| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well 15:04 - Nov 2 with 4509 views | homer_123 |
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| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 16:47 - Nov 2 with 1695 views | Mullet |
| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 16:40 - Nov 2 by JamestownPrince |
Hi Mullet, I hope that you are well
In the week before half term, we had 7 staff off (either positive or self isolating in a school of 800 pupils) so 2 year groups had 3 extra days at home with online work - that was before a group of year 11 and 12 kids went home due to positives.
I was one of 4 off today (and another one of us spent his 10 days of half term in the house positive...)
Thankfully apart from no taste and smell and breathing I am fine so will be going back Thursday. |
Thanks mate, I have the weediest of coughs and typical viral symptoms but no temperature after a few days of feeling chills etc, so no idea if I have/had it and messed my test up or am just ill. But I was in close contact with a confirmed case so have to stay off regardless. Weirdly the app didn't change my isolation when a negative test was put in either.
We've had half a year or more off at once, several staff (I feel guilty as some have had to cover me this week despite us doing cover already) in a school of 1000+ It's been a bit farcical at tiems watching the kids all mix outside and then come in but we are doing everything we can, it just feels like fighting the tide some days.
Hopefully you'll be back for good after this period off! |  |
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| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 16:52 - Nov 2 with 1685 views | Mullet |
| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 16:46 - Nov 2 by factual_blue |
That, or a Soviet style denunciation of morrissey.
Which is long overdue. |
*Morrissey
You rabid leftist ditch dweller. | |
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| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 20:25 - Nov 2 with 1624 views | Ace_High1 |
First week of December they will close until new year when the extended "lockdown" is announced as rates are not going down. |  | | |
| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 20:33 - Nov 2 with 1619 views | gordon |
| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 15:18 - Nov 2 by Cotty |
Universities are not going to close. They are mostly operating online now already. Therefore, I call bull crap. |
Yes, this didn't make much sense to me. Obviously the prevalence of the virus may get to such a high rate that primary and high schools have to restrict access to children of key workers, or reduce the number of days children go in because of teachers self-isolating or ill, but I can't see the government doing that willingly, and they would only do it after giving time for these current measures to have an impact, so the earliest would be in about 3 weeks. |  | | |
| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 20:36 - Nov 2 with 1611 views | vapour_trail |
| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 20:25 - Nov 2 by Ace_High1 |
First week of December they will close until new year when the extended "lockdown" is announced as rates are not going down. |
I think this is probably pretty close, they will pull the schools out two weeks early so they’ve a month away in total, they can’t do their nativities, concerts, parties etc anyway. |  |
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| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 20:39 - Nov 2 with 1604 views | ericclacton |
| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 20:36 - Nov 2 by vapour_trail |
I think this is probably pretty close, they will pull the schools out two weeks early so they’ve a month away in total, they can’t do their nativities, concerts, parties etc anyway. |
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| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 20:45 - Nov 2 with 1593 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 20:25 - Nov 2 by Ace_High1 |
First week of December they will close until new year when the extended "lockdown" is announced as rates are not going down. |
It shouldn't be that type of call. The rates lag activity by 10-14 days (or more when reporting lag is factored in). If they make decisions about the effectiveness of the lockdown in the first week of December they really are thicker than we thought. I suspect that's why Johnson was prepared to say to the Commons today that it would definitely be ending on 2nd December. We'll only know how effective it was by about mid-December at the earliest. That doesn't give the Government enough time to put in another lockdown before Christmas (based on the month it took them to act this time), even if things are really bad. A New Year lockdown may be in the offing, but nothing before that I'd have thought. |  |
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| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 07:49 - Nov 3 with 1514 views | mikeybloo88 |
| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 16:32 - Nov 2 by Cheltenham_Blue |
They aren't though.
Most are offering some form of face to face teaching at least one day a week. |
That isn't correct...most courses at most universities have had no face to face teaching. I do not count a university as open because it offers science students one hour a week in a lab and tells all other students to stay in their rooms and view prerecorded lectures and have no live interaction with their tutors. £300 a week for that and £150 a week to sit in a flat which they're forced to pay for even if they now don't need to be there? It's disgusting... |  | | |
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| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 08:39 - Nov 3 with 1485 views | gordon |
| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 16:32 - Nov 2 by Cheltenham_Blue |
They aren't though.
Most are offering some form of face to face teaching at least one day a week. |
But pretty much all the transmission at universities is between students sharing accommodation, so cancelling the few bits of face to face teaching still happening here and there won't make a shred of difference to transmissions risk.
Getting students back on campus was an act of gross malfeasance and stupidity on behalf of the university sector and the government, but closing face to face teaching now will be entirely irrelevant to the path of the pandemic. | | | |
| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 08:46 - Nov 3 with 1479 views | lowhouseblue |
| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 08:39 - Nov 3 by gordon |
But pretty much all the transmission at universities is between students sharing accommodation, so cancelling the few bits of face to face teaching still happening here and there won't make a shred of difference to transmissions risk.
Getting students back on campus was an act of gross malfeasance and stupidity on behalf of the university sector and the government, but closing face to face teaching now will be entirely irrelevant to the path of the pandemic. |
do you have evidence that on average the transmission amongst students is higher than transmission amongst the same age group nationally. that's on average - not anecdotal examples of specific outbreaks. there are certainly universities where the incidence is far far lower than amongst the same age group nationally. where i am we test everyone weekly and we have a current incidence of 0.7% |  |
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| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 16:33 - Nov 3 with 1416 views | gordon |
| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 08:46 - Nov 3 by lowhouseblue |
do you have evidence that on average the transmission amongst students is higher than transmission amongst the same age group nationally. that's on average - not anecdotal examples of specific outbreaks. there are certainly universities where the incidence is far far lower than amongst the same age group nationally. where i am we test everyone weekly and we have a current incidence of 0.7% |
Certainly not at a national level, but the outbreaks in the worst hit student halls at my university saw peaks of up to about 30% of a hall population testing positive in a week. There's aren't many other areas of society that have come close to that level of prevalence except for some meat packing plants and healthcare settings.
Other universities have pretty much got away with it too, though. | | | |
| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 16:35 - Nov 3 with 1411 views | gordon |
btw, Whitty has given evidence to a select committee today which would wholly contradict the claim made that the scientists are briefing the government that schools need to be closed. | | | |
| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 16:55 - Nov 3 with 1373 views | Mookamoo |
| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 20:36 - Nov 2 by vapour_trail |
I think this is probably pretty close, they will pull the schools out two weeks early so they’ve a month away in total, they can’t do their nativities, concerts, parties etc anyway. |
There was mention of closing Unis on Dec 8th a while back. If they get their act together it can allow for a staggered return over the next few weeks.
I will have to drive from Suffolk to Portsmouth at some point to get Child2. He only has 3 hours a week face to face and that isn't even mandatory. |  | | |
| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 17:32 - Nov 3 with 1350 views | lowhouseblue |
| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 16:33 - Nov 3 by gordon |
Certainly not at a national level, but the outbreaks in the worst hit student halls at my university saw peaks of up to about 30% of a hall population testing positive in a week. There's aren't many other areas of society that have come close to that level of prevalence except for some meat packing plants and healthcare settings.
Other universities have pretty much got away with it too, though. |
there's not much evidence of transmission from university students to wider society - they are different from school kids who go home at night. you can have big numbers amongst students without it necessarily spreading wider. the view of public health (here at least) is that uni students, because they are in an organised community, have hugely higher compliance with isolating etc than the general public. here we have close to 100% compliance while the public health people quote some astonishingly low percentage for the general population. | |
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| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 18:10 - Nov 3 with 1312 views | stopmoaning |
Schools have had a four tier system for a while now, but haven’t been told to go into any of those tiers starting Thursday.
FYI the tiers are no closures, 2 weeks on and off, most secondary sent home, all closed. |  | | |
| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 18:24 - Nov 3 with 1298 views | billlm |
There most of the problems, good |  | | |
| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 18:28 - Nov 3 with 1292 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Get prepared for Schools and Uni's to be closed as well on 16:35 - Nov 3 by gordon |
btw, Whitty has given evidence to a select committee today which would wholly contradict the claim made that the scientists are briefing the government that schools need to be closed. |
I wouldn't be surprised. We've been through all this in Wales already, and I don't think there was a push from the scientific advisors to shut the schools. I could be wrong, but I haven't seen anything made of it. | |
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