S/O Coronavirus School Closing considered in your area?

[RangerPooh]

We received an email from our school district that said they are currently working on a plan in the event that the virus impacts our area. They will however be spraying the schools during spring break to deep clean them. Here at work, a plan is currently being drafted for how it would impact our college campus.

 

[North of Mouse]

This social media panic really needs to end.

Yeah, right, as if!! Won't happen!
I think it needs to be taken seriously, but things have definitely gone overboard with the hoarding of anything possible to get your hands on. Was looking at the soap isle yesterday in a local store and most was gone!!! Haven't people always been washing their hands???

 

[xipotec]

Yeah, right, as if!! Won't happen!
I think it needs to be taken seriously, but things have definitely gone overboard with the hoarding of anything possible to get your hands on. Was looking at the soap isle yesterday in a local store and most was gone!!! Haven't people always been washing their hands???

People watch too many zombie movies.

 

[Searc]

Chicago Public Schools announced they will send home any student showing symptoms of virus, no exceptions.

Ridiculous. It is still cold/flu season and allergies will just be starting to ramp up here in the Midwest with the warm spell this weekend. They're going to send home a student with a cold or allergies?

 

[Searc]

Yeah, right, as if!! Won't happen!
I think it needs to be taken seriously, but things have definitely gone overboard with the hoarding of anything possible to get your hands on. Was looking at the soap isle yesterday in a local store and most was gone!!! Haven't people always been washing their hands???

People are doing nothing more than hoarding supplies. It all goes back to lack of critical thinking. There are a lot of stupid, gullible people in this country.

 

[Farro]

Ridiculous. It is still cold/flu season and allergies will just be starting to ramp up here in the Midwest with the warm spell this weekend. They're going to send home a student with a cold or allergies?

I'm thinking they mean fever?

 

[Searc]

I'm thinking they mean fever?

Mild cases present as nothing more than a cold.

 

[Farro]

Mild cases present as nothing more than a cold.

Well then I guess they are stuck between a rock and a hard place, aren't they?

 

[Searc]

Well then I guess they are stuck between a rock and a hard place, aren't they?

Yep, which exposes the overreaction.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Yeah, right, as if!! Won't happen!
I think it needs to be taken seriously, but things have definitely gone overboard with the hoarding of anything possible to get your hands on. Was looking at the soap isle yesterday in a local store and most was gone!!! Haven't people always been washing their hands???

In a word-no, at least not properly. Some medicos feel people are too reliant on sanitizers as opposed to soap and water too.

 

[gottaluvPluto]

In a word-no, at least not properly. Some medicos feel people are too reliant on sanitizers as opposed to soap and water too.

MIT came out with a study that 70% of people wash their hands, but only 6% do it the correct way.

 

[KrazeeK120]

Chicago Public Schools announced they will send home any student showing symptoms of virus, no exceptions.

They may as well cancel preschool and kindergarten then. My son is in preschool and has had a lingering cough from a cold for almost a month, and he’s definitely not the only one coughing!

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Well then I guess they are stuck between a rock and a hard place, aren't they?

That might be a good case for when maybe a test should be administered. I could see sending home initially but a test done as soon as possible. Not a perfect system with the test but probably better than just sending everyone home, making them isolate (assuming that's what they are doing) and overall larger disruption in schools when it really could be something else.

When my allergies act up I do get a sore throat and a cough commonly because of the muscus and phlegm produced. A fever no I don't get with my allergies. My body also starts reacts when the temperature goes up and down so if it's cold I'm good but if one day it's 30s/40s and the next it's 50s/60s I'll start reacting and that's what its been doing this past week. I left for a ski trip on Thursday Feb 27th and the pollen count was 0 meaning none in my area. By Sunday March 1st on our way home the pollen was already in the 6 range with trees being the issue. I've started taking my allergy meds now as it's that time of year (March-May mostly for me).

 

[Farro]

They may as well cancel preschool and kindergarten then. My son is in preschool and has had a lingering cough from a cold for almost a month, and he’s definitely not the only one coughing!

But if a kid comes to school with cough/fever and it turns out to be virus, imagine all the moaning that would take place...

I don't know, seems like the right thing for them to say - if you are sick, you are going back home.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

But if a kid comes to school with cough/fever and it turns out to be virus, imagine all the moaning that would take place...

I don't know, seems like the right thing for them to say - if you are sick, you are going back home.

I think the difference could be may be more the allergy suffers. I'm not sick when I have allergies. I just have symptoms from my allergies. I can get sick like have a sinus cold/infection when my body goes into too much overdrive but just a cough and sore throat can very easily be just reactions my body is having to allergens and is very common for me.

It's not an easy place for the schools to be but I do understand the PPs comments because it can lead to more of a disruption than needed when they lump everyone together. If I was a kid, I guess I would be stuck at home for however long given that I'm starting to react to my allergies..not sure that would be the right call at this point though because my allergies are at their worst in March-May.

 

[Colleen27]

Ridiculous. It is still cold/flu season and allergies will just be starting to ramp up here in the Midwest with the warm spell this weekend. They're going to send home a student with a cold or allergies?

Very likely, yes. We've had years where the flu was especially bad where the schools started calling parents who sent their kids to school with coughs or other symptoms to pick them up, and if it was allergies or some other non-contagious condition, a doctor's note was required for the student to return to class.

This same school once sent DS home for poison ivy and required the same for him to come back to school before the rash was gone. I'll admit, that one puzzled me a bit, both because poison ivy is such a common ailment in our area because a lot of the kids play in the woods and because its symptoms don't particularly resemble any specific infectious disease that comes to mind.

 

[Searc]

But if a kid comes to school with cough/fever and it turns out to be virus, imagine all the moaning that would take place...

I don't know, seems like the right thing for them to say - if you are sick, you are going back home.

Just because you are coughing doesn't mean you are contagious. Plenty of allergy sufferers cough, all the time.

 

[Searc]

Very likely, yes. We've had years where the flu was especially bad where the schools started calling parents who sent their kids to school with coughs or other symptoms to pick them up, and if it was allergies or some other non-contagious condition, a doctor's note was required for the student to return to class.

This same school once sent DS home for poison ivy and required the same for him to come back to school before the rash was gone. I'll admit, that one puzzled me a bit, both because poison ivy is such a common ailment in our area because a lot of the kids play in the woods and because its symptoms don't particularly resemble any specific infectious disease that comes to mind.

I wouldn't take my kid to the doctor for a note for allergies. That's ridiculous.

 

[Farro]

Just because you are coughing doesn't mean you are contagious. Plenty of allergy sufferers cough, all the time.

Feel free to email Chicago Public Schools!

 

[SamFaniam]

Northshore School District in the Seattle area has closed all their schools for at least the next two weeks.