Are The Children Really Safe?

[Barsel]

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/230-schools-now-confirmed-coronavirus-18979574

[Peter Pedant]

.// As of yesterday ( source statistician BBC) more people were catching flu and subsequently dying of flu that Covid-19.//

"In week 37 2020, out of the 370 respiratory specimens reported through the Respiratory
DataMart System, no sample tested positive for influenza."

I am not keen on the Beeb statistician - I can see why he is hidden away most of the time

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Do you live in Manchester Trevor? Why is it dodgy?

[Ken4155]

bednobs; "At best that's 3 children." Equally could be 30?

[bednobs]

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

[bednobs]

or 300, who knows, I was just pointing out that the article made it seem that mostly children were off because the teachers had it

[TrevorThePug]

Me? Live in Manchester? Good heavens no.
I mean who would out of choice?

[Peter Pedant]

it is not too bad actually
I hesitate to say Newton Heath
( run down slum ) but we all know each other !

[Barsel]

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.

[Barsel]

If you are serious Trevor the Pug , then you need to educate yourself about Manchester.

[TrevorThePug]

Flu symptoms/Covid? Yes, if only we had an adequate testing system in place .....

[Gromit2]

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.

[pixie374]

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.

[dannyk13]

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.

[Barsel]

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.

[dannyk13]

Barsel-
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-home-test-kits-for-schools-and-fe-providers/coronavirus-covid-19-home-test-kits-for-schools-and-fe-providers

[ichkeria]

“ 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

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Where do you live Trevor that is so good and better at dealing with the virus than we are?

[pixie374]

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.

[pixie374]

Ich, do you think the clocks will still go back next month... as that will risk everyone for an extra hour? :-)

[Barsel]

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.