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<blockquote data-quote="NicoleC1971" data-source="post: 2297881" data-attributes="member: 365308"><p>Of course everyone has the freedom to be anxious and clearly people feel their fear is rational but we should start from a belief that nobody wishes anyone to be put in real risk of serious illness.</p><p>We are hyper focused on this particular virus so what I am saying is that the anxiety is out of all proportion to the risk thus those who readily do things of equal or greater risk such as driving to school, exposing themselves to flu viruses or TB (far more infectious in a school context and not always protected for by vaccine) are rendering themselves helpless and expecting someone else (the government, me a taxpayer or their headteachers) to take unreasonable and disproportionate measures to keep them safe from this particular little virus.</p><p>The other issue is that there is no exit strategy. Cases will pop up the more we test and the more corona viruses ie.. colds are out there (PCR picks up current and recovered cases as well as fragments from other similar viruses) so if we carry on with the current suppress the vanishing virus logic all I can see is further school closures just because there a couple of kids in their year group test positive. So yes I am concerned and with real reason given what has happened.</p><p>If you are a teacher or parent who feels this way I suggest you take a look at the UsforThem campaign which has a page for teachers and plenty of useful evidence.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NicoleC1971, post: 2297881, member: 365308"] Of course everyone has the freedom to be anxious and clearly people feel their fear is rational but we should start from a belief that nobody wishes anyone to be put in real risk of serious illness. We are hyper focused on this particular virus so what I am saying is that the anxiety is out of all proportion to the risk thus those who readily do things of equal or greater risk such as driving to school, exposing themselves to flu viruses or TB (far more infectious in a school context and not always protected for by vaccine) are rendering themselves helpless and expecting someone else (the government, me a taxpayer or their headteachers) to take unreasonable and disproportionate measures to keep them safe from this particular little virus. The other issue is that there is no exit strategy. Cases will pop up the more we test and the more corona viruses ie.. colds are out there (PCR picks up current and recovered cases as well as fragments from other similar viruses) so if we carry on with the current suppress the vanishing virus logic all I can see is further school closures just because there a couple of kids in their year group test positive. So yes I am concerned and with real reason given what has happened. If you are a teacher or parent who feels this way I suggest you take a look at the UsforThem campaign which has a page for teachers and plenty of useful evidence. [/QUOTE]
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