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Do you think schools will return as normal in January?

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LucozadeGirl · 30/12/2021 21:16

Just that really.

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CallmeHendricks · 01/01/2022 14:12

Right, so a similar or slightly better position than the many teachers who haven't been able to wear masks at all at any point of the pandemic then?
Apart from the mixing with only one or two people at a time, as opposed to hundreds. And those hundreds (in primary schools particularly) are currently unvaccinated and we are facing unprecedented infections from a highly transmissible variant of the virus.

WhenSheWasBad · 01/01/2022 14:19

Why are you do pro isolation

Why are you so anti isolation. I started with symptoms in 28th Dec. I’m triple vaxed and still feel like shit today. I’m not fit to be at work and there is a very strong possibility that I would infect others if I went in.

If I infect 5 people - 2 might be asymptomatic. But 3 might be sick.

If you shove still sick teachers and pupils back in the classroom you will spread Covid. That increases the risk of Year groups being sent home.

I’d love to pretend Covid is just a sniffle, but it’s knocked me on my arse. Of the 6 people I know who currently have it, all of them have felt very sick with it. Not need the hospital sick, but far too ill to work.

Itisasecret · 01/01/2022 14:20

Posters and common themes are really easy to spot. Especially if you dip in and out over a week. You’ll find the same themes/the same handful of posters/the same names crop up again and again. When there are lots of posts to catch up on, it feels like a Groundhog Day. I’m not sure why people are getting grown for highlighting it. The NC are easy to spot as well, usually aimed at bullying NG. Don’t look at MN for a couple of days come back and see the posts to catch up on.

MarshaBradyo · 01/01/2022 14:26

@WhenSheWasBad

Why are you do pro isolation

Why are you so anti isolation. I started with symptoms in 28th Dec. I’m triple vaxed and still feel like shit today. I’m not fit to be at work and there is a very strong possibility that I would infect others if I went in.

If I infect 5 people - 2 might be asymptomatic. But 3 might be sick.

If you shove still sick teachers and pupils back in the classroom you will spread Covid. That increases the risk of Year groups being sent home.

I’d love to pretend Covid is just a sniffle, but it’s knocked me on my arse. Of the 6 people I know who currently have it, all of them have felt very sick with it. Not need the hospital sick, but far too ill to work.

I accept 7 day isolation for positive case

It’s close contact isolation for dc that I’m glad has changed.

MarshaBradyo · 01/01/2022 14:29

Groundhog Day alright. Some people have posted one thing for over half a year. To have a go at people posting

Surely they must be tired of that by now… but no still they carry on following for no reason other than to harp away.

Surely they could realise there are other things they could read and engage with it it’s too onerous. No one has a gun to their head.

Flaxmeadow · 01/01/2022 14:44

Schools should never close. They should be given the same importance as health sevices, food/essential retail, police, firefighting, social services, public tranpsort etc

BluebellsGreenbells · 01/01/2022 14:47

Should never?

What happens with staff sickness and the children can’t be taught? I don’t mean babysat by some random who rocks up, but actual education.

CallmeHendricks · 01/01/2022 14:48

@Flaxmeadow

Schools should never close. They should be given the same importance as health sevices, food/essential retail, police, firefighting, social services, public tranpsort etc
What, you mean all those NHS services (like my GP surgery currently, that is closed to anything that is not an absolute emergency)?

If staff are sick and there are no subs available, what do you suggest?

CallmeHendricks · 01/01/2022 14:50

@MarshaBradyo

Groundhog Day alright. Some people have posted one thing for over half a year. To have a go at people posting

Surely they must be tired of that by now… but no still they carry on following for no reason other than to harp away.

Surely they could realise there are other things they could read and engage with it it’s too onerous. No one has a gun to their head.

This is one of the funniest things I've read on here in quite a while. Marsha, are you REALLY quite so blinkered as to be unaware that you are guilty of this very thing?
BluebellsGreenbells · 01/01/2022 14:52

Plus, no visitors at all in the hospitals here, none allowed in government care homes, doctors are phone calls only, dentists require one in one out, with LFT and a Covid call the day before, all routine exams are suspended.
Retailers are closing early or a shit due to staff shortages, DD has been called in a few extra shifts and still closed early every day last week. Restaurants are shut as no staff. Hotels are on their knees. Nightclubs shit on the busiest day of the year as no staff (they were allowed to be open)
Bus survives are half mast.

Yep. All running smoothly here and about to get worse.

MarshaBradyo · 01/01/2022 14:53

Hendricks I’m glad you are so easily amused but I don’t get why.

Where have I told people to stop posting? Confused

I’m commenting on education because it’s important to me.

Some like pp hates that but can’t post anything except insult because there is no cogent argument. I’m used to it by now as it has been going on sooo long they are a bit obsessive over it.

CallmeHendricks · 01/01/2022 14:54

@BluebellsGreenbells, not to mention no train services running into Victoria for the next 10 days.

Mistressiggi · 01/01/2022 15:05

@Flaxmeadow

Schools should never close. They should be given the same importance as health sevices, food/essential retail, police, firefighting, social services, public tranpsort etc
My school never closed. Like GPs surgeries and hospitals, we adapted what we could offer. So for a time, only key worker and vulnerable pupils could attend in person, the rest were all being educated online. So, exactly the same as many other important services.
WhenSheWasBad · 01/01/2022 15:08

I accept 7 day isolation for positive case

Marsha so you are happy for sick people to stay at home. But you don’t support measures (masks) that might reduce the number of people catching Covid.

I taught wearing a mask for months last year. I was in a mask most kids were in a mask (a few were except, which is fine). My hearing is shit but it was fine, occasionally I had to ask a pupil to repeat a sentence but it really wasn’t that impactful.

GoldenOmber · 01/01/2022 15:09

MPs got £100000 to work from home as Well. Imagine where that could of gone!

A lot of it went towards home working equipment for their staff, who often don't get paid lots and do most of the day to day work of e.g. helping someone who's been turned down for the benefits they're entitled to.

Hercisback · 01/01/2022 15:10

I’m commenting on education because it’s important to me.

You say education is important to you, but the health and wellbeing of pupils and staff isn't important to you. If it was you'd be campaigning for funding for better mitigations in school.

Hercisback · 01/01/2022 15:12

@GoldenOmber
It's a lot better than the £0 teaching staff got. My live lessons relied on my personal laptop being good enough. Even the in school IT structure wasn't good enough to cope with the demands of the first lockdown and live lessons.

GoldenOmber · 01/01/2022 15:13

It's a lot better than the £0 teaching staff got.

Oh well in that case, let’s grump and humph and misrepresent what they got?

I’m public sector and I didn’t get anything either. Doesn’t mean other people shouldn’t.

herecomesthsun · 01/01/2022 15:15

there is no cogent argument

Clearly, Marsha, you have never read any of @noblegiraffe's posts.

She argues very cogently and well.

Google some of them maybe?

Hercisback · 01/01/2022 15:17

Then you'll agree with me that we should all be campaigning for better funded public services.

MarshaBradyo · 01/01/2022 15:17

@herecomesthsun

there is no cogent argument

Clearly, Marsha, you have never read any of @noblegiraffe's posts.

She argues very cogently and well.

Google some of them maybe?

I’m not talking about noble giraffe

I’m not sure why that is assumed I was clearly referencing the ‘Groundhog Day’ post which directly before

noblegiraffe · 01/01/2022 15:18

Thanks, herecomes but I don't think Marsha can mean me.

She mentioned posting about one thing for over half a year. I've been posting about the same thing for over a decade...

No idea who she is on about, though. Baffling.

MarshaBradyo · 01/01/2022 15:19

I’m terms of caring about education and mitigation - it depends on what exactly - reduction in class time?

Dc catching Covid was not a patch on what was implemented in terms of case reduction. Two terms out, ten day isolation for one case - and that was low in terms of repeat close contact isolation.

The swing is towards in class time for students for many reasons so yes I do think the importance has been acknowledged, thankfully. I’m not going against the general grain.

I accept an omicron wave will happen. If I had dc with extra risk I might do as pp is and re look at situation.

GoldenOmber · 01/01/2022 15:22

@Hercisback

Then you'll agree with me that we should all be campaigning for better funded public services.
What kind of defensive foxhole have you fought yourself into here where you think this even might be some kind of gotcha?
herecomesthsun · 01/01/2022 15:22

Ah, I thought she was saying that there is no cogent argument in support of mitigation in schools...