Is there actual evidence that school gates are a huge transmission risk?

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Nicola Sturgeon had a wee dig about parents socialising at the school gates at pick up and drop off as part of the announcement of early years going back next week.

Is there actually any evidence this is a major transmission area?? We had to wear facemasks, keep apart, staggered starts and we're all outside anyway?

And if there is evidence then surely, if school is really their priority they say it is, this is such an easy thing to marshall.

Or is she just having a dig, playing the blame game, it's you stupid parents fault that schools are closed

It's laughable really, we stand perfectly apart everyone wears a mask yet inside teachers sending kids out chatting with each other/ children with no masks.
and this isn't a dig a teachers, it's the same with loads of workplaces, outdoors clearly is nowhere near the issue of indoors but yet we don't seem to be getting this.

If an alien was looking down on us who understood the virus what must they be thinking.

They should be encouraging people to get outside and have a distanced chat in the wind.

Immunity up due to exercise and social interaction whilst in a low risk situation for virus transmission. When it gets sunny in April people will get vitamin D too.

The wider health effects of guilting people into indoor solitude are being ignored.

It's psychologically unhealthy too.

Read some of the comments on here, people perfectly happy to say if the schools are open they will socialise indoors, those are the people who are the "school gate" problem: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4167639-Next-weeks-announcement-wont-be-the-good-news-we-think-itll-be.

So indoor mixing is the issue to be addressed.

It's a government communication failure then! I didn't get the nuance - I took it at face value that it was actual school gate interactions

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But Rockbird that's an anecdotal observation - is that sort of behaviour really causing an increase in cases? Or is it just supposition? And is it really in such large numbers or just the same people all the time?

My experience as a parent was the opposite - vast majority of parents keeping a distance and frankly not hanging around.

And if parents are mingling dangerously why can't council staff don some bibs and tell people to move along? Not legally enforceable but it works for supermarket queues. If it really is indeed a problem,

It was happening at all the schools around here I'm afraid as well as many just blatantly ignoring not wearing masks in school

They need to accept that parents socialising goes hand in hand with schools opening. It ain’t just at the school gates either - believe me!