM is Italian and we have relatives over there. Though South not North.