If the government were honest about the next 4 months

[RuleWithAWoodenFoot]

They'd say that children are probably going to catch covid, there is nothing to stop this happening. Lots of families will probably catch it off their children, school staff will probably catch it off children too.

Education is going to be disrupted again if the above happens. No way around it. But it could be 'over' by November when the bad weather kicks in and older folk start getting ill as per usual circumstances. At that point booster vaccs could start.

It's definitely 'an approach', but not telling people that this is the plan is unfair. Do you think people have realised this yet? Or are the Emperor's new clothes still in view?

Your Nature article concludes

"Despite the very low death and intensive-care rates, Buonsenso hopes that schools will embrace measures such as masks and improved ventilation, and that parents will focus on immunization — for either their children, where possible, or themselves.

“When adults are immunized, fewer children are infected,” he says. “We need to do as much as possible to reduce COVID-19 infection in children.”

Do you agree with the article you have posted, Watapalava?

Not all of it no

But I’m a data person and the data says children are very low risk

When deaths from covid conditions to such a tiny % of the overall child deaths I do wander whey no one has said sod all before

But I’m a data person and the data says children are very low risk

...of death. Is that the only thing a parent might be concerned about?

touché Noble 👏

Long covid

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Because I am out there and living my best life (well, back at school)

More cherry picking going on I see and changing the subject rather than apologising when shown to have been wrong and insulting.

What is it you do Watapalava? Seems only fair to know given you have many opinions about our workplaces and their safety.

Honey

You wouldn’t belive me if I told you

Let me guess... PR for usforthem?

Are you Mrs Gavin Williamson??

Can't be any more unbelievable than you thinking everyone in the country is within walking distance of a test centre and anyone using postal testing is just trying to take (made up amount of) time off work and then not even apologising or admitting your mistake when various posters explained the reality.

Why not try us and see.

@Lumpyfloor
Did these people have Covid before around Christmas? A large number of Y6 caught Covid at the end of term and one of the children had already had it in December as well.

Sorry, the back to school madness has limited my Mumsnet use! One of them caught Covid last summer (maybeJune) and then the others were October/November. All recently reinfected.

Well done Noble for putting the Watapalava character in their place 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼