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COVID infected child coming into school

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Dancerinthedark01 · 15/10/2021 15:52

Sorry - rubbish title

But DD11 just came home and says BoyA came into school this morning saying his whole family has COVID. He was late in because he’d just been tested. He then sat there sniffing and squinting his eyes. DD’s description.

Then half an hour later he was taken out of school because test came back as positive.

Is this normal practice now?

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Schulte · 16/10/2021 13:03

I think it just comes in waves @MarshaBradyo - or people don't test any more - who knows? It would be amazing if you were right, of course, and if the pandemic did burn out.

MarshaBradyo · 16/10/2021 13:05

Btw I don’t think it will go away but maybe a stage where you look at the map and it’s yellow or blue again and we can manage healthcare without mitigation.

The reason would be antibodies as high as London which interrupt many transmissions but not all

MarshaBradyo · 16/10/2021 13:08

Plus that downward slope of the wave shape - that is the first time we’ve seen it happen without increased restrictions.

We’ve had waves but they have been suppressed by restrictions not occurring without change.

TheSunIsStillShining · 16/10/2021 13:23

What I truly don't understand is that as parents our main goal should be to give the best possible options to our children. Letting them get infected with a fairly new virus which we know can cause long term health adverse effects and being totally okay with is is an oxymoron in my book.

I never said or never will say that we need full lockdown for long, but why is there a debate on the most basic of health protection measures? Do parents really don't give a fuck if their kid ends up with long term health problems? Masks are not cheap, but they are not extra expensive either. Keeping teens (where childcare is not an issue) home when they are sick (covid or just like-covid) is free. And yet, most don't give a fuck.

This country has become so messed up. People don't bat an eyelid on daily 30-60k cases, 10% long covid (best estimate if I remember correctly), swindled billions, pm who is panting in times od fule and food issues in Mallorca of all places....
underfunding of nhs and education is acceptable. But god forbid we have to wear masks - they are all up in arms and marching....

ps. I have a teen who is double vaccinated (thank you EU), wears an ffp3 mask constantly. And is living his life. This past week at least 10 of his classmates are off with proven covid. Many sitting next to him. He is outraged that he has to find out through the grapevine and nobody is telling them anything.

Warhertisuff · 16/10/2021 13:52

@BustopherPonsonbyJones

Lots of children in my school have been very sick on their third dose of Covid.

Given the analysis, getting infected a third time already would be incredibly unlikely... For "many"'children to have had it three times and being "very sick" just doesn't seem remotely believable to me.

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveytechnicalarticleanalysisofreinfectionsofcovid19/june2021

Warhertisuff · 16/10/2021 14:00

@TheSunIsStillShining

What I truly don't understand is that as parents our main goal should be to give the best possible options to our children. Letting them get infected with a fairly new virus which we know can cause long term health adverse effects and being totally okay with is is an oxymoron in my book.

Why do you think that some masks and sanitising will be enough to beat Delta? Given it won't, and you don't favour endless lockdown, the unfortunate reality is that children will get it. Trying to stop Covid is as futile as King Canute trying to stop the tide.

Mellifera · 16/10/2021 14:13

@TheSunIsStillShining

My sentiments entirely.
My youngest is not vaccinated yet and we should have had it done in Germany over the summer.
GPs there don‘t bat an eyelid at giving the Pfizer doses 3 weeks apart, as they were meant to be given. Not the dragging of feet and half measures like over here.

I know of long covid cases in kids, and it‘s not fun. It is robbing them of their life.

I can‘t believe people are still opposing masks when the evidence is clear.
Have they been brainwashed?
I‘m quite angry at the way it is still not being admitted that schools are spreaders. I‘d hate to be a teacher these days.

Mellifera · 16/10/2021 14:14

PS the danger with letting it rip is also that it can mutate into something vaccine-resistant. Then we‘re all up shits creek again.

OliveTree75 · 16/10/2021 14:17

Why do you think that some masks and sanitising will be enough to beat Delta? Given it won't, and you don't favour endless lockdown, the unfortunate reality is that children will get it. Trying to stop Covid is as futile as King Canute trying to stop the tide

This!

Kitcat122 · 16/10/2021 14:18

@Warhertisuff I don't have the "luxury" of being paid when my kids are off. I'm a TA so get paid minimum wage. But if I had a child already off with Covid I would be at home (unpaid) anyway. So for the sake of 24 hours waiting for pcr on a poorly child I would keep them off. However I work in school so I know lots of people don't feel that way.

OliveTree75 · 16/10/2021 14:19

Lots of children in my school have been very sick on their third dose of Covid.
Hmm

toomuchlaundry · 16/10/2021 14:25

Where academies are concerned I think people forget the LEA used to take top slice of funding, usually about 10%, which you didn’t really get any benefit from. Not saying all Academies are better but the previous situation wasn’t great either

RichTeaRichTea · 16/10/2021 15:15

“ What I truly don't understand is that as parents our main goal should be to give the best possible options to our children. Letting them get infected with a fairly new virus which we know can cause long term health adverse effects and being totally okay with is is an oxymoron in my book.”

There are other things that we know for sure cause long term problems that are a more immediate risk to my children, so I probably make different choices to you. I am understanding about other people making different choices based on their circumstances, particularly in my job where I see many children who live in poverty. Even without poverty involved it’s not about parents not giving a fuck about long term health conditions - they have other priorities which you may not understand or want to think about or are dismissive of because it doesn’t fit with your world view maybe, but that is the case. Are you not understanding that different circumstances mean different choices?

Tillysfad · 16/10/2021 15:15

Trying to stop Covid is as futile as King Canute trying to stop the tide.

I find it odd to be thinking of ways to explain to presumably an adult why "in for a penny, in for a pound" is not the best way to approach a great many things in life, Covid being one of them.

Tillysfad · 16/10/2021 15:18

richtea presumably you're aware that many more vulnerable communities are also going to be hit hardest by high Covid rates also? Or does that insight not fit in with your world view.

Tillysfad · 16/10/2021 15:20

Given the analysis, getting infected a third time already would be incredibly unlikely...

Your data is out of date. I don't have the research but am aware there was discouraging info on this earlier in the week.

PrincessNutNuts · 16/10/2021 15:23

@OliveTree75

Why do you think that some masks and sanitising will be enough to beat Delta? Given it won't, and you don't favour endless lockdown, the unfortunate reality is that children will get it. Trying to stop Covid is as futile as King Canute trying to stop the tide

This!

Not children in New Zealand though.

It doesn't seem to be impossible for them.

They don't have the same lazy, do nothing, it's too hard so let's just give up, negative defeatist, and fatalistic attitude, so New Zealand haven't shrugged and surrendered to a virus.

Neither has Eton, which went back to full mitigations this week. Apparently somebody thinks it worth bothering to protect some children.

RichTeaRichTea · 16/10/2021 15:27

@Tillysfad

richtea presumably you're aware that many more vulnerable communities are also going to be hit hardest by high Covid rates also? Or does that insight not fit in with your world view.
Oh I know far more than you do I expect. It’s the judgement of other people’s choices I’m referring to.
toomuchlaundry · 16/10/2021 15:28

Private schools follow PHE advice too. If some schools are asking household contacts of positive cases to not come into school, then in a boarding school that would entail putting the boarders into isolation from the rest of the school

Tillysfad · 16/10/2021 15:30

Assuming you know more than any random person shows a level of judgement and superiority that I object to, at any rate it doesn't help your cause. You really should care a little more about vulnerable communities in relation to this issue if you are what you say.

RichTeaRichTea · 16/10/2021 15:32

It’s so interesting that someone might jump straight to the idea that I am minimising the effects of covid, rather than that I might be countering the “why don’t people make the same choices as me” bafflement.

RichTeaRichTea · 16/10/2021 15:33

What on Earth is my “cause”?

Tillysfad · 16/10/2021 15:38

Yes isn't it.

MarshaBradyo · 16/10/2021 15:39

Not children in New Zealand though.

How will it be stopped?

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/07/new-zealanders-should-plan-to-encounter-covid-before-christmas-expert-warns

Gingerninja4 · 16/10/2021 15:40

Complete normal we have to do this even in sn school full of children Witt complex needs medical/,physical

As all local authority schools have to follow offical guidance there is no separate advice is 1 size fits all