Family cuddles before going back to school

[welshowl]

A local family have posted a get together on social media following the mother/ grandmother being discharged from hospital for non covid reason.

Four children are seen to be cuddling their grandma in the pictures, but my concerns are she has just literally been discharge 3 days ago and the 3 of the 4 children are due to be back at school on Monday.

I feel there is a potential risk to others attending the school.

Would you tell the school?

Tell the school...what? That some kids cuddled their grandma. Oh my god.

Get a hobby OP

If anyone, it’s the grandma who’s at risk from that, not the children or those at school. I think sticking two fingers up to social distancing though by posting that on FB is pretty crappy and makes me angry.... I know everyone wants to hugs their grandparents, but if we all went back to doing that we’d have a deadly second wave (and I’m not a doom-monger on this and am fairly optimistic there won’t be one). I read yesterday of a study in NY that showed new hospitalised infections were largely older people who lived with or had close contact with younger family members.

But no, i wouldn’t tell the school - I’m not sure what on Earth you’d want the school to do here... Also there’ll very likely be children at school who haven’t adhered strictly to social distancing that you just won’t know about as their parents haven’t flaunted it.

No.

My god. We are living in 1984. You think you reporting them to the school is justified? Wow. I would hope that if you did the staff member would placate you, put the phone down and think 'wow. Crazy' and then go on with their very busy job. You may get discussed in the staff room in the tone of 'you wont believe what I had to deal with on the phone this morning'.

It's not to be a 'grass' like I feel a few of you think it is, it's to protect people's lives. If there is a chance that grandma has the virus after being in hospital (let's face it, a lot of case are contracted in hospital unfortunately), the children have been in contact for way more than hour with their grandma, which means the child could have it and they then spread it through the class and we go back to square one. Two of the children are in reception and obviously have not been taught social distancing.
Anyone who thinks there is not is a risk must be completely oblivious to the current situation and we must live in different worlds.

If it was a grandchild cuddling a grandma who hadn't been in hospital, I wouldn't even question it (although I wouldn't agree entirely with it just now ) It's the fact the grandma has potentially been exposed to it via hospital.

They test hospital patients all the time so they would know if she had coronavirus. So no need to report to save lives. And grandma recovered. And those kids will get an education. All good imo.

I think they’re testing every admission to hospital so you can assume she doesn’t have it. I do get where you’re coming from though.

Oh get a grip and a life while your at it OP.

I think they’re testing every admission to hospital so you can assume she doesn’t have it. I do get where you’re coming from though.

You can’t assume that.... You don’t magically test positive the moment you are infected, or even the day or two after!

There’s still a 40% negative test rate four days after exposure. It’s only when symptomatic that the level of virus is significant enough to be confident of a positive test, and even then only up to the 5th day of symptoms.

@welshowl I'm sorry to inform you but at this point lots of people are doing things on the riskier side Cuddling someone who was probably tested in hospital and as far as you know doesn't have covid is not the half of it. You can't take it upon yourself to police everyone. The school cannot do anything about it. There is no confirmation of covid.

What would you expect the school to do?

Genuine question... they couldn’t exactly say to the family “we heard you were hugging grandma so your children can’t come back for another 2 weeks” - I don’t think the school can do anything even if you do tell them.

@ky07 ta for that...

They do test on admission but not on discharge, which to me is the critical point.

I would of thought school would be able to advise them not to attend for 7 days as they have clearly broken social distancing rules and the chance is of course escalated with her having been in hospital.

Clearly not everyone shares my concerns, or believes in following the rules to reduce the risk to those who are vulnerable.

@welshowl if you dont want opinions, don't ask. No one is stopping you reporting it, go for it! You're going to have a shit few months though if you want to report every instance of rule breaking you see. I suppose we all have our hobbies!