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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:
LucyMaxwellDM · 20/02/2021 19:31

1 for my kids. Maybe a 5 for staff catching it. Around a 7 for the R number increasing and lockdown not being relaxed.

Jazzy1814 · 20/02/2021 19:41

1 but me and dh are 30 so low risk. I work in a supermarket and dh travels to london for work daily so we’ve always been at risk of catching it. We don’t see any one else to pass it onto and even if we were aloud it would just be my immediate family all of who have already had corona see including my at risk dad and pregnant sister. It really is down to personal circumstances no one is right for their choices and no one is wrong!

Lindy2 · 20/02/2021 19:50

I would be quite worried about the risk of my children catching Covid at school. During the Autumn term I was really on edge and quite anxious a lot of the time. This was particularly so as both my children's schools had quite a lot of cases with a real explosion in numbers in December when the Kent variant appears to have reached us. Our local area had a massive escalation in numbers in December.

It turns out the explosion in cases near us actually put my DH at the most risk and he caught the virus at work in January.

We've all had Coronavirus now because of that, and although it's been a very grim time, one of the plus sides is I'm actually a lot less stressed about my children returning to school.

They need to be back and now they have had Coronavirus they are hopefully safer. DH and I should also be safer too. The restrictions do feel somewhat unnecessary once you've actually had Coronavirus but obviously we are still sticking to all the rules regardless. Some of the anxiety I've had for the last year has however gone.

findingschools4myboys · 20/02/2021 19:52

1 for my kids.

Straycats · 20/02/2021 19:56

0 and I work in a preschool and have no concerns about Covid.

Monkeytennis97 · 20/02/2021 19:57

2 for the kids I teach.

9/10 for DH and I (unvaccinated secondary teachers late 40s some health issues).

AliceMcK · 20/02/2021 20:12

1

My dd had it a few weeks ago along with several other children in the school/area. Several of the children were asymptomatic same with some of the parents. One family only tested positive as the dad had to have a test to visit a client otherwise they may not have known for days. Apparently mum felt a bit fluey 5 days after testing positive and only 1 of 4 DCs was positive and had no symptoms at all. A number of other families had very similar stories, dad felt unwell tested positive, dc positive but only an upset tummy, mum was totally fine never got it even though she was taking care of them...My DD had a fever, bit of an upset tummy and pale but no worse than any other viral infection/flu. I think the rest of us had it but couldn’t get tested as I had no one to drop the tests off and we couldn’t go to the testing sites. We had a mix of flu like symptoms and tummy upsets. I have AI conditions so when I get sick I’m really unwell but I only felt rough for a few days and was still able to function, making meals etc..

Spidder · 20/02/2021 20:13

Dh and I had it this year. I'm more worried than I was, because it really knocked dh about and I'm scared he won't be able to fight it as well if he catches it again.

MuddyWalks · 20/02/2021 20:51

8 for me (TA)

5 for my kids - a 16 year old and a 13 year old with no underlying health conditions have died from COVID in the last 2 days.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/14110427/teen-16-no-health-conditions-dies-covid/amp/

kingat · 20/02/2021 21:03

2

Igglepigglesgrubbyblanket · 20/02/2021 21:12

1 in terms of disease, 6 in terms of general disruption.

Adirondack · 20/02/2021 23:36

8, because I know quite a few fit healthy parents in their 30s and 40s who have caught covid from their kids and now have long covid, and are v unwell

whenwillthemadnessend · 20/02/2021 23:49

2

musicalfrog · 20/02/2021 23:51

Get them back!

wasgoingmadinthecountry · 21/02/2021 00:02

8 for me - 57yo asthmatic unvaccinated teacher

4 for dd (17) - she's been doing brilliantly with home learning as her school have run all A level lessons live on timetable and she's very motivated with older siblings she can contact for essay help. More concerned she'll bring germs home - we already couldn't see my dad over Christmas at all as we were isolating due to outbreak at my school - his only bubble and he's 92 so that made me a bit sad.

I'm in school and not moaning but very very aware cleaning isn't adequate (we do it additionally ourselves am and pm - cleaner is fine, just not paid enough hours) and kw parents lie sending children in when other family members have symptoms. Children went out together sledging and snowman building too and a few are even having sleepovers. Sigh.

Tired1980 · 21/02/2021 00:04

About a 5

Bing12 · 21/02/2021 00:12

We won’t go back at the moment - does that mean I was off the scale? Long covid for kids and adults (10-15%) bother me, as does going back to square one if the virus is allowed to run wild asymptomatically and escape the virus.

I despair tbh. All this effort and Johnson (who cancelled the pandemic committee towards the end of 2019 😡) gets to roll the dice again. Not with my family’s health he doesn’t.

Bing12 · 21/02/2021 00:14

@allyjay

1 Not in the slightest bit worried
Can I ask how you manage not to have concerns about long covid or the virus evading the vaccine please?
FancySomeChips · 21/02/2021 00:16

8-9

Bing12 · 21/02/2021 00:16

@CornedBeef451

I am not an anxious person usually but I'm more like an 8 about them going back. It seems like madness to send them back if it's just the same as before.

I'm worried about DD getting it as she has asthma, Also worried about them bringing it home as who knows if you have an underlying health condition? I'm fat, DH has high blood pressure, DH plus DCs are BAME.

Last time they went back we didn't know anyone locally who had it. Now we know lots of people who've had it so I can't see how we can possibly avoid it.

I think all school staff should be vaccinated because we're expecting them to risk their lives to have our children in school, never mind about how many will be off sick and self isolating so kids won't be able to go and will be disrupted anyway.

At the very least we need fewer children in school, staff vaccinated, social distancing and anything else that might help. Sending them all back will be a shit show.

This! 🤞🤞🤞🤞 Thanks for explaining the realities so succinctly. We need mitigation, we can’t afford to just do the same thing again.
boon · 21/02/2021 00:17

8

Bing12 · 21/02/2021 00:18

I think we need to consider long covid as a really risk for children - google long covid kids.

BettyBoomerang · 21/02/2021 00:42

Yes, 9 down from 10 due to vaccination.

Not a lot of that worry is about the kids getting sick.

At the moment one of my biggest fears is that it will accelerate the spread of the virus and cause a vaccine escape mutant - followed by ANOTHER lockdown and a redo of the vaccination programme. I'm just praying the scientists and unions suppress Boris's revoltingly insensitive and stupid 'big bang'.

grassisjeweled · 21/02/2021 00:49

We live abroad and kids have been in since Jan 11

GintyMcGinty · 21/02/2021 00:53

1