A follow up messageMates daughter, 6 went off school earlier this week with covid (caught via her brother).
Now in hospital on a covid ward and being given antibiotics, told it may be a severe case and potential long covid.
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 chumGuidelines is one thing, common sense and consideration for others is often something entirely different
CoventryLive understands three of these schools hit by positive cases during the first week of the new term are in the Nuneaton area, two primary and one secondary.
But unlike previously, Public Health Warwickshire will not confirm the identity of any of the schools, but a spokesman has said it is working with a number of schools in the county.
Seeing a fair few of these...
There are no close contacts any more. They've been abolished by fiat.
NHS Test and Trace will contact you to let you know that you have been identified as a contact and check whether you are legally required to self-isolate. If you are not legally required to self-isolate you will be provided with advice on testing and given guidance on preventing the spread of COVID-19. Even if you do not have symptoms, you will be advised to have a PCR test as soon as possible. Children aged 4 and under will not be advised to take a test unless the positive case was someone in their own household.
Children and young people aged under 18 years 6 months who usually attend an education or childcare setting and who have been identified as a close contact should continue to attend the setting as normal. They do not need to wear a face covering within the setting, but it is expected and recommended that these are worn when travelling on public or dedicated transport.
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.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.
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" prowlingI 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.
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.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