Main Coronavirus / Covid-19 Discussion Thread

[Stat Brother]

I’m struggling to understand the non closure of schools. Apparently children are not suffering from the virus but can be carriers. That leaves teachers in a very vulnerable position as the only profession required to not work from home and every day be in a public place with hundreds of potential carriers.

Again - The closing of schools may well have a serious and profound effect on the NHS and elderly care in general as health care employees find themselves having to stay home to look after healthy children, while sick patients are left even more vulnerable.

I'll hazard a guess that too will reach a tipping point, I'll also guess (probably wrongly) the powers that be are looking to get to the Easter holidays.

 

[bluenitsuj]

Have they announced an updated figure for deaths in the UK from the virus?

 

[WATFORD zero]

Pubs are now out so presumably the next thing to be wiped off the Supermarket Shelves will be all the booze?

I didn't know it was going to get THAT serious

 

[oldboyroy]

Forgive me if I am wrong but other countries have closed borders have we.?

 

[spongy]

I am in almost exactly the same position. I had a bit of a temperature at the weekend for a little while, but otherwise just feel like I had/have a bad cold. Not really a runny nose, but mostly a bad cough that has left me feeling sore and bruised. Just texted my wife, she accepted the news stoically, my youngest was happy that he didn't need to go to college, and the eldest who is 19 is far from pleased.

You are not being melodramatic, you are (although it is unlikely you have the virus) trying to help your fellow countrymen as are all the others amongst us who are in this position.

My 5 year old daughter came home from school with a slight cough. Which over the weekend has turned into a persistent dry cough, so much so that she wont go to sleep as when she lays down that when it hurts most, she has started crying now when she needs to cough as it makes her tummy hurt.

There is no fever so I'm 100% sure it's not Corona but we cant get through to the doctors. Even if it was we cant just lock her in her bedroom. And we also have a 7 month old in the house too.

I must admit I'm getting nervous about this, especially with 70 year old parents, and one with PCD.

 

[atomised]

Have they announced an updated figure for deaths in the UK from the virus?

Yes up to 54

 

[hans kraay fan club]

So school staff are expendable. Perhaps they need to be voting with their feet rather than accept being thrown under the bus.

Quite. I'm tempted to suggest my lad does exactly that.

 

[Stat Brother]

So school staff are expendable. Perhaps they need to be voting with their feet rather than accept being thrown under the bus.

School staff also aren't in immediate danger.
Hanging around the mobile petri dish that is 30 children all day, every day, might just make them the most resilient professionals out there..

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Again - The closing of schools may well have a serious and profound effect on the NHS and elderly care in general as health care employees find themselves having to stay home to look after healthy children, while sick patients are left even more vulnerable.

I'll hazard a guess that too will reach a tipping point, I'll also guess (probably wrongly) the powers that be are looking to get to the Easter holidays.

I’m not sure school staff are paid enough to assume this kind of risk. Perhaps we could choose another profession to volunteer for this dangerous babysitting while the nations parents work from home.

 

[Bold Seagull]

I’m struggling to understand the non closure of schools. Apparently children are not suffering from the virus but can be carriers. That leaves teachers in a very vulnerable position as the only profession required to not work from home and every day be in a public place with hundreds of potential carriers.

I think doctors, nurses, carers may beg to differ?

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

I think doctors, nurses, carers may beg to differ?

True, sorry.

 

[Stat Brother]

I’m not sure school staff are paid enough to assume this kind of risk. Perhaps we could choose another profession to volunteer for this dangerous babysitting while the nations parents work from home.

School staff aren't paid enough, but that's for another day.

 

[atomised]

School staff also aren't in immediate danger.
Hanging around the mobile petri dish that is 30 children all day, every day, might just make them the most resilient professionals out there..

That would explain my sons normal teachers being off with symptoms after his friend came.back from a trip to Madrid at half term .

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

So school staff are expendable. Perhaps they need to be voting with their feet rather than accept being thrown under the bus.

I appreciate where you are coming from as I teach in a school and my wife is a teacher. However, in this case there may be an argument for the action the govt is taking as it will likely save more lives. Teachers, at least in my experience over the past 10 years, are getting younger. Most of the older teachers we have now in our school are supply teachers. I hope this means the severity of any infections will be reduced significantly.

 

[knocky1]

School staff also aren't in immediate danger.
Hanging around the mobile petri dish that is 30 children all day, every day, might just make them the most resilient professionals out there..

You are Donald Trump.....

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

This is no time for politics.

There are no clowns, just people doing their best to save lives under very difficult circumstances. You may agree or not with their approach, but politics is now officially on hold.

Get your head around that pls.

Very well said.

 

[oldboyroy]

So the advice is don't go to pub restaurants cinema but we're not closing them. If they are open people are going to go!! Feel for those industry's in fact all as it's going to cripple a lot

 

[Southcoast Corsair]

I think doctors, nurses, carers may beg to differ?

Don’t forget us ambulance workers.

 

[Notters]

So school staff are expendable. Perhaps they need to be voting with their feet rather than accept being thrown under the bus.

Hardly. Having fewer people mix will benefit everyone.

 

[Stat Brother]

That would explain my sons normal teachers being off with symptoms after his friend came.back from a trip to Madrid at half term .

You are Donald Trump.....

You are both correct I didn't do a good job explaining myself, sorry:-

Obviously we are all susceptible to contracting the virus, but as we all know working professionals aren't in immediate danger from it.