Re-opening Schools?
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NEW: Our challenge to Gavin Williamson over unlawful school guidance for Covid-vulnerable families - Good Law Project
Our lawyers have written to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson today, asking him to urgently clarify school attendance guidance so that it considers the needs of vulnerable families – and threatening formal legal proceedings if he does not. The Government’s new rules and lack of Covid...
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Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
A follow up message
“(My mates daughter) has been in the children Covid ward since Thursday, not in ICU though. she has PIMS Paediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome. Took a while but they’ve got her on some strong roids yesterday for three days to fight the infection. On antibiotics as a precaution. Her breathing, heart rare and temp were all high but coming down now. Cardiologist and doctor was quite positive that it will clear up. Will be in for at least another week and they won’t say more than that until infection comes down.”
Him and his wife have been at the hospital throughout. It seems like she’s going to be pull through but what a worry, I really hope the government crack on and continue the vaccination programme for schoolchildren.
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
My mate is someone who has both of those qualities in abundance, I am certainly not going to ask him in forensic detail to explain his actions in chronological order to satisfy you chum
elbows
Well-Known Member
Not being open about which schools have outbreaks seems to be a feature of this phase.
eg in my local news:
www.coventrytelegraph.net
There is the potential for this sort of withholding of information to be counterproductive to the authorities aims, if people fill the void with rumour, fear and suspicion.
eg in my local news:
Public health confirms 'a number of schools' with Covid cases and outbreaks
Schools opened for the new term last week
There is the potential for this sort of withholding of information to be counterproductive to the authorities aims, if people fill the void with rumour, fear and suspicion.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
elbows
Well-Known Member
It will drive people crazy.
On paper the concept of close contacts still exists, even for children, but the implications have all been changed.
Self-isolation is no longer a part of it if you are double-vaccinated or under 18 and a half years of age.
If contacted by NHS Test & Trace then things like taking a PCR test even without symptoms is still part of the response. But I expect they have also shifted the definition of close contact and so the extent to which this will happen with children at school remains to be seen. They explicitly mention that children aged 4 and under wont usually be asked to take a test, so that implies older children may still find themselves being asked to take one.
I expect other official page(s) exist that deal more explicitly with schools, but they will be so hideous that I cannot bring myself to look for them right now. Instead here is another quote from the aforementioned page. As per its wording, a child can still in theory be identified as a close contact, but they will still be expected to go to school.
More ammunition for my view that this country has suffered under an absurd and ridiculous establishment for many lifetimes, and the pandemic simply illuminates the shit that was always there.
Steel Icarus
maybe I'm a maze
All my office colleagues went out Friday night. Meal, two pubs and two nightclubs for most of them, the last apparently packed. All but one of them hadn't taken an LFT when returning to college today. I've asked them individually to do one as a favour to me tonight. Slightly astonished I had to ask.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
We started back at college today, and I've ordered another pack of LFTs in celebration.
I was rather dismayed at the proportion of students in the common areas masking their chins, or doing the nose-over. I may order another pack of LFTs and start testing more regularly.
I was rather dismayed at the proportion of students in the common areas masking their chins, or doing the nose-over. I may order another pack of LFTs and start testing more regularly.
Steel Icarus
maybe I'm a maze
I think I'd guess I've seen three students total sporting masks in the week they've been back (out of literally hundreds). Maybe half a dozen staff. We have one of the highest if not THE highest number of cases per 100k in the land and mask wearing is completely up to individuals.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
The Estates people at this college are proper Gestapo*, and they've been enforcing mask-wearing pretty rigorously. But I think the student response has been to chin their masks, so they can flick them up quickly when they spot the "fuzz" prowling
* A kinder comparison might be the bledlows of Unseen University - bulky, steady chaps (almost exclusively chaps) with a dogged aim of enforcing the many and various College rules and regulations. Without fear or favour - tutors are not exempt from their attentions
_Russ_
Never not Knowingly Misunderstood
In all seriousness, those who know/think they will be fine but also know/think that they could give it to someone that could end up dead yet dont care disgusts me. (and lets face it most university students not masking up fit this description) Im not tolerant of selfish cunts and dont hold youth as an excuse at that age they know what they are doing
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
But, like my step-daughter once pointed out to me, you have to choose which hill you want to die on. My getting outraged, or weighing in on these students would achieve nothing, so to my mind, there's little point winding myself up about it. These behaviours are the emergent properties of a society, not individual acts of evil, and, like so many less-desirable aspects of human behaviour, are somewhat baked in by the society they grew up in. Getting outraged about it is futile.
Not ideal news...
www.tes.com
Covid: Rates ‘soaring’ where schools returned earlier
Virus has ‘really accelerated’ in pupils in Leicestershire, where autumn term started earlier than average, experts say
www.tes.com
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
The good news at my place is that we haven't had any more positives beyond the original infections I've mentioned.
The bad news is that one of those continues to suffer badly. She's 55 and asthmatic. Managed to avoid hospital so far and hopefully that continues. Word is she isn't improving much, if at all. I hope long Covid doesn't become a thing for her, fingers crossed.
The bad news is that one of those continues to suffer badly. She's 55 and asthmatic. Managed to avoid hospital so far and hopefully that continues. Word is she isn't improving much, if at all. I hope long Covid doesn't become a thing for her, fingers crossed.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
At my current school teachers are responsible for ensuring they cannot be considered 'close contacts' of any student who tests positive. So that's that sorted. As long as we don't need to use a corridor. Or a classroom. Or breathe air.
I'm also working on a day-to-day basis via an agency. So if (when) I do get sick, no paid sick leave
I'm also working on a day-to-day basis via an agency. So if (when) I do get sick, no paid sick leave
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Had 'the letter' yesterday, someone in BB2's class has Covid, BB2 is considered a close-contact. But we must do nothing unless she becomes ill. This time last year her whole year had to take 2 weeks off when the same happened...
Steel Icarus
maybe I'm a maze
My daughter (12) is booked in for her first jab next week - at her request. Proud of her tbh.
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