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greenleafycarrot · 07/03/2020 16:03
No. There's no point because we have no idea how long the virus is going to be around for and if you keep them off now you'd be as well keeping them off for 3/6/12 months, because as soon as they're let out the house they'd be at risk of picking it up as things are.
Langbannedforsafeguardingkids · 07/03/2020 16:09
There's a lot of data out there that school closures for a moderate length of time (e.g 4 weeks) would flatten and extend the peak and so help the health service to cope / have enough beds for all the severely ill (1 in 5 from Chinese stats).
There is a difference in 80% getting it in 6 months and a percentage of people - like in Italy - unable to get into ICU so dying and 80% getting it in 18 months which would mean the NHS could cope much better. There was a recent video of an Italian ICU - it looked like only younger people were on ventilators - someone else on another thread said that's because they don't have enough and they have to prioritise those most likely to survive.
That's why 22 countries have some school closures. en.unesco.org/themes/education-emergencies/coronavirus-school-closures
Langbannedforsafeguardingkids · 07/03/2020 16:13
School closures aren't to protect children (except vulnerable children of course), they are to help the NHS cope with all the severely ill (by flattening and extending the peak) and to make it less likely lots of those adults will die.
In the absence of a miraculous increase in ICU beds, doctors and nurses, it seems like our best bet.
KitKat1985 · 07/03/2020 16:27
Nope, as soon as DD1 is better (she's just come down with chickenpox) then she's going back in.
Both me and DH work in the NHS. Schools closures will massively affect our ability to go into work as much as anything else, and I don't want the DD's schooling affected anymore that it has to be.
YgritteSnow · 07/03/2020 16:32
I'm asthmatic. Dd will go to school till we are told there's a case there and/or are told she shouldn't. My preference would be to keep her at home for my peace of mind and also I love having her around - I home educate my eldest and would have like to home educate her too, but it's not about me. She loves school and I don't want to disrupt her education.
Devlesko · 07/03/2020 16:40
there's another petition to allow those who can to take their kids out of school.
This is good because those who wanted to continue working and use school as childcare would be able to, if they weren't closed.
Those able to self isolate could reduce the numbers so not worst case scenario of 80% contraction, if we don't close schools soon.
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