The Twenty-second Republic - the DfE have no idea, Gav MIA, bubbles in and out

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Yes Piggy, T&T are only interested in those who had contact in the 48 preceding symptoms appearing or a positive test as this is thought to be the infectious time (plus 10 days after, obvs)

48 hours before symptoms for T&T? But no idea if she didn't have symptoms 🤔

Feel like crap today, cold (not covid) and more work than there are hours in the day. I also want to play with my kids...

I hope you have a lovely day monkey doing lots of lovely fun things

I feel really tired, think the stress of the situation is affecting my sleep

@Hercwasonaroll that's why I said 48 hrs before symptoms or a positive test, ie for cases that don't have symptoms you can only count 48 hrs back from the test time.

Big queue at Aldi today - not helped by people's inability to grasp the green light/red light system.

@NeurotrashWarrior, someone's indirectly asked if you could help on the SEN tutor group thread in Staffroom.... (although think it may be wrong age group for you)

Sorry August, completely missed that 🙈

Talking of supermarkets, shouldn't they be reinstating counting people in and out and one way systems? Are they doing this in current "lockdown" areas?

Or is the number of known outbreaks in shops so small (non-existent?) that this doesn't matter?

Should post this on Daily Numbers, sorry!

I had my cuppa with her on Tuesday so should be in the clear. My HOD will have been with her on Thursday.

Our new Aldi does in the sense that it was built with traffic lights over the door. But people seem foxed by it!

I was reading a blog post on twitter about what a head did when they were informed of a positive case in the school and part of it was calling in the staff of the pupil and asking if they had maintained 2m distance from them. The staff said yes and so that was fine.

Implies if you socially distanced, you don't need to do anything.

Yes was that the one someone posted here, it was really interesting.

T&T will only be interested if you've spent longer than 15 mins less than 2m from a positive case, or any time less than 1m (although also somewhere it defines any time as over one minute).

I think I'd be happier if they extended it to something like longer than 45 mins less than 3m from a positive but we know this is unlikely to happen, certainly in schools.

This is the modelling tool we need - I know we discussed this back in the summer, it shows risks in a classroom dependent on square footage, community infection rates, time spent etc:

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/science/2020/08/how-to-measure-risk-airborne-coronavirus-your-office-classroom-bus-ride-cvd

But I can't actually get the sliders to move (to account for no one wearing any masks!), is that just a problem on my phone, can anyone else do it?

Next doors kids all playing together again.loudly. grr.

If there's more than six of the feckers, I'm dobbing.

Cancel that, have just found a better link but also this note:

"The model assumes that people practice physical distancing of 6 feet, so that droplet transmission does not play a role. If this is not the case, there would be additional risk besides that estimated with the tool"

So if one person is (possibly) doing this, but 30 others aren't?

August

I think my classroom is probably closer to the definition of an 'indoor gathering' that the definition of a 'classroom lecture' as well.

Her office desk is probably 1m from the HOFs

iM interested if he gets and more cases as the school were wearing masks.

I simply can't get 2m away from the front row in any classroom without being on the other side of the wall. All of my a level classes are leaving the front row free but I can't do anything about ks4.

Yeah, would it be ok if they were on the back row? I’m not comfortable with that, tbh, not with the poor ventilation.

Could she have already had it? So now got again asymptomatically?
Interesting though the baby has something but not covid.
Really hope people who have already had it cant get it again enough to shed it again.

I think the baby is a false negative. Her test was shambolic. That's why they did my friend!

I did wonder if the baby's negative could be a false negative? Who knows

Hope you’ve had a lovely day @monkeytennis97

Confirmed HOD has to isolate. Blimey.

No kids though.