DS Class Bubble Closed Panic

[TrueTrianfle]

My DS (7) class bubble has closed due to one of his best friends testing positive for coronavirus this morning.

My DH was shielding until it was paused and I was always worried about sending the kids back to school. Now I feel sick. DS is going to have caught it isn't he? Someone talk me down please, the anxiety is awful this evening.

Shut up. But it is shit.

@TrueTrianfle I'm so sorry this has happened and can imagine it's stressful. I know lots of people who've isolated within a household and their families didn't catch it. Hang on to that.... it's not inevitable at all. And your DS might not even have caught it from his friend.

@cardibach agree with everything you've written. Schools should be funded to be safer. I'd support teachers striking over the fact their workplace is the only one where social distancing or masks / PPE not required. It's scandalous.

And I get that the whole idea is that the benefits to children outweigh the risks - but we're expecting teachers (and vulnerable parents) to take on super high risks to provide benefits to others. Which is at best very unfair. And unlikely to do much for long term teacher retention or the state education system in general for the foreseeable future.

Thanks @IloveJKRowling
Should have known you would be sound with a name like that.

I'm confused now. Can under 10s spread it as well as adults or not?

I agree schools should be much better protected. Must be awful to have to go to work in one knowing no one is doing anything useful to stop transmission in he workplace.

OP try not to worry the community data in the scientific papers I posted does show that infection (and hence transmission) is lower in the under 10s.

@Cardibach I do see where you are coming from and I agree that in secondary schools there is a huge issue with transmission however the OPs child is under 10 so I do not feel it is relevant to this post.

I hope your ds doesn't have it.

You can use this time at least to work out if you want to send him back in. There's no one right thing to.do, every family must fend for themselves given the government has let schools down

Unless you have someone very vulnerable in your family I wouldn't worry... It very rarely affects children at all and not a single child has died that didn't have a separate condition!

this must be so worrying for you. Fingers crossed that everything will be ok but it would be good to have a plan should this happen again.

@Forgone90

Unless you have someone very vulnerable in your family I wouldn't worry... It very rarely affects children at all and not a single child has died that didn't have a separate condition!

There is stuff from America around children and long covid so I am undecided about whether it 'rarely affects children at all'.

Deaths, yes, very very very rare.

This research is also reassuring for primary aged children
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-children-transmission-adults-french-study-a9582976.html

All the classes sent home locally have isolated without developing symptoms. The only case I know where transmission has occurred is a teacher who has tested positive after one of her sixth former students.