Anyone with a keyworker school place or nursery place had a burst bubble?

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All this close everything for everyone. Has there been cases at your child KW school or nursery since Christmas ? Both mine absolutely fine so far.

Yep!
My school has already had three bubbles burst and this is the first time we’ve had COVID in school. Another parent tested positive so the bubble with that child is fine but we are on ‘high alert.’
A colleague has had to go home as her daughter’s bubble burst with a child testing positive and my cousin’s school has just closed their nursery class with a positive child.
So looking forwards to work tomorrow 🙈

I'm a TA and our year 6 bubble for KW children has just had to close today as we have had a positive test. I'm gutted for the children who were working ever so well under these difficult circumstances. I have no idea how their kw parents will cope.

DD is Y1, has been at school throughout due to KW parents, never had to isolate. Same for DS2, he is 3 and in nursery FT. not one case and we are in a high transmission area

@ChablisandCrisps

Not one tested case. 1/3 of people have no symptoms.

Indeed, but still no bubbles closing and no ill children or teachers. We have been very lucky. My workplace has been rife, but that's a different story due to impossibility of social distancing and poor ventilation.

Yes, after 4 days. A child tested positive.

@Ellieboolou33

It does make me wonder as a friend of mine sent a swab back and she didn't swab, it came back positive!

This has been doing the rounds for ages. It’s a load of bollocks.

Yes first time this week throughout all of this and my 3 children have attended even through the first lockdown. I am a bit cross as the school is full of kids who just shouldn't be there ( a hairdresser's daughter for instance!) I know there is nothing to say this wouldn't of happened any way but it just increases the chance the more children who attend.

My child’s small nursery was fine until Nov, then x3 bubbles bursting since then with us affected by x1 of those.

Yes, we have 3 out of 5 bubbles currently closed. I think it’s going to be constant in/out over the next month at least.

@Frazzlefrazle
am a bit cross as the school is full of kids who just shouldn't be there ( a hairdresser's daughter for instance!)
She isn’t there because her Mum is a keyworker, she might have a place because she’s SEND or vulnerable, you don’t know why she’s there.

We've had two staff test positive this term but our HT insists they haven't been within 2 meters of anyone else for more than 15 minutes, so no bubbles officially burst. Parents won't realise as staff are off ill because staff have been shuffled round to cover each other anyway. We're all wearing masks now.

Nothing this term and all lateral flow tests ( special school with secondary age pupils) were negative. Last school cases were in October.

All staff in masks as well as any pupils that want to.

@Luckyrabbitfoot you can try it yourself, I know several who have.

[quote Ellieboolou33]@Luckyrabbitfoot you can try it yourself, I know several who have.[/quote]
Oh it’s several now?

@Luckyrabbitfoot yes, once I heard I told my family and my brother did it, came back positive.

I'm not denying covid at all, just that these figures are over inflated. The media hype and hysteria is out of control.

[quote Ellieboolou33]@Luckyrabbitfoot yes, once I heard I told my family and my brother did it, came back positive.

I'm not denying covid at all, just that these figures are over inflated. The media hype and hysteria is out of control.

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Who were the other people? You said several. Did it happen between your first and second post on this thread. Strange you didn’t mention it then.

[quote Ellieboolou33]@Luckyrabbitfoot yes, once I heard I told my family and my brother did it, came back positive.

I'm not denying covid at all, just that these figures are over inflated. The media hype and hysteria is out of control.

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Yet I don't know a single person where this has happened. Only ever heard from social media and MN that 'a friend of mine had this happen' type scenarios.
First of all - WhY in earth are people wasting so many swabs doing this?! What kind of people are these?
Secondly, it's been shown that false positives are very low. You are more likely to get a false negative than a false positive. And if you ass the quick fire tests in then there are even more likely to produce a false negative.

I know of one potential 'false negative' - person tested negative initially, but had a repeat test as symptoms increased and it was positive, most likely their first test was done too early though.

I also know of two people who have tested negative despite having the classic symptoms, and one of those had definitely had close contact with a positive case. Did they get false negatives? Who knows?

But chances are the 'false positives' you're seeing so many of are being far outweighed by the known number of false negatives that have happened.

None of our yet but 1/2 the staff had it over Christmas so probably why

At my school, no burst bubbles since Christmas.

However all classes burst last term and all classes had at least one period of self isolation. Approx 3/4 of staff, several parents and pupils, ended up catching covid. That was over a 6-8 week period in October and November, so maybe we are still in a bit of a 'safe' period at school right now.

@Luckyrabbitfoot not as strange as the no swab but positive results.

As for wasting swabs, all the waste that the government has made is a drop in the ocean.

[quote Ellieboolou33]@Luckyrabbitfoot not as strange as the no swab but positive results.

As for wasting swabs, all the waste that the government has made is a drop in the ocean. [/quote]
What made them decide to order a swab then decide to send it back unused? Trying to prove that it happens? How lucky then that THEY were the apparent few who came back positive.

Or does it happen to everyone? Are the government submitting thousands upon thousands of unused tests to the labs to justify a lockdown? Why would they be allowing Joe public to partake in this mass attempt at hoodwinking the British public?
Why aren’t you rushing to the newspapers to expose this farce?

Your story has more holes than a colander. It’s bollocks - I know it, you know it, and hopefully everyone who reads this knows it.

My child not in school, but yes, had an email to say 1 bubble gone already.

But then over 50% of children are in school so not surprising

Yep. 3 children, 3 different schools and 2 of them have had to close the keyworker bubble already.