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Is it ok we are just letting our kids get Covid?

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Moonopoly · 21/09/2021 10:39

DD5 has just tested positive for Covid. There have been several cases in her Year 1 class but school remains the same. Under the old rules the ‘bubble’ would have closed and she would perhaps have stood some chance of not getting it.
Is it ok that we are letting the government pursue a herd immunity policy with a novel virus amongst our kids?
We seem to be the only country doing this?

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delilahbucket · 21/09/2021 10:41

We can't avoid it forever, zero Covid is not achievable. At some point, everyone will have had it, whether symptomatic or not.

AnyFucker · 21/09/2021 10:41

What would be the alternative ?

Skinnytailedsquirrel · 21/09/2021 10:43

It's not okay. Your child can pass the virus on. The virus can mutate.

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Moonopoly · 21/09/2021 10:45

@AnyFucker erm some mitigation like other countries? Masks? Better ventilation? Isolation for contacts?

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PoolNooodle · 21/09/2021 10:45

I’m happy with how things are now, before my children’s school was constantly closing and we were having to isolate constantly, once my son even had to do 4 weeks isolation pretty much back to back (back when it was 2 weeks) because he went to school someone tested positive he had to isolate, went back for 3 day’s only to be told someone else had tested positive so needed to isolate again 🙄 so I’m happy we aren’t having to do that anymore.

NannyOggsward · 21/09/2021 10:45

Yes, all 3 of mine, and me and 4 other members of my family currently have it after avoiding any cases really in the schools.

We can’t eradicate the virus forever, we don’t have a plan B if the vaccines fail, we can’t keep destroying the country trying to avoid illness and death or we cause more. Cancer victims, MH Issues, poverty etc.

The impact the isolation alone is having on my MH is far more dramatic than the symptoms of Covid.

We need to just let it run now, keep up the vaccination programme and only take action if it looks like the NHS might fall over (or better yet sort it out so they won’t!).

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Moonopoly · 21/09/2021 10:46

@delilahbucket but we are still in a pandemic. It’s not endemic yet, case numbers are really high

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choccohoopz · 21/09/2021 10:46

Personally - After 6 isolations last year I am happy. DS caught it over summer, isolations now would be pointless and detrimental for him.

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Moonopoly · 21/09/2021 10:46

@NannyOggsward why is no other country doing this then? Why are we the exception (again)?

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MarshaBradyo · 21/09/2021 10:47

Isolations are detrimental so I’m glad that has stopped

3GreenPullups · 21/09/2021 10:47

I also do not think it is okay.

DS2's teacher tested positive. Her husband is also a teacher and doublejabbed so he is still coming to work. Their 2 children (not jabbed although one will be later this week I assume) are coming to school- all within the current guidelines we are told (although to be fair I can't bloody keep up.)

It's like we have given up and the policy is just let it rip among the unvaccinated and the vulnerable. I know that we all have to get on, but my eldest is vulnerable in a variety of ways and I am still scared. One of the mum's at the school gate was 'Oh I don';t care. We have to live our lives'. Well, it's clear she doesn;t have a kid with a chronic health condition. Lucky her.

shouldistop · 21/09/2021 10:48

We have masks in secondary schools in Scotland and other mitigation's in place. They're doing sod all.
Everyone will catch it at least once.

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Moonopoly · 21/09/2021 10:48

They think it will be endemic by next spring so why tear it all up at this point? We’ve come this far.

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JesusInTheCabbageVan · 21/09/2021 10:48

I'm not sure we're the sole exception, are we?

TheKeatingFive · 21/09/2021 10:50

The alternatives all cause significant problems. Covid is a mild disease in most children, a balance has to be struck.

Dghgcotcitc · 21/09/2021 10:50

I firmly believe that it is less damaging that shutting education which I think does more long term damage but opinions differ. I think you have to accept though actual measures that would prevent the spread of covid in a group not eligible for vaccination which is basically school closure at least for a group of pupils (to enable strict social distancing) has some risks to children too? Speaking as a non key worker parent whose kid would have spent 18 months away fro education if this had happened I can ensure it’s feels a bigger risk to me than covid ever has!

SickAndTiredAgain · 21/09/2021 10:52

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

I'm not sure we're the sole exception, are we?
No, we aren’t. Denmark for example has removed all covid restrictions. Not that what other countries are or aren’t doing is a particularly good argument either way, since you can probably find a country to back up any argument.
Dghgcotcitc · 21/09/2021 10:52

Just to note endemic doesn’t mean eliminates your kid will still get covid once it reaches an endemic state.

SickAndTiredAgain · 21/09/2021 10:52

@Moonopoly

They think it will be endemic by next spring so why tear it all up at this point? We’ve come this far.
I’m not sure I understand your point. Would you be happy for your child to catch it next spring, but not now?
TheKeatingFive · 21/09/2021 10:53

I’m in ROI. We’re still isolating contacts and it is causing immense disruption among children who have missed lots of school already and who’s psychological well-being is in bits because of all the pulling out of school. The parents I know cannot wait to drop it and luckily it will be reviewed in the next few weeks.

Parker231 · 21/09/2021 10:54

Some schools will send classes home or even close if teachers keep getting it and as there is still a shortage of supply teachers, there will be no one to teach a class.

DoubleShotEspresso · 21/09/2021 10:55

I'm not good with this at all. I don't accept that children and all those working within schools should be thrown under the bus like this, with parents afforded no choices. It's an act of pure evil on the part of this shitty government .
There's no reason why we couldn't have begun to "live with it" whilst retaining a few sensible mitigating measures.
I hate this with every fibre of my being.

NannyOggsward · 21/09/2021 11:00

How do you think something becomes endemic…

ceeveebee · 21/09/2021 11:00

Both my DC have it. There have been 15 new cases in the year group (out of 90 kids) and 2 staff members since Saturday. I actually think they might close the year group soon.

GotLittUp · 21/09/2021 11:07

I'm not sure you're understanding what endemic means here OP...