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

Do you have some in stock?

I meant the full units. The Department of Health in Victoria has negotiated with Samsung to supply 51,000 air purifiers to be rolled out to their schools over the next four months. Samsung are one amongst many who would happily enter negotiations with the Irish government. It's entirely doable.

sovits taking Samsung 4 months to get 51,000 at 5 times the cost and they have not yet demonstrated they will deliver, yet we could have 50,000 straight away at €15.5m

I just saw on the news that the CBS primary school in Wexford is reopening to students tomorrow following instruction from the Department of Education to do so. Meanwhile a school in Wicklow has reverted to online teaching but I think that was on advice from public health rather than a local decision.

I assume you have children in the school? You obviously know more than the rest of us if so. What do you make of the situation? From the outside I would've thought letting them stay online for three more days would've been a sensible move considering the number of cases they had.

Sorry, didn't mean to interrogate you! Just curious to hear your perspective.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/principal-warns-of-shocking-covid-spread-as-more-than-40-pupils-test-positive-for-virus-in-days-40991461.html

1 in 5 kids positive in that school

I cannot understand the bullish continuation of their policy in primary schools. Tracking, tracing and testing needs to be resumed.

The HSE say that cases in schools come from the community, families, multiple mixing etc. They also say that cases actually coming from schools are very low. So, if there is a lot of COVID in the community it follows that some kids may bring it in and test positive in school.

Clear from watching Minister Robert Troy on TonightVMTV last night the gov are either willfully playing dumb or just genuinely ignorant of problems with schools. He was claiming schools have plenty of ventilators (!!!) and those that didn't had all the money they needed to buy whatever they needed. Anthony Staines was on and had to correct him that the Department had provided some funding for C02 monitors - most schools haven't gotten anywhere near enough - and that it was true schools could use their capitation grants to apply for funding to buy purifiers.

But y'know, schools use that money for silly things like, ooh, the electricity or the heating...

I'm sorry but the hse are full of **** when it comes to schools at this stage.

So Martin says no to widespread contact tracing

5-12 year olds had the highest incidence rate in the country last week but hey ho, nothing to see here

Are we ignoring the reason this is the case. They are not vaccinated

How have the 5-12 year olds suddenly the ‘highest incidence’ when throughout this pandemic they were consistently the lowest & least affected? Isn't is absolutely amazing timing that this piece of information is being presented just as the FDA in the US will grant authorisation to Pfizer for the vaccine for this age group based on a trial of just 2,000 children. Míchéal also said next month it could be authorised for use here.