Ireland's Calling for Normal Life to Return, thread number 5

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Good luck going back tomorrow, Iblinkedandiamold and SionnachRua.
I hope all goes well. It will be strange for the first couple of days, no doubt.

Good luck to any of you ladies back to school tomorrow.
My DD back to school on Tuesday. She's delighted.
Stay safe!

@IsFuzzyBeagMise

Good luck going back tomorrow, Iblinkedandiamold and SionnachRua. I hope all goes well. It will be strange for the first couple of days, no doubt.

Thank you but I'm not back for another two weeks, I teach an older class But good luck to all going back! I'm jealous to tell you the truth.

Hope everyone is having a lovely Sunday evening. We are making pizzas here. The Italians would cry at the travesty of a pizza I'm putting together.

We had a Saturday pizza from Super Valu, an expensive frozen pizza. It was good, but would be ok for lunch...it is thin, so would work out expensive with kids.
I hope school goes well, those protests could have messed up our progress. I'd like teachers vaccinated, to make them feel more confident.

I just hope I remember to get up and go to work tomorrow morning instead of going in at 2pm.

I'm really scared sending the DC tomorrow as I'm sure many parents and teacher's are worried too.
Would it be terrible if I kept the younger one off.
I've everything ready but I'm really anxious.
I've spent a year keeping it out, we live in a highly infected area with lots of parents breaking lockdown rules.

I'd let them go @Emeraldshamrock because they will probably pick up on your anxiety and may not want to go back at a later date.

@JaneJeffer Thank you.

It's awful that Lipz gets fined for trying to bring her dd to a meeting about Confirmation and yet those protesters can cause mayhem in Dublin city centre.

I agree totally.

Yes, I also agree. I think some arrests have been made and they are trying to identify others.

Will the older classes definitely be back in a fortnight? Reading the INTO said they (quite rightly) won't remain in schools if cases increase.... How much would cases need to increase for the older classes to remain learning online?

I think it's a wait and see for the older kids. I really hope they get to go back. Dc1 was very sad at dc2 heading off this morning

Bit of a tangent...does anyone's primary school let you know if their teacher is going to be out for a more than a couple of days?

does anyone's primary school let you know if their teacher is going to be out for a more than a couple of days?
No. The DC would mention it after school.

I resigned myself to the fact I am going to have to catch covid at some point with the DC back in school it was mayhem this morning all the DC are out mixing on the green ignoring the no play date rule clearly the government needed to spell out it includes unorganised play time.
15 DC from different class rooms wrestling. I had pneumonia twice and asthma in childhood it is worrying.

To be honest @Emeraldshamrock it's likely you've already had it and just didn't know. That's the stand I'm taking on it anyway. I know lots of people who tested positive due to be close contacts but they had no symptoms at all. It is likely that a lot of us have had it without knowing, hopefully that's the case for you and you won't get it again. I think it's just impossible to stop kids interacting physically at all times, though I do agree that case numbers could well rise now due to the extra mingling that will go on. Then again, with the new strains being more virulent it's likely the cases will go up anyway?

I agree that it would be good to have numbers to work towards so that we have a clearer idea of where we stand. Like if they said cases need to be below 100 per day, then it would give us something to focus on. But saying 'cases need to come down' without telling us down to what is very frustrating and doesn't really motivate people as much (in my opinion)

@emeraldshamrock it is the exact same in our estate, parents have signed the declaration stating their children are following the HSE guidelines yet multiple households mixing from 12 to 6 every day... The sane parents are the ones going mad about the older ones not in school yet feel their dc are perfectly entitled to do & mix with who they want 🙄

Would have been interesting to have had the level of testing this time last year. So many people where ill but never got tested.

Mind you mention your symptoms on here (Mn not thus thread) and you'd be told you probably had something else or were accused of pretending.

I was ill last March. My GP couldn't have given less of a shit either. (He's a prick anyway.)

Bit of a tangent...does anyone's primary school let you know if their teacher is going to be out for a more than a couple of days?

Totally depends on why they're out imo. A bereavement or similar you'd probably hear about. However they're very unlikely to say anything if it's medical related leave - and often if it's illness you might not know how long you'd be out. As a general rule of thumb parents aren't told in my school, they don't need that info.

When I went back to work after midterm we were all saying how tired we were over the break. Then we started wondering if we all had Covid.
I'm always tired too, I measure it in tired, less tired, more tired, exhausted.
It is hard being back watching Children mixing outside.

The news of a second protest on St Patrick's day is crazy, I've no doubt it will go ahead. There is a Facebook page for loved ones lost the victims of covid appear to be much younger after this wave in comparison to the first wave.

@SionnachRua

Bit of a tangent...does anyone's primary school let you know if their teacher is going to be out for a more than a couple of days?

Totally depends on why they're out imo. A bereavement or similar you'd probably hear about. However they're very unlikely to say anything if it's medical related leave - and often if it's illness you might not know how long you'd be out. As a general rule of thumb parents aren't told in my school, they don't need that info.

Oh, I absolutely wouldn't expect to be told why the teacher is out, but dc arrived home today to say their teacher is out for two weeks and they have a sub (who apparently has no name ). I'm just curious whether it's usual, I trust the principal knows what she's doing.

Definitely Christmas 2019 I think a lot of people had covid, maybe a different strain of it but honestly I've never known so many people to be so sick. I am in a close group of 5 friends and was the only one of us to not come down with it. The other 4 were so ill 3 of them didn't even do Christmas dinner! They just couldn't get out of bed. My own mum was so sick she went to the doctor between Christmas and new year and was diagnosed with pleurisy! We had so many out sick at work all with this flu/chest infection thing. I know it's a long time ago now and we'll probably never find out but honestly I do think it was covid.

I knew two people who ended up in hospital in December 2019. One was elderly, one was a young, fit male. He had two lumbar punctures, his consultant said it was random, weird virus.
I knew four other people who had nasty illnesses.

It makes sense December 19. My Dsis was really sick my BIL had a huge burst blood vessel in his eye from coughing too. I don't think I've had it I had tests when I had a cold twice.