ACitizenErased wrote: » Level 3 clearly isn't working in the cities. Dublin and Cork only counties over 100 today.
lulublue22 wrote: » I appreciate you are annoyed and upset but under tbe guidelines SNA’s are allowed move between classes. Teachers are allowed access staffrooms for breaks with teachers from other classes provided a 2 m distance can be maintained. In our school that limits our staffroom to 6 at a time. Re pods many schools have no choice but to have bubbles of 2 classes ie first class will be a bubble , 2nd class will form a bubble to ensure adequate supervision. Provided that classes are not mixing outside of their bubble it sounds like the school are following guidelines as outlined by the doe. ETA for clarity pods are groups within the class - akin to table groups ,bubbles are classes of the same level. It would be impossible for the daily running of a school to take place without classes forming bubbles. SET teachers and SNA’s can move between classes.
Ludo wrote: » 232 in Cork today!!!
Itssoeasy wrote: » It’s not uncommon for kites to the flown as they say around policies to gauge the mood of such things but I’d be with you Ludo, in that it’s not at all helpful in this instance. It creates unnecessary worry in a population that is already worried and jaded from what’s happened this year already.
Ludo wrote: » These leaks are mad. Cabinet members now leaking actually during a cabinet meeting. Leaks saying move to level 5 for 6 weeks is not the most likely outcome after all. Madness (the leaks not the move to level 5). Shut up...make a decision and announce it. It is not a difficult concept FFS.
TheChizler wrote: » I'm a technical close contact of one of the colleagues through family, I don't work there but appreciate your sentiments all the same! I agree it's nice that's where their hearts were but in actual fact we're all really annoyed at the school. Much better that the children have unease with masks than the school get shut down and dozens of people infected IMO. The school claimed at the start the pods or whatever a class is called would never mix, but we've since heard that SNAs moved between classrooms and classes mixed for PE, teachers mixed in the staff room. There are a lot of kids with special needs so I get addressing those issues isn't straightforware but there are lot of questions to be answered.
jojofizzio wrote: » Were they a priority group?
ACitizenErased wrote: » I know someone tested at midday Saturday who had their result last night.
jojofizzio wrote: » Because of the large increase in numbers tested over the last 10 days,it follows that the turnaround time for results increases also unfortunately
ACitizenErased wrote: » Friend of mine was tested 10am Saturday, no result yet.
the beer revolu wrote: » It's a pain. I couldn't go to work Monday or Tuesday (got result Tuesday afternoon)and had to cancel another activity, too. Has to be done, though (we were very confident that it wasn't Covid but couldn't be 100% sure).
rodders999 wrote: » Yeah I was pretty certain we’d hear something yesterday evening or this morning at the absolute latest but nothing yet. Now starting to get concerned we won’t get anything back today and we’ll all be stuck in here again tomorrow.
the beer revolu wrote: » Ours came back much quicker - about 30 hours
rodders999 wrote: » Our GP was being ultra cautious in sending my wife for a test after she was involved in a confrontation last week. No symptoms and not a close contact of a confirmed case but she was sent for a test due to the nature of the incident as a precaution anyway. She got tested at 9:15am Saturday morning but still no results back. Whole family hunkered down at home since the test, kids off schools and myself not at work today. Crazy. We really need a quicker turnaround on testing.
.red. wrote: » I love the headline. Going on holidays has nothing to do with him leading to massive infection rates. It's all about him being an idiot.
Icantthinkof1 wrote: » Sorry to hear that hopefully you escaped it. I also hope all your colleagues recover. It struck me as sad and admirable that collectively as a workplace your first thoughts were for the children as you say you all wore visors so as to not to scare your pupils Plus it’s only recently enough that it’s been acknowledged that visors don’t offer sufficient protection so yee all did your best
TheChizler wrote: » Fair enough, I didn't get that from your post. I'm involved in an outbreak myself that started with a parent of a teacher who spread it to five colleagues and all of their families, around thirty people infected before anybody realised anyone was sick. School unit is shut down for now. Waiting to get a test myself cause I was in the same room as one of the colleagues 10 days ago. Just shows how quick things can spread even when everybody thinks they're doing things right. For anyone interested all the people in the school were wearing visors only for fear of scaring the children.
fin12 wrote: » I posted the article to show the amount of people one person can affect
TheChizler wrote: » TBH we're well past the point of infection from holidays being the main problem.
