COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[M18CTID]

Schools being open in June and July would most certainly lead to more deaths than just two extra months of no school would.

I’m on the fence with regards to reopening of schools but you don’t know that and you can’t prove it. It could well be that kids not going back until September in turn means hundreds of thousands of parents not being able to return to work which in turn could lead to extra deaths due to other causes.

 

[HelloCity]

Amazing how other countries can return kids to school for their education and some have not shut down at all but it’s impossible in the U.K.

Other countries did are far better job of containing the virus than we did. We’ve had a staggering and unacceptable amount of deaths.

 

[Ohrodneyrodney]

Yes, they have ppe
Yes they have ppe and screens.
They should be and are in any supermarket I go in.

They didn't have until very recently
No they dont
Yes I agree with that one

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Amazing how other countries can return kids to school for their education and some have not shut down at all but it’s impossible in the U.K.

All the pictures I see show teachers wearing masks and kids separated.
Our govt say masks are not necessary and social distancing is not possible.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

They didn't have until very recently
No they dont
Yes I agree with that one

Every supermarket in my town have installed screens to protect checkout staff, many wear masks.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

Other countries did are far better job of containing the virus than we did. We’ve had a staggering and unacceptable amount of deaths.

Check out the age profile of deaths from the ons website and apply that risk to kids and teachers

 

[Ohrodneyrodney]

Every supermarket in my town have installed screens to protect checkout staff, many wear masks.

That's just ever so slightly different from saying they all have PPE.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

All the pictures I see show teachers wearing masks and kids separated.
Our govt say masks are not necessary and social distancing is not possible.

they're saying kids should go to school on mass all of them and no social distancing and hand washing rules

have you got a link as I understood it was a slow phased return with social distancing measures

 

[kaz7]

Very few children get I'll. It is only teachers who may get ill. Those who have underlying health conditions should be removed from the front line.

Kids are getting it and spreading it,teachers are right to be wary

Meanwhile, new research suggested children in England are more likely than any other age group to be infected with COVID-19.
Almost one in five children (18%) aged between 5 and 14 years old have contracted COVID-19, according to modelling by Public Health England and the University of Cambridge's MRC Biostatistics Unit.wary

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...ld-not-reopen-after-government-talks-11989045

 

[Ric]

Very few children get I'll. It is only teachers who may get ill. Those who have underlying health conditions should be removed from the front line.

“Only” teachers?!

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

“Only” teachers?!

I would rather be in a school in a controlled environment than my local Tesco or nhs hospital

so yeah it seems it is only teachers

 

[Ric]

Just goes to show how dangerous that Daily Mail front page was, I guess.

 

[Ohrodneyrodney]

Just goes to show how dangerous that Daily Mail front page was, I guess.

Is that because it differed from your own opinion Ric ?

 

[kaz7]

Safe was probably the wrong word to use, not at a higher risk of spreading the virus is more apt.

At the end of the day no one currently knows the role children play in the spread of the disease.

It therefore boils down to children and teachers being put in a position where they cannot abide by the government’s social distancing measures.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with Unions questioning that.

From the WHO

Can children or adolescents catch COVID-19?


Research indicates that children and adolescents are just as likely to become infected as any other age group and can spread the disease.

Evidence to date suggests that children and young adults are less likely to get severe disease, but severe cases can still happen in these age groups.

Children and adults should follow the same guidance on self-quarantine and self-isolation if there is a risk they have been exposed or are showing symptoms. It is particularly important that children avoid contact with older people and others who are at risk of more severe disease

https://www.who.int/emergencies/dis...-and-answers-hub/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses

 

[Ric]

Is that because it differed from your own opinion Ric ?

No, gavvo.

 

[nellyonthewing]

The BBC proffered Danish schools handling of the issue as a model of how kids might go back. The positivity of the Danish teacher was a marked contrast to the wobbly dithering UK headteacher who showed zero leadership.

 

[kaz7]

Amazing how other countries can return kids to school for their education and some have not shut down at all but it’s impossible in the U.K.

We are about three weeks behind the rest of europe,we are therefore not ready

 

[Ohrodneyrodney]

No, gavvo.

A really dangerous opinion is the one that describes anyone else's opinion as dangerous just because it differs from their own.

 

[BlueAnorak]

You can sort of see why Teachers are apprensive to follow government advice when they have made such a spectacular fuck up of everything else Coronavirus related so far!

With our NHS and Government beuracrates in charge the same things would have happened regardless.

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

Just goes to show how dangerous that Daily Mail front page was, I guess.

I don’t know I don’t read that shite

so you don’t think children should have an education at this time as soon as reasonably practicable ?

my wife and I are bright and my sons school a very good one so our son gets education every single day

unfortunately many many kids are not so lucky and the longer this goes on the further behind they will fall . If we get to September I expect my son will be further ahead than he should be from kids with parents who are not so bothered and they need to get education and care from the school

it’s also not a new concept

kids of key workers have been educated throughout this That’s kids of parents in the front line have any of their kids passed it to other kids or teachers ? Has this been a problem ?

as I say lockdown easing includes opening of schools , other countries grasp this concept and facilitate it and I think it’s important too.