we are in this situation atm. My daughters school is very pragmatic - she had the sniffles last week and they didn't send her home. However, on Friday night she also started a new cough, and having completed the algorithm we are now self isolating while waiting for test results
The children were off school for about 6 months and then the powers that be said 'children can go back to school in September to carry on with their education,' and yet just 2 weeks in, whole classes of children are sent home if their teacher or one of the children has symptoms. When are some of you going to realise the difference between this and the flu? If a teacher has the flu, they don't send the whole classroom home for 2 weeks.
Wedding Chapels are a favourite of the virus so only 15 people are allowed in for a half hour ceremony.
Meanwhile 30 people are absolutely safe in a classroom all day.
Children always pick up everything when they first go back to school. And this year, with the lack of normal socialising and preschools, their immune systems will be even more shot.
Ironically, while there seems to be a shortage of tests/results, care homes have them coming out of their ears.
Gromit //Meanwhile 30 people are absolutely safe in a classroom all day.//
Classes are not 30 children, they have been reduced and desks are set 2 metres apart, plus the schools are following the rules regarding masks and distancing.
I think one of the points I'm trying to make here is that the children's education is still being disrupted and the parents are probably at their wits end with the childcare.They can't take 2 weeks off work because their child is in the same class as little Jimmy who has symptoms. They are saying there will be more testing in care homes, and I think they need to extend that to schools.
“ Wedding Chapels are a favourite of the virus so only 15 people are allowed in for a half hour ceremony.
Meanwhile 30 people are absolutely safe in a classroom all day.”
On the other hand 30 children in a class are in a preestablished “bubble” whereas wedding guests might be coming from anywhere.
Similarly the argument that viruses don’t clock off at 10pm sounds perfectly reasonable but on the other hand people often get drunker and more “touchy feely” later on (and “later“ can be much later not necessarily 11pm.
So I have some sympathy for the government here. Especially with other scientists moaning it doesn’t go far enough
Barsel, care homes have been given a Coronavirus budget, of thousands. They have PPE and testing galore. The closest one to me, has run out of space to stock it all.
Pixie, The carers in the care homes have plenty of PPE? In a way, teachers are carers of the children in their care, so perhaps teachers should wear the PPE? This would help to protect them and the children.