Tieribly angry wee fannies fannying about with the tiers

[dancemom]

Things moved quickly so I just started a new one ...

I'm very grateful to any parents who have used LFTs with their dc before returning to school.

As Jason himself says in those awful, overreaching SG ads:
“even if you feel well, you should test yourself regularly”

Well the first sickness bug has hit my house on day 3 of term. Smashing.

Urgh- a sickness bug. That feeling of stripping vomit covered bedding, putting endless washes on and then you feel ill yourself too. Children generally make a snap recovery, as though nothing was even wrong in the first place, meantime you are left feeling horrific. Urgh. Strength to you @IsurviveonCoffeeandWinein2021

Oh no!! @IsurviveonCoffeeandWinein2021, nothing worse.

And yes to that @OnceUponAWhine, they skip about demanding food while you feel like dying!

Oh @OnceUponAWhine I'm on wash load number 3 and it isn't even lunchtime 😭

I know she will probably bounce back around dinner time after I'm thoroughly traumatised. I hate sick. Explosive nappies etc fine but vomit just has me heaving at their backs.

My first week of freedom 😂 I got 2 days now she can't go back to Friday. The joys of children

Secondary school exam update www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/scotland/exams-will-return-next-spring-scottish-government-announces/

"if safe to do so" for exams and "guidance will follow....."

Oh no @IsurviveonCoffeeandWinein2021

At the first sign of a puking kid I completely lose my appetite and it stays gone until they're better. Not putting anything in my stomach only for it to come out again!

Oh I second that @IncludeWomenInThePrequel firmly sticking to coffee as I know it is just a matter of time. Had a text from nursery saying it is a confirmed Noro outbreak 🤦‍♀️she's only been there 2 days!

I have given up keeping up to date with what the rules are. Guy I share a room with, his daughter has tested positive. She lives at home. He has done LFT, it is negative, he is still going to come in to work unless he feels unwell.

@Helensburghmiddleagedmum

I have given up keeping up to date with what the rules are. Guy I share a room with, his daughter has tested positive. She lives at home. He has done LFT, it is negative, he is still going to come in to work unless he feels unwell.

He needs to go for a PCR test and isolate until results not a LFT.

I don't really understand what is law and what is just guidance anymore, so tend to assume I can act 'normally' unless I'm told otherwise. It doesn't really help that NS (and others) have often conflated guidance and law and talk about what you must do all the time, when quite a lot of the time it isn't actually legally enforceable. My work place asks for a negative PCR test before returning after being a contact (if you're double jagged). Whether it's actually law that people have to do that or just encouraged I don't know. I know in England it's only encouraged but not actually required.

@Y0uCann0tBeSer10us

I don't really understand what is law and what is just guidance anymore, so tend to assume I can act 'normally' unless I'm told otherwise. It doesn't really help that NS (and others) have often conflated guidance and law and talk about what you must do all the time, when quite a lot of the time it isn't actually legally enforceable. My work place asks for a negative PCR test before returning after being a contact (if you're double jagged). Whether it's actually law that people have to do that or just encouraged I don't know. I know in England it's only encouraged but not actually required.

He needs to go for a PCR test and isolate until results not a LFT.

@Scottishskifun yes that was my understanding too, he is a law unto himself, he has ignored the rules to suit himself right from the word go in March of last year, he is the boss, he is in charge, nightmare

@IsurviveonCoffeeandWinein2021 sympathies for the norovirus - I hate it, used to be a regular annual feature until last year. Grim, grim, grim.

Dh has a long list of banned items that he's eaten just prior to a noro bout courtesy of the kids and can never face again!

@riverrunning that made me laugh. I can never ever ever eat carbonara again after a bout of it when pregnant 🤮 have an hour so far with no sick so hoping she's over the worst 🤞

Ooh I love carbonara! That's awful - fingers crossed for no more barf...!

• 2,538 new cases of COVID-19 reported
• 35,999 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results
◦ 7.5% of these were positive
• 10 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive
• 39 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 324 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19
• 4,065,970 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 3,498,257 have received their second dose

Oh yuk isurvive - what a nightmare! Typical on your first week of freedom too... Yes, fingers crossed she's now over the worst.

Re stuff in law vs guidance, I'm not sure isolation as a contact (or even testing positive) has ever been in law in Scotland? I seem to remember there was some discussion at the beginning when BoJo brought in fining people for breaking isolation, whoever our health minister was was saying, "oh, no, we'd never do that... better to encourage people to want to isolate instead and making sure they can afford to". I could well be imagining that, of course. Masks/travel restrictions/ restrictions on gathering etc have all been in law at one time or another of course, but I'm not sure self isolation if positive/ contacted by test and protect ever has been. Of course, it's always worded as if it is, and the advice to get a pcr test if identified as a contact when double jagged is also made to sound obligatory, but I don't think it is. Probably a good idea in the circumstances though!

@dancemom

• 2,538 new cases of COVID-19 reported • 35,999 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results ◦ 7.5% of these were positive • 10 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive • 39 people were in intensive care yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19 • 324 people were in hospital yesterday with recently confirmed COVID-19 • 4,065,970 people have received the first dose of the Covid vaccination and 3,498,257 have received their second dose

More school test madness !!!!

Yep, eminently predictable while this maniacal testing goes on

Anyone else seen this? Children are not considered contacts of one another sitting beside or interacting with each other in class. So no isolating or testing if the person sitting next to you all day tests positive? Is that what this means? I haven't a clue what's going on any more. Not a clue.

Had to seen that @Rae36 but that’s good news.

@Rae36

Anyone else seen this? Children are not considered contacts of one another sitting beside or interacting with each other in class. So no isolating or testing if the person sitting next to you all day tests positive? Is that what this means? I haven't a clue what's going on any more. Not a clue.

Yep! I'm assuming it's to avoid schools sending letters telling the whole class they have to isolate and get a test!

Yes. I'd initially assumed close contacts would be reduced to eg the table-mates of a primary child, or whoever they'd sat next to in a lesson for secondary, or whoever they played with at break. But that could add up quite quickly, and would still be up to the school to identify (for littlies at least) which is what they wanted to stop. Plus, the schools would likely err on the side of caution to avoid complaints from parents (oh, those two tables mixed for a bit, or Dave sat next to someone else for carpet time...). So just making it unquestionable and highest risk close contacts which either the child would remember or parents would likely know about anyway makes sense.

I get the thing about not wanting to send entire classes home. We got a message along those lines when our kids went back. But this thing from Ayrshire and Arran is suggesting that no-one in school will be contacted traced ever? Or have I read that wrong? What will be will be, but ds15 is a worrier and always likes to be 100% clear on The Rules