Schools and Covid 19 (part 5) **Mod warnings in OP**

When do the colleges and University's go back ?

And Ireland only has capacity to do 30K tests a day ?

Genuinely curious as to what you think the school should have done? They were close contacts, protocol is that they self-isolate. I'm also unclear as to how this will play havoc with student with mental health difficulties? Apologies if I'm being dense.

Most places resume fulltime classes final week of September. It'll all be fine though, some places have decided there is no requirement for social distancing, no need for CO2 monitors. There is also no requirement to show proof of vaccination. I couldn't care less at this stage to be honest.

Doubtful but you're welcome to believe what you will.

None. Maybe this one

I see the issue with disruption and the current protocol, but it should only be changed if safe to do so,not because it is inconvenient. I don't think close contacts should be allowed continue about their business without at least being tested, which I think is what is being suggested.

I thought it was recommended for pregnant women to get vaccinated?

I've experienced less than 10 immune compromised people during my life, but every one of those were fastidious in the measures they took to protect their health and I assume it would be no different now.

'Expendable' is hyperbole.

I know of many pregnant women foregoing the vaccine as it's a relatively unknown quantity with regards developmental and full term pregnancies.

You've completely failed to understand my post. Try reading it again with rage mode off.

@godzilla1989 I am describing the process in my kids secondary school, as explained to me by the principal. The school doesn't send home anyone, they're not even involved in identifying close contacts. Parents of positives are requested by HSE contact tracers to isolate their kids. I don't know what parents of close contacts are requested to do, and neither does the school, because it's not their problem, they just ask parents to follow HSE instructions. Once my kids are fully vaxxed (in a couple of weeks) if I get a call from a contact tracer I might just hang up, since nobody in the family will be unvaccinated and we always test when symptomatic, regardless of who we've been in contact with.

What I don't understand is whether the process I've described above is unique to my kids' secondary school, or all secondary schools.

We got a communication from our child's school today clarifying rules on when/when not to send children to school, apparently based on a recently updated communication from the HSE. Which was fine, and useful in clarifying exact requirements. Except for the last section, which said that any child who had been abroad could not come to school for 14 days, and must self isolate at home for those 14 days along with all adults that had travelled with the child. Which seems to go completely against all other public health advice - and could in theory mean that self isolation rules are different depending on whether you have children or not! It's completely irrelevant to me - we aren't planning on going overseas in the next while, but seems very odd - and I certainly know parents who would decide that as that "seemed wrong" they'd ignore the rest of the requirements in the message.

Crazy stuff going on with the HSE and Schools from what I can see, there was an outbreak in one of our boy's classes at school school, we were notified over the weekend, on Monday he was identified by the school as a close contact (same pod), school advised accordingly, we all went for a test on Monday (Tuesday evening all came back clear), had our first text from the HSE on Wednesday just advising about the pod and not much else, we haven't heard a thing since (Friday now), the school has been great but they advise following HSE guidance (none!), have the HSE completely abandoned the schools or are they just that far behind?

And I raise you over a dozen who were all clear! It's more about how all of this is being managed and a level of caution that is probably overzealous. It's definitely not something you'd want to see throughout the school year.

This is the worry for us at the moment, with a new born in the house we were a little relieved the first round came back clear but still anxious about the second batch.