Steel Icarus
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In an office of articulate, bright people with degrees and in some cases Masters, I'm seen as obsessive about Covid because I know stuff they don't, like being vaccinated doesn't mean you can't get Covid or pass it on
Re-opening Schools?
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Cloo
Banana for scale
3 cases in son's class last week, so everyone's been asked to take PCR - son was clear, which didn't surprise me, it was 3 girls who he doesnt' sit near or play with. It doesn't sound as though the PCRs have revealed any more positives but I guess there still might be some to come back today. They have been asked to LFT for next week, I expect a few more to show up. Going to be fun getting son to test every day - may try him doing it himself today to see if that makes it less traumatic...
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Anecdotally , staffing levels are even more precarious than usual in schools atm. That seems to be part covid, part sheer burnout from the last two years.
Steel Icarus
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Colleague sent home after developing a cough over the weekend. Really pissed off about it, too, complaining the rules aren't clear and they've had four LFTs return negative results.
Pretty clear to me. The Principal of the college is saying not to come in if you have any symptoms, but where there us confusion is if this applies to students. On the one hand we don't want them in if they're ill, on the other we'll get hammered for low English and Maths attendance if they're off.
Pretty clear to me. The Principal of the college is saying not to come in if you have any symptoms, but where there us confusion is if this applies to students. On the one hand we don't want them in if they're ill, on the other we'll get hammered for low English and Maths attendance if they're off.
Steel Icarus
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Also a problem: ordinary coughs and colds are rife here and can be so bad they seem like Covid. And vice versa
Happy times Saturday at the PlagueShed
Tested a woman in the morning. Result was positive. She came back in the afternoon steaming drunk, accused me of spiking her test and many other things. Told me 'she can't be positive because she is attending a charity event on Sunday (yesterday) and has to see her mum who has cancer'
tried to assault a member of staff.
Long story short she left in a meat wagon after pissing herself on one of my chairs.
Tested a woman in the morning. Result was positive. She came back in the afternoon steaming drunk, accused me of spiking her test and many other things. Told me 'she can't be positive because she is attending a charity event on Sunday (yesterday) and has to see her mum who has cancer'
tried to assault a member of staff. Long story short she left in a meat wagon after pissing herself on one of my chairs.
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
Track and Trace will be on to the attendees at the charity event, estimated time of call: November.Happy times Saturday at the PlagueShed
Tested a woman in the morning. Result was positive. She came back in the afternoon steaming drunk, accused me of spiking her test and many other things. Told me 'she can't be positive because she is attending a charity event on Sunday (yesterday) and has to see her mum who has cancer'
Long story short she left in a meat wagon after pissing herself on one of my chairs.
Any bright ideas which pub she was at, to be renamed "The Plague and Pit"?
I posted this in the school thread by mistake. More as a reply to frustration of those working in education.
Not to ruin the mood but what surprised me is what the police told me.
Since Disgraced Prime Minister de Pfeffel Johnson lifted restrictions the police have no power. If someone tests positive there is no legal way to make them isolate. So they can go to any event or premises they wish.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
I’ve come down with it (positive lft, awaiting pcr result). Probable route is via the school business manager who I had a sit down meeting with on the Wednesday the week before last, she was off sick on the Friday and positive test on the Sunday. Both my kids (3 and 5, one at the school) are coughing too, although we’re all a bit asthmatic in this basement flat and the drop in temperature over the last 24 hours can be a trigger for that. Whole house has done PCRs
Does a 12-day period between exposure and symptoms sound realistic? I’ve been careful all week mainly doing outside work at the school (treating fences, sweeping leaves etc.) and giving people a wide berth, wearing a mask in the building. Shopping at 9:30pm at Aldi when only paranoid mask wearers come out. Can’t see where else it would have come from. If there is a long infection period at the moment could that explain the delay before national case figures shot up today?
I had three negative lfts up to and including Friday morning (done before going to a family funeral and wake). I also wrongly thought I was in the clear then and went to the pub in the evening for a meet-up with other year 1 parents (some of whom are teachers at other schools) and a fun run event for the whole school the next morning running about and panting. None of those events would have caused an infection this quickly but quite likely I was infectious to others.
Does a 12-day period between exposure and symptoms sound realistic? I’ve been careful all week mainly doing outside work at the school (treating fences, sweeping leaves etc.) and giving people a wide berth, wearing a mask in the building. Shopping at 9:30pm at Aldi when only paranoid mask wearers come out. Can’t see where else it would have come from. If there is a long infection period at the moment could that explain the delay before national case figures shot up today?
I had three negative lfts up to and including Friday morning (done before going to a family funeral and wake). I also wrongly thought I was in the clear then and went to the pub in the evening for a meet-up with other year 1 parents (some of whom are teachers at other schools) and a fun run event for the whole school the next morning running about and panting.
None of those events would have caused an infection this quickly but quite likely I was infectious to others.
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Presumably the "user" in need at this point being someone to do with the government. "We need you to delay the results..."
baldrick
hmmmmm
From October we're supposed to go to weekly reporting of absence in schools but obviously the mechanics of this have not been explained or prepared for and no one is really sure of the date we switch over. Could be tomorrow, could be next week. We get more info from our MIS provider about what's happening than the DfE. I have to say that daily reporting is a massive admin burden along with everything else covid that schools have to do.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Thanks for asking. Think I’m a bit better today, out and about a bit more around the house. If I’m too active (e.g. clearing up all the Lego the kids have strewn over the living room floor) I get a bit tired and weary, feel quite feeble generally. Not really coughing and joints much less achey.
Last night/this morning my coughing was productive, bringing up quite dark stuff so I’ve contacted GP who is calling me back tomorrow, a bit worried there could be a secondary chest infection, but by this evening chest feels a lot less tight and not coughing. I did have a pneumonia vaccine last year but chest infections do linger - when I started working at a school two years ago I had one for five months that took four different rounds of antibiotics to shift, what comes of working in a plague pit!
I did a home PCR at midday yesterday but it hasn’t come through yet. The mrs did a walk-in one which came back negative, but she’s still producing positive lateral flows. She’s also lost her taste and smell, something I haven’t had.
baldrick
hmmmmm
We got notice this morning that the daily reporting will continue
Nothing to see here. Covid doesn't apply to kids. Its all the fault of people going to pubs, sorry rammed pubs.
Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
Class of 30; 8 kids positive currently; 4 more off waiting results. Leadership clearly just letting it run. TA in another class asked if she could wear a mask as her own child is very anxious. Told no by SLT; tested positive 2 days later. All the positives in my class sit at the same table but infection is due to their siblings - there is no in-school transmission; repeat: there is no in-school transmission.
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elbows
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One in 20 is really quite an eye watering rate.
Covid: One in 20 secondary-age children infected in England
This is the highest reported rate for Covid for any age group since the pandemic began.
www.bbc.co.uk
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Four teachers down at our other site. They only have six.
One more down from our site, thinks they caught it off their daughter (from a school).
One more down from our site, thinks they caught it off their daughter (from a school).
Cheers #ToryScum
Siblings of pupils testing positive told to isolate amid rising cases
The move is a response to Trafford having the third highest Covid rates across Greater Manchester
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
They really are just making it up as they go along, aren't they?Cheers #ToryScum
Siblings of pupils testing positive told to isolate amid rising cases
The move is a response to Trafford having the third highest Covid rates across Greater Manchesterwww.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Have been from before the first positive case on these shores.
mr steev
magic thought wizard
Cheers #ToryScum
Siblings of pupils testing positive told to isolate amid rising cases
The move is a response to Trafford having the third highest Covid rates across Greater Manchesterwww.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
These are local decisions aren't they, rather than central government?
A similar thing is happening here with mask wearing in secondary schools
Masks to be re-introduced in Wolverhampton secondary schools as Covid cases surge
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
The school I'm working at today has c. 50% of kids and 14 staff off with covid. Don't bet against more school closures after half term.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Tell TA to contact their union.
Steel Icarus
we move
One dept member off with Covid, another very likely as has symptoms and works closely with the other. Several students off with it or suspected in our department. Lord alone knows how many across college. I'm WFH having been pinged and had a PCR test this morning. Big trip taking 40 learners to London for a Eurogamer event this Friday in serious jeopardy.
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