@History Queen and @teachinggal123 give it a rest and lets move on please
The unions have no more of an inside track on future developments in this area than you or I or indeed the government at this point. As they say things are fluid and decisions should be made primarily based on hospital data.
The confirmed infections number has jumped significantly today. You can probably treble the actual number of new infections. On the positive side this means proper immunity in large tracts of the population is going to happen. Assuming the booster provides a level of protection to older and more vulnerable people and there isn't the same level of hospitalisations and deaths this isn't necessarily a major bad thing.
However it will lead to major difficulties with staffing across many sectors and ultimately this is what the issue will be.
Subbing is becoming a huge issue in our school and we'd been managing grand enough until around 10days ago. Those of us that are signed up to the extra subbing are being called on a lot. Between unpaid s&s and subbing two of our teachers had no free slots last week.
I think with the new rules around close contacts and the inevitable panic when numbers rise after Xmas we may well end up in a national lockdown for the month of January anyways .
Sure who cares about the economy !
I really hope you're wrong.
So do I ! And two weeks ago I would have been of the opposite mind . But the leadership is so weak it’s almost inevitable now
Really hope they don't close the schools.
I honestly don't think my kids will cope well if they do.
I hope so too but realistically the way things are going, I think it will happen.
The first four months of this year were so hard.
anyway whether they close the schools or not. There will be absolute chaos in January I reckon. I’m absolutely dreading it.
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I have to send my two into school/ Playschool next week as one is getting his mmr booster and the other is being assessed. Otherwise I’d strongly consider keeping them home until things are a bit clearer and/or they’ve had first jab.
Mine weren't right until about early June after it.Another round of that would be pretty close to extremely upsetting.For this house anyway.
Schools will be the last thing to close and rightly so. To be honest if the % of people we have vaccinated isn't enough to keep society open and people living then what is enough?
This is exactly it, to the sensible, logical people among us, but the problem (for me) is that I cannot trust anything said by NPHET or politicians.
This is something that drives me nuts, for the last 30 days the number of positive swabs have been flat (they are starting to rise now) but the reporting of cases has been all over the place, on Saturday the department of health reported 7000+ cases but in the days before they were under reporting case by between 600 and 1100 a day. On the day they reproted 7333 cases there were 5124 positive swabs. This under reporting then catch up is needlessly frightening people. The blue line below is reported cases the green are positive tests
https://covid19.shanehastings.eu/api/swabs/
If you look at the data for Ireland even with a 7 day average filter on our data is like a sawtooth where as other countries it much smoother.
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2021-09-17..latest&facet=none&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=Confirmed+cases&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=USA~GBR~IRL~ZAF
Approx 350/550 absent today
It’s been a long two days :(
About 85% absent today. Had 6/28, 3/28 and 5/28 respectively.
Our daughter's Class (6th) had 22 out of 25 at school today.
Hope all teachers, parents and students here got to Xmas hols free of covid.
Have a nice holiday and hopefully we all back on site in January.
Whatever about covid?
The amount of vomiting bugs and doses swirling about in schools this autumn is incredible, our two have been out with three vomiting episodes this past six weeks
Nearly didn't make in, we all had to get PCR's after the both kids spiked temperatures on Saturday. Very impressed with the testing got a test Sunday afternoon results on Monday afternoon. One is fine, one is still sick. I didn't send them back to school - far to close a call and not fair on send in a child that could make the others sick.
cant see schools open til feb with cases gone mad
Don't think this is a given if the cases don't translate into high levels of hospitalisation.
Staffing and a lack of subs will make most schools unmanageable with the current levels of transmission.
You mean with the close contact rule!
I expect this will be gone the same way as for nurses or there is just no way schools will be able to stay open
We could well end up with exam years in schools and other years remote learning for a few weeks as well . I didn’t think we would come to that but it’s looking more likely with so many absences in the run up to Xmas
I was thinking that too. It'll be an interesting January anyway.
Schools wont close unless we face another lockdown. We cant have barbers/pubs and retail open and schools closed.
I can see class groups being sent home due to covid or staff issues but I would hope to see schools remain open.
