Parents! Please don’t send your kid to school with a cough or temperature

[noblegiraffe]

We’ll have to send them home again, and that’s a whole lot of hassle that could have easily been avoided by parents following the government advice.

No, you don’t get to decide whether the cough or a fever is ‘simply a cold’. Neither do we. Just follow the guidelines please.

Apart from anything, it’s freaking their classmates out and we can really do without stressing out the kids even more about this.

Thank you.

Your daughter has a new cough so keep her home.

Children may get it without the temperature if they have a mild version.

Shall we stop with the insults ???
Can't see how they are helpful

Yeah I'm not convinced it is and believe me we have been watching her like a hawk

Yeah, I’m not sure that’s a medically sound diagnose.

Do your bit. Keep her off. Don’t be that idiot

Exactly, I’ve got one child in my class who recently has gone into remission from cancer, another with complex medical issues and then several with severe asthma

And these children are all in school?! What are their parents thinking? We have been told the virus can be present for several days without symptoms, absolutely no way should a child only recently in remission from cancer be in the classroom at the moment.

Shall we stop with the insults ???

I think it's more than reasonable tbh. People are dying because of the kind of attitude on this thread.

Bedsheets can I ask very nicely why you don’t think the guidance applies to you?

I’ve got 2 kids with a cough that started this weekend. 1 has asthma and his cough is a result of a virus aggravating his asthma, the other has a standard post-cold cough. Neither will be at school next week, they will cope. Work can be arranged for them. The guidelines are really quite simple!

To be clear for people. COVID-19 symptoms in children can be incredibly mild. You quite likely won’t know they have it. Or they may have a mild cough.

That doesn’t mean they can’t infect someone else who might then go on to die. Just because you thought it was alright.

Please don’t be selfish. For the sake of others’ lives

I don't not at all . But surely this cough would be more persistent ?
I don't understand the insults . Can we not just discuss without it turning sour ?

The “holding your breath test” is a load of bollocks that went viral. Being able to hold your breath is not proof that you’re free of Coronavirus.

Can you not just keep her off and not risk killing someone .

It's turned sour because you are being ridiculously dismissive of a critical situation. You are not special. You follow the rules like the rest of us FFS

Ok thank you . I didn't know that

My 1 year old has had a cough since Christmas. She has had cold after cold and is still coughing now. The looks I’ve been getting when I’m out with her are like daggers!

I'm a teacher I've started coughing today but don't feel ill apart from that. I have really bad hayfever every year so could be that but following the recommendations I've taken myself off to the spare room and will be staying away from the family as much as I can and won't be in work for 7 days.

If your daughter has a cough in the last 48 hours keep her home for seven days.
It doesn’t matter if she has no other symptoms, doesn’t matter if she doesn’t have a fever, doesn’t matter if she can hold her breath, you keep her home.
As parents you may think it’s mild, you may think it’s just w cold but the advice is clear / stay home.
Otherwise you risk killing somebody elderly, somebody having treatment for cancer, somebody with MS, somebody with any other underlying health issue.
Stay home

The Corona threads now rival AIBU for chippy remarks. Personal attacks like ‘idiot’ or ‘selfish’ don’t make your posts sound more knowledgable or better or cleverer or more able to understand science or medical - they make you sound like a knob.

I thought we were to isolate even if we "knew" it was a cold as spreading the cold amongst the Coronavirus made it even worse for people to recover from.
Makes sense. Hence doesn't matter if it's all the symptoms if your not well stay home and don't spread anymore bugs around

Ok. My kid's been coughing with a cold for a week and a half and has been in school the whole time. No temp at any stage so didn't think it was worrying. I suppose the 'new' thing could be confusing.

Cough OR fever

This holding breath nonsense that some idiot put all over Facebook is going to result in deaths.

@Bedsheets4knickers, the school are likely to send her straight back home as soon as she starts coughing. They will be less than impressed that you are unable to follow medical advice and seen to believe that the education of your daughter trumps the health needs of others!
She may or may not have corona virus. The symptoms are much milder in children. Don't put others at risk.

Personal attacks like ‘idiot’ or ‘selfish’ don’t make your posts sound more knowledgable or better or cleverer or more able to understand science or medical - they make you sound like a knob.

So It's wrong for me to call someone an idiot but it's ok for you to call me a knob

Some logic.

Btw, I'm not trying to make my posts sound more knowledgable or better or cleverer or more able to understand science or medical - I am simply trying to make people realise the rules apply to them too

It's a situation like no other isn't it . Il keep her home if it persists tomorrow but as of right now it's pretty much non existent

We will send kids home. Parents don’t get to choose. It would be really helpful if you didn’t send them in so we didn’t have to go through the embarrassing palaver of isolating them in school until a parent can pick them up.

Oh my goodness, this is why schools need to be shut down. It’s utterly baffling that people ignore the advice the governments given about self-quarantine. Really hope there’s a Tory MP somewhere reading this thread (obviously know that’s not ever going to be the case)