Taking positive child on school run?

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Just a quick query.

Covid is ripping through my kids primary again, I’ve had 2 off with it, both back now, but while they were off I had still had 2 others to get to get to school, so on days my partner was at work I had to ask friends/neighbours for help.

But I’ve this morning seen two children in the school playground who have Covid (posted on class groups and on fb so I know they have it and aren’t negative yet) with their parent doing the school run, both have walked there, so no drive there leave them in the car and then straight back home. One is a single parent, the other has older teenage children that don’t work and are at home so no excuse to bring the child out.
Is this now a thing? Are we allowed to take Covid positive children out on the school run? I know I’ll probably get told to mind my own business but I genuinely thought stay at home means just that!

Well no they are absolutely not allowed to do it, but to be quite honest they've been in a class all week with the other children anyway. So by this point it wouldn't really bother me. Anywhere else it would but these children have already been exposed (probably multiple times!).

Of course they shouldn’t be doing this. Classmates may have been exposed to them all week but the parents haven’t been. Selfish and stupid.

I think you probably know the answer to this one and know it isn't allowed. But I imagine parents just feel like they've had enough of kids missing school unnecessarily. If they don't have anyone to take them then it seems unfair to make siblings miss even more school, when you could just have a fairly low risk walk to school (all outside etc).

I’d do it. Need to employ some common sense.

I’d also take my kids to school if I tested positive and there was no one else to take them (I’d wear a mask and keep my distance). They’ve missed enough school.

Well no but I guess if it goes through your household one by one, unless you do go out on the school run Covid positive or bring along a Covid positive sibling it could be weeks and weeks off for the first one to test positive?

The risks are very low outside aren’t they?

Maybe changing the rules so that Covid positive people can leave their home so long as they remain outside and minimise the time in public if possible would be a good interim step between no (total isolation) and March (no isolation whatsoever)?

It isn't allowed but who cares anymore. I have taken covid very seriously but I'm at the point, I'm done with it. Isolation won't be a thing soon. I can't see what harm the kids are doing if they are outside and they distance. It's really hard for many families in this situation. When Dd had covid and ds was negative, a ta had to walk him home as j was home with Dd and dp at work - thankfully the school is only just behind us.

I think for most people the rules went out the window when partygate came to light. They are a very blunt instrument, and it was always possible to follow them and still take risks, and break them in safe ways.

Schools have been made a deliberate breeding ground for covid anyway, so at this stage it's barely worth taking pre autionary measures. Omicron is a certainty for everyone, and as long as the NHS isn't being overwhelmed we just need to get back to normal (that's the govt stance, not my personal one, but here we are).

It's only a matter of weeks away from all restrictions being canned anyway. Soon everyone will just treat covid like any other traditional cold. Again, not how I thought it should have been dealt with, but the chance of containing it went out the window by about the first week of April 2020.

The head teacher at DD's school is apparently telling parents that they can take their covid positive child out of the house to do the school runs for their other children.... and that parents with covid can leave the house to do school runs. She advises they wear a mask and don't get too close to others 🙄

The honest truth is that our kids are going to school to be bathed in covid, so what's the point in taking precautions about people outside?

We've got 1 DC with covid, infected both of us and the other still to get to school. We've been lucky to be able to ask neighbours to take her, but actually most of our neighbours are getting infected too. We almost certainly got it from school as we don't go anywhere else.

A friend said the school run consists of a few parents with trails of other people's kids in tow.

A few parents send there positive kids into my school.

I’d be in a position of having to do this or keep the negative child at home.. given how many kids have it at our primary school and that isolation is probably going to end soon, I’d certainly be seriously considering what was the best thing to do. Probably I’d try to get the positive child to mask up and keep my distance.

(From other families)

In Sweden covid is over from 9th Feb apparently

Technically no.

Common sense yes!