To not send my children to school next week

[blondieblonde]

That's it really. It seems mad to send them and have them inevitably catch the virus when they could stay at home. What are others doing?

Sending in to school and going to work as usual until told otherwise. Why would they inevitably catch the virus?

Sending them for as long as I possibly can, with hand sanitiser, doing my best to boost their immunity with good kai, plenty of water, and a multi-vitamin with plenty of sleep.

Why will they inevitably catch the virus next week?

Has someone at their school tested positive?

Because it seems quite obvious it is going to be widespread and if I can void them catching it, I would like to.

Sorry! As long as you keep up with the handwashing they should be fine. It's not dangerous for anyone who is young and in good health. I can understand your concerns but you can't keep them at home forever. Please try not to worry

Sending them in. Unless you are planning to isolate them for the next few months, I'm not sure how keeping them off school will help! This virus is likely to hang around for a while.

But why next week?, what about the week after that, do you plan on keeping them off for the foreseeable future?

If it’s not in your local area then YABU. If it’s local and around the school area then YANBU. You need to consider this will be going on for a long time, so if you take them out now it’s not going to be a simple case of two weeks off.

So will they have a week off or six? No one can say how long the virus will be around. I won’t keep my kids home or stay home unless we have symptoms and are told to self isolate.

blondieblonde
How long are you actually going to keep them off for?

Will you stay indoors for the next few weeks just incase?

What about half term? Spend everyday indoors just incase?

I could just about keep them off for months if it saved their lives, seems like no contest. And I don't think anyone knows what's going to happen to kids. There have been no interviews with parents of kids who've had it and got better.

If 80% of the population are going to get it then it is highly likely they will get it. Evidence so far is children suffer from it the least. However keeping your kids off school for a non specific period of time could damage their education and future prospects irretrievably.

ffs might as well keep them off and at home until the whole dies out then. noone wants their dc to catch it or anything else nasty but let's keep some sense of perspective.

How long are you planning keeping off for, until Easter, the summer holidays? Are you also planning on having no contact with anyone in that time?

There may be a point where you have to do personally if wait until that time before keeping them off.

They recon kids under 10 are much less likely to get it, as the area of the lungs that this horrendous virus attacks isn’t developed yet so it can’t take a hold in the sane way as adults. That’s what read so I hope it’s true.

I thought very few children have caught it though?

YABU to not post this on the Corona virus topic ffs. I’m sick of seeing this shit.

Are you unemployed?

@blondieblonde as whilst I’m here, a baby was born to a corona virus patient in Wuhan, tested positive and recovered.

Have a look at the stats that break the death rate down by age. No children under 10 had died the last time I looked and for 10-19 the death rate is so small it's pretty much zero. Unless there is a drip feed in that you have someone vulnerable at home or they are compromised in some way in their own health, then YABU as the effects of staying away from people and education for months will be much worse than the effects of the virus

Everything I've read suggests there is little to no risk of serious illness in under 10s. Official stats show zero deaths of under 10s anywhere in the world. I understand you're worried but your kids are the least likely to be seriously affected. Some evidence (ie The lack of any school related clusters) also suggests they don't easily pass it on. Worry about the traffic outside school instead.

I can understand OP I have a severely immunocompromised child and I wonder about keeping her and other dc off but when to start and for how long as this won’t go away for months and months and no vaccine probably this year 😢 so for now they are going as it’s seems it’s a long term issue
V stressed though

Children are the least at risk. The risk of you ruining their education is a lot higher.

there is a portionof the generationwho are more likely to suffer in the future from the loss of education if they are kept off for months.
what about child care? that costs or impacts on carers, another gap in employment and possible wages loss if it was months.
christ, social media has so much to answer for and all this scaremongering.

If it was a case of just keeping them off for a couple of weeks and that would protect them I think most parents would do, but the issue is that to protect them you'd probably have to keep them off for several weeks or months.

I don't think we're at that stage yet. I may consider it when cases start appearing in my town and in neighbouring schools.

Until then I'm being vigilant about handwashing and I know the school has stepped this up as well.

I think that's all you can do.