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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Apparently our local comprehensive has an outbreak of “winter vomiting bug” despite kids being bubbled and segregated and washing their hands and wearing masks on transport etc.

So, if D+V can still circulate so easily despite these measures, how is any of this helping with the Coronavirus at all?

Or is the only way to avoid it really being to stay at home?

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By *atEvolutionCouple
over a year ago

atlantisEVOLUTION

Catching any kind of 'bug' can come from any number of a billion places, no matter how shielded they are - and let's face it kids aren't the best at keeping rules (not that many adults are showing themselves to be any better).

The only thing we can be sure of is that they are 'better' protected by observing a few unbelievably simple things.

We really need to stop blaming the Government for this blaming the young/old/middle aged people for that and start blaming OURSELVES for being the ones continuing the pandemic.

Couldn't be fooking simpler really could it.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Pretty sure it’s not me, I’m staying at home!

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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago

Northampton Somewhere

My children's school has said they no longer have to wear masks in communal areas because the numbers in Northampton have dropped and we are no longer an area of concern. Surely wearing them would keep it that way?

Last year hundreds of kids got a vomiting bug, they had to close in the end for a deep clean and they finished the term early.

If it's not one thing it's the other hey?

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"My children's school has said they no longer have to wear masks in communal areas because the numbers in Northampton have dropped and we are no longer an area of concern. Surely wearing them would keep it that way?

Last year hundreds of kids got a vomiting bug, they had to close in the end for a deep clean and they finished the term early.

If it's not one thing it's the other hey? "

If it's kept it out of the school for a week. I'd have thought it makes no sense to change policies, that it could be argued have been effective, after just one week. Maybe after a month of keeping the school cov free.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

The kids won't be under 24/7 surveillance and bugs can live on surfaces for quite a long time. With the restricted staff levels in schools, they will remain as an opportunity for any bugs to be spread around, some of them more impactful on the wider community.

As lockdown showed, we can reduce our levels of covid19 by keeping people at home but this isn't going to be acceptable to our government.

We thus each have to do as much as we can to stop the problems. Educating kids, helping others and managing how we are living each day. There are going to be a succession of winter bugs that will arrive, including colds, norovirus, flu and more.

The ones that aren't covid-19 help us to see in real time just how good our strategies and tools are, giving us chances to improve things. The bugs each have their own styles of infectivity levels, how they are transmitted, with many similarities, though some differences will remain.

I'd encourage mask use, if they don't use them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Apparently our local comprehensive has an outbreak of “winter vomiting bug” despite kids being bubbled and segregated and washing their hands and wearing masks on transport etc.

So, if D+V can still circulate so easily despite these measures, how is any of this helping with the Coronavirus at all?

Or is the only way to avoid it really being to stay at home?"

We're quite far from Winter

. I'd say hand washing needs stepping up.

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