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'Don't keep people home': Govt to give public health advice around sending sick children to school - Seymour (www.newshub.co.nz)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by purrtastic to c/politics

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Why would you want sickness to spread at schools? This will get kids sick, it will get their teachers sick, kids will take it home to parents and get them sick. What’s the impact to education but also to the wider workforce and productivity?

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[+] Fizz -20 points 7 months ago (3 children)

We are talking about kids going to school with a little cold. Teachers generally get the flu shot each season and aren't getting the cold every single time they come in contact with it.

Thinking you need to hold kids home for two to three days each time they are a little sick is the reason why absence have doubled and kids are missing more school than ever and falling behind.

Do you think teachers are being excluded from society because someone came in with a runny nose?

[–] Ilovethebomb 13 points 7 months ago

Nobody wants to catch "a little cold" because you don't want to look after your crotch goblins.

Keep sick kids home.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 10 points 7 months ago

Flu shots only protect against the flu and only the strains it was prepared for. It doesn't do anything against colds.

Besides that it's not just the teachers that has to deal with it. The sick kid spreads it to other kids who then take it home with them and spread it to their families and so on. If the initial sick kid was just kept home a whole lot less people have to deal with that crap. That's a whole lot of absences that could be prevented by the first kids parents just not being assholes.

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There are parents with autoimmune diseases you dense motherfucker.

Sending kids to school sick gets other kids sick which puts other members of the community at risk of getting sick. Some of those community members have cancer and are undergoing chemo, or are on steroids to treat other conditions and have lowered immune systems.

Your lack of critical thinking and empathy are showing.

[–] Fizz -3 points 7 months ago

Firstly auto immune disease is not relevant at all.

Secondly sickness is not a black and white issue. I can infect people with a sickness before I know I'm sick this happened during covid. Asking every kid who feels even the slightest bit sick does not stop sickness spreading through the community. These people with glass immune systems that you describe are at risk regardless of this government suggestion. Maybe you should think critically about this because you taking the most extreme cases and trying to apply it to an entire country.

No one is saying send kids with mesels or chicken pox to school. Only that kids taking time of school for sickness has doubled in the past year and has been rising since covid. It's time to consider that covid is over and we should return to normal health guidelines not paranoid covid guidelines. A child shouldn't miss and entire day of school because they had a sniffly nose and felt 95% that day.