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FFS I’ve got covid again

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MooPointCowsOpinion · 07/09/2021 20:12

Here’s my previous thread which ended with my coughing up blood and needing an ambulance twice when I caught covid as a teacher last year.
Back to school on the 1st sept and guess who caught covid again straight away?!
I think I need to leave teaching, literally not one union or leader or government member has talked about the level of risk for teachers. We have no social distancing, no ventilation and no masks this term.
Double vax’d, didn’t save me from catching it but I’m really hoping it will at least save me from hideous symptoms this time.

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MooPointCowsOpinion · 07/09/2021 20:55

@MissMaple82 actually after the first couple of years we tend to have stronger immune systems but yeah please continue to write off an entire profession. Who cares about teachers right? Let them die of covid or spend weeks gasping for air and unable to walk or talk or suffer with long covid for the rest of their lives. Who gives a shit Biscuit

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HailAdrian · 07/09/2021 20:59

@CheeseTiger

I worked in a supermarket for ten years before I trained as a teacher (and family still work in the retail sector). Hard work at times but I have to say I never spent six hours locked in a small unventilated room with a customer helping them go to the toilet and wiping their snot.

Does make me laugh how supermarket workers are always brought up on these threads.

No one bothers to mention hospitality staff either though, working in busy bars and restaurants and yes, sometimes having to get up close and personal with 'guests.'
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MooPointCowsOpinion · 07/09/2021 20:59

@noblegiraffe I think some SLTs got so excited at the fact they could get everyone in the hall now they didn’t really think much about if they should or if it would be safe. Definitely going to regret it, there are 5 of us off with covid now!

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LegendaryReady · 07/09/2021 21:02

[quote MooPointCowsOpinion]@noblegiraffe I think some SLTs got so excited at the fact they could get everyone in the hall now they didn’t really think much about if they should or if it would be safe. Definitely going to regret it, there are 5 of us off with covid now![/quote]
We didn't. We've been very aware that the majority of the staff cases have been adult to adult and still did INSET remotely.

User5827372728 · 07/09/2021 21:06

Wish my school had done it remotely, or at least it departments. Ours even got HR, caretakers, fiancé, exam officers in the 3 hour meeting, which mainly analysed out results… which we awarded anyway so knew!

ssd · 07/09/2021 21:15

@CheeseTiger

I worked in a supermarket for ten years before I trained as a teacher (and family still work in the retail sector). Hard work at times but I have to say I never spent six hours locked in a small unventilated room with a customer helping them go to the toilet and wiping their snot.

Does make me laugh how supermarket workers are always brought up on these threads.

Ive worked in a supermarket during this, its not remotely like a teacher or classroom assistant at all. School staff have been thrown to the dogs.
RoseWineTime · 07/09/2021 21:34

I’ve spent one day in the hall doing inset training and the other in my small office with 4 of us in total. Two have children with covid currently so will be interesting to see what happens. I really hope schools will be ok this time.

mrshoho · 07/09/2021 21:35

Oh no! Hope you recover well and the symptoms are far milder this time.

It's turning into a mess in our school and the kids have only been back 2 days! Who's idea was it allow household contacts of positive cases to come into schools??

maddy68 · 07/09/2021 21:36

I no longer teach in the UK. I teach in Spain all over 12s have has the opportunity to be vaccinated before going back to school. Almost 90% take up I feel so much safer here , masks are also worn

Didyousaynutella · 07/09/2021 21:37

You do realize everyone is getting it don’t you. Not just teachers. In the last month we have had it. I work in health care. Our cleaner has had it. A freind that works in an office has had it. A friend on mat leave. A friend in the police. Need I go on. Teaching and covid are not mutually exclusive.

mrshoho · 07/09/2021 21:59

@Didyousaynutella

You do realize everyone is getting it don’t you. Not just teachers. In the last month we have had it. I work in health care. Our cleaner has had it. A freind that works in an office has had it. A friend on mat leave. A friend in the police. Need I go on. Teaching and covid are not mutually exclusive.
how profound...

When the schools end up shutting you won't be too surprised then.

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MooPointCowsOpinion · 07/09/2021 22:01

@Didyousaynutella ah great. Thanks. Really glad you’ve showed up to list everyone you know who has had covid. The teaching profession will just head on in to those tiny, stuffy rooms for 5 hours a day with 32 kids breathing on them with no masks and no social distancing, safe in the knowledge that your cleaner has had covid.
Jesus fucking wept.

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BuddleiasBeesAndButterflies · 07/09/2021 22:02

To be fair I think you've just been unlucky. I've worked in school throughout the pandemic and didn't catch covid, then typically break up for the summer, two weeks into the holidays I catch it and feel rotten for the rest of the holidays. I can't have caught it from school. So many other people I know have also had it over the past month. Having said that I do work in primary which I feel is less effected than secondary.

I hope you aren't feeling too poorly and get better soon

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MooPointCowsOpinion · 07/09/2021 22:02

@LegendaryReady wish I worked at your school!!

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Mossstitch · 07/09/2021 22:20

This is concerning me, wish I hadn't read it as I was feeling much safer lately. I work in healthcare, direct patient contact and over 60. Caught covid before first lockdown and got long covid quite badly, unable to work for a year. Been back now for a few months but its been a struggle, slowly getting better but still not 100% back to normal, and initially paranoid about getting it again so continually monitoring the situation. I'd say at least 80% of my team had it in first wave and so far I haven't heard of anybody having it a second time, even staff working on covid wards including two of my adult children who both had it in the first wave and have worked front line throughout.

thelastgoldeneagle · 07/09/2021 22:26

But why the fuck are schools having huge Inset days with everyone in one room and no ventilation??? We KNOW that good ventilation is an easy way to limit the spread of Covid. Stupid decision by SLT.

MarieMoss · 07/09/2021 22:34

@thelastgoldeneagle

But why the fuck are schools having huge Inset days with everyone in one room and no ventilation??? We KNOW that good ventilation is an easy way to limit the spread of Covid. Stupid decision by SLT.

Absolutely. They probably wanted to make the point that Covid is no longer a problem in schools and it is now back to business as usual 🙄

Didyousaynutella · 07/09/2021 22:34

But op do you not get that every other person got covid and they didn’t equate it to their profession, they just got it, because everyone is getting it, in offices, in supermarkets, through contact with their kids or friends. I’ve had covid twice now too. If you want to leave the profession then leave but don’t pretend you won’t get covid if you do.

CaptSkippy · 07/09/2021 22:36

Flowers OP. That really sucks. I hope it won't be so bad for you this time as it was the last. For some people vaccines do not create enough immunity against COVID.

I think in your place I'd get out of teaching if I could.

Marcee · 07/09/2021 22:36

Hopefully you wont be as unwell

From your post it seems you only found out you have cos someone asked you to test- you hadnt felt unwell/ or had symptoms that made you think you had covid.

You've been double- vaxxed and also had It before so hopefully your immune system will do its job and you wont be as unwell.

It's likely you've caught it again as it's a different variant- so delta variant whereas all those months ago it would have been the original or the Kent variant circulating.

Ive just had covid- I assume the delta variant. Main symptoms were a runny nose, extreme tiredness, aches and pains in body. I was doublevaxxed and now improved significantly, hopefully it'll be the same for you especially as you've had it before and are double- vaxxed

tedsletterofthelaw · 07/09/2021 22:37

Oh that's crap Thanks

Assume you are double jabbed? Hopefully you have a decent amount of antibodies from vaccine and previous infection and can fight it off quickly.

Get well soon xx

coldtenant · 07/09/2021 22:38

You need a new job OP. If you think for a second you are in a profession that’s more risk than so many others then are are wrong.

cheeseismydownfall · 07/09/2021 22:45

It's being taken seriously in our secondary school, but there is very little guidance available to schools other than the blanket DfES policy.

Following dozens of positive cases within the first week, our head has taken the decision to reimplement certain social distancing measures, masks etc. However she has had to make these decisions alone - when seeking guidance from the local authority and then higher up the chain, there is literally NO official guidance on what the protocols should be implemented in the event of an outbreak. None. As a school governor and parent I found this really shocking.

Hadenoughcrap2 · 07/09/2021 22:57

I can sympathise.

I'm CEV. Had covid last year, not bad enough for hospital, but not far off. I couldn't string 2 words together as I was so breathless, my O2 sats were as low as 88% at one point.
I'm double vaccinated as of April this year and I tested positive again at the start of September.
I've not been as ill this time though, although my O2 sats have been a low as 92% at times.

NCBlossom · 07/09/2021 23:11

I’m sorry you are ill, that is rubbish.

I still don’t think we should be at the ‘we will all get Covid’ so don’t complain/do anything to protect ourselves stage.

Especially now with all the additional winter viruses coming in!

I know it is much, much better being fully vaccinated. I feel much safer. However it is still too early to be piling a load of teachers / students into unnecessary closed indoor spaces all together. It’s a bit stupid! Taking good precautions is still wise.

Covid is a marathon and we still have some things to learn, some way to go, cautious is best in my book!