Worried About Coronavirus- thread 37

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IwantKoalas

Mine qualified for free school meals.i didn't claim because of the social stigma

It’s really important to apply for this if you are entitled to it. The school will receive extra funding for your child, and they will be monitored closely and receive extra targeted support with their learning, to ensure they achieve the expected attainment levels for their age. Schools are very much tasked with improving outcomes for pupil premium children which otherwise tend to be lower than average.

@IwantKoalas I will echo what others have said about claiming fsm for your children if they are entitled to them.
Children don't just have a social worker because "their mother might abuse them" it's crass and disingenuous to say so. Some of the other reasonsa child may benefit from the support of a social worker are:

Death of a parent in traumatic circumstances
A genetic condition
Being in foster care
Being in the early stages of adoption
Being the child of a woman escaping domestic violence
Having a parent with a terminal diagnosis
Having a parent with MS, MND etc
The threat of violence from an estranged parent
Being housed in temporary accommodation
Being a refugee
I could go on but you get the picture

Why assume a child who gets FSM needs targeted support though?

FSM doesn't automatically mean that child is below their expected attainment levels.

@Frankiecandle because statistically children on family do have lower attainment levels, poverty affects every aspect of a family's life not just their bank balance.

fsm not family

@EmMac7 thanks for that link. I'd really link to see some frontline journalism happening in this country... I think the reality of what the situation is needs to be visually very clear

Because outcomes for pupil premium children...tend to be lower than average

Obviously it doesn’t apply to all children. If the child is doing well then they likely won’t need any additional support but many do need it. They also can receive support such as play therapy and emotion coaching. It’s quite far reaching if that’s what’s needed.

My dc get FSM. We aren't poor (well maybe we are to many on here), we live in a nice house in a nice middle class area, they are very bright and doing well at school. I'm a professional with two MSc level qualifications. Life went to shit temporarily when my husband left for OW and I claimed benefits to supplement my then income. I'm not working at the moment (but hopefully will be when all this is hopefully over) and have been changed over to UC. The dc are entitled to FSM due to that. They aren't vulnerable due to my finances. People saying people are judging them for FSM are probably judging others themselves.

I've posted this on a couple of threads, but not feeling very reassured today as my town faces "the highest threat to life" in the UK from coronavirus because it was already in poor health, according to a new risk report.

www.progressive-policy.net/publications/covid-19-local-area-risk-rating

Highest threat in England as Scotland and Wales are not included in that report

Sorry, England not UK. I would be interested to see how Gwent fares.

Not sure if this timeline has been posted either:
bylinetimes.com/2020/04/11/a-national-scandal-a-timeline-of-the-uk-governments-woeful-response-to-the-coronavirus-crisis/

(How Gwent would fare if it were UK wide).

Do you know how corticosteroid stocks are just checking

Not had any alerts for those as far as I remember

Thought this from twitter.com/laineydoyle/status/1249131143938613255

was interesting comparing deaths in Ireland with UK - though I don't know if they are being recorded in the same way .

Basically saying due to lockdown timing .

Ireland and the UK started this pandemic with roughly the same number of ICU beds (6.5 per 100,000 for Ireland, 6.6 per 100,000 in the UK).
As of today, there have been 320 deaths from the coronavirus in Ireland, and 9,875 deaths in the UK.
As of Saturday 11 April, there have been 6.5 deaths per 100,000 people in Ireland.

There have been 14.81 deaths per 100,000 people in the UK
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if you compare the per capita death rate between Ireland and England, rather than the UK as a whole, England has almost 2.5 times the number of deaths as Ireland (14.81 deaths per 100,000 vs 6.5 deaths per 100,000)

two English-speaking countries, with close cultural and historical associations, both with underfunded health systems, & comparable levels of ICU beds (almost half the EU average) going into the pandemic.

But England has more than 2.5 times the deaths

Ireland closed down earlier. Much earlier

While Boris was telling the British people to wash their hands, our Taoiseach was closing the schools.

While Cheltenham was going ahead, and over 250,000 people were gathering in what would have been a massive super-spreader event, Ireland had cancelled St Patrick's Day

twitter.com/i/status/1246781722420604928

It might be that but its also
I assume heathrow is more an international hub.
London with underground and transport.
Possible higher deaths in BAME populations.

But i think a lot of it is Enlgand are being left to get on with it at home even when quite unwell.
Lack of ppe so lots of infected drs etc who then spread it round hospital and community etc.

I'm not particularly happy to be living in Walsall today . I knew we'd be badly hit. Just had no idea how badly.

Same here Beebitty
I've been watching the numbers rise and the news of the poor nurse who died at The Manor.

The manor is so swamped even when there isn't a pandemic (though care is always great in my experience) Would people here be sent to Birmingham do you think?
I'm not even going for walks at the moment because I'm so afraid .

That’s so telling @peridito, so telling.

A question, I'm supposed to go and pick up a click and collect tomorrow morning, it will be the first time I've been anywhere in 4 weeks and I haven't been to a supermarket in about 2 months now. What do I need to know? When you turn up at the click and collect point, do you have to approach someone to verify your order, how close do you have to get?

In the car will be me and DD. I can put the parcel shelf up, perhaps a blanket over the shopping in the boot for the half hour drive home, then planning to disinfect everything and half goes to someone else. Will that be adequate, any other way to protect ourselves?

I realise I am paranoid. I would prefer to be paranoid and safe.

At Asda clock and collect you tell them you've arrived on the app. You don't even get our your car they put the shopping in the boot for you

Ireland’s race meetings carried on after all the British ones were cancelled.

Just discovered bil has suspected coronavirus, he has been ill for a week. His son who lives with him is still going to work and still out shopping for themselves and mil 82, he still drops shopping off to her. Thankfully they live far away from us and I don't have anything to do with them but it makes me so angry that they cant see anything wrong with how they are behaving.

I have two click and collects at two different supermarkets. Both put the crates down and stood well back while I put bags in boot. Then I stood back and they swapped crates. I wore gloves, had name and order no written on paper in big letters to hold out so not getting too close.

@middleager just read that article middle thank you, though makes for awful readings!