Did I miss something in the press conference- school closures?

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I listened. The only time closures warranted a mention was an aside for "maybe later" measures. Did I miss something?
Now, if keeping schools open is the best course of action, then ok. But the fact that so many people are anxious about kids going to school, there are petitions etc. How could they not dedicate some time to explain why the advice was not changing yet? People need information to make informed decisions.

Bloody hell.

Don't agree, getting to the supposed target of 60% immunity will take many months, if not a year, and Covid may not even work like this. There are various diseases you can get repeatedly and never develop immunity to, some which affect you worse every time you catch them. If you are known to have it then you isolate along with your immediate family but I suspect 90% + cases at the moment are totally unknown. Various parents were sending kids in today who had temperatures over the weekend and were just giving them calpol at the start of the day. If we were told about this by the children we called the parents and told them to come and take them home and isolate.

Of course the advice about isolation is important. If anyone in a family is ill the whole household needs self isolation for 14 days.

I don't get the argument that if children stay at school it protects everyone else. Kids finish school at 3pm. That's at least 4/5 hours they have with families in the evening, along with another 1/2 in the morning. How is that going to stop them bringing the virus home to whoever they live with?

This is a SARS - calling it coronavirus brings a false sense of security - it is SARS-corv-2 and we should be following the WHOS's advice, and the protocol adopted by those countries that have experience of SARS - like Taiwan, Singapore - and isolating, testing, tracing and locking down. Our govt's way is insane.

About half of DD (6) 's class was missing today. Village school. There are a couple i know for sure aren't showing symptoms, just wanting to stay away.

I may be doing the parents a big disservice here but i'm seriously doubting that those children are going to be staying in their houses with at least one adult 24/7 for the foreseeable future.

I recon they'll be out and about. There i said it!

I've been contemplating keeping DD at home. 'Confine' ourselves. Saying she's got a fever ect. (she hasn't) I know the school wont fine us. But that means she and me are going to be stuck in the house together day after day now, unless we flout our own isolation decision. DH works, i don't. I love her to bits but i'll be totally honest and say i don't want to do a voluntary extra 2 weeks of lockdown in here before the real one starts!

Very conflicted right now.

Lockdown doesn't mean staying at home 24/7. Get out for a walks in the countryside if possible.

Letting a SARS (I know it's not the same SARS as the 2003 SARS,but it is still a SARS) rampage through our population, who has no immunity, and sharing ridiculous videos on social media with men pouring buckets of water into beakers is insanity. SARS needs isolating, a global pandemic needs locking down. We don't even know enough about it to judge whether herd immunity is even possible - no other "science" has ever recommended allowing a SARS to sweep through a nation. It's always isolation and contain. I don't know Boris Johnson is thinking.

Hopefully he's not doing the thinking!

Well, whoever's doing the 'thinking' in the UK, it's not in line with WHO or the counties who have experience with a SARS outbreak. And that is really really worrying.

Yup agree with you Zebra. I was really surprised none of the reporters at the Boris thing asked about the schools issue. I am hoping more and more will choose to keep their children home each day this week to the point where school closure is forced up on the Govt.

Why have all these countries closed schools but we haven't? What secret does Boris know that the world's experts & WHO doesn't?
Other Countries have put measures in place to provide childcare for essential workers, why can't we?
It is a very high risk strategy that this Govt is following, let's hope we don't all pay the price.
I think we are all now coming to the realisation that our lives are going to have to change drastically for the next few months, we have no choice but to endure it & hope.

Oh we do wandering in the woods/fields often anyway. I'm thinking food shopping. Going to B&Q/Halfords/B&Ms. Picking up tools from Screwfix for DH while he's at work (self employed bulider) Going to the chemist for my mums prescriptions. All this stuff. Cant do any of these things if i cant take DD out of the house with me.

I can clearly see why folks want to pull their kids out of school, i'm just not sure i want to voluntarily jump into that scenario right now. No doubt it's coming soon. Just thinking out loud here.

thought provoking chart dunthat!

Schools will slowly be filtering the virus about. If the kids are low symptom, they aren't coughing and spluttering it about massively. It is a spread but then in 2 weeks there is a natural firebreak of Easter Holidays for a lot of people - and there will be a time for those families to get over it . I strongly believe this is why the schools aren't closing at this point.

If people are worried about children bringing infection home then consider hand washing at the door on entry. Nothing is perfect, it’s about doing the best we can.

Laiste I still think there's probably lower overall contact risk even taking your DD with you shopping. Yeah I'm also thinking out loud here. I think I'm talking myself into taking my boy out of school tomorrow!

They did ask about schools and they said they’d already explained.

Yy the flushed zebra! 😂😂😂

The fucking bucket!!

'' so, why did you offer your family up as herd fodder for the gov? ''.. '' because I saw a man pouring water into a bucket

I took a good hard look at the whole school during assembly today. Ridiculous how many kids were touching their mouths, faces, eyes, sucking fingers, nose picking, touching each other. So even if it's not being droplet spread it's all over school for sure!

When my dc are out with me I can constantly monitor them, make sure they don't touch anything, wash hands properly and keep us at a social distance from other.

Backyard, it was very mild today but I had students demanding windows were shut, one sneezing, another coughing, another colleague coughing doing nothing to cover up, had a packed meeting..

True

They should be advise people who can keep their children off to do so. The less people you have mixing the better.

Crazy, we had a planned IT lesson in the afternoon but we changed it for a lesson in the woodland to enjoy the sun.

Yes Sonja, but I'm guessing heads can't recommend this even if they think it until our leader Boris gives the order. :)