The Forty - Eight Republic - countdown for DfE media agency to wake up

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That's interesting. I very often get flu type virus although not full blown flu since I have a jab. So i'm passing it on with that? Or a lesser load?

If that's the case it definitely makes sense to vaccinate teachers surely?

@phlebasconsidered

That's interesting. I very often get flu type virus although not full blown flu since I have a jab. So i'm passing it on with that? Or a lesser load?

If that's the case it definitely makes sense to vaccinate teachers surely?

I believe, with the flu it covers 4 or 5 types of flu. They work it out by looking at the southern hemisphere and seeing what flu strains they had in their winter and then using those here. So you can still get other types of flu depsite being vaccinated. Some years they manage to be more accurate than others. I don't know though, if it totally prevents the 4/5 strains it includes though.

But for example when I got my children vaccinated against chicken pox (I chose to for various reasons) I was told that it will 98% totally prevent them getting it , as in their body will mount an immune response to the vaccine and then if they come across chicken pox their body will fight it off and they simply won't get it.

The other 2% was if their immune system for some reason did not fully do what it was supposed to do in response to the vaccine, then could then get chicken pox but it would definitely be milder.

I think that there are vaccines (lots of the childhood ones I think ) that totally prevent the disease but some need boosters etx.

I've had the help B vaccine for work. I was then tested anitbody wise for hep b. My body has made enough and therefore no matter what I cannot get hep b... So that is one that does stop it totally

I'm no scientist though so...

I asked her a question too - bet it was ignored. Will go and see.

@JanFebAnyMonth

maybe MNHQ warned her about noble beforehand.......

Tbf she couldn't answer it. 'Yeah, I was pissing into the wind for the last 6 years really because this lot are a bunch of rich assholes only intent on lining their own pockets. Good luck with getting any money out of them in the future'.

However I might have been kinder to her had she not been making up Us4Them friendly sound bites about how transmission wasn't an issue in schools thanks to the hard work of teachers in December.

Read this without twitching www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/report/school-attendance-since-september/

Yeah mine was ignored - what were the barriers? Cunts is the answer. She can't say that.

Mine didn't get answered either.

I still can't see this Q and A!

Just thinking, Mary Bousted and others saying if tests sent home parents who don't want /can't afford to risk having to isolate won't use them or will lie....

Surely the same arguments apply to giving permission for their children to be tested in school?

The animal results of the trial I'm in found that it was a sterilising vaccine so they didn't find the virus in the mouths and noses of the infected animals. Which I guess means they couldn't pass it on.

Piggy, I linked it earlier, here it is again - non-obvious title:

Guest Post: "Post-COVID, we will need a new government commitment to children" www.mumsnet.com/Talk/guest_posts/4168527-Guest-Post-Post-COVID-we-will-need-a-new-government-commitment-to-children

Thanks jan. To be fair, she did answer the questions quite openly, I thought.

Look after yourself this evening, @MrsHamlet. Apparently it's national drink wine day!

Good to hear people are being offered the vaccine. My council haven't offered it to SEN staff so I'm just waiting for July or whenever. But it's great to know more people are being offered it now.

I'm not really looking to 8th March at this moment - I don't even know which of my students will be back in school on Monday. It makes planning incredibly stressful, as I don't know whether to video lessons for Monday or not.

Got one more online lesson to teach, then I can have that wine 🍷

Boris Johnson 'wants all school pupils back in class on March 8'
mol.im/a/9274925

Seen this? Here we go again...

@Monkeytennis97

Boris Johnson 'wants all school pupils back in class on March 8' mol.im/a/9274925

Seen this? Here we go again...

His own Cabinet want a phased return then. I wish his own Cabinet would also consider actual safety measures to be included in that too but I won’t hold my breath!

Come 2nd March it’ll be one year since I last saw - even spoken - to my mum. Feeling very sorry for myself, especially with the ‘all back’ news.

Ignore me - I’m in a pity party. Quick someone post a Chris H pic, or even better Cillian Murphy!

Come 2nd March it’ll be one year since I last saw - even spoken - to my mum. Feeling very sorry for myself, especially with the ‘all back’ news

That’s a hell of a long time mother

The all back as normal is pretty scary. I really hope I’m wrong but I just can’t see how it won’t spread again.

What about the figures I've seen somewhere or other showing the recent spread in primary-aged children? How are we going to manage that with far greater numbers mixing?

Here you go mother

@Cantaloupeisland That’s perked me right up!

I'm excited because my name is on the Mars lander that's about to arrive on Mars.

@motherrunner so sorry, it's so awful. Hope you will be able to see your mum soon xx

Sorry mother.

Who's HE???

Love a bit of Cillian, those eyes...

@JanFebAnyMonth

Sorry mother.

Who's HE???

Who’s he?

WHO’s HE?!!!

(Shakes head)

Eyes ... cheek bones ... and (for those who watch ‘Peaky Blinders’) bum ...