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School - how worried are you 1-10?

546 replies

ChanceChanceChance · 10/09/2020 21:55

I'm finding it impossible to settle on how worried I am about school, about whether my children will pick up covid there and how worried I am if that happens.

If you were to put your worry on a scale 1-10, with 1 being 'no more worried than a normal year' and 10 being 'terrified', where are you?

I think I'm going for an average of 6 right now.

OP posts:
frankie246 · 31/10/2020 00:09

I'm about a 7. I worry about the long term effects for my child. I have ms and it is now known that having a certain virus when I was young set the wheels in motion for me now having multiple sclerosis. Viruses break down the blood brain barrier and can causes problems. I am quite shocked that some people are so dismissive about a novel virus when it's only been around a year.

ZenNudist · 31/10/2020 00:16

1 for covid
10 that they have to have any more time off isolating if there's another case

alloutofducks · 31/10/2020 08:35

@NinetyNineRedBalloonsGoBy

Covid = 1 Disruption to education and negative impact on dc's mental health = 10
Same here.
Dragongirl10 · 31/10/2020 08:52

I am very surprised at the 1/2 responses as although children and teens are unlikely to be very ill, they will bring it home to all of us.
In fact as they are likely to not show symptoms we will easily be infected.

This is why l am at 9 and may remove my Dcs in the coming weeks.

If l got ill for more than a couple of weeks, my new business could collapse, which could be catastrophic financially.
There wouldn’t be anyone to care for my Very elderly parents ( mum with dementia) who live with us.
My life like many others takes a lot of physical energy and organisation, how would you all manage if you, DH, DP, other dependants got really ill?

Eyewhisker · 31/10/2020 08:53

1

Whatchasayin · 31/10/2020 09:03

1

museumum · 31/10/2020 09:10

2/3 but my child is in primary

I’d be a bit more worried about teenagers catching it and bringing it home. Primary kids don’t really seem to spread it.

Aragog · 31/10/2020 09:58

Primary kids don’t really seem to spread it.

I most likely caught Covid, with its ongoing complication, from inside my primary school where the only people I have close contact with are numerous infant school age children. Outside of school the only person I have had close contact with is Dh, who has had no symptoms and no contact with anyone with symptoms or positive tests.

In my school 10 staff and several parents have tested positive within three weeks. Most of these staff have no adult close contact due to our class and year group bubbles. The staff are SDing, lunches are spent separately, meetings are done from classrooms over zoom. Parents from affected classes are also testing positive. We have no positive children as yet, that I'm aware of anyway. However we already know that most young children don't show symptoms particularly and therefore aren't being tested. So children may well have it whilst being in school.

I can't see how several teachers and several parents who aren't in close contact with one another have all tested positive within such a small time frame can be a coincidence.

So I'm not convinced in this whole idea that children don't spread it. Certainly more recent findings seems to be that they can indeed spread it.

IceCreamAndCandyfloss · 31/10/2020 11:20

I don’t buy the primary children don’t spread it either. It’s a virus, it’s job is to find new hosts. It doesn’t know not to infect someone under 11 or adapt so they can’t pass it on.

SmilingHappyBeaver · 19/02/2021 22:01

1

pourmeanotherglass · 19/02/2021 22:03

1

PinkFondantFancy · 19/02/2021 22:04
  1. There's been more dangerous viruses for children many years over the last few years and noone was worried then, mostly because they weren't told to be so scared I guess.
clopper · 19/02/2021 22:06

1

PinkFondantFancy · 19/02/2021 22:06

@Dragongirl10 that's a permanent risk with life. Every time you get in a car, something might happen but you crack on. You get sickness insurance, life insurance and then you hope for the best. Tomorrow is promised to none of us (sorry to be so morbid)

icantthinkofanamehelp · 19/02/2021 22:06

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Dustyboots · 19/02/2021 22:07

I'm worried - mostly because I think government are going to send them all back on 8 March in a Big Bang www.theguardian.com/education/2021/feb/19/whitty-at-odds-with-johnson-over-big-bang-reopening-of-schools-in-england

I think we'll be back to lock down within a months or two. Further evidence that our government is clueless, reactionary and populist.

pourmeanotherglass · 19/02/2021 22:08

Not worried about Covid. DH and i have neen vaccinated, DDs not vulnerable and have probably had it.
Worried for mental health if they dont go back. Neither of them have spoken to another teenager since end of term in December. DD1 seems really quiet and withdrawn.

MeMeMeYou · 19/02/2021 22:10

3 for the children. Not so much being ill but risk of long COVID as 1 in 7 who catch it, even if asymptomatic, can get long COVID.
5 for me and OH (both have other underlying conditions and awaiting vaccination hopefully group 6) and community spread of kids being back in general. It’s going to have an impact having 10 million kids back at sch circulating on the infection rates

Coasterfan · 19/02/2021 22:11
  1. I am slightly more worried than in normal times, as I don’t want them bringing it home. For context I was a 2 in September but more of an 8 in January 😀
Munkeenut · 19/02/2021 22:12
  1. Not in a CV group, may have already had it. I've been 1 since this all started. I'd be more worried about nits.
septemberismyfavouritemonth · 19/02/2021 22:12

1

Son was at school every day sept-dec, no disruption and very little throughout the rest of the school

TravellingTilbury · 19/02/2021 22:13

2
was an 8 about this time last year.

MySaladDays75 · 19/02/2021 22:15

1

Chickoletta · 19/02/2021 22:16

2

Ihatemyseleffordoingthis · 19/02/2021 22:19

My worry is that schools will go back to being the "vectors of transmission" we were clearly told they are and we will all end up locked down again.

I'm 50 and DH is badly asthmatic and overweight so I'd really rather we'd had a dose of the jab before they went back.

But equally, I'm desperate for my children to get back to school and be with their peers. And really for there to be a bit of life and hope for young people again.