Hand washing in school - 1 bowl for 30 children

[Somethingsosimple]

Dd came home from first day at school today. She said hand washing is just sharing a bowl of water with soap with 30 children. Is this the norm?

No its not. There was a very similar thread to this yesterday I think

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4012689-one-bowl-10-kids

No it's not the norm. It's 50 per cent better than schools I'm aware of.

You could always have a whip round for hand sanitiser. You know schools have no extra funding for this I'm sure.

That's bad. Can you send your DC in with their own hand sanitiser to use afterwards?

They can't be sterile though can they?
I couldnt get worked up over this at all. Things have to go back to normal at some point despite some risk. Lets face it if one has it in primary they will all get it at that age playing together. One bowl or 50 bowls will make no difference.
The media have done fine job terrifying people. 45000 deaths in our entire population most of whom were already ill or old. It is miniscule and people have lost all perspective or ability to think straight.

Bless you @Advicewouldbeappreciated how wise you are. My friend spent yesterday in hospital having her young previously healthy primary aged child’s heart checked as a result of post covid complication. I shall be sure to tell her she has lost all perspective.
Forget what you think you know & do some research into what this virus is doing to young healthy people’s bodies.
amp.centredaily.com/sports/college/penn-state-university/psu-football/article245448050.html?__twitter_impression=true

Why does it matter? If they all use soap it will deactivate any virus so it's not like the bowl will be full of virus. Presumably they arent all using the bowl at the same time?

Neither DC has gone back to school yet, but bury school have newsletters with photos of their new outside sink-troughs for mass handwashing.

Actually if they are using soap well, sharing a bowl shouldn't matter as soap will neutralise the virus.

[quote mac12]Bless you @Advicewouldbeappreciated how wise you are. My friend spent yesterday in hospital having her young previously healthy primary aged child’s heart checked as a result of post covid complication. I shall be sure to tell her she has lost all perspective.
Forget what you think you know & do some research into what this virus is doing to young healthy people’s bodies.
amp.centredaily.com/sports/college/penn-state-university/psu-football/article245448050.html?__twitter_impression=true[/quote]
Well no need to patronise. That is awful for your friend but I bet you don't know any other small child who has complications. I hope her child recovers.
It is very rare. We can't keep them in forever. There are risks associated with getting in a care with long term implications. They are just perceived as low enough to be worth the risk. The same is true for school and work.
People should be given the option to lockdown forever if they want. Then everyone else can get on with it.

*car

I think that anyone who thought these issues would not arise in schools, and that schools would be perfectly socially distanced once all children were back is not living in the real world.

Schools haven't suddenly been provided with a massive extra budget to put up extra hand washing basins and buy lorry loads of hand sanitizer.

Nor have they suddenly been able to magic up all of the extra space needed to allow proper social distancing, contrary to what the government and many parts of the media would have had us believe over the last few months.

I no longer have school age children, but my youngest is starting university next week and I fully expect that even there the systems simply won't work at all be perfect.

@Advicewouldbeappreciated

They can't be sterile though can they? I couldnt get worked up over this at all. Things have to go back to normal at some point despite some risk. Lets face it if one has it in primary they will all get it at that age playing together. One bowl or 50 bowls will make no difference. The media have done fine job terrifying people. 45000 deaths in our entire population most of whom were already ill or old. It is miniscule and people have lost all perspective or ability to think straight.

Lets face it if one has it in primary they will all get it at that age playing together.

You see, this I struggle with.
My ds has been shielding, he is medically vulnerable. The government and school try to reassure us it is safe...not because, they will 'all get it', but because they are supposedly putting in as many measures as they can to make school 'Covid safe' (...highly unrealistic, I know). To the extent that if I don't feel it is Covid safe and decide to take ds out, I will be fined.

Now if ds gets it, because, 'well they'll all get it'....what will that do to his already scarred lungs, his asthma, his chronic inflamed gastric system, the hole in his heart??
We have done many times in hospital with him holding oxygen masks to his face, pinning him down to get a cannula in. We do desperately want to avoid him being hit by this virus (which we are still learning about...how it spreads, how it affects adults and children, long term after effects, and best treatments).

I get that it is rare for children to get very ill with it, I get that it is rare for children to die from it...honestly, I get rare....I get it, because ds is rare.