Covid - news and views

I think they were expecting a rise after the kids went back to school and with the antics of the Covidiots over the last week or so it will probably rise more.  The only good thing is that having had the jab most will not become very ill, if at all, but I'm not keen to test that out.  

If children are not completing the tests at home surely that is a failure of the parents and surely the schools are recording results, if not it is completely pointless?  Surely parents recognise that it is about teaching their children to have a sense of moral duty?

I am not sure of the circumstances I would use one of the tests? Probably reasons would be if I had know I had been in contact with someone with COVID or I was personally feeling unwell. If I was unwell and had a positive test I would likely ask for a PCR test to confirm. We are, whilst not, ignoring others we are still very cautious around other people, even those close to us. 

My guess is that the Government has ordered millions of these type of tests and as the number of new cases subsides the need for them also decreases. Hence the reason for distributing them to all takers. Unfortunately those whose livelihoods depend on them working because they are not sufficiently supported by Government if they have to isolate will probably continue to ignore or not bother taking a test?

David

Not quite for everyone Brue as the headlines are those in England only.

We in the Boondocks wait with bated breath.

"If children are not completing the tests at home surely that is a failure of the parents and surely the schools are recording results, if not it is completely pointless? Surely parents recognise that it is about teaching their children to have a sense of moral duty?"

David, sorry to say you are not living in the real world, one of my daughters teaches at a 1500 pupil Comprehensive, some parents dont even know whether their children are attending school, some pupils are refusing to do the tests and there is nothing in law that says they have to do the tests and you cannot expel them for not doing the test, as for moral duty, my daughter has to regularly organise parent teacher evenings which of late have been done using Google meet/zoom, i wont tell you how many bother to arrange a time slot/or dont as the case may be.   

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Sorry WN, my error, I tend to think of us as being in it altogether...

AD for visits like yours this is where the tests will be useful but I hope they don't become burdensome to anyone as that won't encourage sensible usage.

 Rufs,

 But if DK is wrong then he, and loads of the rest of us, who may also  be wrong, rely on those who do know to tell us, surely ??  It is difficult  enough as it stands for us to decide which, if any, actions taken by " the powers that be " are good and which are pointless. We don't expect information to be passed if it causes difficulties for individuals, but generally speaking the over-all information can only help us common plebs to form reasonable opinions.

Brian

Brian, I am not saying that DK is wrong only that his perception of what should be happening is perhaps not happening as he would like it to be happening.

My daughter works at the coal face in teaching and she tells is as it is, so some children are very good and test twice a week as they are supposed to, some do not test at all, and do not care whether this is irresponsible or not and in some cases neither do their parents, it is a fact of life, possibly only a small percentage out of 1500 children

Yesterday the Gkids were round for a BBQ, they are lucky and go to a very good school in Portsmouth fee paying and as parents have to provide these fees they like to get good value for their bucks so by defiinition tend to be much more proactive in ensuring their children do as they are asked or as David said

"Surely parents recognise that it is about teaching their children to have a sense of moral duty?"

but although yesterday i could see a degree of complacency in their atttitude towards testing, Mum & Dad will ensure they continue.

I am all for testing and i watched a documentary on South Korea sometime ago where testing and track and tracing was formost in their attempts to erradicate covid-19, but their culture is somewhat different to ours, my fear for a testing programme as seen in SK, is that in the UK we will become complacent when the numbers of cases/deaths etc fall, testing will fall away and we lapse into another wave. 

when this new testing regime is introduced i think it is up to the individual to assess when they need to test, e.g. if you have not been out of your house for 5 days I see no point in testing on the 6th day before you go shopping.

I am wise enough to realise that there will be vast array of parental interest, or lack of, in the developing of their children into young adults in all senses of the phrase.  However I think it would be wrong to suggest that the majority don't care or are like that. There are always going to be schools in certain areas that struggle to get that support from parents, probably because the parents are themselves are struggling or don't have the wherewithal to understand what is required of them. The same will apply when it comes to providing guidance to children about COVID. If the parents don't understand it is likely the children will either. Least we all forget, it's hard work being a parent and probably even harder work being a teacher!!!

David

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