Surprised at healthy people saying they won’t send dc to school until there’s a vaccination

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I absolutely understand that if your dc has a health condition there’s no way you would put in any situation where they could catch covid. Likewise if you or your partner have a health condition or other vulnerable dc. However I am baffled as to why you would not want your healthy dc getting back to school and their friends ASAP but want to wait for a vaccination. That could be years! As long as the vulnerable population remains safe self isolating I cannot understand why there is such horror at the thought of schools reopening.

YABU unreasonable to start yet another thread on Covid and schools reopening. Most of what you are ask has been covered extensively in other similar threads. Peopled are fearful for the safety of their children and vulnerable family members. That's pretty much it.

Well, it's a valid choice and depends on your attitude to risk. It's odd that you can't understand why people would choose to wait this out though, in light of the heartbreaking pictures of healthcare workers who have died. There are over 100 now. Covid isn't a little flu, you know.

However I am baffled as to why you would not want your healthy dc getting back to school and their friends ASAP but want to wait for a vaccination. That could be years!

Or there may never be a vaccine. YANBU

Are we waiting for a vaccine? The virus to slow down or to stop completely?

The government have not got a clue . If they did why are they creating over a 100 fake twitter profiles saying how brill boris is doing - see Nhs Susan whose identity was taken off an Nhs hospital website & deleted when exposed
It’s the same thing that Ian Duncan Smith did with the Dwp about universal
Credit create false profiles to influence public opinion
My family is vulnerable and to trust them to a government who keeps lying to stay in power Is frightening

Just cus you're healthy doesn't mean you won't die from this

Healthy people have died. Simple.

YANBU - I don’t think they quite realise a vaccine may never come and certainly not soon. It’s the kind of simplistic thinking that’s easy to post on social media.

You do know relatively young, perfectly healthy people are dying in statistically significant numbers don’t you?

I think that the media has made a lot of people feel a bit like they’re all going to die/ be very ill. It’s worrying as the hysteria could be a real sticking point when trying to get back into some semblance of normality.

I get it, say you are a SAHP with pre-school/ks1 DC, and used to seeing granny and grandad almost every day pre-lockdown, would the DC miss out more on school, or on not seeing their GPs till there is a vaccine? For some familys it would be better to still see GPs (I have a summer born boy due to start reception, so its something I'm considering)

Healthy people are dying, very frightening.

Well, it's a valid choice and depends on your attitude to risk. It's odd that you can't understand why people would choose to wait this out though, in light of the heartbreaking pictures of healthcare workers who have died. There are over 100 now. Covid isn't a little flu, you know

There's no such thing as a "little" flu and that's one of the reasons people underestimated this. Flu is a serious illness. Not like a cold. Those of you saying "well I had flu and I hardly noticed it" - well how do you know you had flu then? You'd hardly go to a doctor and get tested for an illness you barely noticed, would you (and if you would, no wonder the rest of us can never get a GP appointment when we need one).

But to go to the OP's point, there is no point waiting for a vaccine because there may never be one and as the OP said it could take years. So other solutions will need to be found.

So nearly 20,000 deaths is scare mongering and hysteria? You need to take a look at yourself. Might be a different story if it was your child or your parent or your aunt or your uncle or your brother or sister eh? Some people have lost more than 1 relative. This is not fucking hysteria.

The worry for me is that historically it has been difficult (or maybe impossible) to develop coronavirus vaccines. There are many strains of coronavirus and no vaccines(caveat - I am not 100% on this, also most coronaviruses cause mild illness so less need). This makes me worry that there may not be a vaccine for some considerable time.

I am scared of the virus and have vulnerable family members but i am also scared of losing my house, job, which is likely if lockdown continues for extended amount of time. However it does appear to be working so we must carry on

YANBU, it’s absolutely ridiculous. Usually uttered by people whose kids aren’t coming up to high school exam years I guess.

That said I don’t think schools should be back any time soon, but we can’t stay locked down awaiting a vaccine that might never come. I’d rather just die of the virus than live cooped up cowering in fear for bloody years.

Some healthy people aren't healthy, they have undiagnosed issues.

We never worried about our daughter, up until two years ago. Then she was diagnosed with a congential heart disease, scoliosis and spine fusion.

I cannot understand why there is such horror at the thought of schools reopening

Then you haven't read enough about what's going on. Maybe consider researching?

What we really need is testing capacity and a track and trace system - a vaccine and long term immunity and by no means definite.

I think some people have a somewhat childish attitude to risk as if things are either safe or not safe. While someone my age has a fairly small risk of dying from COVID they also have a significant risk of ending up in hospital and needing intensive treatment - and a long recovery with possible long term damage to their vital organs. It's hardly surprising that this is something people are keen to avoid.

I would send mine in tomorrow if I could!

Also the point of keeping schools shut is to slow the spread of the virus (how effective this is hasn't been established yet) so that our healthcare system isn't overwhelmed. An overwhelmed healthcare system puts us all at risk from usually completely treatable health problems.

Hardly baffling and hardly hysteria.

I have two year 9s and I work so the stereotype of the SAHP with primary school kids isn't right.

I also work in a school.

I'm extremely concerned for my children's education and want them to return, but only in a safe environment.

So nearly 20,000 deaths is scare mongering and hysteria? You need to take a look at yourself. Might be a different story if it was your child or your parent or your aunt or your uncle or your brother or sister eh? Some people have lost more than 1 relative. This is not fucking hysteria.

I'm of denying the tragic number of deaths or how serious this is, but I'm referring to healthy, young people, not saying send over 70s and immunocompromised people out.

@GingerRodgers18 I've been looking for staistics in that. Do you have a link?