Schools and covid

[lambsandlion]

So for all of you pressing for schools to open fully. I now have tested positive after teaching a child identified with covid a few days before (yet still sent in to school) Is this o.k? Am I an acceptable casualty so that people don't have to home-school? and yes I do have children myself (and am home-schooling)

No this isn't ok.

Of course parents want their children in school.

But most only want it if it's safe for staff and children because they can carry Covid and spread in household.

So at the moment, we are happy the kids are home, well not happy but you know, understanding it's unfair for all to have them in.

No it's not acceptable. I feel there is a growing acceptance within government that teachers need to be vaccinated once the vulnerable are done.

I think teachers, and all teaching staff, should be vaccinated. Now.

for you and I hope you're better soon. What selfish dicks that child's parents are.

I work in a factory. 19 people at my workplace have tested positive. I still have to go in or I don't get paid. No one seems bothered about factories though and how easily Covid spreads there.

It’s not acceptable. I’m in school tomorrow, knowing that staff who were there last week tested positive over the weekend, so there’s every chance that pupils have it and are asymptomatic. I’m scared, but I have to do it.

It is not acceptable that school staff have to work in small rooms with groups of people with no safety measures such as masks and social distancing.

Have you ordered anything online other than food since March? How is it OK for someone to risk their health going to a warehouse to pack it for you and several other people risk their health to ship it to your door?

@Waxonwaxoff0

I work in a factory. 19 people at my workplace have tested positive. I still have to go in or I don't get paid. No one seems bothered about factories though and how easily Covid spreads there.

This.

Over 3.6 million people in the UK have tested positive for covid, countless numbers of those will have caught it in their place of work.

I hope you feel better soon.

I'm confused why the child was in if they had Covid?

@Tryingtryingandtrying

I'm confused why the child was in if they had Covid?

That's simple surely? Some parents don't care.

Well here is the answer but I bet there will whinging refuseniks

@EmmanuelleMakro

Well here is the answer but I bet there will whinging refuseniks

In English please?

No ok - the family of the child should be fined. 💐💐for you.

Ah, one has popped up already! Never takes long for the negative brigade to arrive

@Waxonwaxoff0

I work in a factory. 19 people at my workplace have tested positive. I still have to go in or I don't get paid. No one seems bothered about factories though and how easily Covid spreads there.

My husband also works in a factory where social distancing is all but non existent. No one has tested posting as yet but I'm more worried about him bringing it home than myself working in a school!

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@idontgetpaidenoughforthis yep. There have been more cases at my work than there have at my DS's school. Yes factories are a bigger space but that equals more people. 150 of us in one room. And I know a lot of people aren't following the rules and are seeing family and friends in their homes. Most people don't even bother trying to social distance either. Someone this week was kicking off about having to wear a mask when moving around.

Still none the wiser as to wtf you are on about, @EmanuelleMakro. You seem to be having a secret conversation with yourself!

It isn't ok that anyone catches covid at work but if we each want to pay the mortgage, we have to work. . At least you still have your job !

Are you under 40, and otherwise healthy? I hope you feel better soon

@EmmanuelleMakro

Well here is the answer but I bet there will whinging refuseniks

You'll categorise me as a "whinging refusenik" (I teach teenagers so you'll have to do better if you want to upset me) It's a stupid idea, ill thought out and probably unachievable. I should not be vaccinated as a priority above those who are medically vulnerable. Even if I was (and I'm in a trial so may already have been), it would neither stop me catching it or stop me passing it on. So school "bubbles" will still burst. It's also not why schools are running remotely.

We are waiting for DPs test results. Both of us teach in different secondaries. A child at DPs school was in Monday-Tuesday, postive result arrived Wednesday with symptoms starting on the prior Sunday but still went to school. DP started with a fever yesterday and I pretty much had to carry him to the car this morning for his test. Students and staff wear masks at all times unless sat at their individual computer (alone, not with staff near them) or when eating, but it has been like that for months as he works in Bolton.

We go nowhere but school and our DDs are not in school (we do rota days on different days), so it is pretty obvious where it has come from. DP and 3 other members of staff where in the room with said child on Monday, another has had a blinding headache since Friday night so has also gone for a test now. He has a 5 month old

My brother caught it at work, he fixes cars. Is it acceptable for him to catch it because people can’t fix their own cars?

My uncle works in construction, also caught it at work - is that an acceptable risk because people want to live in new build houses?

Local tesco express had an outbreak amongst staff too, why is that an acceptable risk so that people can still have food?

It’s not ideal that people are catching it at work and there are no ‘acceptable casualties’ but the country needs to continue to run, people need to work to pay the bills and there’s an easily transmittable virus circulating - so its going to happen unfortunately.

Nurseries are still open to all children, we provide personal and physical care. Why should a teacher get it before nursery staff?