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twinkletoesimnot · 23/08/2021 07:24

Coronavirus: Young people warn of long Covid amid jab drive www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58301011

Article pushing younger people to get jabbed.
Sajid Javid even saying it's a risk for us all.....

We as a family have been lucky enough to avoid Covid so far. The new rules and school return make me feel very uneasy.

Is everyone REALLY ok with this headlong rush to infect our children that the government seem so hell bent on?

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GreenTortoise · 23/08/2021 07:46

Of course it's a risk for us all. It always has been.

That article interviewed only 3 people who are all 20+ with long COVID.

Schools will always be a hotspot for anything because there is so many of them there.

I get your worries around it but just before school ended it was rife so hopefully things could've calmed down a lot.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 23/08/2021 07:58

Yeah, I'm fine with it. DS 8 currently has Covid and he's barely suffering.

screwcovid · 23/08/2021 08:02

What are you talking about government hell bent on infecting our children ? What should we do wrap them up in cotton wool ? I am not scared of covid I am scared of flu /cancer my children getting !!!!!

FourTeaFallOut · 23/08/2021 08:05

I'd rather roll the dice with long covid than the cascade of unintended consequences from a decimated education.

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twinkletoesimnot · 23/08/2021 08:20

But why this all or nothing approach?

So much more could be done to ensure that children can be in school in a safer way.

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Legoninjago1 · 23/08/2021 08:32

I am very scared of schools closing ever again. I am no more worried about my children getting Covid than I am about them getting norovirus / tonsillitis etc etc.

OliveTree75 · 23/08/2021 08:36

@Legoninjago1

I am very scared of schools closing ever again. I am no more worried about my children getting Covid than I am about them getting norovirus / tonsillitis etc etc.
This
Malteser71 · 23/08/2021 08:38

What’s the point in them being vaccinated? The government will still deny them an education by closing the schools

FourTeaFallOut · 23/08/2021 08:40

I just want them in school. I would support extra measures in terms of improved ventilation in the classroom - but that hasn't happened. Am I ok going in to school - given the only pragmatic alternative in September is to not go in to school, then, yes...I'd make that trade any day.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 23/08/2021 08:41

@twinkletoesimnot

But why this all or nothing approach?

So much more could be done to ensure that children can be in school in a safer way.

How?
Lelivre · 23/08/2021 08:42

I was ok. But now I have seen some young people in my family get very sick and then suffer (what looks to be) long term issues am not at all comfortable sending them back.

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twinkletoesimnot · 23/08/2021 08:42

@Legoninjago1

I am very scared of schools closing ever again. I am no more worried about my children getting Covid than I am about them getting norovirus / tonsillitis etc etc.
So you think they are more likely to stay open by doing nothing at all and hoping for the best?

It's LESS than we have been doing ffs!
I don't want schools closed - not even sure I want kids vaccinated but my child sitting next to a child whose sibling has Covid makes me feel anxious!

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idontlikealdi · 23/08/2021 08:42

We all had covid in the last few weeks. Kids had a runny nose for a couple of days. That was it.

FourTeaFallOut · 23/08/2021 08:46

Yeah, it makes me anxious too. I'm cev and would rather not get the virus. But I'm still ok with it so long as they have a fighting chance at an education at school.

Volterra · 23/08/2021 08:52

I’m not very comfortable after my friend’s teen has developed what the paediatrician called ‘sticky blood’ after Covid (leukaemia scare initially) and it has triggered a thyroid problem so they have gone from doing lots of a sport to barely getting through the school day.

What the answer is I’m not sure but I would like to see something other than all in and pretend it’s not happening.

illuyankas · 23/08/2021 08:53

I am not ok. Recent studies shows deficit in brain function on recovered patients. Not something I want to happen to my child if avoidable.
Won't link it here since it's too creepy, but just seen the video of bat brain cells infected by covid. Don't want that to happen to anyone, especially my dc.

Shelovesamystery · 23/08/2021 08:54

@twinkletoesimnot

But why this all or nothing approach?

So much more could be done to ensure that children can be in school in a safer way.

Like what though? Realistically what can they do to stop kids from catching covid whilst also ensuring that they can go to school 5 days a week, every week of term? They could chuck money at schools (which would be brilliant) but the investment needed to have been made years ago. Classrooms are too small, class sizes are too big and there aren't enough teaching staff on the government's payroll. People bang on about ventilation but how much good is that really going to do when you've got 30 kids plus teaching staff in a small room?

I would absolutely love my dc to be in a class of 10-15 children, with loads of space in the classroom and doing plenty of learning outdoors. I would love that regardless of covid. But budget, space and British weather don't allow it.

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twinkletoesimnot · 23/08/2021 08:55

@Volterra
What the answer is I’m not sure but I would like to see something other than all in and pretend it’s not happening.

This.

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FourTeaFallOut · 23/08/2021 08:56

It's not all in and pretend it's not happening. It's being all in - knowing that there are negative consequences - rather than constructing some half-arsed hokey-cokey educational system which is just a comforting approximation of education, knowing all the negative consequences that follow and which can be mitigated only be the very privileged.

IncessantNameChanger · 23/08/2021 09:01

My daughter has missed so much infant schooling she can bearly read or write going into year two. I'm more scared of her being so far behind she is educationally fucked. Even my son who is now in a SEN school.could read and write better at her age.

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twinkletoesimnot · 23/08/2021 09:02

@Shelovesamystery

I agree ventilation will probably not be enough.
If there are even windows that open, not much learning happens when everyone is freezing - and I don't think it will stop someone catching Covid from the person they sit next to.

This next school year will be disrupted, if teachers are in and out with Covid, or have caring responsibilities for their own children then they won't be at school.

Kids will be in and out if they do get sick, then teachers will be trying to teach those in school and at home too - no easy task.

There's not enough supply teachers, probably no budget for them if any do want to come in.

I am glad some of your children have had it with no ill effects - I just don't think they will all be that lucky, and frankly using that 'I'm alright Jack attitude' is what has been unhelpful throughout Covid.

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LadyCatStark · 23/08/2021 09:04

Children can’t have a third year of education disrupted, we just have to get on with it.

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twinkletoesimnot · 23/08/2021 09:05

@LadyCatStark

Children can’t have a third year of education disrupted, we just have to get on with it.
It's more likely that they will by the approach we are taking.
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twinkletoesimnot · 23/08/2021 09:05

Or best case scenario disruption while Covid works it way through schools.

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Waxonwaxoff0 · 23/08/2021 09:07

So you want something to be done but you don't know what?

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