Kids and school

When shall we pull the kids out of school? We already made the decision to pull our 3 year old out of his two mornings a week nursery school -- for a variety of reasons, in addition to flu issues. But he's still going to the nursery at church on Sundays and the park. So, when do we cut off that kind of contact.

What are folks plans? -- Libby

The number of infected doubled 3 straight days until the media blackout happened.  There are also large family clusters.  Until they update us, be very cautious.   If it hasn't mutated, you don't have to pull your kids for awhile.  If it has mutated, you have to pull them now, without hesitation.   If you see ANY report regarding h2h confirmation, pull your kids immediately out of school.   Quite frankly, if we don't get an update by Monday, keep them out.  Although, I'm guessing they will let us know before then.   If you personally feel that it has gone h2h based on the information you;ve heard, pull them today.  When h2h has been confirmed, having your kids going to school should be the farthest thing from your mind as you may be struggling to keeo them alive after just a few days of official h2h confirmation, God forbid.   h2h confirmation means that the worlds worst recorded plague is now hitting us.  However, the smart ones, and their entire families, will survive.   Anyway, with this type of outbreak, it looks like it has in fact made the final jump, IMO.  Again, it spread exponentially for 3 straight days until the blackout.   I doubt it suddenly just stopped.    Until we know for sure, assume the worst and do your final preps right now.

3 days ago, they were having a shortage of ventiiators and things looked pretty bad.  The number of suspected cases exploded up to around 50. Then the WHO shows up and we never hear anymore about additional cases or current patient conditions.   Everything suddenly just stopped.  How many are on ventilators?  How many new cases in the last 2 days?  They had 50 probable cases in 3 days.  Should we assume it just stopped?  It looked far from stopping during the explosion.  Or is the explosion still continuing at this very moment?  I believe it could be...   

If they had ANY good news to report, I think they would report it, IMO.    If a lot of the 50 cases were not actually BF, I think they would be very quick to tell the public to defuse any sort of panic, but they're not doing that.  I also think if it was at all under control, they would be quick to tell us.    National ads have been launched telling us to prepare, more or less. 

Anyway, no update on current patient conditions in the last 2 days, plus, not one new reported case in the midst of the explosion.  We were completely cut off from any new information.   It seems like the WHO basically put a gag order on the doctors and staff.

Anyway, we will know in a day or two either way.   It will spread around the world in just mere days if it went h2h.  

I need to know if the explosion is still continuing.   At the rate it was progressing, we  would have over 100 cases by now.   They never said the explosion stopped.  They just stopped giving information.   

     

Edited by Albert

Angel, while your point is cogent with regard to Iran closing border because of BF fear, I read it is probably in response to keeping Israeli spies from coming in and doing recon of their nuclear facilities and targeting intel.

That's the fun of "reading between the lines" we all get to sit around wondering which WAG is correct.

I have children in school, too. But you cannot just pull them out.  You need to review your state's attendance policy and your school's exit policy.  Absences, that you do not have a doctor's excuse for, are considered truancies.  After so many truancies the school/state will actually prosecute the parents! You could get yourself into real trouble. The school's really stay on top of children's absences and the reasons why they are absent.  I encourage everyone with children in school to find out the information regarding absences and/or taking your child out of school.