Child in DD class has Covid-19

[Vestandpants]

He’s tested positive on Friday, poor thing is feeling so poorly.

They only went back on Thursday so I’m wondering if he picked it up beforehand?

Anyway, I’m to keep our DD off for 14 days now.
My question is do I have to stay off work?
I genuinely can’t afford the bills if I have to stay off as my work don’t pay me if I’m off.

Should I just go to work and only take time off if my own DD shows symptoms (very tempted)

Help!

@Nicedayforawedding

Surely this doesn’t take into account the fact that a great number of people are asymptomatic carriers. If everyone is tested at least school would know it’s safe.

That's what the 14 days isolation is for. If anyone in the class catches it asymptomatically, they won't be able to pass it on for the next 14 days as they're isolated. They don't need testing too.

Obviously the caveat is they could pass it on to family but there has to be a cut off somewhere where we say the risks are low. Or whole chains of people could be isolating unnecessarily. It's just a balance of risk.

@MRex I understood that part that it is her DD that has been exposed not OP.

Also you come across as slightly rude in your post i was asking not telling.

That’s how it works in my work place. If my child had been exposed to a positive case I wouldn’t be able to return to work and then Phone in sick when I started developing symptoms at a later stage. Even without displaying symptoms you are still contagious.

I have clearly misunderstood.

Op who will look after your dd if you go to work?

So tough. It’d be good to get a sense of how many children do get it after one case in a class (ie data in general).

What might be an idea if your DD is having to isolate is to be a bit mindful of your contact with her over the next 2 weeks. I don’t mean lock her in her room, but maybe reduce the face to face cuddles and kisses, maybe kisses on the top of the head instead. Ventilate the house more, be more aware of what she is touching. Up the hand washing.

Not only can you go to work, but really you have to. Hopefully your DD will be fine, but given the incubation period she could show symptoms in 13 days time - and then you would have to isolate for 14 days (unless she tested negative). So suddenly two weeks isolation becomes four weeks. I assume that’s more or less the thinking behind not requiring the household to isolate, it just becomes unworkable, and the harder it is to comply with the rules the less likely that people will even try.

No you don't have to isolate OP. I think some posters need a refresher course in the rules

It sounds like the school however could have been a bit clearer in their messaging and told parents that only the children need to isolate and avoided some of the Facebook kicking off. Although if the children in question are KS1 maybe they're kicking off because they'll have to stay at home to look after them?

[quote Neversayn1]@mrshoho my child DS starts school on Monday.

But I’ve been Wondering how it would work for the teachers and TA if a child in their class tested positive.

I’m shocked (if I have understood correctly) that’s it’s fine for you to continue to work. Surely does that defeat the object or anybody in the school isolating.

I work in a totally different setting but there no way I would be allowed to work if I came into contact with a positive case.

I’m sure headteachers are under huge pressure but it shouldn’t be up-to them to set medical protocols.[/quote]
But everyone has to isolate if they are a contact of a positive case. That’s not any kind of rule unique to your work. You seem to be missing that the OP isn’t the contact - her CHILD is - so the OP doesn’t have to isolate. That’s how it works.

@guilttripjourno

Due to this selfish attitude Covid 19 will not be controlled. If you worked at my workplace, I would be praying for everyone's safety.

Complete over reaction.

Where I work my employer has a policy on this level of contact - that'd be indirect contact and you'd need to wear N95 PPE (which our employer supplies only when they deem necessary but would provide here) at all times including breaks (except when alone in a room or outdoors able to maintain 2 meters of social distance) until both you and your daughter had two negative test results from tests taken 3 days apart. We've had this situation (though involving a colleague's partner working with a client who tested positive, not a child) and colleague is not required to quarantine, but to wear the PPE.

You don't need to isolate as long you socially distance from your DD during her period of isolation and she doesn't develop any Corona related symptoms. If you choose to ignore social distancing you then need to isolate as you do if she (or any other member of your household) develops symptoms. If after developing symptoms a negative test is returned your DD will have to complete her 14 day period of isolation but the rest of the household will be able to stop isolating.

@UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme
To be honest with those rules in place your employer needs naming and shaming and I hope they are paying for private tests rather than expecting employees to waste NHS capacity on tests they shouldn't be taking. The public have quite specifically been told that they shouldn't be using N95 masks as they are needed for health professionals and tests aren't appropriate following close contact with someone who later tests positive except when symptoms develop.

It's fucking idiotic. One tests positive, the whole class of 30 then has to isolate for 2 weeks, parents losing out on work potentially etc. As it is im down three weeks pay because of this shit. Fucking sick of this fearful covid shit.

@YouJustDoYou

It's fucking idiotic. One tests positive, the whole class of 30 then has to isolate for 2 weeks, parents losing out on work potentially etc. As it is im down three weeks pay because of this shit. Fucking sick of this fearful covid shit.

My school rules are the whole bubble isolates for 15 days if 1 child tests positive.

Our bubbles are 120 kids.

(Yes this is a primary school and yes I've read all the letters to confirm this is correct)

Many schools are just doing contacts if they get one positive test and then possibly bursting the bubble if get a second positive.

StatisticalSense not in the UK. Employer is healthcare and we are all tested regularly at their expense.

Crunchy that’s crazy, not what’s meant to happen, I assume it’s state

StatisticalSense and her DD is KS1 which means she's between 5 and 7 years old doesn't it! What are you thinking implying that if she goes within 2 meters of her small child she's at fault! Socially distancing from your own child at that age is an inhuman suggestion!

It's fucking idiotic. One tests positive, the whole class of 30 then has to isolate for 2 weeks, parents losing out on work potentially etc. As it is im down three weeks pay because of this shit. Fucking sick of this fearful covid shit.

I was beginning to wonder if it is really anything to worry about... but then I saw two nurses donning plastic aprons and masks to visit the 50 year old lady across the road who ended up in ICU with covid back in March and despite making it home 9 weeks later, is clearly still not 100% now in September.

All well and good calling the OP selfish but she doesn't have much choice unless she wants to be homeless does she?! There are so many people who just don't have the savings for an unprecedented situation like this, and most employers don't care. What a nightmare. I'd go to work OP, the rules say you can.

@MarshaBradyo

Crunchy that’s crazy, not what’s meant to happen, I assume it’s state

Yep state and yep absolutely insane.

I have another child in a different bubble of 120 kids as well (same school so same ludicrous rules!!)

*My school rules are the whole bubble isolates for 15 days if 1 child tests positive.

Our bubbles are 120 kids.

(Yes this is a primary school and yes I've read all the letters to confirm this is correct)*

This has happened at a primary school near us. One child has tested positive and the whole year group of 90 children have to self isolate for 14 days. The children have been back at school for 3 days 🤦‍♀️

It’s weird how the rules differ and I agree that 90 kids at home for 1 Case is bonkers. Clearly that school is not expecting almost anyone in at any one time.
However it was my understanding -possibly wrongly- that it was up the local ph teams (I.e council) to decide if and when a bubble needed to shut town, not the school. That is certainly what our head has suggested but suppose it could vary by area.

Frazzled yep you’re right. Also it’s meant to be close contacts only, not automatically whole bubbles.

Two midlands schools. Kingshurst and The Radley's.

Regarding the Radleys school that is bonkers. All of ks2 isolating because a staff member who has not had any contact with any kids is positive ?? Blimey. God help us all.