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3 hours ago, GingerCat said:
Wife started back at work yesterday and the little one had her first day at nursery.
Today we had a call she had a "temperature " of 38 c. Both girls had to be taken home immediately and neither allowed back until they see a negative covid test result as it symptomatic.
A little harsh for .5c on an 11 month old child thats teething, in a nursery running about.
I call work to let them know. I now have to isolate at home as well. Forbidden from going out. Despite being vaccinated and no one displaying symptoms. The nearest test centre is 15 mins away but the website directs me to one about 45 mins each way. You can't get out the car and I'm pretty sure she wouldn't be able to do the test herself from the child's seat so its a postal test for us.
I took her temperature at home and it was 36.3.c as she wasnt running about.
The impact on my work will be significant. The nursery will still get paid for the 2 children not being there and they will be able to have an early day tomorrow as there's 2 children less to worry about.
I can't help but wonder if the unions direct them to be this zealous to undermine Boris?
To bring a different perspective working with 2 to 7 year olds we have in the last few weeks had a spate of positive kids in lots of classes some with temperatures, others with cold like symptoms, diarrhoea and lots with no symptoms at all but parents tested them (we don’t force families). I have have 2 Reception classes, 1 pre-reception class, and my youngest 2 year old class and my turning 3 yrs class isolating at the moment, various positive staff and parents. It has suddenly blown up. One reception class was isolating for 10 days as one Teacher was positive. They were all back one day and that night a child in that class was tested and was positive, off they all went for another 10 days. They are due back Monday.
I dont believe for one minute nursery staff are being persuaded by the unions.
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1 minute ago, mel b3 said:
That's what I was told about the cough , that surprised me because I thought that the cough was pretty much the centre of everything with covid.
It’s always struck me as odd the range of symptoms my lot have had. Kids present with fever, diarrhoea, cold like symptoms. Adults have hade the same and sinus issues, bad cold symptoms, headaches/migraines, muscle ache as well as the three main symptoms. One staff member early 40s lives with her partner, 3 year old and hos elderly mother. They all had the cough and felt rough with the elderly mother still feeling rough although now getting out. I really thought that family were going to have real issues because during the first lockdown the partner and his mother were shielding and when they got it I thought one at least would end up in hospital at leas but no. Her younger much colleague who got it at the same time fit man was really poorly but at home. He felt nauseous all the time and had to stay in bed for a week. He went deaf in one ear for a while and had sinus issues.
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8 minutes ago, mel b3 said:
The lady on the phone knew that I'd had covid , she explained that I hadn't caught it again , I'd just still got it , and that I could still infect others while I had symptoms, and that's why I had to isolate again . She already knew about the symptoms from the questionnaire.
I'd already spoken to my work this morning, and told them that I was due back on Monday, but didn't think that I'd be in ,mainly because of the foggy brain business and driving a HGV. I then had to call them back and explain the call saying that I couldn't come either way as I had to isolate again . I can only guess that I'm not the first one in this position as the supervisor seemed to understand it completely.
Things have been pretty bad at my work , and covid has ripped through the place since Christmas . H + S have been in a couple of times , but given the type of job and working conditions, I suppose it's just expected and accepted.
Whenever I’ve had to ask staff to isolate or children and they are positive, our guidelines have always stated they can return if they still have the cough or lost their sense of taste and smell but not if they still had a fever. They need to have two full days clear of fever before they return. I also noted that care homes have to isolate for 14 days not 10. They brought the number down but actually even 14 days was an average as they found people who were still infectious long after that.
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I’m thankful for the community my parents live in. A small village in Wales. Today they were taken for their vaccine 20:miles away by a young farmer while “young” Margaret 50 at least got their shopping. Neighbours check in on them. They are active at 86 yrs and do drive still but short journeys. When this is all over and they allow me back in Wales I will be doing something for every one of them that have helped.
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2 hours ago, team tractor said:
It’s not law apparently. If a boss thinks it’s safe to come in then they carry on .
my ex was sent home so she booked a test and went back to work with a negative result . She’s a bent ....sorry police officer .
I questioned my nurse friend about it as she should of been off for 10 days and he said it’s down the the bosses if they are happy . She works in a supermarket where 3 people had a ping on the app.I said it’s blooming stupid her going in .
my daughter was sent home from school this week with a 6 days isolation period
And we wonder why it keeps going. It’s a pain in the jacksy for sure but I’d been questioning the logic of that advice.
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I’m starting to see a lot more at school. Remembering they are 2 to 7 yrs. they are testing positive as are their family members. Staff and their families also and returning staff are definitely still affected both physically and emotionally. Even those that have got off relatively lightly have not returned to their normal selves. It really is no walk in the park.
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30 minutes ago, Vince Green said:
Then you go and look at Heathrow flight arrivals and see we are still seeing around ten flights landing there per hour. That's just Heathrow, there is also Gatwick, Stanstead, Luton and City Airport.. All serving London
Not just London Using those airports. In any event that’ll be the Government surely who have allowed use of the airports whoever is using them. I’m talking about ordinary people like me, haven’t been on a plane for 18:years. We are doing what we are told, getting to work if we are allowed. I use a car and I think many more do this time round but they took away so many trains and buses and then expected the virus not to spread. Anyway people can blame areas if they want to.
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29 minutes ago, AVB said:
Parents must be your worst nightmare! I used to be fairly 'hands off' when it came to engaging with the school but then it became apparent, well before covid, that those parents that shouted the most got the best for their children. So I have become one of the noisy ones. I think I average three emails a week at the moment.
Not all parents just a few and I don’t have a problem with most of their interactions and happily answer well into my evening but there are some that just really need to be sent to the naughty corner 😂. That list is long hence we have the awful Job of where necessary choosing the medical keyworkers first should we be overun with Covid and not have enough staff to cope. That’ll go down like a lead balloon but it’s okay because the government will then expect the others to get furlough to look after their children. It’s all piffle.
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My parents (Wales) haven’t had a call yet and they are 86 yrs old. My date falls in a period when the worlds are on at E J Churchill’s. Hope it doesn’t clash 😂
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16 minutes ago, AVB said:
Like any business I am sure there are some teachers working hard and there will be the lazy ones that don't. My gripe isn't specifically about the teachers themselves, any more than my moans about the NHS aren't directed specifically at nurses, but rather the general mismanagement of these organisations. The problem is that the more we accept a reduction on service "due to covid" it will become the norm and we will never get service level returned. How many time do you ring up an organisation to be told, by recorded message, "due to reduced staffing levels your wait time will be longer". My children's school isn't providing meals, isn't running 10 periods of sports per week (therefore sports teachers could be furloughed), isn't heating the classrooms etc. but no attempt to pass on these savings to parents paying the bills. Let alone providing fewer zoom lessons than they would normally get face to face in a classroom.
Yes I’m sure there is mismanagement going on in some establishments. We did furlough, we did reduce our fees, we gave discounts and in some instances where circumstances were such we did stop fees. What was lovely was that some parents still able to work asked for their discount to be used to help other parents so our whole community tried. I still have some seriously deranged parents but the rest were great.
On Friday a mother of a reception child was trying to get me to take her child because she felt in the first lockdown she couldn’t get her to engage well. she had another idea, perhaps she could get together with a few families and have one of our teachers come to her home to teach the group there. In the end I am getting a teacher to have a one on one team meeting with the child to discuss her behaviour. Then we’ll try to have the group online and see if she engages. If it doesn’t work then I’ll bring her in as vulnerable. The other thing is thenGovernment have stated if parents having children home learning they can be furloughed. This wasn’t available before All I know is I want the children back in as does my staff Well do our best to keep them safe and us safe as we have done the whole way through and get on with it.
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35 minutes ago, Mice! said:
Ouch, I'd be expecting a lot as well.
You could probably see them before, but when they still gather in groups not wearing masks despite being asked to wear them they do stand out more.
I don't agree with classing kids as vulnerable who don't have a laptop, I've no idea how much it would cost for the government to provide every kid say one per house with a laptop, but they would probably be coming from China 😳
I can't imagine trying to teach reception age kids by zoom either.
Teaching this age group on line and the couple of years above them is very difficult. On the question of the laptops - ensuring children have the equipment and not to forget the internet connection as well goes some way to ensuring they have some education to satisfy the masses. My point was more the Government harp on about they are giving this support but the reality is it’s not happening fast enough to be of any use.
I often wonder whether it would be more useful during these lockdowns to run classes on life skills - banks, mortgages, tax, pensions etc form the eldest year groups.
we are also offering online for our early years. We have 12 classes. They can of course come in but some families are shielding or have to quarantine so we have a live filming of the class and teachers of songs and story time and their little lessons and they can join in if they want. They can talk to their friends and teachers.
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26 minutes ago, AVB said:
I pay close to £30k per year for each of my children to be taught (in addition to the tax I pay) so I expect a lot from the school and it’s teachers. Yes covid is unfortunate but it’s been around for nearly a year now and schools need to have been planning for it. This lockdown was coming (and my children’s school started working remotely in December) and yet they still say that this lockdown came as a surprise! We are currently arguing over how much the fees should be reduced to reflect the reduction in service. They are doing an OK job but still less than what I am paying for.
I work in the private sector albeit the children in my school are younger than your own children. I’ve also been the private school parent in London so both sides I can see. I can’t answer for your school but my teachers have been working very long hours to give their best, missing lunch because you have to have do more for preparation when children are not present. The flow of lessons online is a constant battle to keep them all on let alone engaging. They are working weekends, they worked through Christmas, late into the evening. They certainly don’t want to be hiding at home, they are professionals. I think the age of the children we are trying to teach online are probably a factor - Reception to Year 2. An example online lesson a Year 1 boy has put a chair on a table and left off and smashed into his computer. The teacher can’t see this well because of the size of picture on her screen of the group she is teacher so no time for her to try to stop him. The parent wasn’t in the room with him. Anyhow class disrupted while she asks everyone to mute as she deals with him remotely. They are not complaining, we’ve been here before.
With regard to knowing it was coming - the Government and the Department of Education have been very last minute. Sunday 3 Jan I spent on the phone to the Dept of Ed for clarification as to whether Reception were included in staying at home At that point the guidance was only those attached to a school not those with early years. Brilliant mine can come in, call on Tuesday at 3pm to tell me no they were sorry but because the language of the policy makers was confusing they now realised this was wrong!
Equipment - not every child has access to equipment even those of the well off because their parents are using it at home for work. The government is apparently giving equipment out to those that need it. On paper it looks good but the reality is far from acceptable I’d argue the government knew it could happen but still this far into the pandemic they’ve failed to deliver.
worse than this virus is how the population has constantly found fault with someone somewhere and generalised. Its a constant barrage of criticism everywhere. I’ve just about had enough to last me a lifetime.
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I’m trying to think of ways of getting all of our Reception year back, four classes about 80:children. Between the larger list of people who can send their children, the idiot parents, the extreme difficulty of getting teams/zoom to work properly, I’d take my chances with the virus! I’m sick of the Government, the Department of Education and any other t++ser who seems to think schools are having a ball. rant over.
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No. I know 11 people, one a child who have all tested positive. Of that number the first two back in March, both male one in his 30s the other around 50 were the only two to have symptoms that meant they ended up in hospital and both Drs, both re overed. The rest didn’t really have any severe symptoms and one a few no symptoms. It makes me wonder if we weren’t in Covid times whether they simply would have just felt they were off colour so to speak and one or two just wouldn’t have had a clue.
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6 minutes ago, WalkedUp said:
He’s a scumbag. I’m more Irish than him by any count. Most of us probably are.
I don’t care for either of them but this always makes me laugh. There’s no-one more Irish than an American paddy is there. 🤪
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I will miss him very much both on the forums and in life. Always a gentleman, happy to stop for a chat when we saw him on shoots. His wife is obviously devastated, she described him as her life and I reached out to her yesterday so that she could know just how much many of us enjoyed his company both virtual and in real life. RIP dear Hammie.
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Still have mine albeit in 4 pieces
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If what is alleged is found to be true regardless of the colour of the victims or the officers, making excuses for them such as they are probably young, new to the force, never had a job before the force is not on even when you are saying they should be punished of course. What is seriously worrying to me is that we seem to now be taking any old Tom, **** and Harry into What should be a respected profession. It should be damn hard to get into the police and it isn’t.
Wembley is one of those areas where there isn’t much trust between ethnic minorities or actually white people for that matter and the police. This definitely needs to be worked on.
Go ahead and charge her for racism I doubt she would care she lost her children (regardless of age) and allegedly some ignorant, pathetic excuses for human beings treated her children’s dead bodies as amusement. That is as sick as the person who killed them. That should worry us.
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1 hour ago, 7daysinaweek said:
Near patient test finger capillary blood specimen for IgG antibody to Sars Cov 2, visual result in 15 minutes.
Total loss of sense of smell is known as Asnosmia, a decreased sense of smell is Hyposmia, these are common symptoms with upper respiratory tract infections such as sinusitis, also known to be symptom with Covid. Asnosmia can persist for weeks to months and in rare cases sense of smell never returns at all. Also symptoms of Phantosmia have been reported with Covid, having the sense of different odours when they are not there.
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She can’t smell a thing not even the dog’s breath
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10 minutes ago, AVB said:
Bad luck. Our Mauritius flights for early July were cancelled last week (and BA refunded the money within a couple of hours). We still have flights booked to the MIL’s villa in Portugal for beginning of August. If the flights get cancelled we are going to drive which in the Tesla will be an experience.
Did you do anything out of the ordinary to get your BA money back because I’m still waiting for a response to a complaint at being ignored for a refund on a flight cancelled over the Easter weekend..
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I met a friend whilst out today who was invited to take part. She has antibodies. She fell ill in February- her symptoms were headache and loss of smell. She thought nothing of it until much later. Her sense of smell has not returned yet. She’s a fit 60 yer old.
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11 minutes ago, Raja Clavata said:
But if you give them your name and you're legit then that's the end of the matter. Or at least it should be, they already ran the checks, surely.
Exactly
Wife brought the Covid home from the hospital.
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I keep hearing the nose swab gives false positives but every single one done that was positive has also been confirmed by a PCR for us. We haven’t had any false ones. I’m told they work better to find heavier viral load whereas the PCR picks up small amounts. I take this to mean it can more likely say you are negative when really you may be positive because there hasn’t been enough virus to detect. We have to isolate though if the lateral flow says positive and wait for,the PCR to confirm.