2 months to the vaccine - let parents decide

[herecomesthsun]

We only have 2 months to go (according to the BBC discussion I am listening to now).

The ministers are "very fearful" of the virus being out of control.

We have over 50k cases and 981 deaths today.

Why not give parents the choice about homeschooling while the vaccine is rolled out? (with social services supporting vulnerable children).

That way - parents & children who need schools open can get into schools

• vulnerable families who need to homeschool can homeschool

-schools are safer as fewer children are in

Fewer people die awaiting the vaccine.

Homeschooling could only be for a few weeks or months and children of responsible parents will be fine.

everybody wins

it is simple?

@herecomesthsun so you won’t be fully protected until may.

I agree!.
I am working from home and I can look after kids education to a good extent ( of what schools are doing now). Isnt it a help to teachers and govt when we dont make the crowd bigger?.

Why do they have to fine and take away the school place when we actually helping them!

What I don't understand is that on one hand we are told to follow the rules and that it is stupid to make our own risk assessments based on how we feel about our own families vulnerabilities. Then when it suits we should make our own risk assessments about whether to send children back to school. Are we following what the government says or not. People just manipulate everything to suit their own set of circumstances.

@TragedyHands

You don't have to send them in, just deregister and do it yourselves.

De-register. Oh, none of us here knew this brilliant 'option'. You so bright.

Parents who have any little reason to send... just send!.. why ask 'what about..'. OP dosnt know all the answers. If one thinks its not possible then children go in.
All she is posting is to give everyone a choice about their children being at school. What do some pps dont understand in this?

@Popcornriver

They won't give the choice because if they do Boris can't keep stating schools are safe. They're not safe and everyone with a bit of common sense knows they're going to further the spread. Cases and deaths will keep climbing. It means non covid deaths will rise too because there won't be enough staff to treat patients.

This is so true

[quote EasterIssland]@herecomesthsun so you won’t be fully protected until may.[/quote]
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/desperate-measure-desperate-times-regulator-recommends-single/

The question is, what is the effectiveness of that one dose. (Would like more data on that) Also what is the risk of hospitalisation and death,especially applied to CEV people.

I'm sure it is better than nothing though.

"Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed, chairman of the expert working group on Covid-19 vaccines, said: "We've come to the decision of an interval of between four to 12 weeks, based on the data that was presented to us.
"Because of the design of the trial, some people got second doses at different time intervals. This allowed an analysis of the effectiveness of the vaccine if you were to be able to delay between four to 12 weeks.

"This showed that the effectiveness was high, up to 80 per cent, when there was a three-month interval between the first and second doses, which is the reason for our recommendation." "