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What will happen with schools from Friday?

167 replies

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 22:28

Do LTF tests actually work? Aren't people infectious in the two days before actually testing positive?

In other words testing may not actually work as people are hoping ?

knittingaddict · 28/03/2022 22:38

[quote Eyedropeyeflop]@knittingaddict

One of those? You mean one of those people who thinks logically and realistically about covid?

Indeed I am yes.[/quote]
By denying truth? You keep telling yourself that. Grin

MajorCarolDanvers · 28/03/2022 22:39

@Lilaclavenders

If kids feel well they go in, if they're ill they stay in bed/at home. Just like in 2019.
This
Wizzbangfizz · 28/03/2022 22:43

Get on with your life and stop testing - if you or the kids are to unwell for work/school stay at home. Pretty simple.

MajorCarolDanvers · 28/03/2022 22:46

Oh dear I thought we were done with the granny killer threads.

Rosebel · 28/03/2022 22:54

High in our area too. DD2 is off school until at least Wednesday as so many teachers are off sick. High in my son's nursery too with lots of staff and children sick with Covid.
We have been incredibly lucky. Pretty sure DD2 and DH had Covid right at the start of the pandemic, but it was before testing so not sure. The rest of us have escaped it so far.
We can't go on issolating for mild symptoms, it's too much disruption to education and work.
Obviously if my kids were really ill they'd stay home but otherwise just carry on. We need to get back to normal.
No one isolates for the flu but that can kill people too.

StarCat2020 · 28/03/2022 22:55

Do you really think that if Covid was as dangerous as they made out, they would have been partying and meeting their lovers at the height of the first wave - particularly when those in authority knew the real risks and hard facts?
I must admit they took us for fools in overstating the case for young, healthy people to be affected badly by it.

Even now though I always think why no masks in HoC, some of the MPs are quite elderly

StarCat2020 · 28/03/2022 22:56

Also, I don't berlieve Johnson was ever as ill we were led to believe.

RuleWithAWoodenFoot · 28/03/2022 22:57

I expect there will be a wave of school staff being ill and schools needing to close classes or whatever for staffing-safety reasons. It will be bad in some areas, and there will be nothing in other areas. Some children will be massively affected, some won't notice. Some families will be massively affected, some won't notice. There will be further strong and divisive opinions about covid.

Then that wave will pass, and all will be fine for 6 months or so. Then it'll probably do it all over again.

mumofthree22 · 28/03/2022 23:18

There was an out break in my DC class last week and they were all sent home
With a 7 day supply of LFT from
School for daily testing.

Scornedwoman67 · 28/03/2022 23:30

@carefullycourageous

Roughly one person per week dies in the UK from the common cold. Currently after all our vaccination efforts we have 1000+ people per week dying from COVID.

It is genuinely embarrassing to waffle on about COVID being 'a cold'.

That is absolutely untrue. The death figures are for people who had covid mentioned on the death certificate. So if I get run over tonight, get hospitalised & test positive on admission, if I die from my injuries I count as a covid death. The misrepresentation/ misunderstanding of statistics is ridiculous.
NeedAHoliday2021 · 28/03/2022 23:31

Dd is homeschooling tomorrow due to staff sickness. Although they’re not testing, I think that’ll happen more for a bit and hospitals will be at breaking point (actually they already are but it’s easier to pretend it’s all fine).

Happymum12345 · 28/03/2022 23:36

A parent knowingly sent her dc into my class at school today. There was nothing I could do about it. Most people don’t care and what f they’re ok, it doesn’t matter about anyone else.

Fiftyand · 28/03/2022 23:49

All primary school children are vaccinated against flu now.

IEatChocolateForBreakfast · 28/03/2022 23:57

@Fiftyand

All primary school children are vaccinated against flu now.

No they're not 😂

Only the ones whose parents sign them up for it do. Mine have never had a flu jab. I am 41 and have never had a flu jab.

Tynetime · 29/03/2022 00:54

Well I belong to an online fitness group. Members are pretty fit and so many have been floored by COVID. By that I mean too breathless to exercise
properly weeks or months later. Not OAPS but people in their thirties or 40s. These are not the sort of people who would be in this position following a cold or even flu.
Most people getting COVID now liken it to bad flu. Even the kids have been fatigued.
@SulaSA hope you see improvements soon.

BustopherPonsonbyJones · 29/03/2022 01:08

@Wizzbangfizz

Get on with your life and stop testing - if you or the kids are to unwell for work/school stay at home. Pretty simple.
And don’t moan when teachers are off and your children are sent home or supervised in a class of 160 in the school hall.
Nandocushion · 29/03/2022 01:29

Absolutely wild to read posts like this from outside of the UK. I'm not sure of any country that had the testing craze quite like the UK did and my mind boggles at the massive expense (to the government) and the horrendous waste created by all those plastic testing kits and people just testing, testing, testing all the time, for no apparent reason.

In my family, no one has EVER had a covid test - except for when we needed one to cross a border. Our death rates here are lower than yours, so I assume this hasn't been an issue, though we have been masking diligently and for a longer time, and we've had vaccine passports as well.

blinkler · 29/03/2022 02:06

I spoke to 5 people the other day with COViD. All had isolated and taken every precaution to avoid it but still got it, it's inevitable now there's no escape. No point letting it control lives anymore same as any bug

SonicBroom · 29/03/2022 03:35

I worry we don’t know enough yet about when jabs wear off and will only find out the hard way. Personally I’d like to see everyone get a booster booster who wants one then scrap all restrictions.

The comparison to flu or a cold have been incredibly damaging nd are nothing but politically motivated. Whilst the symptoms maybe like that for some people, the disease isn’t.

There are still 50,000 a year dying of covid and the idea that doctors are willfully misrepresenting deaths is just another politically motivated rhetoric designed to shut down meaningful debate and discredit the only people who actually know what they’re talking about. If it were true then deaths would soar proportionately every time there’s a new wave, but they aren’t.

Anyway, I’d like jabs for primary kids, boosters for all, and then to crack on. Those who don’t want jabs don’t have to have them.

SonicBroom · 29/03/2022 03:41

Thinking about it abit more I think one of the biggest issues is that covid is now almost uniquely an exercise in politicians making decisions over our health. They’re not “following the science” they’re picking and choosing what suits them, so you can understand why so many people don’t want to be herded like lemmings and prefer to make their own decisions… especially with the govt we have here.

carefullycourageous · 29/03/2022 05:40

@Scornedwoman67

Not in the death cert figures you wouldn't. It is you who is misrepresenting. There are two sources of death figures.

containsnuts · 29/03/2022 07:21

It will depend on the wording of the guidance and how each school interprets it . "Stay off work and school with respiratory symptoms" seems a strong contender. The problem is that nobody is going to stay of work or school with every cold because there's no access to testing.

inews.co.uk/news/politics/covid-tests-symptoms-self-isolate-advice-when-free-testing-ends-1544378

"The final wording of new guidance for England is still being hammered out, but anyone with respiratory symptoms will be strongly advised to stay off work or school and self-isolate".

nether · 29/03/2022 07:24

@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.
That's rather dismissive of the lives of grandparents.

And really hard to read if you have a critically vulnerable young person in the household.

UnmentionedElephantDildo · 29/03/2022 07:29

@containsnuts

It will depend on the wording of the guidance and how each school interprets it . "Stay off work and school with respiratory symptoms" seems a strong contender. The problem is that nobody is going to stay of work or school with every cold because there's no access to testing.

inews.co.uk/news/politics/covid-tests-symptoms-self-isolate-advice-when-free-testing-ends-1544378

"The final wording of new guidance for England is still being hammered out, but anyone with respiratory symptoms will be strongly advised to stay off work or school and self-isolate".

Yes, it's going to mean that you need to take time off work for colds. Because 'colds are just like covid' is the mantra of the U4T types who seem to have dragged policy away from epidemiology

Or it's going to cause great harm to the more vulnerable, reinforce an ablist society, and even if you don't care about those things, it leaves us wide open to the next variant. And only the under-informed expect it'll always be mild, or that vaccine coverage will be durable.