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What will happen with schools from Friday?

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Kabs30 · 28/03/2022 18:28

No pcrs!
No free lfts!

I have a couple boxes of lft's for now but when they run out, I won't be able to afford to buy them every time my kids have cold like symptoms. Plus let's face it, lft's aren't overly accurate so a negative lft does not mean someone hasn't got covid either.

are we just treating it as an illness as we would before covid? Keep them off if too unwell and send them back with better. Send them in with mild sniffles?

Covid is quite high at my kids school at the minute!

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Lilaclavenders · 28/03/2022 18:29

If kids feel well they go in, if they're ill they stay in bed/at home. Just like in 2019.

Lilaclavenders · 28/03/2022 18:30

are we just treating it as an illness as we would before covid? Keep them off if too unwell and send them back with better. Send them in with mild sniffles?

Yes.

What's the alternative?

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Kabs30 · 28/03/2022 18:38

@Lilaclavenders

are we just treating it as an illness as we would before covid? Keep them off if too unwell and send them back with better. Send them in with mild sniffles?

Yes.

What's the alternative?

You are right. It just feels surreal. The kids school are telling people to pcr their kids with any sign of illness but won't be happening in a few days!

Dd has had covid twice with minimal symptoms (very few symptoms, not ill in the slightest). I probably wouldn't have tested if she hadn't been close contact.

I was wondering if people were planning to buy lft's or not too.. but it won't be affordable for a lot of people, including us!

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Frosty1000 · 28/03/2022 18:41

Hopefully DfE will update guidance or schools just take the plunge back to how it was in 2019. They'll not be able to continue demanding testing if it means parents have to pay as it's just not right.

So it'll be as above keep them at home if poorly, like you would if it's d&v or chicken pox as you'll not know if it's covid or just a cold/flu/general virus as you'll not be testing.

carefullycourageous · 28/03/2022 18:41

Presumably pretty much everyone who has not yet had Omicron BA.2 will get it, they will pass it on, their parents will feel rough and some of their grandparents will die.

SaxendaSummer · 28/03/2022 18:43

Nobody is bothering testing these days with lft let alone pcr! All a thing of the past op

Just get on with your lives now

FishFingerSandwiches4Tea · 28/03/2022 18:44

@carefullycourageous

Presumably pretty much everyone who has not yet had Omicron BA.2 will get it, they will pass it on, their parents will feel rough and some of their grandparents will die.
^^ This Sad
GreenWheat · 28/03/2022 18:45

I don't know anyone who is testing for school any more.

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Kabs30 · 28/03/2022 18:47

@GreenWheat

I don't know anyone who is testing for school any more.
I have one that was sent home today with a sore throat, no other symptoms. Only doing to do lft's as she's had covid twice in the last 3 months. Covid is really high where I live as well. Well and truly sick of it 😪
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Kabs30 · 28/03/2022 18:48

@carefullycourageous

Presumably pretty much everyone who has not yet had Omicron BA.2 will get it, they will pass it on, their parents will feel rough and some of their grandparents will die.
I do get concerned seeing my grandma 😪 but I wouldn't take dc around if they have any sign of illness!
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Badbadbunny · 28/03/2022 18:49

@carefullycourageous

Presumably pretty much everyone who has not yet had Omicron BA.2 will get it, they will pass it on, their parents will feel rough and some of their grandparents will die.
Yes, just like with flu and other diseases pre 2020!
carefullycourageous · 28/03/2022 18:52

@Badbadbunny yes, but COVID is more likely to kill my elderly relatives now immunity is waning.

I know the knee jerk response of some is to compare it to flu, but the comparison is not really helpful.

CheshireChat · 28/03/2022 18:53

There's lot of cases in my area going by what people are telling me. I have it too!

SulaSA · 28/03/2022 18:55

I despair. I am so ill with COVID eight weeks after infection. I'm now on reduced hours from my headship. I just can't get well.

I've no breath, I can't sleep, awful smell of smoke, feel as if I'm choking.
My skin is horrendous with what looks like open burns, on my face in four different patches and on my body. My GP has told me COVID can damage the skin's barrier to infection.

I used to run, now I struggle to walk more than 1k...unless I get better COVID will end my career.

I feel so discounted - 'get on with life, COVID is no more than a cold'. Oh how I wish that were true.

carefullycourageous · 28/03/2022 18:56

Yes quite a few people I know have it currently.

Eyedropeyeflop · 28/03/2022 18:57

Nothing. Maybe people will get over their incessant need to check for what is essentially now a cold.

Swayingpalmtrees · 28/03/2022 18:57

I guess anyone truly vulnerable will have the 4th jab now, and will need to take care and the rest of us get on with our lives and stop worrying about it. I don't think there is much choice in the matter now - we will get used to it.

carefullycourageous · 28/03/2022 18:57

@SulaSA Flowers I hear you, I really hope you recover well

carefullycourageous · 28/03/2022 18:58

@Eyedropeyeflop

Nothing. Maybe people will get over their incessant need to check for what is essentially now a cold.
This description has no basis in fact.
Eyedropeyeflop · 28/03/2022 18:59

It does when most people recover just fine and we have vaccines.

Smartiepants79 · 28/03/2022 19:01

@carefullycourageous

Presumably pretty much everyone who has not yet had Omicron BA.2 will get it, they will pass it on, their parents will feel rough and some of their grandparents will die.
Some of their grandparents could die from all sorts of other things that they bring home from school also. Also, unless said grandparents are otherwise isolating, there is no way of knowing where they’ve caught any particular illness.
carefullycourageous · 28/03/2022 19:03

@Smartiepants79

And, I am not sure what your point is?

There will be deaths as a result of COVID circulating widely, that's all I am saying, I don't think that is a contentious point.

carefullycourageous · 28/03/2022 19:04

@Eyedropeyeflop

It does when most people recover just fine and we have vaccines.
No, it really doesn't. COVID is still nothing like a cold at population level.

It would be helpful if people tried to stay factual.

Smartiepants79 · 28/03/2022 19:07

My point is it’s time to stop scaremongering about covid. And live our lives.
And stop guilting teenagers into thinking they’re going to have murdered their own grandparents simply by attending school.

carefullycourageous · 28/03/2022 19:12

@Smartiepants79

My point is it’s time to stop scaremongering about covid. And live our lives. And stop guilting teenagers into thinking they’re going to have murdered their own grandparents simply by attending school.
No one is guilting any teenagers, what a silly thing to say!

It sounds like you struggle to deal with COVID and would like to pretend it has magically gone away?

I understand why some people need that but I am not like that, the facts are what they are and hiding from reality never was my thing.