Schools and Covid 19 (part 5) **Mod warnings in OP**

Thanks for the reply. I'm a teacher and felt the same as you about the board having to make that decision. Hope you and yours keep well.

Yeah but also very high community incidence of the disease, which according to NPHET is what creates school problems.

And by the same token the kids who may bring it in to school mix with other kids in school who then bring it back to their families. The traffic goes both ways, but if there's no track, trace, test for school children that falls under the catch all community transmission.

Parents will take this into their own hands now . MM treating people like they were stuipid will not go down well

Schools are safe he says while at the same time saying no contact tracing for children . Is he for real ? The dogs on the street know he is talking absolute shoite

"insert Norma 'head in the sand' Foley Schools are safe meme"

Course if you don't contact trace, you can't actually know that.

The vaccine is suppressing case numbers in the older age groups by stopping many getting sick. If your vaccinated your not considered a close contact unless you have symptoms. It makes sense for there to be an increase in the incidence for this age group especially when the numbers in the community are so high.

Who cares if its spreading in children. Children were never a risk. We closed schools to protect elderly and vulnerable. So unless your child is vulnerable and unvaccinated then dont worry about it. Unless you worry about the Common cold which kills Millions of children every year, then dont worry about covid. So many people conditioned is actually a pandemic in itself.

I wonder what percentage of primary school pupils will be absent tomorrow in the aftermath of Hallowe'en parties.

It’s likely hard to know for sure how many die from the common cold especially when it’s rarely tested for and sequenced. Depending on how a death is recorded then death could be put down to asthma or pneumonia etc and not a cold.

It might seem unlikely but the common cold can trigger life threatening asthma attacks in children.

Quoting how many PEOPLE flu kills each year or how many PEOPLE COVID has killed is irrelevant to his point and on a school thread.

His point basically is - children are very low risk from COVID so let it rip (to some extent). High cases in schools in 5-12 year olds isn't much to be worried about once vulnerable and elderly people are protected via a booster vaccine now.

Unvaccinated children should stay away from school for 2weeks after their last contact with positive person.

We have been told that the other adult who is negative is basically free to do what they want as they are vaccinated. This seems a bit strange as we know that vaccinated people can pass it on.

I am not happy about the amount of school time our kids are missing.

Like we know now that the virus is not going away and everyone is going to end up getting a booster plus there is an anti-viral pill on the way. So why are we stopping kids going to school when very few of them are being affected by it.

I can understand staff in schools may be worried but with the numbers in schools it is pretty much impossible not to pick it up.

How many more are out waiting on tests or test results that will ultimately be negative?

Ours will miss 3-4 days this week for something I'm fairly certain is only a cold.

It might be 24 hours, but because of the volume of cases, the earliest appointment I could get yesterday morning at 9am in our county or neighbouriing counties was for 12:30 today. I spent a frustrating 30 minutes refreshing 6 centres locations to try to get one of the same-day cancellations that would occasionally show up, but to no avail.

If results take 24 hours, then no school tomorrow either, 3 days.

People on the testing thread reporting longer than 24 hour turnaround also.