The Twenty-Eight Republic - Lockdown Light

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You are most welcome to this school staff support thread to get us through stressful times. It is meant for school staff only – a sort of room of requirement. Baiters, haters, goaders and bashers can jog on somewhere else.

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Other requirements for staff room entry include the ability to find the staff room, the ability to find a clean mug in the staff room, knowledge of the photocopier codes, and the ability to sniff out where the booze is stashed - Thirsty Tuesdays, Fizz Fridays now in operation.

If you are fed up with cakes and biscuits there is now a cheeseboard on offer

If you come with a stick to goad us then that is not allowed in the staffroom and you will receive a detention

'Most areas' is irrelevant to the hospital debate ,though. As soon as Cornwall gets full, patients will be moved around. I don't think the NHS is in the business of making stuff up! By a few days time, many hospitals will be fuller than they were in April. Why are people only thinking it matters if they are full to bursting or the Nightingales are all used? The point is the 'aren't full' because they are repurposing other wards. Sorry, not having a go at you but that sort of attitude enrages me!!

As for cases levelling off, unis have halted their mass testing. It's what age groups the cases are in that matters most in terms of that. Hospital admissions are going up every day.

I take it your link came from an anti lockdowner?

DS off for 3rd time due to contact at school. 🤦‍♀️
Positive result received yesterday, last contact with person yesterday. So either it was a random ONS etc test or some selfish fucker thinks their right to an education trumps everyone else’s. I really hope it’s the former
to everyone isolating or with symptoms.

On the subject of taking masks on and off, in my school they go inside/outside/inside/outside to get to lessons!

The amount of handling their masks will get!!

I kind of don't have thoughts anymore whynot. I'm back to the resigned to whatever stage of the response cycle.

Fairly glad it's Friday though.

Honey, it could be age? Mine went down hill after my second child / further into my 40s and switching to Fostair made a huge difference. I'd found similar and that I was "better" day to day if I used my blue.

If you're taking it that much blue definitely call the surgery to speak to the asthma nurse and perhaps trial a combo. The difference to my energy levels was unbelievable. I was averaging around 400-410 on brown as "good days" and have gone as high as 440 on Fostair.

The chemicals in all the hand sanitisers and alcohol has been irritating my chest, as well as big changes in hot and cold air.

@Piggywaspushed

On the subject of taking masks on and off, in my school they go inside/outside/inside/outside to get to lessons!

The amount of handling their masks will get!!

That's been the argument against children esp Sen using them in our place. Why staff can't I've no idea.

@Saucery Oh no! Yr 12 and 13 at my place have had 3 bouts of isolation. They are fed up! Some have had 4 as some are taught in another site and had to isolate due to a case there. But BoJo says schools are open 🤷‍♀️

Take care all!

Not heard of fostair will research thank you.

Hadn't thought of chemicals. It's historically dust and spores and certain pollens that get to me but actually thinking about it I've had a couple of times when I abandoned a swim earlier than planned because my breathing wasn't right and hadn't even considered it could be the chlorine.

I'm going to try a couple of weeks of religiously taking my brown inhaler morning and night to check it's not the occasional forgetting that's the problem then attempt to get to speak to a doctor

Yes sounds like a plan.

There's others available; it's just a combo steroid inhaler with the blue combined as a long acting version. So rather than 4 hours it lasts 12. I think serotide is another.

You can also sometimes lower the level of steroid to 100 rather than 200 and rely on the full dose of reliever in it; then some use it on something called a MART programme and take up to 8 puffs of that spaced during the day as needed.

I think I found I was generally becoming more reactive to any dust or spores or dampness and then kept getting random fluid bits trapped in my lungs. The Fostair was like a balloon expanding everything! I still use the blue on top where needed.

Oh no saucery!

That's rubbish.

Turns out it was a random sample test and positive case as surprised as anyone, as they had no symptoms whatsoever. They immediately did their own contact tracing to prevent contacts turning up at school this morning, bless them! Shouldn't fall into the trap of thinking the worst of teenagers as I hate it when people do that!

Thanks neuro. Just looked and my brown is only 100mcg so maybe they'll want to try raising that as first step. I recall taking ventolin tablets as a teen.

Neuro have you seen the National Trust email to say they are keeping their parks and gardens open? Bit of good news when you feel up to it

(yes anti lockdowner who I'm getting a fair bit of pressure from to meet up with at the weekend with her kids and mine)

Apart from anything else we haven't started the flu season properly yet, think of all the previous years when ambulances have had to queue for hours because there are no beds....

Norovirus too.

Apart from anything else we haven't started the flu season properly yet,

If my school is anything to go by, the flu season could get bad. It was immunisations this week - the take up rate was below 25%. My theory is that the fact that the form went home on email rather than paper meant that parents either didn't see it or weren't sufficiently motivated to fill it out on their phones - too fiddly.
Hi everyone - happy Friday!!
Only 1 confirmed case in my school so far, but plenty of sick children told no access to tests so lots isolating.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-maintaining-educational-provision/guidance-for-schools-colleges-and-local-authorities-on-maintaining-educational-provision

Just been updated....

My sd in Plymouth is at college year 12 and is doing a week in and out. Maybe they have taken into their own hands. Hmm

Interesting monkey

There may be exceptional circumstances in which some level of restriction to education or childcare is required in a local area

@monkeytennis97

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-maintaining-educational-provision/guidance-for-schools-colleges-and-local-authorities-on-maintaining-educational-provision

Just been updated....

First time they have mentioned tiers since?

I'm interpreting this as "as we come out of national lockdown, some areas may need a level of lockdown which includes schools."

Or, actually, lockdown isn't going to work in some areas without closing the schools.

Dip/slowing in infection rate in secondary school kids coinciding with half term? If they'd done a two week circuit breaker with schools it could have made a real difference

I dont think it's particularly going dow n.
With a finite number of tests there surely is a max you are likely to get.
Half term will make a difference. As also the adults especially primary are taking holiday too. However i think for school outbreaks it can break a cycle but obviously if they were all partying in houses etc that wont help and it goes back possibly worse into school and anyone who has travelled.
The DM is really going for it with anti lockdown. Of course no mention anywhere that the decrease was due to half term.

I just looked up transmission routes for norovirus. Alcohol hand gels do not kill it, only soap and water. Bloody viruses, adapting to their environments
I thought it wouldn’t get a look-in with all the hand sanitiser and cleaning about