Are you going to send your kids back in when they reopen?

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Wondering if people will send them back.
As they think only 4-10% of population might have had it. And this peak was only 4w of school.
Im not shielding but isolating as much as possible because im
asthmatic.

I hope they say attendance isnt mandatory so people who need to/want to or are still WFH can keep them home if needed.

Mine will go back .. we might not see a vaccine for another 18 months minimum, will you keep them home until then?!

Nope. Keeping mine off.

@EggBaconBeans how long will you keep your children off for? How will you cope financially?

Mine will go back. The purpose of the lockdown isn't to stop all infections, as for most people its relatively mild. But it is meant to allow the NHS time to deal with the numbers coming in.

I would expect the lockdown to be lifted and released as and when needed until there is a vaccine.

I think the damage to my children's mental health due to not seeing friends and extended family , their education and their physical health due to being far less active outweighs the tiny chance they will be seriously ill from Covid 19. I appreciate they may pass it on though. However, that should be lessened with hygiene and high risk people taking more precautions.

The NHS can’t even seem to test the NHS workers. I very much doubt that a vaccine will be produced just like that. I don’t think it would be our choice just to decide to keep the kids at home due to the current situation. I think lockdown will be slowly lifted when the numbers fall a lot lower for the COVID-19 however even a vaccine is not a cure that you wouldn’t get it 100%

When you think how many children are in schools and how few children have been ill, I think the risk is very small, my daughters best friend had it, her dad was very ill and was tested. Her mum worked at the school. My daughter hasn’t shown any symptoms, she hasn’t heard from any of her other friends having symptoms either.

Gin96

Mine have asthma. I will wait to see what strategy they are planning re social distancing. Quite how that's possible with the 30 in a class is beyond me. It's not just the children; it's the gatherings at pick up with parents etc.

That's a lot of interaction.

I'm just not ready to put mine back to school.

We don't know enough about it all as yet as it's such a new global virus.

With regards to working , I am fortunate in that I have a super flexible part time wfh job anyway.

Definitely not. Keeping them off.

Yes mine will all go back. None of us are vulnerable and I think it is really important for their mental health to be back to some sort of normality

For those saying definitely not... how long will you keep them home for? The question was just ‘will you send them back when schools reopen?’. That could be September, or even later. We don’t know. So are you saying if the schools open in September you will definitely keep them off? Or if they open after October half term? Or do you just mean if they reopen before the summer?

I genuinely don’t know. Mine are 11, 10 and 7. The youngest two have Sen but only the 10 year old in mainstream could’ve gone into school as the specialist school the seven year old attends shut.

I’m very unsure. My kids are coping. Just. My 10 year old has asd and is saying she can’t go back until September. She’s scared. And a staggered or soft opening might not work for her and god knows how she’d keep 2m away from her ft 1:1. Youngest has an autoimmune condition alongside their special needs that could make her vulnerable to infection and she wouldn’t comply with ventilation unless sedated.

I don’t trust our government to do the right thing sadly. Whilst I do understand we need our economy functioning, it’s hard to think money over life. We don’t know if you can get it more than once nor how it affects children or if children or people with no underlying condition have died as the government aren’t releasing that information. I do think we’re not testing enough. So much is unknown. The virus isn’t going away is the only thing I’m 100% certain on.

Definitely not before September. Hopefully we'll know a lot more by then.

If the picture doesnt get any more optimistic I will home school indefinitely.

Ds is one of the pupils still going to his independent special school. The longterm damage to his mental health and resulting unmanageable behaviour is a bigger risk ( a very real risk of a lifetime in institutions) than the very small risk that he will become seriously unwell or worse from covid.

Bbc news today said the economy will be down by 25% by June. That is a lot of job losses and poverty. I hope the testing etc is fast.

The problem is it is not money over life. There will be no life, no food, no benefits no wages unless people go back to work. So it might be 60m people's lives against 30k dying of covid for example.

I dont know why people are acting like having money is a luxury. We all need money- we need to pay rent/mortgage/ bills/ tax/ food etc

Worrying about where your rent or next food shopping bill is coming from is a legitimate concern and it does NOT mean you prioritise money over health FGS. 3 million Brits have already been pushed into poverty since lockdown started- that WILL cause deaths and serious health issues for those people. We might not see the effects immediately but there will be serious consequences down the line. Death is death- it makes no difference if its caused by poverty or covid. The effects are just as devastating.

We should be concerned about the economy- only the mega rich have the luxury of not worrying about it because they are the only ones who are cushioned from the effects of a serious recession. When the economy tanks- there will be many deaths. Its not a matter of "if" its a matter of "when". The idea that we can be on lockdown indefinitely for months and months is woefully ignorant.

@Alexis exactly who are these people on mumsnet who can sit at home for 2 years and wait for a vaccine?

*gin96

My best guess is- people who are wealthy or very comfortably off who have the luxury of being relaxed and blasé about staying in for the next year.
Unfortunately, most of us arent in that position and we have to work to actually be able to live. If you have the finances and resources to just not work, and stay inside for the next year, then good for you but dont berate the rest of us who cannot afford to do that and accuse us of "not caring" about other people's lives. I cant care about other people's lives if Ive died of starvation can I???

exactly who are these people on mumsnet who can sit at home for 2 years and wait for a vaccine?

Those who don't work probably. Low income benefit families haven't been financially affected by this. Their income is the same. They should be receiving vouchers, food or money to make up for losing free school meals by now. They have the luxury of choice.

Yes Alexis. And there is no sign of the freelance furlough happening yet. I’m amazed people don’t understand the impact of this.

25% job losses in all sectors is incredibly upsetting and it will affect more women and the trickle down economy as per usual.

@perniciousdot nice benefit bashing .

@perniciousdot I'm a single parent and I get working tax credits, am I a "low income benefit family?" Working people get benefits too you know, and my income has been affected as I've been furloughed.

The people who can stay at home and not worry are SAHPs surely. There are a lot on MN who are SAHMs and their DH works.

We are not wealthy and probably have a lower household income than many on here. We need DPs salary. I am very low paid and although it would be a struggle, we can manage without my salary and live on the 30k my DP brings in.

I'm a single parent and I get working tax credits, am I a "low income benefit family?" Working people get benefits too you know, and my income has been affected as I've been furloughed.

Oh for goodness sake of course I know working people get benefits. I was specifically talking about people who dont work though as they are mostly unaffected from a financial point of view.