DCs school has coronavirus and they’re not shutting the school!?

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My DCs school has had a confirmed case of coronavirus. One of their teachers who has been in school and has taught both DC this week!!!
School isn’t shutting! The DCs have been given information about the virus and symptoms to look out for.
This is really scaring me! Any of those DCs and other teachers could have it. Any of them could have gone home and passed it onto parents/grandparents/people who go to the same clubs in the community! I know it doesn’t really affect children as much as adults but doesn’t mean they can’t be carriers. We’re not exactly talking young children either. Both my DCs are teenagers.

Debating keeping the DC off school for the next 2 weeks? Am I overreacting!?

Maybe 2 weeks would be more sensible which is where my 1 week and reasses came from.
Yes DC1 is in an exam year. They have reached the mainly revising part now. Lots of going over content, past papers and exam technique. This can be done at home if necessary.

I’m thinking out loud now but one problem is, there are 1600 kids at that school. Assuming (and this is an assumption because I know it varies) there were 2 kids in each family, that’s 800 families potentially affected. This could go rife through the whole of Cumbria very very quickly if we aren’t careful. There’s people from Carlisle travel up to 50 miles down the west coast for work, or to Penrith or to southern Scotland or towards the north east. The potential spread is huge is any of those kids have it.

I’d definitely keep dc off in such circumstances. I’d send them back after Easter.

China has proven how this can be turned round by strict quarantine for all. Italy have seen what happens if you leave it too late. Why aren’t we doing more?

Regarding the surgeon in Liverpool. I said weeks ago it was bonkers to only tell people returning from Italy to self isolate if they had symptoms. That by the time they had symptoms it would be too late. That everyone should self isolate if they’ve been to Italy. He followed the govt advice and look what happened.

And still they’re giving shit advice. Why don’t they realise by the time someone has symptoms it’s too late to prevent infection..

Workplaces are shutting if there is a confirmed case - a Sky office in Cardiff has shut today.

I'm really not one to be getting hysterical about it all (I have been agog at the hysteria on some of the threads on here) but I just can't get my head around the mixed messages.

Sorry to be er.. cruel here but the school won't be able to be crazily strict on attendance if all the staff and kids are dead, now will they? I'd keep the kids out of there. Make ANY excuse.

Plenty of senior officials and scientists have now either said (on or off the record) either outright, or strongly implied, that the virus is going to spread through virtually the whole country. Check the DM headline for the latest. The current stats certainly don’t back this up, but then I’ve heard plenty of hearsay, including a claim that the current stats in the UK are almost a week behind reality (ie people at home in bed waiting for a call for a test and then waiting another 3-4 days for results to come back). I think it’s about time people were told by our so called government (and those around Europe) what the fuck is going on and exactly what the plan is, if indeed there is one. I am now sceptical that there is.

I'm in the northwest and some schools have closed for deep cleaning when a risk was identified and then reopened. I read one closed when a suspected infection was related to the school deep cleaned but then reopened when it wasn't Corona.

As it increases I feel we have very little guidance and what is right and wrong to do. It's now being caught in the country not just through travel.

They’re not going to be fining people who keep kids off in your circumstances!

Truthfully - I’d probably say something along the lines of “do either of you have a cough? Because if you do then you’ll have to stay at home on your Playstations for two weeks.”

And once they have both helpfully attempted to cough up a kidney, phone them in sick.

I’m not into tweeting and phoning my MP and starting petitions, i’m Into finding a quiet solution and quietly getting on with it.

@Mumoftwoyoungkids I love that suggestion

I think a blanket closing of schools is ludicrous.

I think closing a school with a confirmed case is prudent.

Mine are younger and I am in the at risk group (immunosuppressed) so I'd be keeping mine off if there was a case at school and the school didn't close.

Healthy chidren catching it doesn't seem to be the problem. That arises when they infect older people at higher risk, a much worse prognosis. I sympathise with those fearing for their parents but in days gone by, before msm, you would not have known what was happening, and it would still have happened, or not. I think everyone has to be a bit calmer. Que sera sera and all that. Avoid close proximity and follow the hygiene precautions.

But while I understand the pp saying no one deserves to die at 70, it is fact that some people do. Deserving is the bit you have wrong. None of us has a right to live 85 years, and fairness doesn't enter the picture. My DH didn't deserve to die at 50, yet only being in an ambulance when he arrested saved his life. That was luck! Be happy, or mourn your lot; worrying and raging won't change anything.

Hampstead Hill school. London (independent) has a parent confirmed and teacher isolated Today. School still open so far.
I wouldn't send mine.

I agree closing all schools is an absurd over-reaction. Let the terminally-neurotic keep their children at home while the rest continue their education.

Stuff school carrying on.. I would elect to self isolate. In the meantime find out the schools policy back up plan for educating via electronic platforms and chromebooks? Our school has siad if there was a case, then auto switch to self isolate and learning from home via chromebook classroom.

Until a vaccine is created (18mths +) against all mutations of the virus we will all be at risk; those with weaker immunity more prone than the others. listen to your own intuition. The politicians are simply trying to slow the spread down so NHS can handle the full outbreak. The next two weeks are going to be a critical turning point as a nation.

One of their teachers who has been in school and has taught both DC this week!!!

So they have already been exposed then, are you keeping them off to see if anything develops to protect others? Are you & every other household member also self isolating? I’m not minimising, I have an immunosupressed person in my house, I’m really worried. Have you not, along with all other classmates, been contacted by PHE as being a person who has been in contact with? Terrifying!

Have you been told the school isn’t being deep cleaned? Can you get it confirmed that if not why not?

I think it's definitely a concern. But people who keep saying 'lets shut down for a fortnight' are missing the point. We could close the whole country for two weeks, or 4, and consider the UK 'coronavirus free' ! But unless we then stay closed to all foreign travel and visitors for the next year - or however long it takes to travel across the rest of the planet and then start to die down - it will just come back again!

I agree it's starting to look like a massive worry, and I would be very protective of anyone with health issues. OP YANBU!

Surely the sensible approach has to be to keep children at school but discourage contact with grandparents or anyone immuno-compromised? Or is that just too boring a reaction?

The child is themselves immunocompromised

In which case *orangeblossom, I'd keep child at home and make them follow curriculum remotely for as long as necessary.

@XingMing I think I must live near this school as there is a confirmed case at our local secondary school. A grandparent of the school is a client of mine and I saw her today. The close friendship group of the infected pupil have been sent for testing. My client is doing exactly as you have suggested and will not be seeing her grandchild until given the all clear.

I sympathise with those fearing for their parents but in days gone by, before msm, you would not have known what was happening, and it would still have happened, or not. I think everyone has to be a bit calmer. Que sera sera and all that

Great, except in my world that would be my mid 40’s DH so, not only would DC loose a father, I would be widowed, we would lose our house, our life but- in your world, as long as it’s just old people, Que sera sera. Nice.

The aim has to be to protect BOTH individuals at highest risk from infection, and to confine the contagion to groups most likely to survive the infection. Neither of which are watertight compartments.

A confirmed case at the school and immunocompromised child to boot? Fuck that. No way would mine go back in. Isolation straight away and watch and wait with regards to how the situation continues to develop.

They didn't think our surgery should be shut down after a confirmed case. Until 2 of her coworkers came down with it - now it's shut down alright.

I would keep them off.