AIBU That we learn to accept COVID is here to stay!

[Jakie7700]

That now a massive number is double vaccinated those who want to be and that teenagers have started to be offered them, it seems so ridiculous that kids are still losing out on school because they are being sent home as they have a minor cold with minor cough. Covid will still be around in years to come, so will children still be sent home then with a mild cough due to colds?

Many missed days of school waiting for PCR results, parents usually mothers missing work over and over. Nobody seemed to care two years back when these same children were spreading flu, chicken pox etc which can all kill or cause serious complications both in adults and children.

Nothing is going to change you can get COVID again like a cold. Just last week I heard of two friends kids being sent home because of mild cough (coughed three/four times the whole day) missed days of school waiting for results only to be negative and then told this will happen every time they have a cough which as most will know in primary children will be alot over winter! These same parents who have nearly lost jobs due to having to juggle childcare through lockdowns. Surely it is just time to accept COVID is isn't going anywhere and stop making kids espeically suffer.

Going into winter when we know things are going to be tough isn’t the time to change anything massively like that!

Missing one or two days of school is much more preferable to it spreading further and causing more issues for services. Whenever we have had to go a PCR test results have been back by the next morning

I’m sick of these posts.

Accepting its here to stay doesn’t mean you just spread it all over the fucking place.

There are still 5m unvaccinated adults in the U.K. around 20% of unvaccinated people who get infected require medical intervention - that’s 1m people and with a mortality rate of 2% that’s still another 100,000 possible deaths if it’s left to run riot.

Yes, we need to live, enjoy life, accept its endemic but we can still try not to spread it everywhere.

I am not suggesting we spread it everywhere. I am saying why regarding schools and education which I feel are much more important than people being able to go to parties and big events. Why are children being forced to stay off until PCR results which for some areas can take days to get back over a mild cold. It is not just one of two days though is it. A few days each time they may get a cough with a cold. When kids can get up to 8 a year, surely that is just madness. So will everyone be happy to still do this next winter or the winter after? When will you say is enough?

@Merryoldgoat

I’m sick of these posts.

Accepting its here to stay doesn’t mean you just spread it all over the fucking place.

There are still 5m unvaccinated adults in the U.K. around 20% of unvaccinated people who get infected require medical intervention - that’s 1m people and with a mortality rate of 2% that’s still another 100,000 possible deaths if it’s left to run riot.

Yes, we need to live, enjoy life, accept its endemic but we can still try not to spread it everywhere.

Thanks for saying this. Some days it feels that people don't consider what it's like for those of us in CEV group. Still shielding!

@Merryoldgoat
I totally agree with this people who chose not to be vaccinated need to take responsibility in the bigger picture and be vaccinated. But why is it that primary school children who neither have been offered or can have the vaccine suffer because of the idiots that choose to not have the vaccine if they safely can?

I’m sick of these posts.

Accepting its here to stay doesn’t mean you just spread it all over the fucking place.

I couldn't agree with this more.

So will everyone be happy to still do this next winter or the winter after?
Personally, I prefer to live in the here and now considering we can't predict the future. I don't know what I will be happy to do next Winter as I have no idea what the situation will be next Winter.

I agree we need to learn to live with COVID but living with COVID does NOT mean running around pretending it doesn't exist and carrying on as before.

To live with COVID we need to accept simple measures like mask wearing and ventilation. We need to accept that sometimes restrictions may be necessary for a period. We need to accept we may need to isolate whilst we get tested. We need to make sensible decisions about how we socialise and work. We need everyone who is able to do so to get vaccinated and have booster where they can.

@Jakie7700

I’m not that concerned about my children missing some school if they stay healthy tbh.

It’s well known that the newer variants are more like colds and if we want top stop it spreading then we need test when they have symptoms.

why is it that primary school children who neither have been offered or can have the vaccine suffer

Because they have not been vaccinated! It's not rocket science.

But surely it is a question people should ask themselves. It is still going to be around next winter. Surely this is not the way forward to again make children over and over lose out on many missed days of education. Those who are not going to get vaccinated and still going to be unvaccinated next year and the year after.

What an original thread 🙄

Personally I think it was always a dick move to send your child to school with a cough/cold/flu, throwing their germs around like confetti.

Did you do that before OP? Because pandemic or no pandemic, it's a shitty thing to do.

If people kept their sick kids home as a matter of course, then those kids wouldn't be in class getting five other kids sick, whose parents would then have to keep them home and lose their time at work.

Unless you move to the opinion that the unvaccinated aren’t allowed to receive care and leave them to die at home with no help, then they will end up in hospital ill and using resources if the virus spreads unfettered.

I’m clinically vulnerable. Both of my children have ASD. I’m at work. They’re at school. I keep them off when ill. I stay home when ill. I wear a mask. I socially distance.

I’m living with it. I’m just not pretending it’s a little cold and spreading it all over the place.

@GreenFingersWouldBeHandy
So you think young children should suffer because some adults won't or can't be vaccinated. It doesn't look like primary school children will be offered anytime soon so how long do you think they should suffer for?

Personally I think it was always a dick move to send your child to school with a cough/cold/flu, throwing their germs around like confetti

100% this - it’s been a complete bugbear of mine forever. Work or school it’s the same. Some twat passing their shorty germs all over in the name of presenteeism.

This isn’t about adults not being vaccinated- you may have missed the messaging about vaccines wearing off as we hit winter

So if we have a quicker testing process in place then it wouldn’t be such an issue for people working or children at school.

And the final missing piece is investing in the NHS. Lockdown and other restrictions weren’t just aimed at stopping deaths. They were aimed at keeping hospitalisation down to a minimum because the nhs couldn’t cope.

Until that’s sorted, we still have a problem.

How exactly are they 'suffering'?

Kids are germ spreaders at the best of times. No washing of hands, fingers up noses etc...

I work in a supermarket and I've only ever seen only ONE Mum make her child use hand sanitiser. They stick fingers in/touch everything.

And what happens when we have another pandemic? We’ve been lucky in the west not to have had such a pandemic hit us before. It may happen again.

I had a PCR test on Sunday at 5pm. The results were with me in 18 hours.

@GreenFingersWouldBeHandy

How exactly are they 'suffering'?

Kids are germ spreaders at the best of times. No washing of hands, fingers up noses etc...

I work in a supermarket and I've only ever seen only ONE Mum make her child use hand sanitiser. They stick fingers in/touch everything.

Their education has been screwed for the third academic year now. That’s a real issue and will take billions to fix.

@Merryoldgoat

I had a PCR test on Sunday at 5pm. The results were with me in 18 hours.

Great! That’s not the experience I’ve had.

@Jakie7700

I am not suggesting we spread it everywhere. I am saying why regarding schools and education which I feel are much more important than people being able to go to parties and big events. Why are children being forced to stay off until PCR results which for some areas can take days to get back over a mild cold. It is not just one of two days though is it. A few days each time they may get a cough with a cold. When kids can get up to 8 a year, surely that is just madness. So will everyone be happy to still do this next winter or the winter after? When will you say is enough?

We've had children positive with headaches, runny noses etc. The results are usually back within 24 hours. If you let it run riot, there will be no teachers to teach and then they'll be off school for longer.

@Skinnytan Thanks ☺
@DifferentHair Then I must be a dick then as a mild cold with no temp etc then yes I would off sent them in as per guidance from schools to do so. But thanks for the abuse much appreciated.

@Iggly
Totally agree kids are being screwed over again

You need to live with it

Which isn't the same as ignoring it, pretending it doesn't exist or pretending that nothing needs to change