The Fifty-fourth Republic - Easter holidays anyone?

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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.

If you are NOT staff and just have a general education query please start your own thread.

Do not give the staffroom password to non-staff as it attracts the wrong sort of crowd.

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. Do not sit on the chairs and do wear a mask

I don't know anyone who has had covid and hasn't been a member of school staff, or a medic. Anecdotally.

Us and medics are the only large workforces subjected to large numbers of people for long periods of time?

I’ve been monitoring this for personal interest, and when people / MSM say “teachers” they always mean all school staff. Combination of laziness and the vague idea most people have of the school workforce being 95% teachers and 5% “secretaries”, cleaners and maybe a cook.

@noblegiraffe

The Guardian also seems to mention education staff as an offhand remark when the numbers aren't that lower than the NHS who are a much bigger employer. What proportions are we talking about?

Funny how teachers were the headline profession when it was 'they're at lower risk of death'.

That was my exact thought, Noble.

Us and medics are the only large workforces subjected to large numbers of people for long periods of time?

Large numbers of people who can't/won't do as they are asked/understand the concept of social distancing etc. Might be bullshit, but I wondered.

@noblegiraffe

The Guardian also seems to mention education staff as an offhand remark when the numbers aren't that lower than the NHS who are a much bigger employer. What proportions are we talking about?

Funny how teachers were the headline profession when it was 'they're at lower risk of death'.

I think that's a higher proportion. 548,000 teachers against 1.1 million nhs workers, although they don't link to the actual ons report.

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot

I don't know anyone who has had covid and hasn't been a member of school staff, or a medic. Anecdotally.

I know of quite a few people who've had covid who aren't medics or teachers. The common strand is contact with medics or someone at school though. So my dad's friends who died from covid had been at hospital appointments before they became ill and they think that's where they caught it. Dh's step-grandma caught it in her nursing home, probably from the residents who had been sent back there after a hospital stay without having been tested. She died, along with several other residents. The caretaker at my school had it, probably caught at school, but maybe caught at a hospital appointment for a scan the previous week. He's much better now, but I think he would be included in the long covid stats as he's got several new health conditions as a result of having had covid. Loads of parents of the kids I teach have had it, as have loads of the kids themselves. Some of these parents are health professionals, others have caught it from the kids, who probably caught it at school (maybe not, but who really knows)

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot

Noble, you seem to have caused wrath for nothing on the Telegraph thread. Good work!

I just can’t help posting blind unthinking support for the govt you know...

Here are the percentages for self-reported long covid in people who think they had covid at least 12 weeks previously.

Health and social care are highest, but also personal services(??) and civil services/local government. Education higher than retail, hospitality and transport.

personal services is hairdressers, beauticians etc : it does sound dodgy!

Note the female professions...

personal services is hairdressers, beauticians etc : it does sound dodgy!

I’d imagine the numbers of prostituted women who have caught covid, suffer from long covid and have died is unrecorded. Ditto anyone in any other unregulated “industry”.

Of course! My mind went completely blank and all I could think of was bodyguards...

The report does note that women seem more likely to be affected than men. Is that biological or due to the work we do?

Here's the ONS report, you can download the datasets from here www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/prevalenceofongoingsymptomsfollowingcoronaviruscovid19infectionintheuk/1april2021

I’m pretty sure I’ve been seeing 43,000 children with long covid being quoted in a couple of places over the last week. Not sure where that has come from though.

Yes, I can't imagine anyone bothering to collect data on prostitutes.

I’d ignored that thread because it had Telegraph in the time.

The Telegraph accusing others of psychologically manipulating people using fear is quite something. Especially in an article which is in it’s own way using fear as manipulation.

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The Telegraph accusing others of psychologically manipulating people using fear is quite something. Especially in an article which is in it’s own way using fear as manipulation

OMG stop blindly loving on the government Rafals

For all the fangirls.

Sorry. I can’t help being rabidly pro-government. Which is conflicting today. Because I’m especially fond of the Barclay brothers too.

Have you been rummaging in my kitchen cupboard, Piggy?

It was just behind my Alec Salmond mug.

If anyone hasn't checked out the school calling children piglets thread in AIBU thinking it's just some whine about a primary teacher (which is what I thought), you really should have a look. It's got a link to a school website....BONKERS.

Can we please have a playground with bars for doing rolypolys around? I never mastered that.

Right MrsH I have read your post 4 times and scrolled up the most recent page of conversations and I haven't the faintest idea what you are responding to.

Long covid?
Alec Salmond?
Being rapidly pro-government?

All of the above and the piglet school 🤣 it sounds like an English Chalet School.