Coronavirus

It depends on their ages, across the whole level, kids will need to be at school for different reasons. Even from the youngest ages, such as nursery school, it's important for their social development and interaction skills, that you just can't learned couped up at home. It's not all just about books and tests, it's those things that have got lost due to modern technology, it's called talking to one another and interacting together as humans.

 

Yep. Just as important for learning social skills as it is academic. Paticularly for younger ages.

 

Not really mate, all kids should be at school.

 

Has it dawned on most people yet, that come this autumn / winter and the start of the normal cold / flu season, that the days of going to work / school with a sniffle / cough or a snotty nose are long gone like?

People are going to have to isolate, and if you think of the average year, who doesn’t get a cold or something at some point? Sickness absence is going to be off the scale.

 

So we are ****ed then?

My bairn has been back to school over a month now.....But staggered classes.

 

You didn't catch the drift of my meaning. I was also referring to pre school, which is why school will mean different things to different kids, dependent on age, remember there is no legal obligation to pre school (or nursery as I'm calling it).

 

Schools should have higher access to testing than other industries imo so they don't have to isolate a whole class/bubble when they do get cases.

Think I read somewhere that it was being spoken about but no idea to what extent.

 

must have been horrid for kids leaving this year...especially in scotland with that ****ing bitch ****ing with their grades.

 

Put it this way, the idea that we’re going to dramatically recover economically for the foreseeable, is for the birds. As kids tend to pick up more colds and the like, and they’ll have to stay home, as will one of their parents in most cases. Plus, most people would go to work with a cold, not anymore they don’t. The only way this ends in a sensible timeframe is a successful vaccine.

 

Sniffles and snotty noses are not symptoms of coronavirus though are they? Unless you have a persistent cough, a temperature or loss of taste and smell, you won’t need to self isolate. Just like, if you have symptoms of hay fever in the summer, you don’t need to self isolate. Some people probably will, due to being over cautious, but they won’t need to.

 

Putting it like that...We are ****ed as winter heads in.

 

Many have took advantage for far less over the last 4/5 months.

 

That's only for a day or two if they get tested though. And as Archers has said the sniffles isnt a symptom if that's all they have.

 

You think people are going to be welcome in the workplace / school in future with coughs and colds even after this lot mate? The tolerance for that is going to be **** all imo.

 

One of my colleagues reckons he could have predicted exactly who was going to self isolate from our place, from day one, virus or no virus; he was probably right.

Aside from the pisstakers, lots of perfectly genuine people probably coughed a couple of times and thought, “****, this is it then...”

 

We lost 103, across the board.....I could have made money betting on which ones went from our shift..

****ers.

 

Nobody wants somebody sneezing in their faces and blowing snot all over them, even before the virus.

If it’s a genuine illness and the symptoms are that bad, then stay home and stop breathing germs all over everyone else; but that’s always been the case. If it’s just a few sniffles, most workplaces will crack on I reckon. Not sure about schools so much. But most parents won’t send a kid to school if they’re really ill anyway.

 

I don’t agree at all mate. Amongst my workforce I’d have people constantly coming to work with coughs and colds etc in the autumn / winter. I was never fan of heroic workers thinking they were doing the company a favour by spreading their germs. and would tell them to go home if they were really bad. But after this the tolerance level will be zero, the instruction will be don’t come in, irrespective of COVID, as that’s what colleagues and customers will expect imo. It’ll be a legacy of this, irrespective of the COVID virus itself imo.

 

That I do agree with.

Well in office environments at least, probably won't be as much difference where people can't work from home and don't get sick pay.

 

Sadly no.

Gonna be a bleak winter this.