Be honest - what would you ACTUALLY do in this situation?

[ChampagneTastes]

Friends with a lovely, sensible mum at the primary school where DS goes. This morning she told me they'd got there early because her DS had been coughing all night. I gently suggested that perhaps she should get him tested and she said it was fine because her other son had had a cold the previous week. I pointed out that Covid seems to present differently all over the place and it might be worth checking. But I didn't do anything else. She's lovely, has been one of the more cautious parents at the school and is generally sensible but I can't help feeling she's got this one wrong and I don't know if I should do something. And if I should - what? The boy has gone into school today.

MarshaBradyo

“Great so not me then.“

So why the need to be so bloody rude, then?

I am not a curtain twitcher, I get no “glow” from reporting other people (I’ve reported no-one).

I have spent a year in fear of losing my husband though and our boy has given up a year of his life to protect him. He’s going back to College after Easter, unvaccinated. My husband has had his first jab, I had mine a week ago. Our son has asthma: not, supposedly, bad enough to entitle him to a vaccine yet but WTF knows? I sure as hell would want to know why anyone would send a child who had been “coughing all night” into College or school without a test.
We live in a society. I look out for other people even if it brings no direct benefit to me or mine and I expect others in that society to do the same.

Anyone who doesn’t is an arse.

@DenisetheMenace

MarshaBradyo

“Great so not me then.“

So why the need to be so bloody rude, then?

I am not a curtain twitcher, I get no “glow” from reporting other people (I’ve reported no-one).

I have spent a year in fear of losing my husband though and our boy has given up a year of his life to protect him. He’s going back to College after Easter, unvaccinated. My husband has had his first jab, I had mine a week ago. Our son has asthma: not, supposedly, bad enough to entitle him to a vaccine yet but WTF knows? I sure as hell would want to know why anyone would send a child who had been “coughing all night” into College or school without a test.
We live in a society. I look out for other people even if it brings no direct benefit to me or mine and I expect others in that society to do the same.

Anyone who doesn’t is an arse.

Probably because your first post was sarky about being in it together etc.

If you post like that you’re likely to get same in return

But no as I’ve said enough times school system is there, child will cough and teacher will pick it up and even better process to do PCR will be followed rather than LFT and return which has happened here.

I have had this situation twice. One time I took my children home with me (school marked it as authorised) and thankfully it was before Christmas holiday so was just one day, the other time I had a quiet word and the girl went home until she was tested so I left mine in school.

I don't think it helps that the LFT reporting website allows you to report tests for primary school children. (At least I assume it does as I've seen test results for children which have come from this)

Probably because your first post was sarky about being in it together hmm etc. “

No not sarky, I do believe were in it together because I live in and benefit from a society. Don’t you? That comes with responsibilities. One of which is following protocol when there’s a public health emergency. Most people, thankfully, feel the same way.

If another parent is too stupid or careless to keep a child with a continuous cough “(coughing all night” is a pretty good description of exactly that) at home until they’re tested and is putting others at risk, someone else needs to step in and report it.

Fuck all to do with curtain twitching and rosy glows.

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@DenisetheMenace

Probably because your first post was sarky about being in it together hmm etc. “

No not sarky, I do believe were in it together because I live in and benefit from a society. Don’t you? That comes with responsibilities. One of which is following protocol when there’s a public health emergency. Most people, thankfully, feel the same way.

If another parent is too stupid or careless to keep a child with a continuous cough “(coughing all night” is a pretty good description of exactly that) at home until they’re tested and is putting others at risk, someone else needs to step in and report it.

Fuck all to do with curtain twitching and rosy glows.

Protocols isn’t calling the school is it?

It’s keeping your own child home

It’s school recognising symptoms and acting on them

And it’s doing the right test

Also since I have kept dc home two out of three terms, sector hit hard and unlikely to see family for years I have low tolerance for people going on about a bloody phone call to give a child’s name to a school when, if they are ‘coughing everywhere’ as people say it will be picked up and tested the right way

There are plenty of posters who genuinely do not give a shit about the guidance go and berate them

I’m not berating you. Weirdly, I think we’re probably coming from roughly the same place.

Trouble is, by the time it’s “picked up” in school, how many others have already contracted Covid? It’s not good enough.

I apologise unreservedly for swearing at you.

I'd do nothing.