Schools to close again.. Covid

Nope, hospitality would have to shut before schools and that's not on the cards at the moment.

They aren’t even contact tracing under 12s unless they spent the night in a house. They are a long way off closing schools.

Hopefully, but doubtful.

Everyone and his dog know that schools are probably driving the spread with this whole “schools are safe” nonsense but it’s also the least popular and least economically sound measure, so they’ll do everything they can to avoid it.

A “circuit breaker” lockdown in December would make sense though, so that they can open everything for Christmas (and then close everything again in January, like last year).

Nobody is sure. That’s the problem. In our place, we’ve had fewer than ten since the start of the pandemic, officially. Unofficially, we’ve had far more than that that were deemed “community cases”.

If it wasn’t for the cop on if parents, it’d be even worse, because at least most of ours keep their kids home if they’ve been in contact with positive cases but are deemed not to have been close contacts.

I wouldn’t trust what they’re telling us an inch.

Schools are immune to Covid.....

I would say principals are not able to publish stats in a lot of cases. We see kids absent for a week and no mention of Covid. At this stage I'm just assuming that if a kid is absent for a week without explanation then it's covid related.

Local primary schools in my town are riddled. A friend and her daughter has covid. Out of the 31 children in her daughters class, 11 were in school yesterday.

So you must think that pubs will close in January too? There's no way this government will keep pubs open but close schools, it would be impossible for them to do from an optics perspective.

Gov won't close schools again as the kicking they'll receive will be enormous.

Like before, it'll be let happen and contact tracing will place the source as "community" as opposed to school and so schools will continue to be declared safe.

What I suspect will close them this time around is acute staff shortages, absenteeism even amongst fully vaccinated teachers and students is significantly higher than previous peaks and sadly I think we're only starting the ramp up to our next peak but are nowhere near it yet.

There are so few subs I just can't see schools being able to stay open after Christmas if rates climb the way they did before. A few weeks of everyone inside in January might get levels low enough to get out of the winter explosion and get the boosters sorted.

I can't see how that would happen. They are in complete denial about schools. According to Norma Foley there were 16 outbreaks in schools last week. They won't close schools looking at that data. Localised closures/class closures due to sub crises, I can see. Nationwide closure, no, I really can't.

Schools have never been closed because they were accepted or acknowledged as a infection spreading environment. From that perspective the data relating to schools are irrelevant regarding potential closure.

Schools were closed in the past as part of a broader lockdown and that's the context in which they'll close again.

It'll be the teachers again who will close the schools, not the govt.

Teachers unions will not allow staff to deal with so many sick infected kids face to face.

You're not seriously suggesting anyone claimed Covid was only in schools?